Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1929, Page 42

U SANDY SPRING SEEN AS HOOVER SHRINE Old Maryland Town Was Near Home of Ancestors of Chief Executive. In seemingly romantic turn tory has cut back to the staid little com- munity of Sandy Spring, Md., only 20 miles north of the White House. It has n ascertained that the Hocve'r fam- iy ln America originated the ‘When President-elect, Herbert Hoover mtored to Sandy Spring one Sunday morning to attend service in a quaint Quaker maettn( house. The community, ritlumua and historic, vet one of the least known settlements in the Middle Atlantic States, gave him a cordial wel« come, but his visit was not publicly linked with the impulse that probably actuated the journey. He was, in fact, paying a visit to the shrine of his fore- fathers. Bmgrl& s of the President record that a descendant of one Andrew Hoover, Colonial ploneer who “held farms in the uplants of Maryland,” meaning in the vicinity of Sandy Spring. Andrew Hoover was a member of the Society of Friends, and he threw in his lot with the Friends who settled in Maryland. His son moved into North Carolina, his grandson pushed on to the wilderness thnt is now Ohlo, later descendants migrated to Iowa. Herbert Hoover went even farther West, choos- ing California as his home. Registers Swing Aeross Continent. ‘Thus it is that in artiving at t) White House as the Nation's Preslder‘x, Herbert, Hoover has prescribed a swing significance into & romantic past. has traversed all sections in his own experience. His journey at last links his antecedents in a long line that touches on many phases of American life and leads from s&mple, dignified ob- scurity to the highest office to which his countrymen may aspire. Down through the years which run three decades back of the Revolution, the community of Sandy Spring has maintained its entity, its !-l‘ad.fl.lnns and its isolation. It has Jbeen called a “Capital of Qulkeflsm Its residents fmm generation generation have reserved an dlwdunmm character- lsuc of their faith and have been coms tent to live their lives “far from the madding strife.” But because theirs is the rock from which Hoovers were hewn their place takes on new significance. Sandy Spring has hwfl A, Dg!ent in- fl;;er:;el ?a American hisf eman- cipa slaves in u'(fl. it organized a waman's club 10 years before the Civil War. Ope of its citigeps igvented the refrigerator; another became presi- dent of the fisf, raijrqad company (the Baltimore & Ohio), and still another designed the seal of the State of Mary- land. Rotation of crops and fertiliza- tion of farms first were practiced widely in the community, its men and women having the foresight and good. sense. to turn from cultivation of tobacco rather| | than impoweris! b h. the soil. Ignore National Affairs. But the world of society, pomlcs and fashion, the great realm of all thaf bli come to he striking evidence of what this generation knovs. as civilization, js unattractive to the 200-odd residents, who stand aloof.. Their own historian from White H the eraw would fly, out {nhlonable !lxben(.h street, where amht.ules and len.umu break the flags of a dozen na- tions, across the hnllhh 'he:e Abraham Lincoln made his friends uneasy on one THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, QUAINT OLD QUAKER SETTLEMENT AT SANDY SPRING Above: The Old Quaker Meeting House and the graveyard adjoining. Lower left, house in which Mrs. Theodore Hoover's grandfather was jorn. Mrs. Hoover is the President’s sister-in-law. —Star Staff Photss. occasion when he exposed himself to fire from Southern rifies, and one comes upon these “uplands of Maryland” where the quaint little community proudly lives {ts own life. ‘The eye. detects not.hln‘ strange, queer or bizarre. manor ‘houses are set down -mm mm that mark fertile farms. Fine roads lead past school, library, communit/ house, a bank and a meeting house tiat dates back to 1817. Some of the olest build- ings in Maryland are thers dwellings that contain brick brought from Efl% land in ships that took Jut the onists’ tobacco. As late as 1800, when ghe community possessed wealth, accotling to stand- House & Herrmann Seventh at Eye Furniture of Merit Extravagantly Reduced Bedroom Suites THese Suites represent the remainder of the very popular numbers of the past season—but incoming stock requires their room—so we are making radical reductions—and giving you opportunity to refurnish at a worth-while saving—with “Furniture of Merit.” AR Look the home over—the guest room, the children’s roorn, your own room—and figure the advantage with which' you can supplant the old with these suites. Attractive in design quality. On sale at the reduced prices beginning Monday morning. 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For years there pair of shoes in the settl/ JUNE 16, anybody who had to '.rlp to the near- est_“big city”—Annapolis. ‘The Quakers had sought to settle in Massachusetts, but incurred the antag- onism of the provincial law-making bodles and soon were excluded as a “cursed sect.” George Fox, founder of the sect, early came from England to urge their nruucuon It was Fox who won the appellation “Quaker.” An Eng- lish jurist. on sentencing Fox to prison, designated him a “Quaker” when he heard him exhort his people to “trem- ble at the word of the Lord.” Fox was everywhere in the new Amer- ica. He underwent hardshi many times and finally found a ven in Maryland. Sandy Spring was not set- tled then, but news of the tolerance Maryland had shown their founder brought a few of the hardier spirits into the State. Among the first to settle in Sandy Spring were the Snowdens, the Thomases and the Brookes. Soon to follow were the Stablers and the Far- quhars. The names of these earliest settles f the Priends have come down ihe years to the present generation. ‘Takes Part in Politics. Only last year Albert Stabler, of the ormnnl Stabler