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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-08-10
OFFICIALS PROPOSE
RECREATION AID
FOR GARRETT co.
Forests and Parks To Ask
$1,OO0,OOO For Improvement
of Existing Vacation Areas

One million dollars are needed to
build Garrett County's recreational
facilities to what they should be,
Joseph F. Kaylor, director of State
Forestry and Parks, told joint meet
ing of Mt. Top Chamber of Commerce,
State Roads Commission, and Veteran
Service Committee members Monday
night
This amount would furnish the
desperately needed accommodations
for vacationers to the county. Kaylor
said that at the present time Garrett
is providing only one-seventh of the
demand for summer recreation ac-
commodations, and that tourists do
not make a second attempt once they
are disappointed.
Most of the improvements would be
aimed at making the present state
forests and parks more attractive to
the vacationing public Such improve
ments would ultimately result in
many more visitors being attracted
here and thereby aid in the county's
economy, Kaylor said.
He pointed to five areas which need
additional development. Big Run,
which includes Savage River Dam,
needs picnic facilities and cabins. New
Germany and Harrington both need
more housing facilities. Swallow Falls
needs improvement. Yough River
Reservoir north of Friendsville, needs
complete organization into vaca-
tioning area. The workwill be done by
local labor, Kaylor emphasized.
Kaylor said these recommendation
would be passed on to the State Plan
ming Commission in time for the
next session of the Legislature. A
favorable nod from the Commission
would send the program a long way
toward becoming reality.
Highway Parks Considered
The Mt. Top Chamber of Commerce
received an answer to the feasibility
of roadside picnic spots, which it has
long advocated. Russell H. McKain,
State Roads Commission, told the
group that the Commission could not
build driveouts along the highways
if it means exceeding the right of
way boundary. The State will not buy
additional land for this purpose. How
ever, McKain said, where spot with
in the boundary is suitable, the Com
mission would construct tables and
fireplaces if funds are available.
J. Paul Trimmer, director of the
Department of Public Information,
suggested that central information
clearing house be established along
Deep Greek lake to assist visitors in
finding overnight accommodations
and relaying information about the
county.
Federal Team To Survey County
federal survey team composed of
David Campbell, business economist,
Department of Commerce, and Gladys
Fielding, labor economist, U. S. De-
partment of Labor. This team will
analyze every phase of Garrett
county's economy and resources to
gain a basis for suggesting what
industry the county is best suited.
Their report will be ready in the
late fall
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-08-10
Standing OF The Teams
Swanton Boy Will
Attend All Camp

Three stars in Maryland All club
work have been named to represent
the state at the American Youth
Leadership Training Camp in Michi-
gan next week.
One of the boys is Harland Beach
ey, IS, of Swanton.
Beachey has been a 4-H'er for nine
years and has been a regular partici-
pant in State All Club Week and the
State All Club Conservation camp.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-08-10
Two Wheat Fires
Keep Firemen Busy

The Oakland Volunteer Fire De-
partment received two calls Tuesday,
both to eXtinguish wheat fires.
The first alarm was in answer. to
call from the farm of Harvey Fike,
near Red House, to assist in putting
out blazing truck load of wheat
The truck was saved.
The second alarm came in the af-
ternoon from the farm of f. o..
Wonderly, near Loeb Lynn, where a
hay bailcr operating in a wheat field
had caught fire Before the fire could
be put out the machine had been bad
ly damaged.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-08-10

that is that it was either walk
or die-the enemy was right
behind us all the way-but no.
body got hurt.
If anyone tells you this is
war, tell them they are a darn
liar-this is just plain murder,
They have us outnumbered 10
to and that is the truth.
Nom, | would like to tell you
some more about it but can't
and Nom, whatever you do,
please don't worry about me. |
wish | could write more, but
the Red Cross has the paper
rationed.
Tell everybody l said Hi"
and | will be seeing them soon.
Your loving son,
BOB
Robert Ronald Watring is 10
S old and has been in service 10
tbs. He enlisted at Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-08-10
Two Naval ReServiStS
Called to Active Duty

