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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-01-04
First Aid Class Resumes

The Bureau Of Mines first aid
class will resume on Monday eve
ming, January 8, at 1880 at the fire
hall in Grantsville A session will
be held also at Yoder's school on
Tuesday evening, January 8. at 7:30.
The class is still open for new
traineeS.
Thomas Powell Frostburg, the
instructor is giving the standard
and advanced courses in one. Rev.
Lloyd A. Trout, civil defense depu-
ty was urging all who could to
take this training
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-01-04
School Group At
Jennings Pictured

Mrs. Lee BroadWater, of Jen-
nings. has furnished this week )
old photograph, another in the
series of school groups which have
proved popular during the past
year.
The pupils, she recalled, were
those in the Jennings school, and
she placed the year as 1910 The
original photograph is exceptional
ly well preserved considering it is
more than half a century old
The teacher, according to Mrs.
BroadWater, was Miss Nellie
Beachy, and it is probably she who
is standing in the center Of the
back row.
Others who were in this same
class, Mrs. Broadwater said, in
cludcd Ada Wiley, Charles Hand
wcrk, Mrs. Catherine Broadwater,
Orpha Fadlcy. Lcafy Platter, Frank
Hare, Ruth HandWcrk, Mae Hare,
Irene House, Nora Miller, Ruth
Fadley, Simon Hoover, Margaret
White, Charles Hare;
Ethel Layman, Charles Kcnncr,
Russell Hoover, Dude Wilt Re
bccca Bevans, Russell Hoover, An
ma Hare, Alma Ross. Albert Wiley,
Frank Hare. Della Hoover, Mae
Bittinger, Rosa burst and Law
renee Wiley. All members of the
class. however, were not present
when the photograph was taken.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-01-04
Note Increase In
November Welfare

Expenditures for welfare took
another hike during the past
month. Costs through the County
Welfare office for the month of
November totalcd So. 1924. an
other increase of 81 1861 from the
previous month, according to Dr.
Alvin Thalhcimcr, chairman of the
State Department of Public Wei
fare. The figures Gid not include
costs of administration. The in
crease last month was S773
The amount was distributed to
829 persons, also an increase of 25
persons.
Largest expenditure, as usual.
was in the category of Aid to De
pendent Children where 463 per-
sons in l46 families received SIG
53405. an average Of SHIPS per
family. ThWe were ID new appli-
cations with II cases added and :
cancelled.
In the category Of Old Age as
sistance 1893 persons received So
866.69, an average OF S4983. There
were new applications with one
case being added and two can
celled. Three blind persons re-
ceived Sl98.
Ninety-eight persons listed as
permanently and totally disabled
received $5.12343, an average of
S52.28. There we're two new cases
in this division with one case added
and one cancelled
Thirty-seven persons listed I'M
der General Public assistance re-
ccived S1,75522, an average Of
SAT A There we're seven new APP
plications in this group with six
cases added and none cancelled.
Thirty persons were listed under
foster home care and they received
81 .96185, an average of $64.40 each.
Under a chart for certification for
medical assistance among the aged
the figures showed 100 cases in
effect with nineteen new applica-
tons. Twelve were declared eligi-
bic and four ineligible. Under GER
tification for hospital care there
we're 80 applications with 80 eligi-
bic and ineligible There was
public assistance given to two en-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-01-04
To Assume New Duties

The Rev Norman f. Loughman
recently was appointed to the
Church of the Nazarcne in Frank,
w. Va. and will assume his duties
on January 7.
He and his wife moved here n
June of 1861. where the former was
pastor of the Corinth Methodist
circuit. They resided in Corinth
W. Va.
He served the Crellin Metho-
dist church, Wesley Chapel Mctho-
dist church, Pleasant Valley and
Deer Park Methodist churches.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-01-04
IoyabIcs, amounting to S94 Is.

