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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-12-27
BAD JOURNALISM.

1T seems i pitythat a community
should have to be afflicted with local
paper like the Cecil County News. We
understand, of course, that the editor
ial utterances of The News can affect
none but the more unintelligent.
There, however, is just where it be-
comes an affection and injury. 1t is the
business of honest and conscientious
journalism to enlighten the uninform-
ed, to teach those who do not know, to
try to bring the entire body of citizen
ship to a better understanding of the
things which concern the public well
fare. Instead of recognizing this duty
and making some decent effort to per-
form it, the News panders to the bas-
est prejudice and disgracefully trades
on the ignorance of its readers.
There is, for instance, at this time
in this county, healthy spirit of
comfy and cooperation, without re-
spect to party lines; widespread
and admirable interest on the part of
our people to work out an improve
ment in our county administration
and the lessening of our financial bur-
dens. The one bitter, discordant note
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for which costly preparations have
been made but for which few have an
appetite?
What of investments undertaken
and big loans contracted in the rea-
sonable expectation that things
would be this year as usual?
With industry and commerce adj
justed to seasonable changes, when
summer is protracted into winter,
what commercial calamity can eq nal
it? When nature itself puts an en-
barge upon trade, where is the stat
esman or economist who can propose
a remedy?
With May appearing in December,
the slowing down of business is as
easily explained as the flight from a
seaside hotel on the first appearance
of frost. Money and hopes are en-
harked in winter enterprises with no
winter at hand. We might as well
be at the equator with stool: of
mittens and chest-protectors, or at
the North Pole with a roof garden.
1t is late, but not yet too late, for
recovery. Symptoms of it will not
be seen first on the exchanges or in
the activities of lawmakers. They
must be looked for in the movement
of the mercury downward.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-12-27
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS.
Springfield Unionl.

AS a result of special effort by
the police of New York city to curb
violators of the traffic laws, 627 auto
mobilists were hailed into court re-
Gently some charged with exceeding
the speed limit, others driving reck-
lessly around corners, others with per-
hitting their cars to smoke, still
others with violation of the rules re-
garding lamps, and so on. There is
need of general campaign in many
cities against excuses by motorists,
especially on Sunday, for it is on that
day of the week that large percen-
tage of the serious accidents from au-
tomobiles are recorded.
Thirty-sever persons were killed by
automobiles in New York city in No.
vember, according to the National
Highway Protective Association, and
lis persons injured from the same
cause. The number killed in eleven
months this year totals PIT. This
marks a high record for the metro
polls, and other cities have similar
stories to tell. From the coroner's
Office in Chicago comes statement
telling Of 1870 killed and ,121 injured
in Cook county within the last year
There has never bee. = time previous
ly, even at the heignI of the summer
vacation season, when reports of auto
mobile accidents We're so numerous as
they have heel in the lat month
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-12-27
rLkroN MARYLAND, SATURDAY, ~ 1918

in our midst is the one continually
sounded by the News.
When we are all trying to helpfully
discuss our financial affairs, the News
charges the discussion to a scheme
on the part of the Editor of the Wing
to secure the Congressional nomina-
ton in 1914, as if our county finances
had anything in the world to do with
the nomination of a Congressman.
Such balderdash is, of course, a sub
ject of ridicule to all but the most ig-
norant, but decent newspaper ought
not to play to ignorance
1t would be easy to go on multiply
ing such instances, as evidence of the
News base attempts to hinder any
thing like candid and helpful spirit
of cooperation in the discussion and
adjustment of our local affairs. The
News is, of course, a Democratic pa
per where party issues are involved,
just as the Wing is Republican pa
per where such issues are involved.
But there are times and occasions
when we can and should think more of
our common citizenship than of our
party differences. Many of our citi-
zens are so doing. 1t is pity that the
News should strive to hinder its lin
tied circle of readers from doing like
wise.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-12-27
Judges Salaries

