The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-06


SOUND IN PRINCIPLE AND POLICY
The proposition that Congress shall appro
pirate money to aid the states in highway con-
struction is sound in principle and patriotic
policy. It is not new, except that the favors
of the general Government have for many
years been turned into other channels The
aid extended to the Pacific railroads, covering
hundreds of millions of money and public
lands and the hundreds Of millions spent on
rivers and harboTs was all based upon the
theory that the Government but served its own
good when appropriating money to increase
and improve the transportation facilities of
the country. That is a sound proposition and
If adhered to by the Congress must lead to the
early extension of Government aid to the
states in road improvement.
The Government rests upon the loyalty Of
its people. The people sustain it in times of
peace and defend it in times of war. The peo-
pie are the Government. Whatever policy
will benefit the people becomes national OBJ
legation to be observed by those entrusted with
power.
Road building is recognized function of
Government in every civilized country but
ours. No country has ever witnessed syste-
matte road construction except by government
aid. Our national experience is ample to justi-
fy the declaration that the states Of the Union
will never have systematized road building
until the general Government leads the way
in cooperation with the states. If the Con-
gress had authority under the Constitution to
take the peoples money from the treasury to
aid such special interests as railroad construc-
ton and rivers and harbor improvement sure
" no man Of creditable reputation will con-
tend that it is not authorized By the Constitu-
ton to take the peoples money and devote it
to their own direct and immediate internal
l recessifies. s>ls>-Sf - ~
Everybody comedies the necessity for good
roads. The Department of Agriculture has
figured from carefully gathered statistics that
bad roads cost the farmers of the United States
81, 800 900 every time the sun goes down. That
is fearful showing. Refusal to relieve this
condition is the same to the farmers as if the
Government should annually come along and
confscate that much of their products, or as if
Congress should order it destroyed by other
means.
We need good roads legislation more than
we need lot of other things commended for at
every Congress. We need good roads legisla-
ton more than any special thing just now,
and we hope the 59th Congress will do Justice
to the people and either enact the proposed
Brownlow, Latimer bill, or some similar mea-
sure, into law.
OK THE first of the New Year Mr.. James B.
| Pratt, who had been at the head of the claims
department of the United Railways and Elec-
trio Company for several years, was promoted
to assistant general manager Ia new position, }
and will be second to General Manager VIM.
| A. House. The other changes were as follows
Mr.. E. ]. Paige, claims agent; Mr.. H. C.
Wells, assistant claims agent and Mr.. George
Blatchley, assistant superintendent of trans
portation, vice Howard Foreman, deceased.
These changes were made upon the recon-
mendation of Mr.. House, all the officials be-
ing old men in the company's employ. Mr..
Pratt and the others began service with the
United either as motormen or conductors be-
fore the merger of the street railway lines was
effected. The new assistant general manager
began as a motorman in 1901 and then changed
to become conductor. He kept this position
for two years and was. then taken into the
claims department. At night he attended a
law school and was graduated later, becoming
an assistant claims agent. He was made as.
sistant to the general manager in 1900 and 9
year later was placed in charge of the claims
department. Claims Agent Paige started with
the railways in 1898 as conductor, serving in
that capacity for five years, when be went into
the claims department. in which he has since
served.
As DYNAMITE has become an explosive Of
common use every one is interested in know.
ing all they can about it. The man who digs
your cellar uses it, and the farmer to blow UP
stumps and rend stones. The name of 'whis
kersp is applied othe featherlk csssatals
| gather on the outfde of the yellow covering in
which frozenaynamite is wrapped, says the
! Eqgineerin1 and Mining Journal. These whis
kers resnore irritable than the dynamite
its5 and source of considerable danger un-
less handled carefully A case is on record
where sticks of dynamite had been thawed
out in hot water, and the can of hot water in
which it was done left in the blacksmith shop
without being emptied of the residual scum of
greese and whiskers. The first blow of the
blacksmith's hammer on a nearby anvil was
sufficient to set off the whiskers by conclusion.
The can was blown to pieces, but fortunately
no one was hurt.
EVER SINCE General Jackson made his ia
nous attack on the old United States Bank
Democrats have stuck to tradition and inheri-
ted sentiments and have shown a sort of en-
nifty to National banks of any kind. But in
spite of this the South with all its Democratic
instincts, has been gradually, but surely, ex-
tending its National bank facilities: In 1880
South. This number has now increased to
1921, according to the last report of the Comp
troller Of the Currency. In the same time
Southern bank capital has grown from $45,-
600, 600 to S126, 600. Surplus has increased
from 1900. 900 to $50, 1000, 600, an6 the growth
in Individual deposits has been from S64 900, 900
to $469, 600 900. Now as banks grow out of
commercial necessity, the above figures show
a gratifying increase in Southern prosperity. .
COMMENTING EDIroRIALLY on the Governors
message the Baltimore SIN says Governor
Warfelds message to the Legislature is doc
ument of exceptional interest and goes deeply
into matters of importance to the people of
Maryland. Among the leading subjects of
discussion in the message are lobbying at An
napolis, he extravaganza of the Legislature
the need for q corrupt practices act oyster leg
islation and a primary election law for the
whole State. On these matters the Governor
speaks with impressive candor. The extfava-
gance of the Legislature through the employ
ment of an unnecessarily large number of
clerks and laborers, together with the granting
of extra pay to employees and gratuities to
Others is characterized by Governor Warield
as "a scandalous and reckless squandering of
the peoples money"
ON MoNpA Z last Mr.. George Small. of York.