ployablcs, amounting to S9425.
Throughout the state the wei
fare payments amounted to S3,O23,-
065 for November as compared to
81 .981 ,O59 for the previous month
and S2,561 SIS for November a year
ago This indicates a jump of almost
half a million dollars during one
years time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
AYID LAWKtNCE
The Long and Short Viewof Taxes

expansion, increase employ
ment opportunities and pro-
mote a sound growth Of the
national economy. For this
would bring to the treasury
substantial revenues.
What is desirable is a new
approach to the problem and,
If possible, a disinterested
one. The Treasury is preju-
diced because it looks only at
the gain or loss in revenues
from tax changes and refuses
to take q long look ahead,
since it is naturally concen-
trating on this fiscal year or
the year Immediately follow
ing.
The administration itself is
prejudiced because it sees
only the short-range political
aspects. 1t processes to be
interested in q balanced
budget, but it continues to
spend money on "give-away"
programs and so-called "hu-
man welfare" measures which
keep on producing deficits.
The administration refuses,
for example, to approve a di-
rect appropriation for the
aged who need medical care,
and wants to force an in
crease in social security taxes
to pay for this. Such q plan
involves a decrease in take
home" pay, which only means
that labor unions will imme-
diately demand an offsetting
increase in wages, thus af-
fecting adversely the whole
wage-price spiral.
What is needed today is a
selection by the President Of
a national commission Of out
standing citizens already
familiar with taxation in
practice who could make q
non-political report to con-
gressional committees by next
January or February. The
commissions aim should be
the formulation of a five or
ten year program with a set
Of principles on the subject
Of Federal spending. while
at the same time leaving to
the States certain categories
of taxation that can provide
them also with revenues over
a given period Of time. In the
attempt to focus on a single
years figures, the need to
build a sound economy on a
long range basis is being
overlooked.
(copyriRht, 1882
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
Former u. S. official Believed Viewing
Current Economic Steps as 'Tinkering

avoided this year. Candidates
in New Hampshire and Cali
fornia alike complain Of
voter apathy. Democrats are
treasured by the Presidents
Western swing with its i'm
plications Of his personal
pulling power. Few expect
much help from 1t unless
the President actually touches
ground and not merely air
ports in their districts.
Republicans cheerfully are
planning a campaign based
on what they did not let the
President do during the past
session. They seem satisfied
it will work; they expect the
Midwest and South to give
them a greater House ma
jority Of an even more con-
sentative tinge.
If these prospects were to
survive the election test, it
could be even more difficult
next year for the President
to take the offensive with
Congress on economic plan
ming. Mr.. Eccles thinks de-
lay now is inadmissible and
argues that confidence is an
effect, not a cause" Other
Kennedy advisers share the
view that confidence can
not be created by cheerlead-
ing.
A deficit due to a tax cut
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
DORIS FLEEsoN
EccIes Prescribes Bold Action
(CopyriEht, 1852

did not seem to Mr.. Eccles
important, but he charged
bluntly that the public was
not getting value received
from rising Federal expendi-
lures, especially in the mil
itary and economic aid pro-
gram.
In this view he taps a
fountain Of discomfort in the
place where foreign aid Of
all kinds has been most sup
ported. The liberals and mod
crates in both parties are
Ill at ease with present pro-
grams and each year approve
them less and less.
The conservatives, them
selves, however, probably are
not bold enough to accept
his demands for curbing
both labor and business mo-
nopoly, including compulsory
arbitration. Nor will they
like his demands for firm
control Of money which to-
day, unlike the citizenry. re-
quires no passport to leave
the country.
The net Of the Eccles posi-
ton is that the President
and Congress are only tinker
ing with a situation which is
out Of control Of either of
them and getting worse. He
speaks not only with past
vast authority in the Gov
eminent, but as head Of q
banking and business en-
pire spreading over the West
from headquarters in Salt
Lake city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
DAVID LAWRENCE