stock, was a dezgate to the Republican national conyntion, and, as a friend of Herbert Hopw. Went to Palo Alto for the notl.flz"m cere- mony. Asa Stabler, who re<ntly died at the age of 91, was asatriarch of the community. Before im was Ed- win Stabler who, in , relinquished bis pflsmnn of T after 50 years: service. When.ae Tetired he was tmas n\n age and service ted Sta any v “tobacco was the crop” ‘¢ the community and de. e weed was a measure in ‘,ficuflm for necessities and often mbo\‘-ltuud or money. Nature, rather opposition, ended their ture By 1840 the weed had sl-uus the fertility of many tracts of lud. prices sank and population dwindled. _ While other settlers in / Sowthern_Maryland abandoned their 1a#d the Friends stood fast. They turned t6 cereals and grasses and in 1845 they showed the wly to rehabilitate land by the use of imported guano. Their Jocal Bistorian recorded. that. the guano had “the properties of Aladdin’s lamp.” Prosperity rode in on their efforts and | remained. Credited With Early Inventions. The Friends were not vague idealists, | with which they held to ed princi- despite the determination and vigor | 1929—PART 2. ville, near Sandy first refrigerator ane 'ro»!-m— 3 F"fl“ on it, in 1803. Moore contr'ed & cedar tub with holders for ice ad & tin box capable of containing 21 fints of but- ter, each a pound in weht. Thomas McCormick, a neighbor first put the device to use in carry*€ T his butter to the market in wn. Washing- ton at that time on. L'Enfant’s blueprint, - dream et to be realized. In that ‘aere were only two paved ot o 'Seo"um"y County, the Rockville and -eorgetown _turnpikes, and these roads for the most part, tra. versed unfened flelds. A traveler of the times WS written how he was amazed o Ome upon a region of in- closed fiess, pastures and meadows, with fine crops and grazing cattle and sturdy, substantial brick _residences. That, * found, was Sendy Spring. g the reasons why the com-| mupty maintained its identity was the eawy organization of groups which have pought the functions and a~tivities | me generation to generation. A | ibrary was founded in_ 1842 and two yesrs later a farmers’ club was organ- | The women launched their | Lfl.diu Association for Mutual !mprnw-‘ ment in 1857, a radical departure from | activity held open to women then. A | bank, an insurance company and sev-| eral other co-operative enterprises be- came institutions in the period. Farquhar Community’s Historian. | The community had its official his- | torian and for 20 years William Henry | Farquhar served in that capacity. His | annals were read each year before the | meetings of the community. Many other records of the settlement's activities | are available, published and unpublish- | ed. Mention of Sandy Spring is found in any reference to Montgomery County. Of the early omnl.!.ltlom most interest attaches to the woman’s organization. It is active today. Women of the community were dis- cussing “The Decline of Female Con- versation” in 1860 at meetings of the soclety, and five years later a meeting was given over to discussion of the sub- ject, “Woman’s Right to Labor and to Receive Adequate Compensation.” They, too, were practical. Rachel E. Gilpen told a meeting in 1859, how she used a thermometer to test the temperature of cream before churning and had found that when the cream was brought to 62 degrees the butter came more promptly than from colder cream. Records of the women's organization disclose a bit of reporting that gives | color to the times. “Priend Rebecca les of conduct. They Wi remarka. 1. Thomas Moore of Brook | Russell,” says the record, “on being ask- ed, at the age of 100, why she nad so "The newest m radio! Fada 25 # 165 few wrinkles, ‘T -have n!v!r there is every pros) Cared which chalr T sat in mor made [velqpmnu it shortly :mzoams vision myself unhappy with dismal forbod- ings’” Spread on the minutes of an- | into radio. A series of broadcast programs by other meeting was this bit of wisdom | Paramount-Publix . will be one of the culled from a member: because of last year's snow. ment. The Columbia ‘Don’t shiver | early developments of the ngw arrange- tam | includes systam Out of the wealth of an existence | 53 stations in its Nation-wide hook-up, that goes back to the dawn of American | the key station being WABC, at New culture these ahuyle unassuming folk | York. have welded a philosophy best described, if not defined, by the Priend who was asked how many people were in the meeting house and what happened the first time Herbert Hoover worshiped there. “Nothing ‘happened out of the usual order.” said the Priend in commenting | on Mr. Hoover’s visit. Nothing out of | the usual order will happen when he | returns. “There were the usual num- ber at the meeun;, about 60. We are l staid people.” President Hoover probably will re- | turn to Sandy Spnnx PARAMOUNTAGQUIRES INTEREST IN C. B. S.j Arrangement Will Bring Radio, | Screen and Stage Together | for Best Features. i By the Associated Press. ' ST. LOUIS, June 15—The Paramount- | Famous-Lasky Corporation has acquired | a half interest in the Columbia Broad- | casting System, it was stated in a joint announcement of the organizations sub- | mitted last night at a convention a([ the Paramount company. The announcement, authorized by Adolph Zukor, Paramount president, and William S. Paley, president of the broadcasting company, says the out-| right purchase of a half interest at an unannounced price brings about a, working arrangement which will bring | radio, screen and stage together “on a | basis which will give the public the best | features combined in three forms ' of entertainment.” The plan would involve mutual use of | film and radio talent, to be booked | through the Artists' Booking Office, | which previously has operated only for | the Publix Theaters, a subsidiary of | Paramount. 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