Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0383    Enlarge and print image (6M)

Jump to page

<< PREVIOUS   NEXT >>

Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_63-0383    Enlarge and print image (6M)

Jump to page

<< PREVIOUS   NEXT >>

THE FOUNDATION OF WEALTH IS THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS WELL INVESTED."—J. P. Morgan. IT WILL PAY YOU TO PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS THE 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. 51 "It Covers The Community Like The Dew" TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1920. MARYLAND JOURNAL, ESTABLISHED 18651 CONSOLIDATED 1015 BALTIMORE CO. DEMOCRAT ESTAB. 18851 WITH THE JEFFERSONIAN. SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS ENTERS 0 LUST SESSION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7 Work Confined Chiefly To Passage Of Appropriation Bills—Many Veteran Legislators Are Entering Upon Final Service; President-Elect Harding On Scene. (From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian). . The last session of the Sixty-sixth Congressi convened at noon Tuesday and the national Legislature must go into high gear immediately if it would complete its task by March 4. The session will be remarkable in at least two particulars—the ;?rcat amount of money it must appropriate I he number of veteran Senators and Representatives engulfed in the recent political landslide and now beginning their last three months of service. On the eve of the opening of the short session leaders were agreed tnat substantially no legislation of major will be considered. Practically hour of time will be devoted to Sale Of Rabbits By Gonners Legal According To Opinion Of Attorney-General. There have been contentions raised in Baltimore county relating to the sale of rabbits, and to clear the matter, The Jeffersonian got into communication with the State Game Department, which in turn requested an opinion from the Attorney-General on the subject. In answer the Attorney-General states, after considerable reflecton. he has) corpe to the conclusoji that it is proper to rule that Chapter 570 of the Acts of 1920 does not prohibit the sale or purchase of rabbits within the State of Maryland. This means, .how-unless there are local laws which prohibit he sale of rabbits, and upon investigation The Jeffersonian finds no s;uch laws in Baltimore county. bill in question which was passed at . session of the legislature, was prepared by the State rid it was not the inten- le of any ,'hite, Quail. Partridge. d Pheasants, native Pheasants, Ruffed Grouse and Turkey. the dozen annual supply bills. With the executive department scheduled to submit estimates running above $4,000,000,000 and the Republican Congress determined upon economy, much time will be consumed in the pruning process. The outstanding events of the coming session was the attendance Tuesday at the Senate sessio,n of Presidentelect Harding and the presentation of President Wilson's annual message. Senator Harding arrived in Washing-on from Bedford, Va., where he made an address, and went to the ! Senate chamber at noon to answer the Senate roll call, p-KDbably for the last time. The openiiYg session was brief. The program called c-nly for roll calls in i the Senate and House, appointment of ; committees to nottfy each other and IPresident Wilson of their convening land adjournment until Tuesday. Tne IPresident received the notification committees in person and advised them re-jgarding the delivery of his mess tge Tusday. Actual work of both branches cf Congressi began. Consideration of minor miscellaneous measures on the unfinished business calendar probably will be started Tuesday of next v eek in the House and Wednesday the San-ate will begin debate on the Kenyon-Kendrick bill for Federal regulation iof the meat industry. A tentative program of legislation, in addition to the apropriation oills, will be determined by Republican leaders in conferences among themselves and with President-elect Harding, who will remain here over Tuesday for a', brief, but busy, period cf counsels, legislative as well as political. (Continued on Page 3, Col. 4) Government Has Been Asked To Establish Gigantic Plant At Dundalk. Piloted by Captain Temple Joyce, George C. Smith, director of the industrial bureau of the Board of Trade, flew over from Washington on Tuesday last and landed at the Dundalk Aviation Field, this county. The trip was arranged with an effort to induce the government tov locate its gigantic aviation field here. On Jan. 1st the War Department's lease on McCook Field. G'maha, Nebraska, expires*, and