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THANKSGIVING GEETINGS—MAY THE HORN OF PLENTY NEVER BE DEPLETED FOR THE GOOD PEOPLE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY.
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Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political. —Jefferson.
"WITH THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE"
VOL. IX. No. 48
"It Covers The Community Like The Dew'
TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1920.
MARYLAND JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1865' CONSOLIDATED 1915
BALTIMORE CO. DEMOCRAT ESTAB. 18851 WITH THE JEFFERSONIAN.
$3,000 Fee, Money Well Spent—Baltimore County Has Since 1918 Received Over $50,000 A Year As Result
3,000,000 WITHOUT WORK
Government Investigation Shows Vast | Army 01 Unemployed In The United States.
(From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian).
Between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 workers are out of employment, Department of Labor officials estimated. The estimate is a conservative one, according to Wade Skinner, assistant director ot employment, speaking in the absence of Director John B. Densmore.
The division of employment is getting machinery ready to make a nation-wide industrial survey. When its; information is complete the Depart-metns of Labor and Commerce are expected to act to avert national disaster.
Labor leaders predict soup kitchens ,and hunger riots the coming winter unless steps are taken immediately to check what they claim is the worst wave of unemployment since the panic of 1907. i
Warning that conditions such as now exist breed Bolshevism, will be issued by the public against buying is the un-can Federation of Labor if a statement, now contemplated, is drafted, .calling on the unions to resist nationwide slashing of wages.
According to Department of Labor officials, conditions will not be permitted to reach the alarming stage forecast by the labor leaders. A strike by he public against buying is the underlying cause of the present slump in industry, they said.
At the Washington headquarters of the National Industrial Conference Board, which represents, the big employers of the country, it was stated that the situation is not so serious as it appears; that a readjustment of prices is taking place and that retail ones are bound to follow the downward trend of wholesale prices. There is enough work, the board claims, but unemployed workers refuse to accept jobs at reduced wages.
According to the Department of Labor, the industries chiefly affected by the slump in production are the textile, automobile, rubber and machine tools. Reports from the West show that unemployment is increasing through the shutting down of construction and road building jobs.
According to Assistant Employment Director Skinner, the "normal" number of unemployed in the United States each year is 1,000,000. During the years of the war and from the signing of the armistice up to the present time there was a shortage of labor. The unemployed could have had their pick of jobs at high wages*
The increasing flow of immigrants has complicated the present unemployment problem. The American Federation of Labor, supported by the Department of Labor, will demand restricted immigration through the raising of educational requirements and a disribution plan by which large percentage of the incoming European hordes may be diverted from factories to farms.
It is u^fual at this time of the year for the railroads to lay off men in certain departments, railroad union officials stated; but more than the normal number of railroad workers are out of employment because of the decrease in shipments of steel and grain.
Lack of stabilization in industry provte.ering, and industrial unrest caused by refusal of employers to deal with trade unions through collective bargaining are attributed by the American Federation of Labor as causes of the slump in production.
THANKS JEFFERSONIAN
Senator John Walter Smith Expresses Appreciation of Support Given By This Paper.
United States Senator John Walter Smith, who carried Baltimore county over his opponent, O. E. Weller, but was defeated for re-election, sent the following letter to The Jeffersonian: November 6, 1920. The Jeffersonian, Towson, Md., Gentlemen:
Please allow me to express to you my sincere thanks and apreciation of the interest manifested by your paper in my candid»acy for re-election to the Senate and to assure you I am grateful for your kind articles in my behalf.
Very truly yours,
JOHN WALTER SMITH.
MT. CARMEL.
The oyster supper held last week was quite a success!
Miss Hoffman has been visiting her cousins, the Misses Hunt.
Miss Mattie Wells spent the weekend with her parents.
Mr. Joseph M. Armacost is recovering from an operation at a Baltimore hospital.
President's Thanksgiving Proclamation
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The season approaches when it behooves us to turn from the distractions and preoccupations of our daily life, that we may contemplate the mercies which have heen vouchsafed to us, and render heartfelt and unfeigned thanks unto God for His manifold goodness.
"This is an old observance of the American people, deeply imbedded in our thought and habit. The burden and the stresses of life have their own insistence.
"We have abundant cause for thanksgiving. The lesionss of the war are rapidly healing. The greot army of freemen, which America sent to the defense of liberty, returning to the grateful embrace of the nation, has resumed the useful pursuits of peace, as simply and promptly as it rushed to arms in obedience to the country's call.
