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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-16
To Observe Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry kitzmiller
are planning to celebrate their
fiftieth wedding anniversary on
September 26, at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. Franklin
Wolfe, on D street, in Mt. Lake
Park. There will be an open house
from 2 to o'clock p. m. EST.
Friends and relatives are invited.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-16
CARD OF THANKS

We desire to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation to all our
friends and neighbors for their
Kindness and helpfulness during
the illness and following the death
of our wife and mother, the late
Mrs. William +. Landon, Mt. Lake
Park.
We also want to thank all who
gave flowers and contributed the
use of their automobiles for the
funeral service.
Husband and Sons
ADV. 29-lt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-16

on their trip by Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
jenkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jenkins spent
a week with their son, Roy, and
family.
Mr. and Mrs Donald Swaugcr,
Grantsville, spent Labor Day with
the Blayne Skunk family.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-16
Rate Increases
Announced By
Phone Company

New schedules of telephone rates,
effective with bills rendered on
and after September %, in Oak
land, Kitzmiller, Accident, Friends
Vile and Bittinger, were announced
by Richard X. Dayton, c. and P.
manager in Oakland.
The average telephone bill will
increase about 80 cents month
for residences and so cents month
for businesses.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-16
NEW GERMANY

The program entitled 81 Can Be
A Christian Citizen" will be pre-
scented by members of the Womens
Guild during the Sunday School
hour at Trinity Reformed church
this Sunday. Harry Edwards, mem
Der of the House of Delegates, will
be the speaker. All members and
friends are urged to be present.
Rheta Hummel, youngest daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Hum
mel, suffered first, second and
third degree burns on her face
hands, arms and legs when she up
set pan of homemade candy on
herself. She is a patient in Meyers
dale Community hospital.
Bright Warwick is quite sick
here at his home with pneumonia.
Mrs. Scott Wilhelm and family,
Homecoming, visited Mrs. Charles
burst on Sunday.
Delayed
Mrs. Matthew f. Martin. ST., is
recuperating from broken rib
received in a fall at her home two
weeks ago. Visitors over the week
end at the Martin home were MI.
and Mrs. Jams Spitznas, Sr., Mrs.
Ida Ridder and son, Wesley, Miss
Barbara Lemback and Vaughn
Largent, of Baltimore; Mr.. and
Mrs. j. B. Elliott, Lonaconing; Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. G. Hart and son,
Mack, of Westernport; Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Mayot and daughter
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-16

Meese, Miss Schrilla Knox, Miss
nellie Shaffer, and Mrs. Dennis
Rasche.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Filbert
have presented to the Garrett
County Historical Society pictures
and other material illustrating the
history Of Mountain Lake Park
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1954-09-16

An upward adjustment also has
been made in the monthly charges
for business extension telephones.
The increase totals 10 cents, max
ing business extension telephones
now $l.4O.
Dayton emphasized that in the
future. as in the past, efforts
would be continued to improve the
speed and quality of service. He
pointed out that service has been
extended to the Bittinger area and
extension of lines to the Bethlehem
area We're now under way.
Evening star., 1954-12-31
Bio News From Berkeley

The Berkeley, California, meeting OF the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science has heard a report that should
do much to diSpel the nightmare vision of a
tremendously overpopulated world eventu-
ally starving to death for want of enough
agricultural output to feed itself. Always
dubious thing, particularly since the advent
of atomic energy and the new techniques
that have steadily increased conventional
farm productivity, this vision now seems to
amount to little more than an extreme form
Of pessimism that has been rendered thor
oughly invalid by what the future promises.
For the Berkeley report-covering ex-
perimentS carried out by group OF re-
searchers at the University of California
makes clear that science has achieved
striking advance toward uncovering and
applying the secret of photosynthesis, the
mysterious process in nature which enables
green plants to store the suns energy within
themselves and convert it into life-sustain-
ing food. This process is baSically the most
important of all chemical actions in our
world. Without it, there could be no such
thing as human existence. And by the same
token, given the knowledge of how to dupli-
cate it artif1cially for practical food-produc-
ing operations, mankind would be able to
free itself forever, regardless of population,
from the threat of hunger and decimating
famine
That is why the news from Berkeley
adds up, at least potentially, to an event of
extraordinary significance. For the Univer-
sity of California scientists, according to
their report to the AAAS meeting, have
achieved-in experiments conducted outside
the living cells of green plants-history's
first duplication of the complete process of
natural photosynthesis. In effect, in doing
so, they have harneSsed the sun artifcially
to make it produce sugar and starch from
carbon dioxide and water. OF course, as
emphasized by one of these men-Dr. Daniel
]. Arnon-thiS does not mean that the world
now has within its immediate reach the
wherewithal to do the same thing on vast
scale, but there can be little doubt that
long step has been taken in that direction.
In sum, although many years may have
to pass before it leads to concrete results for
the good of humanity, this advance is un-
questionably full of bright and revolutionary
potentialities. As DR.. Arnon has suggested,
they are potentialities that hold out the
"flrm hope" that science will yet be able to
devise practical, large-scale system of arti-
fetal photosynthetic reactions that will
"usher in an era of unlimited abundance for
the benefit of all mankind" In any event.
Evening star., 1954-12-31
This and That