Two phrases have appeared
conspicuously in the press in
recent weeks. One is tax
reduction" and the other is
tax reform" The first is
easily understood, widely
known and popular. The
second is relatively unknown.
misunderstood and could be
popular or unpopular, de-
pending on how it is applied.
The purpose of both tax
reduction and tax reform
nowadays is supposed to be
Ito get the economy going
again"-to cause money to
be spent by consumers and
funds to be made available
for business expansion and
modernization so that costs
can be lowered.
Something very positive,
however, will have to be done
to bring about a change Of
thinking among those bu-
reaucrats in the Treasury
Department who write the
technical regulations and
submit them to q bewildered
Congress, most Of whose
members are uninformed on
the meaning of these techni-
cal questions. Only a few
committee veterans in Con-
gress have studied the sub
ject at all.
For years now there has
been a glib reply given to
those who say that taxes
ought to be fair. equitable
and stimulating, rather than
a barrier to business growth.
The com m emit from the
Treasury usually is: You're
right, the regulation isn't
fair or equitable, but the
Governme emit needs the
money"
This is q short-sighted
view. For it STILES and
strangles the economy and
prevents it from growing as
soundly as it should. As for
revenues. q change in a
given regulation might. in
deed, cut down some reve-
nues temporarily, but, in the
long run, 1t can also build
them up.
There seems to be q mis-
understanding, too, Of how
people will spend money that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
A Cry of Anguish Rises as Modern Life
Pushes Us Back to Medieval Conditions

year New Workers step
around the pits. stumble
through the wooden cat
walks. breathe the fine mist
of dust, absorb the ham
mering noise night and day,
and telephone in vain for
carpenter or plumber. And
the skyscrapers stand empty
two days and seven nights a
week. This is progress.
At the rush hour, men out
run old women for the avail
able cab; the strong bodily
crush back the weak for a
place to stand in suffocat-
ing bus or subway car. no
less destructive Of human
dignity than a cattle wagon
in the time of Peter the
Great. When the buses and
subway cars began. they rep
resented progress.
Great parking garages are
built, Immediately filled with
cars: the traffic remains as
before. and that is progress.
The renowned New York
constructionist, Robert Mo-
ses. builds hundreds of miles
of access highways, and they
are at once crammed bump
er to bumper with auto
mobiles as long as locomo-
tives carrying an average Of
about two human beings
apiece. Parkinson's general
law applies here too, for We
hicles will always increase in
direct proportion to the in
crease in spaces to hold
them. So skyscraperS and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21

Mariner Eccles, a famous
figure here during the Roose-
elt-Truman decades, has adj
monished President Kennedy
to let his mind be bold in
dealing with the national
economy. Mr.. Eccles spent II
years in the Federal Reserve
system where he was easily
the dominant figure, prolific
of ideas and practical In their
execution.
His prescription to the
Joint Committee on the Eco
nomic Report had the Eccles
touch. 1t tersely outlined the
basic problem. struck at 1t
from every angle and threw
in an appealing first step.
That step was an immediate
cut Of five percentage points
across the board in individual
income taxes.
Much Of what Mr.. Eccles
said, the President has been
told to do by others. but
they separated the problem.
leaving Mr.. Kennedy to make
his own consensus or strive
to form one in Congress. The
method has failed and the
cliches Of the economic dia-
logue will dominate the cam
paign according to what each
candidate for Congress con-
ceives to be his best interest.
Possibly this could not be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
ERIC SEVAREID

One way to go quietly in
sane is to think hard about
the concept of eternity. An
other way. for anyone living
in a megalopolis like New
York, is to think hard about
progress"
The eerie sensation comes
over one that true progress
reached the end Of its cable
some years ago and is now
recoiling upon us. an unstop-
pable juggernaut smashing
masses Of human beings back
toward medieval conditions
of life.
The streets are Uttered
with cigaret and cigar butts,
paper wrappings. particles Of
food and dog droppings. How
long before they become in
distinguishable from the gut
ters of medieval towns when
slop pals were emptied from
second story windows?
Thousands of New York
women no longer attend
evening services in their
churches. They fear assault
as they walk the few steps
from bus or subway station
to their apartment houses.
The era Of the medieval foot
pad has returned, and, as in
the dark ages. the cry for
help brings no assistance, for
even grown men know they
would be cut down before the
police could arrive.
A thousand years ago in
Europe acres Of houses and
shops were demolished and
their inhabitants forced else
where so that great cathe-
drals could be built. For dec
AIDES the building process
soaked up all available skilled
labor; for decades the towns
people stepped around pits in
the streets, clambered over
ropes and piles Of timber,
breathed mortar dust and
slept and woke to the crash
ing noise Of construction.
The cathedrals, when fin
ished. stood half-empty six
days a week, but most Of
them at least had beauty.
Today, the ugly office sky
scrapers go up, shops and
graceful homes are oblit-
Grated. their inhabitants
forced away, and year after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Cafornans follow JFK into the when he for
swim really determined to get this country moving
somewhere even II it's straight out to
York Gov. Rockefeller campaigns at the beach He
figures any voter who enjoys getting sand his shorts
August is to have the Rock in his head In November
The Senate takes up still another bill Senators are
seeking solution Of farm surplus problems and it's be-
ginning to look like the biggest problem Is the surplus Of
solutions.
Don't worry about the economy. Think Of all the Jobs
there when start tearing down feeways
for houses
Tv poetry jag The ideal actor the character
who wears expression as blank the verse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
RALPH McGHL
Dealing With Economic Future