it has been announced it will not be renewed. The Dundalk field being so close to Washington, it is hoped this section will be favored. FLYING FIELD HERE 2000 LAID OFF Men At Sparrows Point Ship Yard Temporarily Out Of Employment. It is understood that 2000 or t more employees of the Bethlehem ' Ship building Co. at Sparrows Point, this) county, were laid off for an indefinite period this week, the action on the part of the big corporation being due to the finishing of contracts. —Mr. and Mrs. B. Sherman are now occupying an apartment in the home of Mr. Urban Linzey. —Mr. Ernest Hendrix, oft he Hen-drix Motor Company here, isvspending time in Belair. —Mr. Frank Mullen assumed new duties in the office of the County Surveyor here this week. —Mr. Robert Pilson was selected as one of the judges! at the poultry show held in Baltmore this week. —Little Rose Scott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Scott, is recuperating after a severe illness. —Mr. and Mrs. Philip Myers are spending the week-end at the home of Rev. and Mrs. S. F. Cassen. —The "Jeff's" Christmas tree and realistic- garden is bigger and better than ever before. Don't miss it. —County Commissioner Grace was absent this week from the meetings of the Board due to illness. —Mrs. Harry Bourke spent a few days this week at the home of her parents here, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Dunphy. —Mr. Martin R. Schuster attended a "pig roast" at Hamilton on Thursday evening last, and has been "grunting" ever since. —The Alumni Association of the Towson High School will hold a dance on Monday evening, December 27th, at the school building here. —The caved-in sewer on the York Road, at the corner of Railroad avenue should be promptly repaired before some child is seriously injured. —Mrs. .John T. Hopkins is nursing injuries received recently when the automobile in which she was riding truck by another machine. (Continued on Page 10—Col. 1.) ANSWERS GILL EOR HELP Baltimore County Engine Company Saves Sykesville From Complete Destruction. Answering an urgent telephone call for assistance, the Catonsville Fire Company, under the direction of Fire ade a run sville. mill, warehouse, fertilizer factory and grain elevator in the village were entirely wiped out by flames and had it not been for the quick response from Baltimore county, the I whole town would have been nothing | but a smouldering mass of ashes today, s At 8.15 the Mayor of Sykesville got into communication with Fire Marshal Priester over the telephone, and after a brief conversation Senator Warfield called up, urging he Baltimore county company to make £he run, stating that j the village was doomed unless outside ' assistance was forthcoming. In a I minute the big doors at the Catonsville fife house (swung open; there was i a clang of the bell on the apparatus and just as the big pump rolled out : into the street Marshal Priester grabbed the rail on the rear step of the machine, and assistance from Baltimore county to a stricken neighbor wasi on its way. Just as the Catonsville engine arrived in Sykesville the fertilizer plant caught fire and, running their lines of hose to the banks of the Patapsco River, the Baltimore county firemen directed their efforts to some adjoining' property, remaining until after 2 P. M. A call was sent to Westminster, Carrol] county, for an engine company, which was heeded, but on its way to the scene, broke down. The losis s placed a over $100,000, which is fully covered by insurance. "Jeff" Community Xmas Tree And Realistic Garden Will Be Spectacular.' Every night this week,* after the foreman at The Jeffersonian had locked up and wended his weary way homeward, G'ld Santa Claus cautiously made his way to the office to work on the Community Christmas Tree and realistic garden, and as a consequence the display is about completed except for an artistic touch here and there, siter which i'-: will be open to.the pu-h- ?Santa has spent a few more hours ¦r.