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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-06-15

Mrs. Gladys Field is visiting this
week in Marietta, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mersing were
in Baltimore ON Tuesday ON business.
Helvey Russell Smouse is visiting
friends in Ocean City and Baltimore
this week
Mrs. Grover c. Stemple entertained
with four tables of Finch last Fri
day evening.
Joe DiSimone has been confined to
his home on Oak street this week ON
account of illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Veader and
daughter are in New York this week
visiting Mrs. Veader's parents.
Mrs. Carl Paynter, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Sharps and son are spending
their vacation in Salisbury, Md.
Miss Mary T. Naylor has returned
to Oakland after attending a division
of the University of Virginia the past
winter in Richmond
Mrs. Robert Railey left last We'd
nesday for San Antonio, Texas, after
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Leo
lielbg, for four weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul DEWITT and
three sons spent the Weekend in Bal
timore with Mr.. and Mrs. John De
Witt and little daughter.
Miss Rita Bittle, student at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, is
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. f. D. Bittle for the summer.
The Bethel Methodist church, Mt.
Lake Park, is sponsoring a ham and
chicken supper ON Thursday even
ing, beginning at $50 p. m, at the
church.
Benjamin f Brown, son-in-law of
Mrs. Elizabeth Turncy, has recently
received his Bachelor of Science de-
gree in Physics Mathematics, from
Eureka College, Eureka, H. He re
ceived his degree with honors (Cum
Laude). Mr. Brown is entering the
University Of Illinois at Champaign,
H., this fall to pursue POSTGRADUATE
studies in Nuclear Physics.
d. W. Walter and sister, Mrs. Eliza
beth Turncy and daughter Ellen Ann
arrived nome from Illinois, whore
they attended college graduation Of
benjamin F. Brown, at Eureka col
lcge. Eureka, Ill.,. and graduation eX-
erciscs Of Sylvia Marie Archer from
grade school in Worth, III. Miss Arch
er was valedictorian Of her class. She
is the granddaughter Of d. w Wal
ten.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-06-15

Mr. and Mrs. Newton Copln were
weekend visitors in Windber, Pa.
Guy O. Yutzy, Taneytown, Md.
spent the weekend in Oakland with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. f. H. limbaugh, son
and daughter, Canton, O., spent the
weekend here with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs Kenneth Stahl and
daughter, Arlington, Va, spent the
Weekend here and at the Park with
relatives.
Mrs. T. W. Casteel, who spent two
weeks visiting her sister, Mrs. Bell,
in Washington, D. c., returned to her
home near town on Monday.
Glen VI. Yoder, Grantsville, was adj
mitted to membership in the Holstein-
Friesian association of America at
meeting in Syracuse, n. v. last week
Mr.. T. c. limbaugh, who had
undergone two operations in Me-
mortal hospital, Cumberland, was
brought to his home here on Satur-
day.
Mrs c. A. F1eegle was in Baltimore
attending the graduation exercises Of
her granddaughter. Marjorie Sue vii
son, of Keyser, who was graduated
from Goucher college.
Walter T. Ashby, Washington, D.
G., spent several days at Crcllin with
relatives. He was accompanied to
Oakland by Mrs. Charles Graham.
who is remaining here for a visit Of
a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. f. Bishoff and two
sons, of near Hoyes; Mrs. T. E. Bish-
off and Mrs. Paul Mitchell, of Oak
land, visited Mr.. and Mrs. Chester
Bishoff in Keyser, W. Va, Sunday af-
tcnoon.
Mr. and Mrs. L. VI. Whiteman left
Saturday enroute to their home in
San Francisco, Calf. after visiting
relatives here for ten days or more.
Mrs. Whiteman is the former Mary
limbaugh.
The Past Matrons and Patrons as
ISOLATION of Western Maryland will
visit Oakland Chapter, Order Of East
ern Star on Tuesday evening, June
20, it was announced. The meeting
will open at 1870 p. m. EST.
Rev. and Mrs. Robert Mayfeld, Of
Springfield, Missouri, announced the
birth of a son, David Wayne, on Sum
day, May 81. Mrs. Mayfeld is the
Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Fitzwater,
Swanton.
A life insurance policy is being
started free to each child being born
in Garrett county hospital at Oakland
by Arden May, star route, Oakland,
it has been announced by E. D. Peter
son, Oakland, of the Peoples Life in
surance company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton f. Bowser and
son Edward, and Mr.. Wallace Bowser
were on a motor trip over the Skyline
drive and to the Luray and Millrose
caverns in Virginia, over the week
end, returning to their home south of
town, on Sunday evening.
Mrs. J. Y. Bundus, of Chicago, H.,
who had been visiting her father,
George Little and family for two
weeks, went to Baltimore last Satur-
day where she visited her nephew and
niece, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Graves,
until Monday when she returned to
her home.
The Grand Chief of Pythian Sisters,
Mildred Springer, of Williamsport,
Md, is making her official visit to
Garrett Temple No. IT, at Oakland,
on Monday, June 10, at p. m. The
most excellent chief is requesting all
her officers and members to be pres
ent. Refreshments will be served.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-06-15
LOCAL NEWS