need reappraisal. At times,
(nationaD saving may be-
come socially harmful and
spending q virtue, budget
deficiencies a positive good
and SURPRISES a cause for
complaint"
The highly respected Lon
don Economist expressed the
British viewpoint: " to
assume that, in this day and
age, governments would not
have the time, or the nerve,
to apply counter cyclical pol
icies if the economy plunged
downward toward an old
style depression, is to confess
that nothing was really
learned by the capitalist
countries in the 1930s. :"
President Kennedy took q
look at the American Situa-
ton. Some of the economic
indicators are not reasSuring.
Yet, there is an overall bust
. ness gain. Many corporations
are doing better than ever
before in their history. Some
are caught in an unacceptable
competitive squeeze. They
are dependent on the world
markets. Demand for pro-
tective public tariff subsidy
comes from industries in
this situation.) Perhaps our
condition is not one Of de-
preston but Of slow growth.
The President knew some
thing else. A tax bill of the
mildest sort requires from
six to eight months to find
its way through the tenn
peramental committees and
prima donna chairmen to a
vote. By that time the need
for a tax cut may be gone
or more acute. (Mr. Eisen-
hover, for example. resisted
great pressure to impose a
tax cut and the need for it
disappeared.) Mr.. Kennedy
wisely made public a pledge
by congressional lie a ders.
They will, if the need in
creases, support him in i'm
mediate tax reduction legis-
lation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
ERIC SEVAREID
When Progress Isn't Progress

boxlike apartment houses
will increase as the money to
build them increases. So
footpads will increase as the
number of possible victims
increases. But it's progress.
I am not surprised that
the English writer, Mervyn
Jones, concludes after travel
ing throughout Russia and
the United States that or
binary Americans and ordi-
nary Russians are remark
ably alike in at least two
respects-in the sheer physi-
cal misery they are forced
to endure in their cities and
in the sheer ugliness of jun
bled signs and billboards
being spread across their
once fair countryside.
They are alike in a third
respect. AS Jones writes in
Horizon magazine, both peo-
pies complain remarkably
little. Russians don't COM
plain because they don't ex-
pect government authorities
to listen. American jewellers
in our metaphysics don't
complain because they have
long since abandoned hope.
Their authorities may listen,
but they know their authori-
ties are helpless. A city like
New York is ungovernable.
The secret. terrible fact is
that progress, in all measur-
able terms of human effort.
grace and self-respect ended
some years ago in the great
ant-hill cities. The jugger-
naut of time and effort has
turned around and is now
destroying the recent pro-
gressive past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
OverhouIing of u. S. Tax System Called
Key to Action on Wide Front

would have been further
harmful because we do not
really know what sort Of
economy we have-or will
have.
There Is a feeling, shared
by economists Of Western ma
tions. that a time of stress
and testing is ahead. An eco
nomically united Europe, to
which England may be
added, will create three
giants-the United States,
Russia, and the European
combine. The Soviets already
have set up the Council for
Mutual Assistance called
"COMECON." Perhaps sig
nificantly, it excludes China
from a membership Of the
USSR, Bulgaria, East Ger
many, Hungary, Outer Mon
golia, Poland, Romania and
Czechoslovakia. (Albania the
oretically is a member.)
London's Sunday Observer,
in looking at the United
States decline on stock prices
and the failure of the econ
omy to improve at the rate
anticipated, said: a.. Taken
in conjunction with the
emergence of an obstinate
unemployment problem in
the United States and the
growth Of surplus capacity
in industry after industry in
Western Europe. the weak
ness Of security prices Tin the
United States and Europe)
suggests that a fundamental
change is taking place in the
economy Of the West. The
long postwar period, when
the main problems have been
caused by boom and over
strain, could well be coming
to an end. and in the 1960s.
the trouble may not be infla-
tionary preSsures but a de-
ficiency of demand. If we
are to cope with this situa-
ton adequately, the tradi-
tional financial virtues will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
RALPH McGILL