Neatest weather prediction Of the
holidays was:
Snow. followed by small boys on
sleds"
Weathermen are getting more hui
man and colloquial. and that is a good
thing
Now we may expect series Of pre-
dictions, maybe phrased as follows:
Rain. followed by daffodils.
Cold. followed by warm hearts.
Warmer. followed by peace on earth,
good will to men.
Unfortunately. weathermen have q
habit Of being wrong.
It won't rain. 30 there will be no
daffodils.
The cold win not come. so there win
be no reaction of warmer hearts.
It will not grow warmer. but colder,
and SO there win be no peace on earth,
as look around the world shows.
We can't place the blame on the
Weather Bureau, either
Maybe they should just stick to me-
neurological matters. and let the small
boys alone. They can take care of
themselves. after all.
The weather Is with us, late and soon,
no matter the predictions.
Therefore, the happiest man Ia he
who makes his own.
Probably every male person alive has
at some time or other equipped himself
Evening star., 1954-12-31
BY Charles E. TroceweH

with a small barometer, and hopefully
set himself up in the amateur weather
prediction business
He soon discovered, in practically
every case, that there is more to it
than that: The matter of the winds
the business of pressures, the changes
brought in from afar-tfese and a
multitude Of other matters made
wreck Of his new business. He was glad.
to let the Weather Bureau handle it.
Still, the average man can find much
interest in watching the clouds and
winds.
He will discover, after q number Of
years, that he may become fairly
weather wise, after his fashion, with
out the aids Of instruments, or know
ing conditions afar.
In other words. he uses common
sense.
One Of the first things he will dis
cover about our local forecasting is
that the boys commonly make a pre-
diction, then take it back-and it hap
pens just the samel
For instance, they predict rain ton1or-
row. This, in the morning. BY evening,
they have changed their prediction.
Now they say nothing at all OF rain.
The aStute listener knows better. He
knows the rain. as first predicted, prob
ably viii fall Just when they first said
1t would, tomorrow.
Such 0 man, using his common
Evening star., 1954-12-31
Cultural Council for Canada?

Once more the Canadian government Is
giving serious consideration to the establish
ment of an administrative office "for the
enrichment Of cultural life at home and the
dissemination of information abroad" Such
an agency was recommended by a royal
commission headed by Vincent Massey in
1949-1951. Now that he is Governor Gen.
eral, it is logical that the idea should be
revived. But opposition has come in the
past and probably will come in the future
from French-speaking Quebec, sensitive to
any suggestion of federal meddling with
matters of education, language and reli-
gion."
Meanwhile, adherents of the cultural
council idea are urging the practical need
for some authoritative agency for aiding
artists as individuals and in groups along
the lines followed by the British Council set
up in 1910 to serve the same purposes in the
British Isles. A dramatic company, a SYM
phony orchestra or ballet, they argue, in
the nature of things must operate on a
national scale. It follows that national con-
troll and national aid are imperative. If the
result is not completely unmixed blessing,
the proponents of the scheme reply that
in discernible fact the advantages outweigh
the disadvantages. But the fear Of "polit-
ical art" admittedly does hang over any and
all governmental subsidization or admin
istration Of cultural activities. Russia and
Germany are cited as examples Of what is
apt to happen where artists and teachers
are attached to the machinery OF the state.
Even in England there has been sharp pro-
test against some of the policies of the
existing council Sir Kenneth Clark re-
signed his position as chairman rather than
seem to give approval to its doings.
But Canada does have problem in the
promotion and protection of its national
interests in the whole gamut Of cultural en-
terprise. And Governor General Massey,
whose life has been devoted TO generous
public work, may be able to solve it, He
certainly is entitled to try and many Ameri-
can admirers will wish him luck In his en-
deavors.
Evening star., 1954-12-31