Copies of The Republican may be
obtained at GOnder's Cut Rate store,
Hamill's Book and Stationery Store
Englander's Pharmacy, in Oakland !;
Martins Store, Mt. Lake Park: and
Harvey, Ream and HumbertsOn's
Store, Loeb Lynn; at five cents per
copy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-06-15
Announce Engagement

Mr.. and Mrs. Osborn S. Beckman,
Of near Oakland, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Rose
Ina. to Melvin Harsh, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson Harsh, Eglon, w. Va.
The wedding will take place in the
near future. The exact date has not
been announced.
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Scientists and the Draft

The American Chemical Society has called
the Presidents attention to a problem which
needs immediate consideration as the mobiliza-
ton of manpower picks up speed. The problem
is how to prevent the waste of knowledge and
skills implicit in the drafting of men without
regard to their special scientific or other qualifi-
cations. Such waste occurred in both world wars
despite belated efforts to assign men to jobs for
which experience and education fitted them. In
the rush and confusion of mobilization many
technical experts were taken from important
industrial jobs and sent into the Army melting
pot-thus depriving war industries and the mill
tary forces as well of their capabilities as
specialists
There is no provision in the draft law for
blanket deferment of scientists and there should
be none. But some overall policy is needed to
prevent the arbitrary induction of key men who
can better serve the Nation by remaining in
the laboratory than by learning how to handle
rifle or machine gun The American Chemical
Society has been pressing for adoption of such
policy fos the past two years, but it's president
reported at the annual meeting of the group that
no sound program has yet been set up. Such
broad program is necessary if there is to be
more intelligent use of available manpower than:
there was in World War II.
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Mr.. MoIik's Carpets

The story about the Soviet Embassy's 45-room
mansion at Glen Cove, Long Island, has an angle
to 1t that is much more fascinating than the
mere fact that the Mayor of that community
has stoutly refused to grant the Kremln tax
exemption on the property. The angle, which
is tied in with the durability of carpets, should
be OF special interest to anybody who tends to
speculate nervously over whether the Russians
are looking forward to waging hot war on us
In the relatively near future
Thus, as reported by the New York Times,
Jacob A. Malik, for whose use the mansion
apparently is being prepared, recently sent an
emlssary to a rug merchant. This emisSary it
seems, informed the merchant that Mr. Malik
the KremlinS chief flibusterer in the United
Nations Security Council, was so very particular
about the wearing qualities of some new carpets
ordered for the place that he wanted to know
whether they would last at least three years
Oh, yes, replied the merchant; three years were
as nothing in the life and durability that could
be expected of them. Whereupon Mr. Malik's
agent gave cryptic shrug and said no more
about the subject
Putting two and two together it is possible
to read into all this what may be significant
item of foreign intelligence-namely that the
Russians do not intend to get into any drastic
trouble with us for the next three years. or maybe
not even until Mr.. Malik wears out those sturdy
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Party Is Shocked

