Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-30
PLEA FOR 'GROWLER' OBJECT TO ARRESTS
j. B. Copoys Opposes Before Chevy Chase Citizens Protest
Excise Board Its Order Constable ShaW's Activity. /
SPEAKS FOR THE POOR MAN HELD UNJUST TO AUTOISTS (
Thinks Regulation Will Dr. Morgan Officer Butts
Frequenting of Saloons Terms Conduct Outrageous
ALLEGES NEED REFORM ANOTHER HARVEST PLANNED
Glen Marshal Said Be Await
Feaures-cbairnan Richards
Is ers without License Tags
Chevy Chase Citizens Protest
Constable ShaW's Activity.
HELD UNJUST TO AUTOISTS
DR.. Morgan Says Officer Butts In. !"
Terms Conduct Outrageous"
ANOTHER HARVEST PLANNED
Glen Echo Marshal Said to Be Await
ing New Year to Catch Car Own
ers Without License Tags.

Residents of Chevy Chase. Md. have
fed protest against the action of Con-
stable Shaw of Glen Echo and the justice
or the peace from the same place in
invading the territory of Chevy Chases
own justice and arresting Washington
Automobiles week ago yesterday
Chevy Chase has its own justice of the
peace and constable. and the action OF
the Glen Echo officials, they say, if not
illegal, was highly inethical.
DR.. James Dudley Morgan of Chevy
Chase, discussing the numerous arrests
made by Constable Shaw. said:
Resents Outrageous" Conduct.
while the Glen Echo constable perhaps
has legal right to go anywhere in the
Bethesda district to make arrests his
actions in this automobile affair a week
ago have angered and Disguised the resi-
dents of Chevy Chase, who have united
in strong protest and demand that
such actions shall not be repeated. The
people of Chevy Chase are anxious to
maintain friendly relations with the men,
bers of the Chevy Chase and Columbia
clubs; but how are they to keep up such
relations when an interloping constable
from another part of the district butts
in bringing along a justice of the peace.
for the purpose of holding up and filming
every member of the clubs, as well as
every one else, who by straining the law to
the utmost. may be considered violators
OF the Maryland automobile code? We
want 1t distinctly understood that the
people of Chevy Chase, or the villages
own justice Of the peace and constable,
had nothing whatever to do with the
and the Glen Echo justice Sunday, De-
cember o.
A letter addressed to The Star by the
board of county commissioners of Mont
gomery county. Md, and signed by Berry
p. Clark, clerk of the board, indicates
that Constable Shaw's busy little pre-
Christmas campaign was undertaken on
the Glen Echo officers own initiative and
w1thou tany orders whatever from the
board. Constable Shaw is an aRpointee
of the board of county commissioners,
but, according to the 4etter~fro the
board, he has not received any orders to
make arrests on technicalities, nor has
he made any report of his activities to
the board at the time the letter was writ
ten.
1t is reported that strenuous efforts will
be made by Constable Shaw and others
near the District line to reap a harvest
by arresting and filming every automo-
b1list who ventures over the line into
Maryland without 1913 license II the
license tags have been obtained, and are
attached to the machine by the slots in
tHe tags PROVIDED Tor tnat purpose, the
constable, 1t is reported, intends to make
the arrests and have the fines assessed
The reference to the manner in which
tags are to be attached to machines ap-
pears on page IL of the small pamphlets
containing the automobile laws of Mary
land. near the bottom of the page, and
at the end of a paragraph, it's position
and context being such as to make the
provision very easy to overlook The
license tags furnished by the state are all
provided with slots at the upper edge for
Fastening the tags to the machine by
means of straps.
Secretary Macveagh Among Victims
1t develops that Secretary of the Treas
ury MacVeagh was one Of the Washing
tonians held up and fined by Constable
Shaw and the Glen Echo justice a week
ago yesterday. and it is stated that the
language used by the cabinet official
when the constable held him up was en-
phatic.
Plans are being formulated for mass
meeting of Washington automobiles, to
be held I'm some large hall in the near
future, at which means for obtaining a
square deal or for the institution of re-
taliatory measures against Marylanders
driving their machines into Washington
may be discussed.