\ this season's exhibit than heretofore and from the peeps the printers' "devil"' has taken'' while Santa was away, we are told, it will be a dandy. This marks the fourth annual Community Christmas Tree and realistic garden erected for the people of Baltimore county, rich or poor, white or black, and in figuring up the number of persons, men, women and children, viewed the settings every year, wMch each visitor 1, totals nearly 30,000. The Jeffersonian has spared no expense to have old Santa make this year's display the greatest and grand-est. The electrical effect will be spectacular and the whole as vivid and realistic as it is possible to portray. Bring the kiddies to the Jeffersonian; they will be delighted, and so will y< u. RAID SCHOOL HOUSE Two U. S. Marines Under Influence of Liquor Terrorize The Teachers And Pupils. Beaded with "fire-water," two of JTJncle Sam's Marines entered the. col-. |ored school at Halethorpe, this county, on Monday last and threw the teachers and pupils into a state of will excitement. After a wild session of some minutes a e< unty patrolman was summoned and .succeeded in arresting the two men. but they were so "lit up" little injos mation could be gathered from thern except that they were from the Marine barracks at Quantico, Va. Increase Your Income A plot of good land, a small business, or some sound investment probably would bring in enough money to let you be your own boss. The man with a bank account is the man who is ready when a good chance to "get away from the grind" comes along. Second National Bank of Towson HARRISON RIDER, Prest. JOS. B. iJALLOWAY, Cashier. ELMER J. COOK, THOS. J. MEADS, NOAH E. OF PUTT, Asst. Cashier. Vice-Pres'dents. FORT HOWARD CHOSEN Army Cnrps Headquarters, It Understood, Will Be Established Here. (From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian). The War Department has decided to make the permanent headquarters of the Third Army Corps at Fort Howard instead of Fort McHenry, it has been learned. The necessity of making large additions to the equipment and property at Fort McHenry, and the demand for the utmost economy, together with the personal opinion of the officers of the Third Army Corps that Fort Howard will be more suitable as an army headquarters, has caused a, change in plans. The original plan was to make Fort McHenry the permanent headquarters. It was suggested then that Fort Howard only would be used temporarily until the improvements could be made at For McHenry, but the decision of the War Department, while not yet officially announced, is understood to be ready. Officers of the Third Corps, it was made knowji, have been very pleased with the accommodations at Fort Howard. The possibility of providing housing facilities for the officers, for the enlisted men and for some of the clerks, together with the unsuitable facilities at Fort McHenry, made a basis for comparison which influenced the officers after the temporary change was made. Regarding the rumors of possible removal of the Third Army Corps headquarters from Baltimore, it was sjtated by the highest authorities in the War Department that there is absolutely no foundation for the stories. It had been suggested that poor housing facilities and other minor objections to the location at Baltimore had caused some desire upon the part of officers of the Third Corps for another location, but if there has been any s\uch desire it is on the part of subordinate officers, and is not reflected in the higher command or in the War Department. "Any change would have to be approved by the War Department, and it has never been aproyed, not even suggested, and you can say absolutely it (Continued on Page 4—Col. 4) CHANGED HER NAME Mrs. George W. Yellott Files Bill In Circuit Court Here Through Noah E. Offutt. Fulfilling the wish of her father that she change her name when IS years, of age from Annie E. Gittings to Rebecca Nicholas Gittings, as the condition for inheriting the "Ridge View Farm," at Long Green, this county, Mrs. Rebecca Nicholas Yellott filed a bill in the Circuit Court at Towson on Tuesday last, asking the Court to construe the will of her father, the late Henry N. Gittings. Mrs.' Yellott is the wife of former County Commissioner George W. Yellott, and states she has had undisputed possession of the property for 40 years. She also asks the Court to decide if, under the provisions of the will she acquired a fee-simple title to the farm or only a life estate in it. Mrs. Yellott is represented by Attorney Noah E. Offutt. AT THE MAIL BOX lip - -^SSife^ r itiz^ll ^ ERS LINE UP FOR FIGHT DN FOOD SPECULATORS TAX LEVY FOR 1921 ANNOUNCED BY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Rate Fixed At $1.78, Approximately a Ceots Over The Present One; 71 Cents Levied For Schools Gives Teachers Increase Asked For; Board Exercised Soond Judgment lo Granting Appropriations. Aim At Go-Operation With Buying Public—Laws Sought Permitting Interstate Bnsiness By Farm Groups—Over 1,500,000 In movement MM Head Of Organization. (From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian). More than 1,500,000 farmers, banded together in the National Board of Farm Organizations, are preparing for a.drive on Congress to get legislation, to protect the -consumer and farmer from being vcitimized by