The Progressive Party of the District
OF Columbia is shocked at the editorial
OF your paper under date of September
4, regarding the incendiary outburst OF
Secretary of the Navy Frank Matthews
On the one hand you appear to re-
buke the Secretary for calling for q
preventive war"-that we must be
"aggressors for peace"-and on the other
hand you call for undercover study and
discussion" of such measures by officials.
You also are in favor Of striking
first" against Russia if necessary. Thus
1t seems that The Star has succumbed
to the war hSsteria. Instead Of calmly
trying to solve the world situation by
consultations outlawing the A-bomb
and the H-bomb. urging mediation on
the undeclared war in Korea under a
real United Nations with the representa-
tives Of the New Chinese Republic
seated-The Star supports the present
war hySteria.
Not only is the statement Of the
Secretary Of the Navy cause of alarm
to the American people but should be
OF grave concern to all Americans who
know the effect such statements will
have on the people of the world who
cannot be at ease when such statements
are made by high officials of the United
States Government.
Gertrude Evans,
Executive Secretary, Progressive Party
OF the District Of Columbia.
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Murse Roberts Detructors

Gen. Lees character needs no defense.
History has long since written its verdict
on that. Calling him "mountebank"
and "hypocrite," his traducer violates
one OF the Ten Commandments. for he
bears false witness. But in calling him
traitor" he Is in good company for
Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States, called Gen. Lee a traitor and
tried to have him indicted for treason.
Many, II not all, of the leaders of the
Republican Party, in and out of Congress.
and the chief editors of that party's press
also denounced Gen. Lee as a traitor,
even after his death.
But their voices did Gen. Lee no harm.
His conscience was clear before Almighty
God and history has acquitted him of
any taint of treason. If he was traitor,
so were all of the Southern people who
aided and abetted the Confederacy; and,
If Edmund Burke could not draw an
indictment against a nation, who in this
country can?
Some of Gen. Lees defenders fall into
error in building up a. case for him. One
or them. in The Star of September 2,
says that "he freed his slaves" AS he
never owned slave, how could he set
free what he did not own? Under the
terms of the will of his father -in-law,
G. w. P. Custis, Gen. Lee was named
as executor of his estate, and one of the
duties laid on the executor was to set
free all of the slaves Mr.. Custis owned
those at Arlington and those at the
White House plantation, in New Kent
County, Virginia. In the midst of the
war of 1861-65, Gen. Lee went to West
Point, the county seat of New Kent
County. and executed the proper papers
for the liberation of Mr.. Gusts slaves.
That act has given rise to the fiction that
Gen. Lee set free his own slaves.
Another correspondent, in the same
issue of The Star, attributes to Gen.
Lee the saying that duty Is the sublimest
word in the English language" Gen.
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Letters to The Star

Lee said no such thing. This expression
appears in q letter which Gen. Lee is
supposed to have written to his son,
Custis. April 5. 1852, while the latter
was at the United States Military Acad-
emy. First published In the National
mtelligencer. December 10, 1854, 1t long
ago was proved forgery.
Gen. Lee was an educated man; he
was a Christian. and he was deeply read
in Holy Scriptures. How, then, could
he have used such an expression? He
knew that love" Is the most sublime
word In any language. God and His Son
said so over and over again. 1t is the
key word to the Bible; it is the very
heart of the Good News (the Gospel
that Jesus Christ and his Apostles, not
ably st. Paul preached. God refused
to describe Himself to Moses, but to the
Apostle John He said: God Is love-"
Could anything be more sublime than
that?
Another Of your correspondents. In the
same issue, gives us a new and remark
able lesson in moral philosophy, when
he says: Legally the South probably
was right; morally we know the North
was right" These statements are con-
Trajectory. If an act or series of acts,
such as the Secession movement was, is
legally right. it could not be morally
wrong.
think that another of your CORE
spondents will fail. If he attempts to
prove that Gen. Lee gave his sword first
to Virginia and then to the Confederacy,
knowing that the South was condemned
to defeat from the start That would
have been the height of folly, and Gen.
Lee was not given to foolish acts. Gen.
Lee and the leaders of the Confederacy.
civil and military. and the people who
were loyal to the Confederacy to the
bitter end, were always confident of
winning their independence. The sur
render at Appomattox was O profound
shock to them.
David Rankin Barbee.
Evening star., 1950-09-10