President Kennedy, having
had Gas have other sensitive
and informed perSons) a
smell of the future. decided
against pushing the panic
button and urging q quick
tax cut.
This whiff Of the economic
future, which comes to the
senses as one detects the sea
while yet afar off, is by no
means confined to 1862.
There is ahead Of us a fierce
and unrelenting competitive
test on a worldwide basis.
Our great danger lies not in
the present year but in those
ahead.
The Congress, particularly
the House, is revealing its
built-in inability to serve the
national interest in emery
ency. 1t will be necessary to
make painful adjustments in
our economy. We can't for
ever go on substituting in
dustries which cannot COM
pete. Yet Congressman from
relatively small districts
where a sick and obsolete In
dustry is located must, if
they themselves are to remain
politically competitive, OPP
pose legislation and execu-
tive measures which seek to
deal with the national eco
nomic interest rather than
the local. This sickness in
the representative system
could prove to be a virus
which depletes the country's
stamina and makes us prey
to ills we normally could
resist.
The worst thing that could
have happened would have
been a quickie tax cut which
ignored the basic fact that
our entire tax system, jerry
built for more than a CEN
fury, must be overhauled be-
fore we can get at the in
equities Of it.
A hurried, faulty tax move
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21

nett claimed were his functions
under the unions constitution.
The suit contended union funds
were being spent without Mr..
Hartnett's consent as secretary
treasurer.
The unions Executive Board
at q special meeting here re-
Gently voted 20 to Z deploring
the litigation and demanding
that it be withdrawn.
In announcing he had with
drawn the suit. Mr.. Hartnett
said he had been assured by
some executive board members
that the matters he had COM
planned about would be explor-
It ed within the union.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
Electrical Union
Official Drops
Carey Lawsuit
By The Associated Press

AL Hartnett, secretary-treas-
urer Of the AFL-CIO Interna-
tional Union Of Electrical
Workers. said yesterday he ha'
withdrawn a Federal Court suit
against James B. Carey, the
unions president.
The suit filed July 80 asked
that Mr.. Carey be enjoineo
from usurping duties Mr.. Hart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
Reform of Rules to Stimulate Business
Held Preferable to Political Cut in Levy

they save on taxes. and as to
what is likely to be done by
way of constructive spending
for the good Of the national
economy.
A man Of small means who
gets a few extra dollars a
year from a tax cut might
spend it for necessities, and
it can amount to a great deal
for him. But very little is
heard of what could happen
if the top tax rate were cut
for instance, from 81 per cent
down to As per cent. People
of means already have the
necessities of life. If they
have surplus funds due to
savings on tax rates, they
would be the first to invest
that surplus in business ex-
panSion. They can hardly
find things to buy for them
selves, for here. indeed. is to
be found "the man who has
everything" Many such per-
sons Just give away all they
can. Private philanthropy in
America has for a long time
been the chief support of
human welfare and of
achievements in the field Of
education. Charitable work
would be one of the biggest
single beneficiaries II citizens
of high incomes had their tax
rate reduced.
The people with large
earnings are the ones who
were successful by use either
Of their energies over the
years or their skillS or their
inventive talents. But these
abilities are frequently stunt
ed nowadays by the feeling
that there's little use in try
sing to increase earnings "be-
cause the Government will
take 1t, anyway"
It's in the field Of tax regu-
lation, however, that reforms
are most urgently needed.
Abuses Of deductions for ex-
pense accounts ought, Of
course, to be corrected. and
Congress during the current
session is giving attention to
this very subject. There are
other abuses, too. but, in the
main, tax reform" is needed
in those fields where it can
do most to stimulate business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-21
James Monroe
FIFTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
A CUSTOMER OF
Washmgton5 Oldest Bank

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and diplomacy His President S1782 designated
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American freedom security promulgated Monroe
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