"The equal justice of our laws has received steady vindication in the support of law-abiding people against various and sinister attacks, which have reflected only the baser agitations of Avar, now happily passing.
"In plenty, security and peace, our virtuous and self-reliant people face the future, its duties and its opportunities. May we have vision to discern our duties; the strength, both of hand an dresolve, to discharge them, and the soundness of heart to realize that the truest opportunities are those of service.
"In a spirit, then, of devotion and stewardship we should give thanks in our hearts and dedicate ourselves to the service of God's merciful and loving purposes to His children.
"Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of November next as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and I call upon my countrymen to cease from their ordinary tasks and avocations upon that day, giving it up to the remembrance of God and His blessings, and their dutiful and grateful acknowledgment."
DAMAGE IN "LOWRE END"
High Wind Causes Boats To Capsize And Wharves To Be Demolished.
In the "lower end" of Baltimore county, along the water front, considerable damage was done by the high winds of Wednesday last, launches and row boats anchored in the streams were capsized and in many places wharves were blown away; shore bungalows were also damaged considerably.
SMILING "RUSS" GREEll.
Newsy Letters Written By "Jeff"
Correspondents From Every
Nook And Corner.
GRACE.
Rev Grace M.
E. Church tomorrow night.
Judge J. B. Bentz and wife; Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Tracey and Mr. and Mrs. day with Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Martin, day with Mr. and Mrs. Olived Martin.
Mists Alma Shamberger Allen Miller and Edgar Benson spent Sunday with Misses Erna and Marie Armacost.
GLYNDON.
Mrs. E. M. Mellor, of Sykejville, has been visiting Mrs. M. West.
Mrs. Oscar Gray, of Buler, has been a recent guest of her mother, Mrs. J. Penn.
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Cohen have announced the engagement of their daughter. Rita, to Mr. Abe M. Caplan, of Prince Frederick, Md.
ASHLAND.
Mrs. Rachel Martin and son, Prank, of Evna, visited her granddaughter, Mrs. Dora Perry, and great-grand-] daughter Mrs. Mary Wilsf Fra2ier P. B. Church was entertained en Friday evening at the home ot: the Missts Evans
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Pric<\ with their family, have moved to Lancaster, Pa., and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Foster have moved to Mount Washington.
MANOR GLEN.
"Rainy Day" Philosophy-
"For this information you don't have to pay, It should keep you in fine feather;
Lay something by for a rainy day,
And you'll always have dry weather."
—Luke McLuke in Cincinnati Enquirer.
There are so many better reasons for saving money that we do not like to urge people to save for the proverbial "rainy day."
However, it is well enough to be prepared for any contingency that may arise, and ready money is usually a great help in time of trouble. If in your own particular case you can find no other reasons for saving, then by all means save for a "rainy day." And may you "awaysi have dry weather!"
Second National Bank
of Towson
HARRISON RIDER, Prest. ELMER J. COOK, NOAH E. OF PUTT,
Vice-Pres'dents.
JOS. B. GALLOWAY, Cashier THOS. J. MEADS,
Asst. Cashier.
Gunners were out in full force in Manor Glen this week, but owing to the scarcity of game in this section, many of them were disappointed.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Dauderman, of Baltimore, visited friends and relatives in the past week here.
Miss C. D. Henderson spent the week end at the home of her parents.
Farmers in this section are busy getting their corn in before winter.
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UPPER FALLS.
Mr. David Davidson, our efficient undertaker, has purchased a new Buick auto hearse for his business.
Iiing Winter arrived this past week and found many families unsupplied with wood and coal. We will be very jgrcteful if the storm passes without i leaving a blanket of snow behind.
The gunning season is here in full force and the rabbits and partridges must be plentiful, according to some of the luck some of the gunners have.
Miss Virginia French, of Baltimore, spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs Thomas French, of Sherwood Forest.
Mrs. John Weise, of Towson, and family spent the week-end with her sister, Mrs. French.
Mr. Wallace Kemp removed all his househald effects from his home here to his new home on the Severn River las,t Tuesday.
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WANTS $656,285.52
School Board Asks This Sum For
Year 1921. Estimate Iucludes
Increase For Teachers.
Wednesday morning Superintendent of Public Schools, Clarence G. Cooper, was in consultation with the Board of County Commissioners with reference to the School Board's requirements for the year 1921, and presented a budget, in which it is estimated $656,285.52 will be required to_run the educational end of the county for the ensuing year.
The amount asked includes the running expenses of the schools, new buildings and increased compensation for the teaching force. In lilu of the vast amount of money asked for by the School Board and the continual cry for roads, there seems no likelihood of the Commissioners being able to hold the tax rate down.
Minstrel Show By Ex-Soldier Boys
At Normal School Promises
To Be Successful.
Anyone who has had an opportunity to "peep in" at the rehearsals for the big minstrel ¦show" to be "pulled off" in the auditorium of the State Normal School here on the evenings of December 10 and 11 by the Towson Post. No. 22, American Legion, wouldn't miss ij for the world, neither would anyone else who wants to help a worthy cause and enjoy an evening of real laughter.
No one can doubt the excellence of the show when they realise that such fellows as Neill Hughes, of "Paint and Powder" fame, will be in- the cast. He is recognized as one of tile best buck and wing dancers in this locality; Bruce Hamilton, another member of the old "Paint and Powder" Club, has volunteered his services. The dignified Justice of the Peace ot Towson, known to/all offenders of the law as Judge Butler, but to his intimates as "Rocks'," will be in the black face circle of laugh agitators with his famous "Lam of Goodness." While Judge Butler is a stern old judge in his little court room at Towson, "Rocks" upon the stage at the Normal School will be quite a different character.
Albert Wheeler and "Chick" Gause, both well-known about the county seat for their singing qualities, will be heard in solo selections 'and in the chorus.
"Doug" Coulter, a "uke" player of no mean ability, will be on hand, as will the Hawaiian Trio from the Johns Hopkins University. "Russ' Greer, of Black & Decker fame, will "spill"' his! "chilly beans'" to the accompaniment of a banjo. Yea, let us not forget Harry F. Klinefelter, who has whistled before nearly everyone excepting kings and queens, and this may have been due to Harry's dislike to cross "the pond." Among the group of entertainers will also be the Hamilton Brothers, dance artists and bone rattlers.
The closing feature of the show will me a solo from "Carmen" by George Castelle, of the Baltimore O'pera Company, supported by a chorus of 20 trained voices. Mr. Castelle is directing all of the chorus at rehearsals.
There will be no make-shifts" in the way of scenery ~r orchestra, in fact any detail that goes to make up a first class performance. Scenery has been procured to suit the occasion and the orchestra will be under the direction of Capt. Louis Fischer, who. during- the war, was leader of General Pershing's own band "over there."
The efforts on the part of , our ex-soldiers boys deserves the hearty support of all. inasmuch as they are endeavoring to raise funds to either purchase or build a permanent club house in Towson.
MAKING HEAP BIG MEDICINE.
NO NEED FOR TAXPAYERS' LEAGUE'S FRANTIC
EFFORTS TO ASCERTAIN WRAT FEE WAS FOR
•enns-
MAY BE IN PENNSYLVANIA
Negro's Question Leads Police To
Believe He Hastened To Get
Over Border.
The negro farm hand on the place of Dr. Mitchell, in the "upper end" of the county, who committed a serious crime upon a little white girl living at the doctor's home Sunday a week ago, seems to have made good his escape. Nevertheless, the Baltimore county police are diligently running down every clue with the hope of apprehending the culprit.
It is understood that only a few days before the crime was committed, the negro asked Dr. Mitchell's son if a man did such a thing and got over into another State, could the authorities bring him back without requisition papers. This being the fact, there is every likelihood that the offender has made his way toward the Pennsylvania line, and the efforts of the police are now directed toward that State.
—Miss Sadie Parlett is confined to her bed will illness.
—Miss L. Parks has returned from a visit with friends in Baltimore.
—Miss Lyda May Watkins is substituting at the Towsjon National Bank.
—Mr. R. Calvert Steuart returned this week from a trip through the Carolinas.
—Miss Helen Galloway has been a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Bowen.
—The Towson Sewing Club met at the home of Miss Mildred Schuler on Monday evening.
—Mrs. Richard King, of Baltimore, was a guest this week of Postmaster and Mrs. Hoopa.
—Mrs. Alfred G. Riter is: a pafient at a city hospital, where she under-wen an operation recently.
—Mr. Lynn McDonald, of Baltimore. spTnt the past week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Parks.
—Mr. Joseph Wheeler spent the past week-end with his parents here, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Wheeler.
—Miss Virginia Fleury, of Kings-ville, is spending some time with her nephew here, Mr. P. A. Fleury.
—Mrs. Augustus S. Duffy has been visiting her mother, Mrs. E. C. Pegram, at her home in Charlotte, N. C.
—Deputy Sheriff W. George Marlev is spending a few days on the Eastern Sho', attendting to some business.
—Mrs .John Weiss and children spent the past week-end at the home of her sister, Mrs. French, of Kings-ville.
—Mrs. Henry Rigdon, of Sharon, Harford county, has been the guest of her parents here, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Chapman.
—Miss Gladys Russ, a student at the State Normal School here, spent the oast week-end with her mother at Jarrettsville .
—An illustrated lecture was given at the State Normal School last night by Dr. Bridge^, Superintendent of J5udo-wood Sanatorium here.
—Mr. Martin R .Schuster, assistant cashier of the Towson National Bank, is in Oklahoma, where he went with a party to inspect oil wells.
—At the request of the State Council, John Eager Howard Council No. 55, Jr. O. U. A. M., of Towson, will attend divine worship on Sunday, December 28, at the /Towson M. E. Church. Members! are requested to gather at the council room at 10.30 sharp and go in a body to the church.
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Commissiooers Employed Special Counsel To Check Legislation That
Would Deprived County Ot Vast Revenue From Race Tracks;
Duty Would Not Have Been Without Effort To Reiain Sum
As a result of publication in one of , legislation that would deprive the the Baltimore papers; of a certain fee | county of this revenue. Chapter 273 of $3,000 paid by the County Commis-Isioners of Baltimore county to Attorney Elmer J. Cook for services rendered in behalf of the county at the ! Legislature of 1920, members of the [Taxpayers' League (so-called) have i since been making more or less frantic efforts to ascertain what the fee is for, and s^pme have gone so far as to intimate that it was "graft," pure and simple.
It was expected that this fee would be the main topic of discussion at a meeting of the League scheduled to be held Tuesday night at the City Club rooms, Baltimore, but on account of the heavy downpour of rain that night it was feared by the officers of the League that a. quorum would not be present, and the meeting was accordingly called off.
In the official invitation to this meeting, sent out over the signature of William R. Price, Secretary, it was sated: "The recent revelation of the $3,000 fee paid by the County Commissioners for lobby work at the last session of the Legislature is food for thought. What did the county get for this money? The work of the League so far has revealed the conditions which muSit be overcome to get results."
In the opinion of a great many disinterested taxpayers who are familiar with the circumstances under which Mr. Cook was paid the fee of $3,000 for legislative services rendered at the 1920 session, the League will "get results)" detrimental to the general welfare of the county if its leaders insist upon making an "issue" concerning the payment of the fee in question.
The Acts of 1918, Chapters 89 and 264, provide that two-thirds of the racing license fees, amounting to $3,000 per day, shall be paid over each year to the Treasurer of Baltimore county for the construction or maintenance of public roads and bridges, the other one-third to be divided equally between, and paid to the Maryland State Fair & Agricultural Society of Baltimore County, and the White Hall Farmers' Club and Improvement Association after deducting expenses /of the Racing Commission, not exceeding $1,800 per year. The county has thus received each year over fifty thousand dollars from these license fees.
The County Commissioners employed Mr. Cook as legislative counsel to represent them at the session of 1920, particularly with reference to any
A CORRECTION
Three Judges To Be Elected Next Fall Instead Of Two As Was Incorrectly Stated In "Jeff.
It was erroneously stated in The Jeffersonian last issue that two judges would come up for re-election next fall. There will be three judges to be voted for on November next, as the terms of Chief Judge Offutt and Associate Judges Duncan and Preston all expire at this time.
MAY INSPECT AUTOS
Motor Commissioner Noticing Developments Of "Try-Out" In Other States.
Additional hardships may be put into practice, if the tests made in other States and heing watched eagerly by Motor Commissioner E. Ausin Baugh-man prove satisfactory.
It is understood that in the State of New Jersey as well as- s<>me others, regular inspections are being made of [all automobiles and trucks to ascertain if brakes, steering gear, and all vital parts are in a number one working order. If the scheme is adopted in Maryland it will mean that a policeman may stop one anywhere and make the driver go to the nearest inspection station, for a "test."
of the Acts of 1920, Section 8, (being the Act which creates the Maryland Racing Commission) provides that this money shall still be paid to the Treasurer of Baltimore county, and Baltimore county is now receiving about fifty thousand dollars each year, in addition to about twelve thousand dollars each, that Timonium and White Hall Fairs receive.
In view of the racing legislation proposed at the last session of the Legislature, which if passed would have deprived the county of this revenue, the County Commissioners would not have done their duty if they had not employed competent legislative counsel to represent them in the matter, and everyone familiar with Mr. Cook's work at Annapolis can testify that he earned his fee. Had he not bee hon the job the county, as well as the Timonium and White Hall Fairs, would in all probability have been deprived of this revenue altogether. It was a hard, close fight that Mr. Cook had on his hands, with many conflicting interests involved, but he won And the f£e he charged the Commissioners represented just about one day s receipts from the racing license fees, a very reasonable charge in view of the extent and character of services rendered, and the results achieved.
These license fees come mainlv from the Pimlico track, which iss now within the corporate limits of Baltimore City. The question might properly be asked, why should Baltimore county continue to receive fees from this race track when it is no longer in the county? What right has the county to collect tees from any other enterprise operating outsiide of its borders?
Certainly the County Commissioners, particularly since the passage of the Annexation Act of 1918, can not claim (Continued on Page 4, Col.,1.)
WILL BE DE-LIGHTED
News That Summerfield Crowther Has Left For West Please Price Et Al.
Membersi of the Baltimore County Taxpayers' League-—or at least that porion of the membership now in active control of the League's activities —will no doubt hail with delight the departure of Mr. John Summerfield Crowther, of Bengies, who left yesterday for Toledo, Ohio, where he will sojourn for the next six months at the home of his son.
Although an active member of he League since its formation, Mr. Crowther did not aprove of the League's fight for the proposed charter, and as the fight progressed he became more or less of a "thorn in the side" of the officers of the League who were leading the fight. At the last meeting of the League, held a few days before the election, Mr. Crowther was hissed and booed as he attempted to voice his sentiments, and was treated with great discourtesy. He did not lose his temper, however, and recalling that old adage about "He who laughs last, laughs best" bided his time, and since he election he has worn - that smile that simply won't wear off.
Mr. Crowther planned to attend the meeting of the League called for Tuesday night at the City Club, ana was deeply disappoined when he learned that the meeting had been called off on account of the rain. Perhaps the officers of the League got an inkling of a resolution which Mr. Crowther had prepared and had intended to submit for consideration. At any rate, the meeting was called off. And now Mr; Crowther is off. But he left a copy of his resolution behind him. Perhaps some member will offer it at the next meeting of the League. It is as follows:
AVhereas, at a solemn referendum to the people of Baltimore county, taken on the first Tuesday after the First Monday in November, A. D. 1920, it was decided by a clear majority of 4,150 of them that the proposed new charter for Baltimore county was not wanted, and, infer-entially, that the existing form of government in the county is good enough as it is;
And Whereas a majority of the membership of the Taxpayers' League of Baltimore County, in the League's good name, fought strenuously for the adoption of said charter, but went down to defeat with their colors at the mast-head;
And Whereas said minority, although they still feel that 11,613 citizens of the county grievo.csly erred in voting against the charter, nevertheless1 bow to the will of the majority, notwithstanding the ignorance of said majority;
Now, herefore, Be It Resolved by the entire membership of the Taxpayers' League of Baltimore County that the agitation for another charter be, a,nd is hereby, forthwith dropped; that the League cease "knocking" the form of government which the people have approvd; that the League try to find some good in the government as it is, and give credit where credit is due; that the League endeavor in the future to boost Baltimore county rather than find fault with her; that the League pursue a policy of constructive criticism rather than destructive criticism; that the League co-operate with the constituted authorities in the county in all matters calculated to upbuild the county, and not merely try to "get something on them," and that the League play the part of Trustee for the general public, working solely for the public good, and not be a mere cat's-paw for e few of its ambitious members to pull their political chestnut out of the fire. Mr. Crowther's resolution, if ever submitted, is likely to start a big row in the League's councils, but in the Opinion of a good many hard-headed taxpayers it about "hits the nail on the head."
DID EXTREMELY WELL
Election Supervisors Conduct
Recent Work Economically
And Well.
Notwithstanding the fact that it was necessary to create additional polling places, secure new books, and nearly double the quantity of ballots to conduct the recent election in Baltimore county, due to the enfranchisement of women he Supervisors of Elections "cut according to the cloth' on the costs and were but about $1500 in excess of their appropriation.
The entire election cost $30,346.84. It is estimated that in the very near future a great many new precincts will have to be added to facilitate the election work.
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