speculators and profiteers in food, President Chas. S. Barrett, of the board, announced. "Seven million farmers now are forced to sell their products at the lowest prices in history in proportion to production costs," said Mr. Barrett. THE SEASON OF GOOD WILL IS APPROACHING. Away with all srouchiness and greed, all doubt and despair! This is the season of love and good will, of hope and gladness. Joy is always and everywhere ''Orthodox" and in order. If you are able to do so at no other time of the year, .during the approachingYuletide, resolve to have the full courage of your noble self, and to let your 'worthiest and bravest sentiment assert itself in full. Let Joy be unconfounded, again be it said "all is well." The sun is not going to be conquered by the Frost King; the anarchists ,are not going to overthrow the Constitution of the United States and the government that ¦was inaugurated by our venerated Washington, in spite of petty politicians who are ready to "give up" to party what was meant for mankind; the -ways and means of bettering the condition of mankind will surely be found; the life of men and nations shall not have been in vain, and as for Old Death, who awaits us at the end of the.little earthly way, for all that we to the contrary think he may turn out to be our best frieml. Those who have crossed the broad Atlantic in mid-winter need not be reminded of the uplifting ami joy-giving Influences of the gulf stream. Those who have felt it can never forget it. Once fairly upon the mysterious "river of the sea" the chill and numbness of one's body and soul departs, and rigid muse'es relax, the pent-up feelings let themselves loose in singing and chattering^, and all-around sociability and enjoyment prevails; all the world seems to be refashioned for the better. Such is the Christmas season, with its good will and cheer; its brave confidence and spontaneous gladness. It is the gulf stream of life, warming us into the sentiment of a common humanity with Its unselfisrness and comradeship, imparting to all of us the glad sense of security and victory. Very pitiful is the human being who, in the midst of the Christmas season, feels like going off to himself, like Dundreary's bird. It is a season not for isolation and loneliness, but for fellowship and universal brotherhood, as though we were saying to one another "all hands around," with no one left out. LOGIE BONNETT. "But 100,000,000 consumers are paying the highest prices in history for these same products. Bilions of dollars of profit thus are going into the pocketSi of the speculators, and middlemen." As the first step in the drive for protective legislation the. farmers! Mr. Barrett said, are organizing a countrywide public relations-committee to coordinate the common aims of farmer and consumer. The committee, to be developed under the dirction of the National Board of Farm Organizations, will include representatives of the National Consumers' League and the labor group as well as farmers, according to present plans. . The farmers' program for I protective legislation begins-with amendments to the anti-trust laws to permit farmers, co-operative societies to engage in interstate business. Through many of the co-operative societies farmers plan to sell direct to the consumer. "As the anti-trust laws now are interpreted the co-operative societies in many cases can be made subject to prosecution," said Mr. Barrett. "If the present interpretations of the antitrust laws are changed, the co-operative societies can make a big and (Continued on Page 4, Col. 3.) T CARRY LIGHTS All Horse-Drawn Vehicles Must "Lit Up" In The Future. It will no doubt be a painful shock to the man in Baltimore county who for "auld lang syne" or some other reason has clung to the four-footed friend, the horse, that he must carry a light on hrs vehicle in the future, else face the nearest justice of rhe r>eace for violating the law. The weekly report of automobile Commissioner Baughman brought out th" fact that all horse-drawn vehicles must henceforth be "all lit up," raid while this may peeve those who use horses, it is hailed -by automobile drivers with delight. Numerous complaints have reached the authorities at Towson relative to wagons passing up and down the Hialo roads all hours of the night without lights, and in some instances ser;ous accidents have resulted from not complying wth the law on he statute books. Automobiles have gone forth at night illuminated like a block carnival, but the horse-drawn vehicles, until recently, have lurched along through the night shadows inviting disaster. For some unknown reason the rural dwellers have a pre udice against being "lit up" vehicularly or otherwise, and have always shown resentment against the application of traffic laws for their buggies and farm wagons. New even a man riding horse-oack must carry a lantern. Like all other, big corporations, Baltimore county is retrenching and "will watch its step" during the coming year, for the County Commissioners have made up their minds to see that nothing is purchased unless it is absolutely necessary, and that the prices be the lowest the market affords. There 'is a lull in business everywhere just now, and everyone is complaining. Business is at a "standstill"; all lines of activities have suspended operation. Thousands of people have been laid^off and the prospects for the coming year look rather dark, nevertheless, some think that with the advent of the new $? year a new era of prosnerity £S Mill come. Let us hope so, at \? least. The County Commissioners on Wed-nesdav fixed the county tax rate for the fiscal year 1921 at $1.78, an increase of approximately 9 cents over the rate for the current year. The details of the levy are published in the form of an advertisement elsewhere in this isisue. The levy was signed by Commissioners Coghlan, Rider and Clarke, Commissioner Grace having been absent on account of illness, and Commissioner Bosley having declined to sign on account of his objection to the appropriation for schools. The total taxable basis of the county subject to the $1.78 rate is estimated to be $92,445,190.00, made up' as follows: personal and mixed pro;-"!'- .............$86,195,190.00 Corporation stocks...... 6'.000,000.00 Spirits ................... 250,000.00 Total -----'.......$92,445,190.00 This shows an ' increase of $2,594,-¦>-ft,no 0ver th:- • basis for tne current vear, which is estimated to be "0.920.00. the $1.78 levy. 71 cents will go for schools, 50 cents for roads, a,i Genta for all other running expenses of the county. Under the rate for the, current vear, 48 cents went for scl i other running mpar- ing the new with- the old rates it will appear, therefore, that the rate for schools has been increased 23 cents, the rate for roads has been decreased 10 cents, and the rate for other runr ning exenses has been decreased '4 cents. The amount appropriated for schools for the year 1921 is $656,360,00: the amount for roads $462,225.00, and the amount for general running expenses' $526,935.00. In addition to the assessable property subject to the full county rate, it is» estimated that the county will receive a revenue of approximately $93,-670.00 from taxes collectable on foreign stocks and bonds, owned by residents of the county, and the further sum of $30,000.00 from taxes collectable on bank stocks owned by residents of the county. The bulk of* these two items, amounting to $123,670.00. will, it is understood, be added to the roads fund. The rate of State taxes for 1921 will be 35 1-3 cents, which, added to the county rate of $1.78 will mean a total of $2.13 1-3, which every taxpayer in the county will be required to pay on every $100 worth of assessable property he may own. With but few exceptions, only minor chaneres have been made in the appropriations for general running expenses for the year 1921. Three new appropriations will appear on the back of the tax bills for 1921, which do not appear on the bills for the current vear. namely, $2,000.00 for the Agricuiural Agent; $3,000.00 for Baltimore Countv Trade . Commission, and $18,000.00 for Interest on Annex notes. The apropriation for the Countv Agent was urged upon the Commissioners by representative farmers from all over the county and will, it is believed, meet with general approval. The Baltimore County Trade Commission was created under an act of the last Legislature, and the appropriation of $3,000.00 is intended to cover the expenses of this Commission, so that it may function. The members of the Commission themselves will receive no pay. The County Trade Commission is intended to do for Baltimore county, in a general w^v. what a somewhat similiar emmission is now, and for some time past has been doing for Baltimore City, that is, to "boot#" Baltimore county; to advertise its resources; to point out its advantages, and to encourage the industrial development of the county. The apropriation for interest on the Annex notes may be explained in this way: A commission, appointed under the authority of the annexation act, fixed a certain sum which Baltimore City should pay to Baltimore county for school houses, engine houses, etc., taken into the city at the time of the passage of the act. It was stipulated that this sum be paid in equal yearly instalments with interest, extending over a period of ten years. In order to render the whole fund immediately available for building purposes the County Commissioners secured the passage of an act by the last Legislature permitting them to discount the (Continued on Page 4, Col. 4.) Indications Are That During Coming Tear Farmers Will Have Adequate Supply Of Lahor. (Special Correspondence to The Jeffersonian). Indications and reports received from scattered rural communities point to a backward swing of the labor pendulum with the prospect that during the coming year farmers of the State should have at their command a more adequate supply of labor than at any time since the outbreak of the war, says Dr. Thomas B. Symons, Director of the University of Maryland Extension Service. Industrial depression in the cities with its consequent uncertainty of regular and remunerative labor, combined with high rents and other high living cosjts, is already forcing back to ' the farms numerous farm hands who during the period of big wages' were drawn from their former occupations to better paying work in the cities. The farm labor shortage reached its peak last spring, says Dr. Symons, it was estimated from re that avaiUuULe- farm was 12% per cent, less than during the previous year. The situation will undoubtedly be less acute next spring when farmers begin to look about for necessary help. At the present time, it is impossible to foresee just how much of the labor which formerly found employment on the farms of the State will be reabsorbed, says Dr. Symons. Modern machinery, which was essential during the past few years to offset the labor shortage, will take the place of some of it. Also present conditions, with the farmers face to face with serious financial losses due to a falling market for their products, are far from favorable. On the other hand, many farmers who have been forced to exceptionally long hours and to the employment of the women and children of their own families, will find some relief in the trend of labor back to the farm. In many reslpects the shortage of labor has had its beneficial effects upon the farmer. It has shown him what he can do in an emergency. As a matter of fact with a labor supply considerably less than ever before, the farmers of Maryland have succeeded in producing this year crops 12.3 per (Continued on Page 3, Col. 4) LAD GRIEVES TO DEATH Orphan, After Loss Of Dog-, Dies. Fever Result Of Anxiety Over Pet. The loss of a pet dog caused the death of little Willie Williams, who lived with his aunt, Mrs. Mary V. Bolehoren, on the Baltimore county side of Ellicott City, according to the attending physician. Willie was left an orphan, his mother having died while he was an infant, and ,-his father was a world-war victim. The dog, a collie, seemed to take the father's place, and on election day disappeared, and fever, caused by deep grief resulted in the lad's death on Monday last. LOSES LIFE IN CRASH Auto Driver Killed When His Machine Hits Farm Wagon. Two Companions Injured. Crashing into a farm wagon on the Washington road, near Halethorpe, this county, on Monday night last, an automobile was' demolished and the driver, Frank V. Van Horn, of Baltimore City, was instantly killed. Two other occupants of the machine, John Poppa and Edwin Alford, were seriously injured. The automobile was proceeding toward Baltimore City, on the Washington road, when it overtook the farm wagon in charge of Herman Mine, which turned aside to give the machine an oportunity to pass, and instead of passing to the left it crashed into the farm wagon, driving it against a telegraph pole. Mine wasi thrown from his seat and the mules, breaking loose, ran away. (tir experience as lire Dealers is invaluable to you' Our close contact with the tire industry gives us a fund of knowledge invaluable to you. We know personally the men behind the different tire organizations — their ideals — their policies — their plans. And 1/ecause of this, coupled with our daily observation of tires in actual service, we know we are selling you a tire that will deliver more than average scrvic/ when we put on— For a long rime we made exhaustive tests on the Marathon Tire, we piaced them on trucks, busses and other cars where we knew they would be subject to unusual punishment, and then we waited. \—^ The unusual extent to which the Marathon Tire stood up under this gruelling punishment was a revelation—it confirmed our belief that a tire could be built which would surpass by far. the average of tire service. H. E. CROOK CO., Inc., Distributors 18 W. Oliver St.,; BALTIMORE, MD Phone, Mt. Vernon 3713.