Nordeck Shaffer, PNA lie, and
Ward Ashby, electronic technician
second class, both of Crellin, have
been ordered to report to Baltimore
for assignment to active duty in the
Navy. Shaffer is to report August 81
and Ashby will leave August Is.
Both men are members of the
organized naval reserve and have at
tended weekly training meetings in
Cumberland for the past several
years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-08-10
Coal Shed Fire Is EXtinguished

Firemen answered a call to eX-
tinguish burning coal house in back
of the A. C. Warwick apartments in
Mt. Lake last night. The blaze was
quenched Immediately upon their
arrival, but had already damaged the
shed considerably.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-08-10
JUDGE Hustler
HEART VICTIM
AT HIS DESK
Former Chief Judge Is Found
Dead in Cumberland Office

Former Chief Judge William A.
Hustler, II, who held the bench in this
area for eleven years, died yesterday
morning at his desk in the Law build
ing, Cumberland. Death was attribu
ted to heart attack.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-08-10
Fire Department Gets
Check for Building

The Oakland Volunteer Fire De-
partment received check for 500
from Ward limbaugh as a donation
for their new building which is now
being erected.
The concrete footer for the 80 by 80
structure was started yesterday, ac-
cording to ALIVE Gortner, president.
Evening star., 1950-04-30
Selection of Students

A recent conference of educators and
students proposed that there should be a
law prohibiting institutions of higher
learning form rejecting applicants on the
grounds of race. color or creed. I would
like to know what this proposed law
would allow to be used for grounds in
choosing or rejecting students.
Perhaps students will be chosen first
come, first served" Perhaps those hav-
ing the most money will be accepted.
Or. perhaps those having best grades.
This last would be pretty difficult since
all teachers grade differently, and the
different schools have any number of
grading systems.
When you come right down to it, how
can you get away from race, color and
creed" in considering people for any
group activity? And what is more demo-
cratic than the right to send our chill
dren to schools where they will receive
the type of cultural background we
would like them to have, and associate
with children of similar race. color and
creed? When we no longer have this
right we might as well stop pretending
that this is democracy. '@
Common Sense.
Evening star., 1950-04-30
Security and the JoIiot-Curies

What is surprising about Frederic Joliot-
Curie is not that he has been ousted as high
commissioner for atomic energy but that the
French government has taken all this time to
get around to the commons act of firing
him. Appointed to the post in 1946, he has made
clear throughout his tenure of Office that his
heart and mind belong to the Kremlin An
avowed Communist, he has repeatedly inveighed
against the West, attacked such things as the
European Recovery Program and the Atlantic
Pact, denounced the atom control plan over
whelmingly approved by the United Nations, and
made use OF every opportunity to spread the
Moscow party line and sing the praises of the
Soviet Union Yet not until now has France
been moved to dismiss him-a man who by every
measure of security has been abominably quail
fed to direct that country's efforts in the field
of nuclear f1ssion.
The immediate cause of his dismissal is the
fact that early this month, at a meeting of
Communists near Paris Joliot-Curie publicly
declared that neither he nor any other "pro-
gressive' scientist would ever contribute a
particle" of his knowledge for war against the
Soviet Union. But this Observation-Disclosures
to saying that he would boycott the defense of
his own country-was essentially the same in
spirit as many others he had made from time to
time in his capacity as Frances atomic chief
one of the worlds outstanding physicists, he
should have been ousted long ago as an ex-
tremely bad security risk-a man who ought
never to have been appointed in the first place
Of course, it may be said in mitigation that the
French project is confined to harnessing the
atom for peacetime purposes, not for weapons
Yet, in the field of nuclear fission, as far as
basic information is concerned, the military and
n-military frequently overlap and the Joliot
Curies with their open allegiance to the Moscow
line, obviously should not be privy to official
secrets, let alone be placed in charge of such
enterprises.
There has been much loose criticism regard
ing the safeguards thrown around our own
atomic project. BY comparison with those in
France however, or even with those in Britain
where the Fuchs case suggests that watchfulness
has been much too lax-ours have been exceed
ingly strict, some say unnecessarily So Indeed, it
is partly because of the disparity between our
restrictions and the restrictions of our friends
abroad that efforts to revive the Anglo-Cana-
dian American wartime partnership have failed.
This is unfortunate in many respects, but In
todays world, world in which a certain mini
mum measure of secrecy has become necessary
evil, prudence suggests that the United States
maintain it's security standards at a sensibly
high level.
Evening star., 1950-04-30
Nub of the Gambling Problem