Divine appraisal Of this king was: "Thou
art my battle axe"
To be sure, men Of many q century
who were bent on following their own
selfish devices were oblivious to the fact
that they were linked up with the
schemes Of the Most High. One vivid
lesson the ages teach is that no one can
prognosticate where God will break
through or what instrument His hand
will grasp. That is why theologians who
try to contain God within the dimensions
Of their puny diagrams are often left
holding an empty bag. God is always
out beyond our fences. He Is always
escaping from the neat, diminutive
pigeonholes of those who try to blue
print His methods.
Many Of the sins Of saints have their
genesis in forgetfulness that religion
cannot be stored in anybodys sacred
barns; 1t cannot be locked in anybodys
strong box. In these days of chaos and
global diSlocation, amid all our nervous
apprehensions lest the ark Of the Lord
may be upset or profaned, II we could
see the end from the beginning, our
amazed eyes would detect the dazzling
meaning in the old verse:
"Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take,
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy. and shall break
In blessings on your head"
II we but knew the distant scene which
Is not glimpsed In today's headlines,
we might be staggered by the strange
ness of Gods unlikely and, perhaps,
perverse instruments. For, was not de-
spised Babylon a golden goblet in re-
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Jupiter Quite Near

That big, bright yellowiSh star in the
southern sky is Jupiter, "the giant planet" 1t
has been close to the earth during the past
month. Indeed, it came to within about 371 618,-
600 miles Of us recently. Considering that it is
more than three times as large as all the other
planetary bodies, there is reason for being glad
that it now Is receding. %
But such approaches and retreats have been
going on for ages. They involve no special risk
or danger. Perhaps Jupiter is simply a cloud
Of sort. There are other theories one of
which holds that its core at least must be COM
posed of solid matter. Unquestionably, it has
atmosphere. Maps of the surface on that ac-
count are maps in name only. Nobody really
knows what Jupiter looks like. What we see
through our telescopes is a ball with sfattened
poles and bulging equator Around the planet
move five principal satellites, four of which are
easy to see and one very elusive. Jupiter itself
is Illuminated and its moons make eeaipses upon
it-dark shadows moving over its revolving face.
The colossus of our solar system, not
counting the sun, is bowling along at nearly 500
miles minute and has a day" of about ten
of our hours and year about twelve times as
long as ours. It's diameter is approximately
10000 miles, it's volume 400 times that of the
earth. If brought to the distance of our moon,
it would seem 1,500 times the size of the full
moons disk-and it would be what it would
seem! Whether life exists or could exist on
Jupiter is a riddle which never has been read
Study of the biggest planet proceeds on
systematic scale Photographs taken in ultra
violet and extreme red light have been instruc-
tive and more of them are to be made. Perhaps
the astronomical camera eventually may solve
the problem of Jupiter. Meanwhile there is no
more fascinating subject in the whole heavens
Visitors to the Naval Observatory, who have
seen the Jovian spectacle, never forget It,
Evening star., 1950-09-10
Mr.. Trumun,s Veto Threat

The President has announced that he will
refuse to sign the McCarran anti-subversive bill
If 1t should be passed by Congress, which, of
course is his right. But President may exercise
right, and still not act in the best interests of
the country.
The Star has never been enamored of the
McCarran bill or It's predecessor, the Mundt-
Nixon bill, which, in its main aspects has been
picked up by Senator McCarran and incorporated
in his measure. The real question in any legis
lative proposal Of this kind, aside from such
constitutional questions as may be involved, Is
whether 1t will effectively reach the evil at which
it is directed. In The Stars judgment, there is
serious doubt that the Mundt- Nixon features of
the McCarran bill-the so-called Communist
registration provisionS-would do this.
But to say this is not to imply any agreement
with the curious emotional hostility which seems
to permeate the opposition of the President and
others. In a message to Congress last month,
obviously referring to the Mundt- Nixon provi-
sions, the President said: Legislation is now
pending before Congress which is so broad and
vague in Its terms as to endanger the freedoms
Of speech press and assembly" But precisely
how are these freedoms threatened? Somehow,
the critics never quite get down to the point Of
actually telling us that.
If the Presidents opposition to the pending
bill is inspired by considered appraisal of
Its contents an appraisal which has led to the
Judgment that 1T threatens our freedoms, it is
very hard indeed to see how he could possibly
approve an alternative measure which has been
submitted by group of administration Senators.
Under this bill the Attorney General would
be empowered to intern Communists, presumably
including American Communists, and foreign
agents who might attempt or plan to commit
espionage or sabotage in time of war or grave
national emergency. In other words, subject, to
q review by board of detention and with right
Of appeal to the courts these people could simply
be picked up and put In concentration camps
for the duration.
The Star has not the slightest doubt that
II we were at war, or If war were imminent,
something of this sort would have to be done
We simply could not afford to take the chance
of letting these people run around loose. But 1t
is hard to understand how the President or any
one else can oppose the McCarran bill on the
ground that 1t threatens our freedoms while
looking with equanimity on the passage, in
peacetime, of the concentration camp BILL
Evening star., 1950-09-10

