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IT WILL. PAY YOU TO
PATRONIZE OUR
ADVERTISERS
THE
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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. 52
"It Covers The Community Like The Dew"
TOWSON, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1920.
MARYLAND JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1866/ CONSOLIDATED 1915
BALTIMORE CO. DEMOCRAT ESTAB. 1885 f WITH THE JEFFERSONIAN.
LETTER PUBLISHED IN BALTIMORE PAPER AROUSES
Representative Of The Jeffersonian Made Tour Of Inspection Through
[Almshouse, Interviewed Inmates, Finding Them Satisfied And ^|lContented; Rooms Comfortable And Fund Well Cooked.
Baltimore County Alms- '
cncerning the
house, haa aroused a great deal of indignation among the people of the county.
"Is it true that we have an almshouse out at Texas, Baltimore county. And listen! Is it true that those of the inmates whom the rats do not eat, will die of starvation. This remark, which I overheard, was made by a gentleman who apparently knew of what he was talking. His name 1 do not know, but that he was a physician, I heard.
•Are we growng hard-hearted, un-
ig for the wrong dor.e others.
Surely some folks are responsible for
the condition of these helpless ones. i
"Overlea, Dec. 12. I. S. K."
Fruitless efforts have been made to j tain the name of the writer of i this letter, as well as the name of the j supposed physician referred to there- i in. as county officials and others inter- j ested in the almshouse say there is i absolutely no truth in the assertions j made and they are inclined to believe that the letter was published from malicious motives.
The County Commissioners, at heavy .expense to the taxpayers, have recently rebuilt the larger portion of the almshouse, and the completed & building is today one of the finest \ q, structures of its kind in the State. The i building is located on a high elevation, in the centre of a large and productive farm, and it is doubtful if a more healthful spot could be found in the county. Every convenience for the inmates has been provided for in the new building, and the sanitary arrangements are unexcelled. In fact, the bulding, as a home, is superior to i most private homes' in the county—! such a home as only a person of I means could provide.
The present Superintendent, Mr; Chilcoat, has been in charge of t1 almshouse for many years, and no on" in a position to know the facts has ever questioned his kind treatment of the inmates. They are provided with ample food, are given attention by a (Continued on Page 7, Col. 5.)
Over 500 people viewed The JeHCersonian's community Christmas tree and realistic garden on Sunday last, the office being-open from 10 A. M. until 4.30 P. M., not to state in round numbers the throng of men, women anil children who packed, the room all ilurins the week to get a glimpse of Santa Claus's handiwork,
Tomorrow < Sunday) the display will he open from 10 A. M. until 4.30 P. M. and each weekday until after New Year's from 8 A. >1. until 9.30 P. M.
Siring the youngsters to The Jeffersonian; they will enjoy the sight of the beautiful decorated and illuminated Christmas tree and the realistic, miniature village which forms the garden; then you also will And it fascinating.
CHRISTMAS AT THE JAIL
Prisoners Will Get Good Dinner
And Receive A Treat From
Mrs. James E. Green.
The Christmas spirit will even penetrate the gray stone walls of the county jail here, for Warden Clinton O. Bosley has laid plans for giving the prisoners a good Christmas dinner. The menu wilJ consist of roast pork, sauer kraut, white and sweet potatoes, bread and butter, coffee, and for desert each inmate will receive a pie, the presient of Held's Bakery here, it being the custom of this concern to give a pie to every prisoner at the county jail at Yuletide.
In the office of the jail has been erected a large Christmas tree, and one day during the holidays Mrs. Jas. E. Green, of Towson, will give the unfortunate men and women in the institution a treat.
SANTA IS BRINGING EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT.
WILL PRINT THURSDAY
SNAP SHOTS AT NEWS
Current Events In Brief Paragraphs
From Many Sections Bearing
On Various Subjects.
There Being No Mail Deliveries
On New Year's Jeffersonian
Will Go To Press Thursday.
There will be no mail deliveries on New Year's Day, and in order that the readers of The Jeffersonian may get their papers: in time for Sunday, it will be printed a day earlier next week.
The customary press day for The Jeffersonian is Friday, it being mailed out Friday evening so as to catch the mail trains which go through the country. This week, however, it will go to press on Thursday, being mailed Thursday evening.
All those wishing news items to appear in the next issue should see that same reaches the office not later than Wednesday. The correspondents should also make it a point to mail their matter a day earlier than usual.
FOR STATE CONSTABULARY
ADDRESSES INTERESTING
Western Maryland, especially the mountain districts, is covered in deep snow.
Mpre than 400 persons were killed^ in an earthquake which visited Buenos Aires this week.
The great rush of emigrants over-whelmes the force of inspectors at
Copy Of Life And Character Of^nis island.
t „+« t t> r« rn it. 4.^ tut tj Three coal companies were indicted
Late J. F. C. TalDOtt May Be in the courts of Kansas City this week
tt j xi n i> ^ f°r charging unjust amounts for ^oai.
tim from Cong. Benson. Tne Chinese Government denies a
The Jeffersonian received this week ^ret treaty with the Japanese gov-
from Congressman Carville D. Benson iernmellt-
>py of the Memorial Addresaes on i Farron's Bank, London, suspended the life and character of the late J business on Tuesday, and auditors Ibott. Thi rnment Printing Office, and) The Governor of Oklahoma has is-;>atly bound with a black cloth'sued 28 Chistmas pardons to prisoners cover, lettered in gold. t in the State Penitentiary.