A topic of discussion just now in
the newspapers of the State and
among the people is proposition to
increase the salaries of the Judges of
the Court Of Appeals and the judicial
circuits, by the enactment of bill to
that effect at the approaching session
of the legislature. There is by no
means a concert of opinion for or
against the proposed measure, yet it
seems by the explicit terms of the
Constitution o. the State that tire pas
sage Of such law will be in direct
violation of that instrument. To be
sure, it has a precedent, as the salar-
les of judges were once before in
creased by that means. But it is a
bad precedent, and should not be fol-
lowed. The provision of the Constitu-
ton on the subject, in plain terms, is
that the salary of no public officer
shall be increased or diminished dur
ing the term of service for which he
shall have been elected or appointed.
1t is probable that none Of the Judges
now or the bench were in office when
the law fixing their present sala les
was enacted, SO that there is no oues-
ton as to their being entitled to this
compensation. 1t would now be un-
constitutional to SET them hacl; tr the
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original rate at which they were Lac
ed by the Constitution itself. 1t is
probable that most of thhse who con-
tend that the legislature may proper
ly increase these salaries would sing
a different song if an effort were be-
ing made 70 dimirish them. 1t ShoulG
not be forgotten that Judge Alvey,
one of the ablest jurists who ever sat
on the bench of the Court of Appeals,
pronounced the law increasing salar-
les unconstitutional. He was chief
judge of the court when the bill was
passed and for time refused to ac-
cept the increase, but was finally in
d,iccd to do 30. though he had not
changed his opinion on the subject.
He simply yielded to the pressure
which developed when every other
judge in the State had consented to
receive the additional salary.
But the con. titutional question does
not, after all, go to the MAR opposition
nvolved-should the salaries be in
creased? If so, there is perfectly
orderly ami lawful way by which that
erd can be accomplished. 1t is always
in order to amend the Constitution by
the votes of the people. If the mem
bers of the General Assembly are
convinced of the need for ~" y a"t.on,
let them submit the que stion, il. The
shape of proposed amendment to
the Constitution, to the decision of
the people by their votes at TIE rext
general election. Surely the neces-
sity is not so pressing that fragrant
violation of the organic law of the
State must be committed 70 meet it.
Sentinel
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Will Of Joseph H. Steele

The will of the late Joseph H.
Steele, of Chesapeake City, was ad-
mitted to probate in the Office of the
Register of Wills on Tuesday. 1t
leaves one third of all personal prop
erty and third of the profits from
all real estate to his wife, Caradora
B. Steele. His sons, Bennett and j.
Groome Steele are named as execu-
tors, to hold the remainder of the
property in trust for a period of five
years, dividing the net profits among
his five children, Bennett, Stanley, j.
Groome and Harold Steele and Dora
B. Sherman. At the end of five years
the real estate is to be sold, subject
to the dover of Mrs. Steele, and the
proceeds to be divided among the
five children, share and share alike.
The will was witnessed by James S.
Hopper and T. j. Conrey, M. d.
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS

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lection at any time.
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FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
YEARLY OUT OF THIS COUN-
.TY TO MAIL ORDER PEOPLE!

and forty thousand every year from
almost every other county in the coun-
try!
Three hundred million dollars every
year into half dozen pockets!
None of them pay taxes here.
None of them buy what you have to
sell.
None of them has any work for you.
Nor any credit-nor any help-nor
any public interest in our schools or
our roads or our improvements.
You are not to be blamed for having
bought from them even though you
didn't benefit much land sometimes
got stung good and hard)!
The mail order people hit the retail
er ten years ago right where it hurt
him-prices. 1t did him good to get a
good punch; he was poing to sleep on
the job.
But it's different story today. The
manufacturer of good articles has
stepped in. He has put his trademark
and his guarantee on his ~oods so that
you can tell them from poor goods.
Neither the mail order house nor the
second-class retailer can work their
game on you. You know the price
and the quality that goes with it and
you ask for it by trade mark name
You have finished trusting to merchan-
disc that you don't know who makes
or what's in it, or thath as no proud,
responsible standard. Today is the
dayof standard goods at standard
prices.
You know, too, that it's far more
sensible and satisfactory method of
doing business to go to your dealer
if he is the live kind-talk over what
you want, get his experienced advice,
and have the goods the same day. You
have no fuss with money orders, and
you need no ready cash, your credit is
good as gold with your dealer.
Buying by mail is grab-bag. You
pay your money first thing, and shut
your eyes and take what comes to you.
The price looks cheap and the pic
ture looks fine; but by the time you
wait long while, pay more for trans
portation than you thought, and get it
delivered, you find there's not much if
any advantage.
Match up with what your local deal
er can do before you buy by mail
and you'll be surprised every time
The mail order scheme is new, that's
why it took; but it's got to measure
up to competition like everything else.
You have to pay freight any way
you buy, and if you don't pay for
statesmen or middlemen you pay enor-
nous bills for mail order catalogs and
circulars. Every big mail order house
spends more for advertising per dol
lar of sales than any concern whose
goods are sold at your dealers.
Put it up to your dealer! The live
dealer can lick any mail order propo-
sition that ever came into this county
with its fine sounding words. Any
dealer who can't, isn't alive and on his
job-hunt up the live one. 1t will pro-
fit both you and our county. To deal
by mail loses money for both you and
the county.
Remember the forty thousand
Our County Magazine.
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DON'T CREATE ANY NEW OF
FICES.