Granted that Frank Costello was biased
witness, 1t must be conceded that this notorious
expert on gambling gave Senate Commerce
Subcommittee some words of wisdom. The gist
of his testimony was that gambling is an ancient
custom of such widespread popularity that 1t
cannot be wiped out completely by any law,
Federal or State eff a man is a gambler" he
said, "heu find a trick Ito evade the law.
Local officials can stop it to certain extent,
but there1l always be some cheating"
Whether the subcommittee will admit it or
not, the fact remains that this self-styled Gin
vestor" in numerous undesignated enterprises
has put his finger on the nub of the gambling
problem. The problem is quite similar to that
which confronted law enforcement authorities
in the prohibition era: How to enforce laws
dealing with an "evil" which most of the people
openly or covertly indulge in, one way or an
other and at one time another. AS Costello
bluntly put it, gamblers could not operate unless
they had "a green light somewhere" The green
light" he explained usually is traceable to the
public's desire to gamble and it's consequent
apathy toward anti-gambling law enforcement.
If the public is apathetic, it follows that
local authorities are not likely to exert any real
diligence in enforcing the laws against gambling.
And there is no dearth of laws to enforce, if
the public were more disposed to demand their
municipal police There are all sorts of lottery,
bookmaking, gaming table and similar statutes
and ordinances in nearly every part of the
Nation. Moreover, the Federal Communications
Commission has extended to local authorities
the helping hand of regulations permitting
telephone and telegraph companies to deprive
gamblers of communications-on a showing by
local officials that illegal use is being made of
the facilities. If these FEC tariff" rules were
widely used, racehorse gambling would suffer
a staggering blow.
It is against this background that requests
for more Federal laws to assist local authorities
in coping with the gambling problem appear
unsound. If the public is not sufficiently in
terested in demanding enforcement of present
gambling laws, what good will the enactment
of additional Federal laws do? Such Federal
laws would tend to take some of the pressure off
local authorities and would encourage them to
transfer some or most of the responsibility for
anti-gambling enforcement to the Federal Gov
ernment But the responsibility does not prop
erly rest with the FEC or the FBI or any other
Federal agency. 1t is responsibility which
local authorities should not be permitted to
evade-if the public whom they serve really
wants gambling rackets eliminated in the cities
and towns of America.
Evening star., 1950-04-30
Southeast Asia Contuinment

In February we heard much Of the
new Southeastern Asia containment
policy. This was the governmental
reaction to widespread public criticism
of handing China over to the Com
munists, on the advice OF those who
had painted the Communist Army as a
group of harmless agrarians and the
Nationalists as corrupt. Presumably.
the theory was that we were so self
righteous that our national interests
should be subordinated to an aversion
to dealing with such nasty people.
With public attention diverted to other
matters and with another long -heralded
diversion being co-incidentally planned
by the Russians in Germany for the
month of May, the Southeastern Asia
containment policy has been quiescent.
It is reminiscent of that period when it
took nine months to deliver shipload
of small arms to the Nationalist forces
in Northern China after the decision
to send them had finally been made.
Evening star., 1950-04-30

aside to see this great thing. he heard
the summons to be the instrument in
Gods hand, not to match the brute force
of the oppressor, but to bring deliverance
for his people by the might of Israel's
partnership with invincible spiritual
forces. Without the ear which heard the
voice and the eye which marveled at
the perpetual light. nothing would have
happened but, perhaps, an afternoon
siesta for the tired pilgrim. AS it was in
the Beginning. is now. and ever shall be.
with the meadow and the moment there
must be matched the mood before any
wayside bush will be seen to burn with a
revelation of God. Many there were who
had observed rosy-cheeked apples falling
from laden branches in verdant orchards
without the thud of ripened fruit on the
hard ground suggesting any thoughts
higher than apple pie or dumplings, until
Isaac Newton saw in their fall the work.
ing of the law which upholds the spheres
in their orbits and swings the celestial
chariots in space.
Some walk in a world where God
seems strangely absent simply because
Evening star., 1950-04-30
The Problem Still Remains

The National Capital Park and Planning
commission hardly could have done anything
other than abandon the long debated Marshall
Heights redevelopment plan. Denied money for
the project, year after year, and faced with
determined opposition from residents of the area,
there was no sense in clnging longer to Re
development Project No. l." But the problem
of what to do about this blighted community in
the eastern corner of the District remains to
puzzle highway, water, sanitation, building in
spection and health officials
1t was only natural that the commission
should have picked Marshall Heights for prefer
ential treatment under the 1946 Slum Clearance
and Redevelopment Act. The ill-planned, or
rather unplanned, subdivision long has been a
headache to District authorities. It has been
estimated that SO per cent of the nearly 400
dwelling places (Some are too makeShift to be
called houses fail to meet minimum standards
OF the Health Department. About 86 per cent
have been described in an official survey as
needing total rehabilitation. Fewer than third
OF the dwellings have access to water or sewer
lines Most of the streets are unpaved and the
grade lines are so undulating as to make it i'm
practicable to extend water and sewer lines with
out complete reconstruction of most of the sub
division.
These were the conditions which the re-
developers planned to correct at cost of S.
4O0,OOO. But the residents of Marshall Heights
reluctant to leave their homes-whatever their
shortcomings-fought the project from the be-
ginning, with increasing support in Congress.
Wnat the citizens of Marshall Heights apparently
have failed to grasp however is that the District
cannot indefinitely tolerate the outside toilets,
the insanitary taps on water plugs, the unpaved
streets and the violations of building and health
regulations which are to be found in abundance
there. Some day, in some way, Marshall Heights
will have to conform with the street, sanitation,
building and other regulations which are in force
In other parts of the District. Without benefit
OF the redevelopment program the changes will
nave to be postponed until some other program
is agreed upon. Marshall Heights residents have
elected merely to delay the inevitable.
Evening star., 1950-04-30
Tito a Good Neighbor?

Marshal Tito's first address to his new
Parnament serves as one of the most striking
measures to date of the great change that has
come over his YugoSlav dictatorship since the
Soviet Union violently berating him for heretical
deviations from the Moscow party line drummed
him out of the Cominform and started to put
the hooks into him in the summer of 194S.
Before that as a Communist who had not
yet insisted on national independence Tito was
the KremlinS chief pride and joy among the
satellites. He was the man who could always
be counted upon to deliver strong propaganda
attacks on the West. He was the man who had
sought to seize Trieste from Italy who had
coveted Carinthia in Austria, who had done his
best to help the Redled guerrillas subvert Greece
and drag it behind the Iron Curtain, whose
fighter planes had shot down unarmed American
transports, and whose conduct in general-at
home and abroad-seemed practically perfect
from the Soviet point of view
Today, however, as his speech to the Bel
grade Parliament has just reafflrmed in perhaps
the most unequivocal language he has used so
far in his battle with the Cominform, this very
same man has moved Westward to such an ex-
tent that his break with Moscow seems final
beyond healing. Thus, though still processing to
be true-blue Communist he has once again
castgated his former Russian allies for their
mination to stand up against their intensified
economic and political warfare against him, anda
made clear that he sees no possibility at this
stage of resumng friendly or even coldly correct
relations with them.
At the same time-and this is the most
significant part of his latest statement-Tito,
speaking in exceptionally conciliatory tones, has
proclaimed his desire to establish good-neighbor
relations and close collaboration with the West
as whole, particularly with Italy, Greece and
Austria. To that end, he has announced that he
will soon appoint minister to Athens, and he
has referred optimistically to the outlook for
developing a lasting and mutually beneficial
friendship with the Austrians, regardless of past
tensions over Carinthia AS for the Italians,
without specifically mentioning Trieste, he has
been at pains to declare that he is eager to live
on good terms with them, politically and eco
nomically and that no unsettled problems"
should be allowed to upset that objective.
Everything considered-its anti-Soviet spirit
its pro-Western tone, it's calm confidence in the
teeth of the Cominform's relentless drive against
him, and its open bid for friendship with the
free nations-thS newest Tito speech may well
mark the last turning point in the road that has
been leading Yugoslavia out of the Kremlin's
grip into position of independence linking it
firmly with the West, or at least detaching it
permanently from the world behind the Iron
Curtain. Certainly the speech has the ring of
man who has chosen between two systems and
who has made up his mind, though himself a
dictator and nationalist" Communist, to
throw in his lot with ours
In the circumstances, even though some
Evening star., 1950-04-30
Spires OF the Spirit
Burning Bushes