Mr. Benson advises that he has a Tllo Roniihiifans ar*> nlannins- to limited number of copies on hand and ..b^afd^ P^esfd^nt Wilson wiuf pro-
Governor Favors Plan To Establish Motorcycle Force To Cover Every County In Emergency.
Maryland will soon have a State Constabulary such as Pennsylvania has, for it was announced this week that Governor Ritchie, Police Commissioner Gaither and Motor Comm ssion-er Baughman, after a conference, decided to immediately take steps for the formation of a motorcycle battalion to cover every county in the >iate in an emergency.
It is also planned to install i telephone system along the State Roads, so that quick communications can be had.
TO FIGHT 7-CENT FARE
will be glad to forward one, as long as they last, to anyone desiring a Copy. Requests should be sient to Room 116, House Office Building. Washington, D. C, addressed to Mr .Benson.
CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS
tective tariff measures.
Body of pretty woman is found on Long Beach, N. Y., with head crushed in, by a small, boy romping at the waters edge.
The wages of re than 200,000
workers in the u til? mills around Philadelphia will hJ\' t from 10 to 30 per cent, effective January 1st.
Grover Gabbard, a mountain desperado of Kentucky, was given a life term in the penitentiary for killing a small orphan girl.
The underworld of New York City received a good shaking up "ah* Nearly part of this week when the police department "rounded up" the largest number of crooks in its history.
Miss Joan Lippincott, of Philadelphia, Pa., suffered from a strange Illness which deprived her of her voice
Schools Will Open January 3rd.
Court House And Banks Closed
Xmas And New Year's.
The Baltimore County Public Schools closed on Thursday for the Christmas holidays, reopening on January 3rd, which will give the pupils a week to enjoy yuletide.
The Court Housje at Towson, the banks and all public buildings will be .,
.closed on Christmas and New Year's I for 130 days, and spoke for the first Day.
Suburban Dwellers Will Oppose United's Application To Maintain War-Time Tariff.
The application of the United Railways & Electric Company to the Public Service Commission to maintain a 7-cent fare will be opposed bitterly by suburban dwellers, especially those who reside in Baltimore county, and who wend their way to the city daily to attend to business.
The question of fare zones will be injected, through the office of a well-known attorney, who, with others, will be on hand to give the. street railway company "a run for their money."
COUNTIAN LOSES CAR
THIS IS THE PRESENT THAT WILL PLEASE THEh) AND f
ByqoLLy its WHAT THEY'RE qo\H§ TO 3ET
EMERGENCY TARIFF OPPOSITION AS BILL IS
IN CONGRESS
Unanimous Consent Is Refused In House, But Sponsors Hope To Get
Vote Through—Steering Committee Decides It Will Not
Be Bushed Through—Senate Plans "Discussion."
(From the Washington Correspondent of The Jeffersonian).
There was a gloomy outlook for the Emergency Tariff bill designed to place high duties upon agricultural products. The bill was reported to the House this afternoon by the Ways and Means Committee, but Republican leaders were unable to secure unanimous consent for bringing it up for consideration Wednesday as had been planned. In addition strong opposition developed among Southern Senators, even among those who have been counted upon to support it. Senator Simmons of North Carolina was
CLERK'S REPORT FOR 1920
NATION'S CAPITAL PREPARING FOR
Induction Into Office Of New President To Be More Elaborate Than Any Ceremony Pari—Great Madri Gras Planned, With Jud Grand Ball mm.
Receipts For Year $80,328.36
An Increase Of $23,532.48
Over Previous One.
Receipts totalling $80,328.36 as against $56,795.88 received last year, were taken in by the Clerk's Office at Towson, according to a report made public this week.
Clerk of the Court, Mr. Wm. P. Cole, turned over to the State $35,510.34, which is an increase of $19,180.76 over lasft year, when $16,329.58 was handed to the State Treasurer. During the year 10,713 instruments were received for record, classified as follows: Mortgages, 5,513; deeds, 4,176; bills of sale, 656; bonds, 112; mechanic liens, 15; incorporations, 41; civil commissions!, 129; plats, 71. Licenses were issued as follows: Marriage, 563; hunting, 6,219; traders, 1,320. Four hundred and seventy-five law cases were docketed; 221 equity cases and 182 criminal cas^s; 402 persons filed declarations to become citizens of the United States.
The office of Clerk of the Court is a State office and is self-supporting. By this, it has to make its own living-. The salaries of the clerk and his assistants, likewise all expenses, such as stationery; record books and the like have to be paid out of the fees received, and not one penny is paid by the county.
quite outspoken in declaring the bill a purely protective tariff measure.