THE Wicomico News, ex-senator
Marion V. Brewington, editor, pub
lished the following editorial last Sat
urday. 1t is one of the most timely
articles we have read recently.
"The News called attention last
week to the fact that there is a move
on foot in the State among the poll
ticians of both parties to create lot
of new offices at the coming session of
the llesigature. Last week we noted
the fact that these politicians wanted
to create a Board of Assessors for
the State with about thirty sub-ap-
pointments for the counties and Bel
timore city, the commissioners salar-
les to range about $4,000 each and the
county officials to range about ST. 800
to $4,000 each. Now comes along an
other proposition to pass a Working
mems Liability bill, which is to be ad-
ministered by a board of three off
Gals at salary of $4,000 year each
and an appropriation of some $4,000
for office expenses, typewriters and
other soft places for political hangers
on, all of which the people of the State
will have to pay an additional tax for.
THE taxpayers of the different
counties of the State should start now
to write to their different delegations
at Annapolis and warn them that they
do not want these laws passed which
create new Offices and place extra bur-
dens of taxation on the shoulders of
the taxpayers. 1t looks now like the
present State tax of 81 cents will have
to be increased at the next session of
the Legislature to meet the extra de-
mands made on the State for the COM
pletion of the State highways. 1t is
estimated that it will cost nearly ST.
100000 to complete these highways
and a great sum after they are built;
and while improved roads are a great
thing for State, there is no doubt
that much money is wasted in building
expensive roads and in the manner in
which they are built.
cTaking all these things into con-
sideration it would be crime to Gre
ate any new Offices at Annapolis this
winter which will further lay the
burden of taxation upon the farmer
and theb usiness men of the State. We
have too many offices now and the
people are in no mood to stand for
any new ones.'
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-12-27
THINK OF IT.

READ the article on another page
by "A Cecil County Farm Boy and
let its suggestions bear fruit in the
hearts of our Cecil county farmers.
We realize, of course, that Cecil is al
ready far ahead of many of the other
Maryland counties in the intelligence
and thrift of her farm operations. But
"more beyond" is good motto for
every industry. Good, better. BEST.
Cecil is, undoubtedly in the compare
tive degree. Why not strike for the
superlative?
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-12-27
To Urge Canal Purchase

A dispatch from Washington says:
The prediction is general at the
Capitol that the Rivers and Harbors
bill to be passed by the present ses-
sion of Congress will carry from S10,-
100000 to $15,00O,000 less than the
measure enacted last winter. The last
bill carried about S50,000,000.
Notwithstanding the movement on
foot in Congress to cut the appro-
priations "to the bone, advocates of
the Government purchase of the Ches-
apeake and Delaware Canal, between
the upper Chesapeake and the Della
ware river, will make a determined
fight for the incorporation of the
Covington bill in the Rivers and Har-
bors measure. The Marylander's bill
calls for an appropriation of $780,
900, which the army engineers are to
use to acquire the canal either by con-
demnation or by outright purchase.
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REMEMBER NEXT MONDAY.

BEAR in mind the public meeting
to be held at the Court House next
Monday at 10 A. M, when matters
pertaining to local legislation for this
county will be open to discussion by
our citizens. We think such discus
sions, conducted in the proper spirit,
cannot fail to be beneficial to US as a
civic body, and we hope the people
will embrace the opportunity to be
present and participate.
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band ("even as you or ~; took her
eggs to town nearby, and found that
they had dropped six cents since the
day before, due, the dealer said, to
the city housewives zeal in boycotting
eggs to reduce thecost of living.
Is it such good management that
the city bride can buy these eggs
cheap when there are so many other
cheaper foodstuffs she could buy?
There will have to be better way
than this or the farm will furnish on
ly summer eggs, and cities will have
to depend entirely upon cold storage
eggs in winter. Let US try the Golden
Rule. 1t works sometimes, even in
business. A Farmers Wife.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1913-12-27
Summer In Winter

(From the New York World).
Worse for business than tariff I'M
certainty, worse than fear of war,
worse than exhausting depression
that no one can explain, and in some
respects worse than wild-eyed panic,
is summer weather in winter.
With November and December
temperatures all the way from Medi-
cine Hat to Eastport ranging in the
sixties and seventies, what of apples
decaying, potatoes sprouting, cheeses
mildewing, and beets, turnips and
onions whitening.
What of great stocks of heavy
clothing, flannel underwear, yarn
socks, hobnailed shoes, rubbers, ear
muffs and furs with which countless
shelves are loaded, while customers
expected are going about in Coney
Island raiment?
What of the diversions of winter
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THE OTHER SIDE OF 1T.