Again, bushes are afiame with thrilling
beauty. and trees, with spring wardrobe
of delicate green, are decked with rain
bow ribbons.
Tt was the resurrection season of the
year. when the time for the singing of
birds had come. which inspired Elizabeth
Barrett Browning to write: Every COM
mon bush Is afire with God" But she
hastens to warn that: only those who
see take off their shoes" And what
happens to those who, having eyes, see
not a glory which is so near? The
rest" she said, "sit round it and pluck
blackberries." That is not at all to dis
count the delicious black pyramids which
lift their Juicy ambrosia with the tantal-
Zing invitation, First come first served I"
What the poet means by her reference
to burning bushes and blackberries is
that to miss the first by exclusive and
greedy attention to the second symbolizes
life's most devastating tragedy.
Bernard Shaw remarks that inside
every life there is a marketplace and a
cathedral. Alas. for one whose feet
never tread the cloistered sanctuary!
What we feel. what We hear, what we
see. depends not simply On something
AAA OOA Dub OL1
in ourselves. Every one of us owes
infinite things to spiritual guides who
lead us from the blackberries to the
bushes which burn. In one of his essays,
Hazlitt gratefully tells what one walk
with the poet Coleridge meant for him.
1t opened vistas of totally new world,
so near, and yet which had eluded him
a world, too, with far-reaching horizons
That country walk unveiled magic realms
of thought and vision of which, until
then, he never had dreamed.
So it was with Moses when he heard
a voice out of the burning bush. In
hot anger he had slain an Egyptian
because he was representative of the
tyranny which held his people in bond
age. But, suddenly out of a common
bush which burned and was not con-
sumed. as the future law-giver turned
Evening star., 1950-04-30
Right Kind Of Fear
By Bruce Barton

A rich and famous publisher told me:
MY father died when was 7. saw
him die. heard the doctor tell my
mother that, II she could move him TO
Q warmer climate, he would have Q
chance to live. But moving him would
cost hundred dollars. So he died.
Then and there made UP my mind
that mother and would never again be
in q spot where tragedy could cruelty us
for lack of hundred dollars.
None Of us Is ever completely sure
Of his motives" he continued. Il sup
pose like money and power as we'll as
the next man. But can tell you that
1t wasn't the urge for these that gave
lne my initial impulse. What started me
ceiling newspapers as kid In short
pants. and kept me hustling for the next
80 years, was plain old-fashioned fear"
His comment recalled bit Of my own
early experience. My father. preacher
In a small Ohio town. took mother and
their five children-all under years
Of age-to see the big city Of Cincinnati.
We were looking down at the Ohio
River from one of those bridges that
turn to let the boats go through. And
when q boat came along we thought 1t
would be fun to stay there and ride
around.
Earlier in the day I had heard my
father tell mother that he had just IS
in his pocket. She, Of course. never had
any money AS the bridge started to
swing looked up and saw a sign read
ing: 1925 fine for standing on this bridge
when 1t is moving" Terrified, ] pulled
at my fathers sleeve and pointed to
the sign.
you have only s5!" I cried. Wen
all go to jaill'
Mother was almost as scared as I.
Father laughed 1t on. He said he didn't
think the police would arrest such little
criminals.
The bridge finished It's trip and we
walked away unmolested. But those few
minutes Of childish fright certainly had
something to do with the fact that I
have always wanted TO keep a little
extra in the bank. even II it meant do
ing without"
The big planners promise us freedom
from all fear. They can't deliver. Of
course. And II they could it would not
be an unmixed blessing Honorable fear
the fear, Of failure. the fear Of being
unable to provide for ones children. the
fear Of sickness and Of a dependent old
age-these are teachers Of caution. pro-
moters Of planning. part Of the driving
power that keeps men in motion.
tcopyriTht 1850. kins Pastures syndicate. rne.)