Injection by the Ways and Means Committee of articles not in their tentative schedule of last Saturday night aroused immediate resentment. The committee decided to include lemons, and this caused comment among anti-tariff members of the House. Probably the most depressing statement concerning the bill was a rumor that when it reached the Senate an amendment hooking it to the Longworth bill to protect the American dye industry would be proposed.
Chairman Fordney of the Ways and Means Committee says he is flatly opposed to the inclusion of any articles not already listed in the bill. Under the House rules it will not be possible I to include these alien articles, the only debate being upon alteration of the duties on the articles specified. But the Senate- can offer all sorts of amendments, and Senators are said to be ready with plenty of them.
The Democratic steering committee of the Senate held a meeting to discuss the bill. It was decided that the measure must not be rushed through, but must receive "serious consideration,* not only in the Senate Finance Committee, but on the floor. Denials that any filibuster was proposed were made, but at the same time it was said that the bill would be "fully discussed."
When the bill was introduced in the House the right was reserved for majority and minority reports to be sub-nilt,t®d- . Representative H. T. Rainey of lhnois, Democrat, wrote the minority views, which were shared by some other Democrats on the committee, including Hull of Tennessee, Oldfield of Arkansas and Collier of Mississippi. Mr Rainey denounced the bill as hurriedly drawn and calculated to produce (Continued on Page 3—Col 5.)
ERECTING"flLARWT SYSTEM
Line Frnm Catonsville To Towson
Cnmpleted; Towson Engine House
To Be Headquarters.
MAKES REPORT TO STATE
Frederick McCormick, son-in-law of Captain Isaac E. Emerson, who makes his home at * the" Emerson estate, at Brooklandwood, this county, had his automobile stolen while in Baltimore City shopping on Tuesday.
The car was parked on Clay street, near Charles, when taken.
W EVERY DAY WERE «HRISTItfAS. What it every day wer« Christmas? The suggestion at first is not altogether agreeable. One ean imagine numerous protests against the idea because of the excesses to which we may go on Christmas holidays. Let it be granted freely that Christmas is misused, that it is often a season of excesses and extremes; even so, *vh© of us would do away with Christmas? For despite all the excesses of the holiday season and the hardship it works on many, is there not a rainbow of glory over every recurring Christmas?
Christmas is the season of prophetic idealism and a rebuke of selfish living. At the approach of the anniversary of Christ's birth, men and women, whose thoughts have been mostly of self, are moved to think of others. The idea of serving others and making ethers happy effects even the blase and the indifferent. Somehow, the idea that it is more blessed to , "give than to bargain finds lodgement in minds unused to tender and benevolent thoughts. For a brief period, cruel competitions that so sorely grrlAd human society are lessened, if not forgotten. For the time being:, all humanity seems to be one bljs family; there is delight in seeing everyone joyous. The foreigner is made to feel at home. Artificial barriers are broken, and there comes even into hard faces some softened lines. The spirit of Christinas predominates; it penetrates even behind stone walls, and the prisoner is made to know that he is still remembered by society and that hope for him has not been abandoned.
Christmas is the one season of the year when we*are especially reminded to tnke^igion seriously. The sermon dn *he_ seems practical thei itudes possible in Even the great words, earth, good will toi actually appear jfe£f&:&b'V< Christmas time.
time on Tuesday last
Dame Ruhor has it that the bread line of old will return on the Bowery in New York this winter, judging from the number of idle men who crowd the Bowery Mission.
" An attempt was made by bandits to rob the First National Bank of Mill-town, N. J. Two of the gang were captured by citizens, while two escaped.
The United States Government entered suit against John D. Rockefeller for $292,678, charging that his income tax report was "incorrect, misleading and false."
O'n the eve of Forefathers* Day, 300 years after the landing of the Pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, which was being moved in preparation for a new canopy, split in half.
Dr. Edward A. Rumley, former publisher of the New York Evening Mail, who was found guilty recently of violating the espionage act, was sentencr ed this week to one year in prison.
Charles R. Robinson, the 16-year-old negro boy who murdered Mrs. Edith Hightman, the wife of a prominent farmer of Frederick county, and then set fire to the house, was found guilty at Rockville on Tuesday and sentenced to be hung.
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(From the Washington Correspondent | Jesse L. Smith, prominent Ohio politi-of The Jeffersonian).
All Washington is preparing to make the celebration of the inauguration of President-elect Harding more elaborate in every detail than has been any inaugural ceremony of the past.
The inaugural ball is to be revived, with all its past traditions and glory. The committee in charge is proposing a mardi gras of States along Pennsyl-vana avenue. The usual parade will be held and plans already have been made for a great display of fireworks during the afternoon of March 4, when the parade crowds are seeking to while away the time until the ball is officially opened.
With Edward B. McLean, owner of the Washington Post and chairman of the special committee on the inauguration, in charge, headquarters have been opened in one of the local hotels. To
cian and friend of Harding, has been assigned the task of secretary. He is devoting all his time to the plans.
To a certain extent Washington will take this opportunity to vent that desire to celebrate which has been suppressed throughout the two Wilson (Continued on Page 3—Col. 4.)
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