THE following letter from a Gar
mer's Wife" reproduced from the
columns of an exchange) strikes a
note that sounds rather clear and
strong to our way of thinking A lot
of this talk about sticking to the
farm" is handed out by folks who yell
"bloody murder" when farm products
rise to a point that makes sticking to
their production really worth while.
Professional men, editors, statesmen
and the like are very solicitous that
young men should not desert the
farms. Such desertion, you see, re-
duces the ranks of the producers and
pushes food prices higher. The consul
mers would much prefer somebody
sticking to the farm who would be
willing to produce the "eats" for little
or nothing.
But here is the letter. Read it.
A FARMERS WIFE ON PRICE OF
EGGS.
To the editor: | have read much
about the black to the soil" and "the
high cost of living. 1t is right ridi-
culous to one living right on the
battle-ground" as one might say. |
agree with the advice to young men to
stay on the farms, but there is an
other side to it that those who give
this advice to do not seem to notice.
There is movement all over the
country to help the farmer (by adj
vice. and make things easier for the
farmers wife and daughter; but the
city housewivesmust reduce the cost
of living.
Eggs must be served perfectly
fresh on city tables, but the price of
feed that must be fed the laying hen
to produce these eggs in winter is
higher than it has ever been. 1t does
not pay the farmers wife to feed this
high-priced food unless the price of
eggs justifes it. The eggs are recog-
nized reproducing the farm wife's
pin money-sometimes the only cash
she ever sees. know a case in point
where little country bride, trying to
prove her thriftiness to her new hus-
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Wishing You Merry Christmas 8 Happy New Year

To Our Friends and Customers
We thank you for prosperous year 1913 We extend
you sincere thanks for your patronage which has given
the prosperity have enjoyed and hope to merit the
tnuance of your patronage for the New Year.
We also extend you best wishes for the New Year
and may bring greater prosperity and happiness than
you have enjoyed.
Sincerely,
EVANS BROS.
VIM. STERLING EVANS
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-25
SETONIA LOSES GAME TO
PENN STATE BY ERRORS
South Orange coegans Beaten in o3 Contest Marked by
Loose Fielding Both Sides-Visitors Get the Breaks
and Have All the Luck

There was all kinds of hard luck for
the Seton Hall College baseball nine
in the game with Penn State College
at Setonia field, South Orange, yester-
day afternoon, which, coupled with
sqepe inferior field play by the subur-
ban boys, lost the game, s to 3. Cap
tain Joe Peposki pitched superbly,
striking out eleven batsmen, and al
lowed but five hits. Still it was these
costly slip-ups, mixed in between that
quintet of swats that caused the de-
feat of the South Orange youths. Err
rors were plentiful, Seton Hall MAX
ing eight, while Penn State accounted
for six. Morris and Ewood at short
and second base, respectively, mussed
up some grounders and throws that
settled the business and practically
made the game a gift to the Quaker
boys.
Peploski surely deserved a victory.
He famed seven of the eleven bats
men who faced him the first three in
nings. The fielding features were the
catches OF Nugent IN centre neld Tor
Setonia, and Kellers stab Of Fish's
liner on the last play Of the game.
Seton Hall was the first to score,
getting one over in the second inning.
Peploski struck out, but Monahan
walked. Oconnell sacrificed him to
second on a slow bunt to Wardwell.
who tossed to first in time Nugent
grounded slowly to Craig, who FUN
bled the ball. and Monahan crossed
the plate. Nugent pilfered second.
Elwood ambled, but Dunn was not
there with the necessary pinch hit and
went out, pitcher to first
The Quakers began in the fourth
inning, scoring three runs. Crawford
singled to right. Henderson followed
with a hit to short Both runners
advanced a bag when Peplosh threw
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-25

low to Elwood in an effort TO get
Henderson off second. Craig struck
out, but Hittner's grounder bounded
from Peploslxi, who tried to get the
ball to first, in time, but tossed wild,
and Crawford and Henderson scored.
Keller flied to Nugent, but McKib-
ben's single fetched Hittner over.
Mason ended it by fouling out to
OConnell
Setonia tied it up in their half.
After OConnell had been retired
Nugent went all the way to second
when Keller wild heaVed his bounder
over first base. Elwood walked, while
Dunn's Texas-leaguer over second
filled the sacks. Gilmore got one to
the same spot and Nugent tailed
Elwood came over when Keller
dropped Henderson's toos in an effort
to catch him off third. Morris, with
two on famed, while Fish forced
Gilmore at third. PENIS final trio
OF runs We're netted in the seventh
inning Mason walked. Wardwell hit
to Peploski, who tossed to Elwood for
force, but the later failed to hold
the throw, and Mason went to third
and Wardwell to second. Both run
ners were fetched home when CraW-
ford doubled to left and the ball took
bad bound. A passed ball scored
Crawford.
Penn State will face the Army at
West Point tomorrow.
The score: