The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-12-05

AT Los ANGELES. recently, sympathizing
judge gave Cyrus Sanford the divorce he had
petitioned for. Cyrus principal complaint was
that the small Sanfords were not properly
washed and cared for. my wife drenched a
rag with gasoline, be told the judge land in
two minutes had given each of the children q
bath. 1T takes too much time and is too much
trouble to scrub those young ones with water,
she said Gasoline is the quickest way to
clean them with the least trouble She used
to let the children run around stark naked
half the time because it was too much work to
dress them" We must say that there are
great many excuses for pension or divorce,
but we believe that the one recited is good
and perfect one. To let children run naked in
decent or warm weather might not be cause
for break of the marital knot, but to treat
them like old gloves or a soiled scarf by wash
ing them with gasoline is stretching the limits of
motherhood too far for glorious civilization.
THE LEADING Republicans of Maryland are
already planning to put up big fight against
the Acknowledgement amendment to be voted
on in this State next year and conference
will shortly be held to set the ball in motion.
Collector Stone says he thinks the fight against
the amendment ought to begin at as early
day as possible; that it ought to enlist the
support and sympathy of every Marylander,
irrespective of party, who loves fair play in
politics and who is opposed to the State be-
coming one party State, as will be the case if
the amendment is approved. He added that
so far reaching and so permanent will be the
effect of the amendment upon the political
destinies of Maryland that organization of all
good citizens desiring the welfare of their State
cannot be effected too soon to inaugurate the
battle. He says he is not influenced in his
opposition to the amendment because he is a
Republican, but because he does not wish the
State to be at the mercy of one party. He also
said that be and his friends are willing to CO.
operate with all non partisan organizations to
bring about defeat of the proposition.
IT APPEARS to be definitely settled that Mr..
Frank W. Hitchcock, chairman of the National
Republican Committee, will be Postmaster
General in President Taft's Cabinet, and it is
generally conceded that the selection is most
excellent one. Mr.. Hitchcock was born in
Ohio in October, 1867 and is a son of the late
Rev. Henry G. Hitchcock, prominent Con-
gregational minister. He graduated at Har
ward in 1891. In November of that year he
went to Washington as chief clerk to the su-
perintendent of construction of the United
States Postoffice Building. The same month,
as result of competitive examination, be
was appointed assistant in the biological divi-
sion of the Department of Agriculture. One
year later he was transferred to the division of
statistics and there served in various capaci-
ties, chiefly as librarian, till 1895, when he
was made assistant chief of the section of for
eign markets. In 1897 he was appointed chief
of the section. Afterward the section was
made division and Mr.. Hitchcock was ap-
pointed its chief. Early in his Washington
career Mr.. Hitchcock studied law at the Co
lumbar University Law School, from which
he received the degree of LII. B. and LII. M,
with distinguished honors. He has been adj
mitted to practice before the courts of the Dis
trict of Columbia and the United States Su-
preme Court.