safely removed, help coming from the
Cohasset and North Scituate life-saving
stations. Tugs have been dispatched
from Boston to the scene of the wreck.
but there Is some doubt as to whether
the craft can be raised. The rescued
excursionists waited at the Cohasset
and North Scituate railroad stations for
trains to convey them to Boston"
The Star for September II, 1900, de-
voted many columns of type to reports
of the aftermath
Galveston Hurricone of the hurricane
And Flood and flood which
swept over Calves
ton, Tex, September and g. Details
had been difficult to obtain. Now, at
last. it was known that over 1000 people
had been drowned or otherwise killed
and the property loss exceeded $12 mil
lion. whole families are. in many in
stances. wiped out of existence. There
is scarcely a family that did not
lose one or more members, while the
hospitals are crowded with wounded be-
yond their capacity, and the county
courthouse is being converted into hos
pital for their care. :. 1t will be days
before the full extent of the frightful
disaster is known or a correct list fEthe
dead is obtainable" The storm wrecked
scores Of small towns and villages along
the coast and flattened plantations and
crops. Clara Barton signed an appeal
for funds for relief work to be admin
istered by the Red Crosse The Star
commented editorially: "The Capital
will not fall behind its record for gen.
erosity on this occasion"
*
Two muzzle-loading 6-inch bronze
guns which Admiral George Dewey cap
tured at Manila on
Dewey Trophies May l, 1898, were
On View mounted on the east
front of the State, War
and Navy Building just half a century
ago. and The Star on September l3, 1900,
explained: "They are works of art. Cast
on each is Spanish crown and a mono
gram" One belonged to the reign of
Carlos III, the other to that of Carlos
~. There was the date 1777 on the
former, 1889 on the latter. Apparently,
the first gun was called Eel Belocose."
its companion "Garduna."
Evening star., 1950-09-10
'BerIiner SchIoss' to Go

The Communists now In control. of East
Berlin have decided that the old Imperial Palace
on the Spree must make room" for so-called
Red Square" on the model of the plaza of the
Kremlin in Moscow. Demolition of the ancient
landmark already has been started The fact
that the German equivalent of Buckingham
Palace was regarded symbol of "the good
old days was enough to condemn it to destruc-
tion Stalin's steoges do not wish the people
to remember anything either old or good accord
Ing to middle-class standards.
OF course, the Schloss would have needed q
lot of repairing to be usable again 1t took
terrible punishment from British and American
bomberS and from Russian artillery during
Htler's war. Even before Der Fuehrer came to
power 1t showed signs of dSrepair. The weather
had been hurting it ever since the Hohenzollerns
fed in 1913 Under the provisional republic up
to 1888 1t was neglected simply because there
was no money available for maintenance
But the Berlin Symphony Orchestra still
played in the palace courtyard at intervals as
late as 1885, Americans who heard the music
of Beethoven and Mozart performed there on
congenial summer evenings never will forget the
experience Looking back, it seems incredible
that those good old days" that the Communists
hate really are gone. The vast Berlin residence
of the Kaisers definitely belonged to the "gemut-
Itch" period of history Now 1t is to be iquidated
Possibly the loss, so far as architecture is con-
cerned is not tragic. The huge rectangular
structure-650 feet long and $50 feet wide with
dome rising to 232 feet over the pavement
was not a supreme example of the builders art
Its trimmings were ginger -bready" Even so,
1t should have been worth saving A precedent
for preserving and restoring 1t might have been
found in the Marxsts' Sparing of the Kremlin
and the Hermitage