sense, knows that weatherman is no
prophet with long beard; he is Just
man among men, working with more
information, but sometimes overshoot-
ing his mark. or getting cold feet, or
something.
So what does he do? He takes back
his first prediction. and says nothing
at all about rain tomorrow"
The common-Sense observer, having
heard this sort Of thing before. many
times, believes in the first prediction.
1T will rain. just the same" he an
nounces to his wife.
Sure enough, at about 8 o'clock, the
next morning, it starts to rain.
The amateur. not the professional,
was right.
The amateur, knowing his weather.
men, knows that the professional was
almost sure to make mistake some
where. Being human, the weatherman
can be no more consistent than the
rest Of us. He longs for novelty, per-
haps, or isn't quite sure Of himself.
Anyway, he says one thing one time.
and something else the next time.
Something happening away of there
in the mountains, or maybe in the
desert, or in the deep Pacific, makes a
monkey Of all his instruments. his
Darometers and gauges. And Of him.
He Is just guy guessing.
And guessing, brother. Is something
we all can do.
Evening star., 1954-12-31
Arlington Grows'Up

The annual report of Arlington County
Manager A. T. Lundberg adds to the evi-
dence that our closest Virginia neighbor just
across the Potomac River has almost grown
up. Long reputed to be the fastest growing
county in the United States, Arlington's era
of phenomenal development lies largely be-
hind 1t. The once predominantly rural
suburban area now is bustling city in fact,
If not in name. There are few wide-open
spaces left for major residential expansion
of the sort that transformed the landscape
after two world wars into compact apart
Observation-Disclosures community.
County Manager Lundberg pointed out
in his report that for the first time in more
than decade the countys population began
to level off this year. Part of this change
was caused by the closing of several war
born public housing projects during the
year, with resultant exodus of some fam
lilies to other jurisdictions. But the scarcity
of suitable land for large-scale private
housing enterprises has had the effect of
sending builders farther afleld-eSpecially
to adjacent Fairfax County. Fairfax, as
matter of fact, is now recognized as North
ern Virginia's most rapidly developing
county, with major subdivision and apart
ment projects under way in many parts of
that county.
Arlington really needs a "breather,"
after so many years of amazing growth.
The impact of a succession of national
emergencies, with an accompanying ex-
pansion of Federal activities in the Metro
politan Area, hit Arlington hard It has
had great difficulty in keeping pace with it's
residential and business growth, which
caused shortages in every field of county
services, particularly education and SANTA
ton. Only by resorting to series of special
bond issues has the county managed to
catch up-or almost catch up-with the
needs. The school shortage has been ma
terially relieved in the past several years,
but more classroonls will be needed to &C
commodate children of young families that
have settled in Arlington by the thousands
since World War II. Better water supply
and additional sewers are urgent needs.
Perhaps Arlington will have time now to
concentrate on improving public services
that have suffered from too rapid develop
ment in the recent past.
Evening star., 1954-12-31
He Sees by the Papers

one day in one newspaper:
A German beauty, spy for Russia,
is given five years in prison, in Berlin.
The Belgians announce % arrests in
connection with gun running into
North Africa. from Red Curtain Coun-
tries.
Communist pickets seeking to in
fiuence the French Parliament against
German rearming are met by police
blockade.
India's lower house of Parliament
votes to make India q socialist nation,
with private enterprise virtually at an
end and the little leeway left subject
to change.
American House Red probers label a
publication called March of Labor" a
Communist-supported front.
Secretary Dulles warns the Reds of
growing United States power.
Tito, Yugoslav dictator, In India, calls
for "active co-exiStence"
In the January Catholic Men," the
Very Rev. Francis j. Connell has an
article calling for eternal vigilance in
a world shared with Communists.
Mendes France, French Premier,
wants America to cease producing A
bombs and H-bombs!
And in Korea. President Syngman
Rhee declares that Red China defies
Uncle Sam because Mao thinks the
United States Is afraid to fight.
This Is peaceful co-existence?
Earl Scoop Shutz.
Evening star., 1954-12-31

