The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-07-17


licans or Democrats, to take the census. And
do not intend that the appointment of census
employees shall be made for the benefit of any
political machine
THE SAME day that Rev. Mr.. String, of st.
Louis, denied that the devil needs close watch
ing in this world, the Supreme Court of Iowa
decided that man has a right to use profane
language over a telephone wire. There are
number of summer resorts in Iowa, and we
have high ecclesiastical authority for saying
that the devil is always to be found working
around summer resorts in summer, says the
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
AT special meeting of the State Board of
Education, held in Baltimore on Monday, Mr..
Reginald 81. Ridgely was chosen acting prin-
cipal of Frostburg Normal School, to succeed
Prof. E. D. Murdaugh, resigned. Mr.. Ridgely
has been vce-principal of the school five years
and possesses every qualification to properly
discharge the duties of his new Office. The
board also reelected Mr.. Bradley K. Purdum.
of Baltimore county, Assistant State Superin-
tendent of Education.
AT BOONE, IA, telephone company took
out George Huffman's telephone because, it is
alleged, he swore over the wire. Huffman
brought suit to compel the restoration of his
telephone. 1t will be restored. The Supreme
Court took a charitable view of Hufiman's
case, concluding, it is reported, that swearing
in moderation may afford relief from the strain
incident to modern business conditions. And
most people who use telephone will say the
judge is wise and right.
SCIENTISTS AND others who say that valuable
diamond deposits will ultimately be developed
in Arkansas point with qualification to the fact
that upward of 600 diamonds have already
been found in that State, the largest being six
and one.half carats, the smallest one thirty
second of a carat and the average size about
one-half a carat. The field is in the vicinity
of Murfreesboro, Pike county, in Southwest
ern Arkansas, and many of the diamonds were
found on the surface where the soil had been
washed away. Others have been found by
digging and some in rock and earth readily
worked.
THROUGH THE persistent efforts of his father,
who is a saloon keeper, willie Downs has
been released from the Baltimore city jail and
is now at his home under the care of a physi-
clan. The bail was fixed by the court at $780,
600 and it was necessary for the bondsmen to
qualify in double that amount, which they
did. There were number of them signed the
bond. Downs received an ovation from his
friends when he emerged from the prison
walls, accompanied by his father. He still
maintains his innocence and declares that he
did not get the s67 900 that he is accused of
stealing while holding a clerkship in the City
Hall.
ADVOCATES OF approximation schemes for
Government employees who are urging Presi-
dent Taft to recommend retirement fund in
his next message to Congress, argue that other
great nations pension their civil employees. 1t
may be borne in mind also that other great ma
tions which have established pension systems
for their civil employees have been forced by
public opinion to establish systems of old age
pensions for all citizens. Public opinion in
America will not long tolerate privileged
class of dependents on public funds, without
even a nominal equivalent rendered for their
gratuities. Old age pensions disguised as re-
tirement funds, insurance schemes or what
not will be but stepping stone to general
old aged industrial pension scheme. And this
is the entering wedge for complete socialism.
If we are to become nation of mollycoddles
it will come from the ruinous system oftaxing
the efficient, saving man to keep up the lazy,
shiftless and inefficient.
JOHN d. RoCKEFELLER, the Standard Oil
magnate, who is said to be the richest man in
the world, celebrated his 10th birthday last
Saturday. Replying to an inquiry Mr.. Rookie
Teller said: "How does it feel to be 20 years
old? Seventy years young, you mean. l am
20 years young, not 20 years old. / am in per-
feet health-never felt better in my life. DR..
Biggar tells me am going to live to be 95, or
possibly hundred. Perhaps 1 shall, for DIR.
Biggar is usually right. Anyway, he says
am far too healthy for the good of his ex-
chequer. AS to the termination of life, I never
think about it. l am too busy trying to be
useful while live. am trying to make each
day more useful than that which went before,
doing everything can for the betterment of
our fellow-men. To be interested, actively
and productivity interested in these things is
the only way to enjoy business life." Mr..
Rockefeller is devotee of golf and plays the
game every day except Sunday, when the
weather will permit
AMONG THE prominent Democratic lawyers
Of Marviand Who have nronounced views on