centuries. Even today, we know we
must resist every attack on it., whether
brutal or subtle. In this right we see
mans basic defense against injustice,
and the peoples main defense against
war We believe that if all peoples
had this right, no government would
dare to provoke modern war; that
neither MuSsolini nor Hitler nor Tojo
neither Stain nor Kim II Sung nor Mao
Tse-tung could have launched their ag-
gressions Sf their peoples had been free
to denourIce them and to choose other
rulers.
Indeed, we suspect and fear your
rulers because they, too, deny you the
right to speak or move freely. We con-
denim the brutalities of Vorkuta and
Kolyma because you are not free to
condemn them yourself. We fear your
government because we know that, con-
trolling all your news and commanding
your ears with unceasing propaganda,
it could at any time persuade you that
Russia was in grave danger, and thus
throw you into war which you would
believe to be defensive. We know that
you, Ivan, want no war; but if your
government assured you that you must
fight, you would f1ght-you would have
no chance of finding out whether your
government was deceiving you.
Do we criticize your rulers more than
the rulers of other countries? Yes, be-
cause they are stronger than the petty
tyrants who rule some smaller nations,
and SO they are graver threat to world
peace. It is this tremendous military
strength, controlled by small group of
men in Moscow who have to answer to
no one, that has forced us to arm our
selves again. After 1945, the West
slashed its defenses down to about one
eighth of the wartime scale; but Stain
held on to four-fifths of his. Several
years later we awoke to our danger. We
saw freedom destroyed in Czechoslo-
vakia. We saw socialists and other DEM
ocrats killed or imprisoned throughout
Eastern Europe (today, even your rulers
admit that injustice was done to some
of these unhappy people,. We saw Tur-
key, Persia, Greece, Finland and other
small countries threatened by Soviet
Evening star., 1954-12-31
Needless Slaughter

have read much and heard much
about Needless Slaughter" on our
highways during holidays. But not
once have heard any one say where
most of the trouble lies. wonder why?
We have fine cars and statistics show
that few accidents are caused by
mechanical defects. Our fine highways
are carefully marked for danger of
any kind. Our road patrolmen are
fair, courteous and thoroughly trained.
So who not say what causes the
majority of accidents? The cause is
the manufacture, sale and use of
alcoholic beverages.
You can find out from police records
and from doctors and nurses who labor
over broken bodies at all hours of the
day and night. How they dread holi-
days!
Not long ago I read this, marked
Anonymous:
Statistics show that 10000 people
are killed by liquor where only one Is
killed by mad dog. Yet we shoot
the dog and license the liquor"
Is that logical?
In great Book, in which are found
the best rules for living, we read:
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is
raging; and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise','
Who will be wise during this New
Years week end?
Mrs. r. Y Nicholson.
feel that those who moralize about
the terrific loss of life on our highways
miss altogether one of the causes. per-
haps the main cause, of this senseless
yearly destruction of life That is the
enormous overpowering of the auto
mobile. No pleasure car on earth needs
one half of the 240 horsepower found
in some of the new models, and they
seem to step up the power every year.
AS speeding causes a very large pro-
Evening star., 1954-12-31

armed might and menacing propa-
ganda. We saw Stain put cruel press
ure onto YugoSlavia. We saw even our
own peoples frightened and demoralized
by the monstrous shadow of huge Red
army in Central Europe. And so we re-
solved to rearm.
When your government conScribeS
more soldiers, builds new bomber air.
craft, or produces hydrogen bombs, it
does so in secret (and that accounts for
much of our fear). Our governments
are democratic; and when they want
more soldiers or more money for arms,
they must ask us to agree. The result
is violent argument. We are not nat
ural soldiers-not even natural tax
payers. We criticize our ministers de-
mands, in press, in parliaments, in
public, and in way that your Supreme
Soviet would never dare to do. We put
forward alternative ideas about the
best methods of defense. We even argue
with our allies-for our alliances are
free partnerships in which public ar
gument is permitted. We do not enjoy
these long arguments about atomic
weapons and jet bombers: but we in
sist on having arguments, for that is
our way of keeping our elected govern
ments under control.
The Party will still assure you that
what we say and write in our news
papers is war propaganda. You will
probably accept what the party tells
you; it has a monopoly. We cannot
compel you to believe that we are
sincere in what we say. We would
rather see you make up your own
mind than swallow all that we say as
the Party requires you to swallow its
dogmas. We ask you only one ques-
ton: If the case we put is obviously
false and insincere, why does your
Party take such trouble to prevent you
from reading or hearing it?
We see that policy of prevention, of
censorship and mental monopoly, as a
policy against peace. For war can best
be averted when men understand what
is in each others minds: and you
should know that in our minds there
is good will and friendship to all your
peoples.
Evening star., 1954-12-31
Prophecy

I am quite sure the coming year iDtH
bring
Perennial unerpectedness OF snow
Dazzling my eyes NTH little stars that
cling
A moment, to my lnshes. tDhen I 90
On homely errunds;; and euery year
TecetUeS,
For all the 0rtepous things that come
to pass,
The myriad consultations Of green ledves.
The myriad reGSSurGnces OF grass.
There may be many burdens ! must
bear
And many challenges that must
meet,
But am certain earth tUtu stfu be fatr
With sudden blossoms. brave and gay
and street.,
And all mn past experience pyophesys
Much glddness from fnmtltGr surprise.
jane Merchort
Evening star., 1954-12-31
Letters to The Star.

portion of such accidents, this surplus
power tempts the young and reckless
to try out the horses on our fine roads.
Result: More persons killed in wrecks
than in all our wars.
In this writer's opinion it should be
made criminal offense to put so much
power in an automobile; it is not only
extremely unsafe but uneconomical as
well. r.. Bentley Thomas.
Evening star., 1954-12-31

taken together with other developments
along the same line, the Berkeley report
plainly indicates that the Cassandras need
not be taken too seriously when they warn
that the world, because its population is in
creasing at the rate of 200 million every 10
years, is heading fast toward catastrophe
Of starvation.
Evening star., 1954-12-31


Q. What Is the Oldest printed book
still in existence.-D. c.
A. Block printing began in China
about seven centuries before Guten-
berg's invention of movable metal type.
The Oldest printed book. The Diamond
Sutra." was produced in AID. 868 by q
Chinese, Wang Chieh. It is in the
British Museum in London.
Evening star., 1954-12-31

@. Where Is the worlds largest con-
centration of salt?-O. T.
A. Cerro de Sal (Salt Mountain In
Barahona Province of the Dominican
Republic is believed to be the worlds
largest block Of salt. Production is just
beginning and the mine has recently
been mechanical.
Evening star., 1954-12-31
Questions and Answers
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

A reader can get the answer to any
question Of fact BY writing The Evening
star Information Bureau, 1900 Eye 81.
NV Washington 8 D. c Please inclose
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Highlights
TeIevision Today.

1900, WNBW (A-Joe Palooka:
A TV version of the popular
comic strip character makes
it's debut.
1880, WNBW (4)-Arthur Muir
ray Party: Audrey Meadows
is guest.
$3.50, WNBW (N-Voice of
FnreStone: MeZzo soprano
Mildred Miller is guest singer.
Elizabeth Ellen Evans reads
her essay, II Speak for De-
mocracy."
900, WTTG (5), WMAL o.
Secretary of State John Fos-
ter Dulles: An address on
Freedom and ndo-China."
$3.50, WTTG (5)-Boxing: Dan
Bucceroni meets Tommy
Jackson in the 10-round
main event.
$3.50, WNBW (4-Robert
Montgomery Presents: James
Dunn stars in MY Little
Girl" a drama about a
newspaperman who covers
stories effectively until his
daughter becomes involved
in a scandal.
1000, WTOP (9}-Studio One:
Eva Gabor and Richard
Kiley head the cast of "Paul's
Apartment" a mystery.
1880, WNBW (A-All Star
Theater: Jackie Cooper and
Wanda Hendrix are featured
in something Old, Something
New"
Radio Today.
500, WTOP-Suspense: Cornell
heads the cast of Somebody
Help Me-"
500, WRC-Railroad Hour:
Gordon MacRae and Doro-
try Warenskjold sing the
leading roles in Three Mus
keteers."
500, WTOP-Radio Theater:
Dan Daley and Dorothy Nc
CURE co-star in "A Blue
print for Murder" a story
about a man who falls in love