The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1914-02-13

bSlSSolS DIClIO1o1SA, AZ ASCOA
mined that the farmers of Mary
land shall have every advantage
that may be obtained from the
use of oyster shell lime as a soil
tonic. In a bill introduced by
him he recites the value of oys-
ter shell lime and the fact that
shells are being shipped from
this State to others where the
value of the lime product is ap-
preciated.
The bill makes an appropria-
ton of $40, ZOO with which two
or more plants for the reduction
of shells into lime are to be es-
tablished and conducted under
State auspices. One plant is to
be located on the Eastern Shore
and the other in Southern Mary
land. AState Agricultural Lime
Board is constituted to carry out
the work. 1t is authorized to
draw on the House of Correction
for convicts to construct the
plants and operate them. The
board may also enter into con-
tracts with County Commission
ers for similar service by prison.
ers in the various county jails.
The commission is to supply
lime to farmers at a cash price
estimated to meet only the cost
of lime production and to furnish
a sufficient contribution each
year to a sinking fund that will
reimburse the State for it's out
lay.
The following is clipped from the
Wilkesbarre Record, of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, and Is published by request.
The action of the Pittsburg Board of
Trade in adopting resolution endors-
ing the proposed amendment of the
federal constitution to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors and beverages for other than
medicinal purpose is remarkable mani
festation. 1t is highly significant that
the representative business men OF the
second city in Pennsylvania and the
eight in point of population in the
United States take such decided stand
in favor of nationwide prohibition.
The resolution is lengthy affair, bas-
ed on economic as we'll as moral rea-
sons. 1t was suggested by the move
ment to erect home for inebriates in
Allegheny county. The preamble states
| that 1--WE sincerely believe that we
have come to the point where we should
protest against the ever increasing
taxation placed upon us by reason Of
the steady increase in crime, in in
ebriety, in the number of insane and
| helpless in our almshouses, in houses OF
correction and institutions for feeble
| minded; that the number is annually
| increasing at such rate as to challenge
| the attention of this commercial organi-
cation on economic grounds, not to men
ton the great loss to employers OF lab
or through this ever increasing curse
| of inebriety and of taxation to care for
the victims Of the liquor traffic"
The preamble cities statistics from
prohibition Kansas, with a record of 81
| coun ties out of total of los without
any insane, fifty-one without any feeble.
minded, thirty eight without any poor
houses, ninty-six without any inebriates,
| fifty-three without any prisoners in
jail, sixty-five without any convicts in
State prison, and dozens in which nc
jury has been called to try criminal
case in years. Statistics are citec
from the borough Of Coatesville, ir
this State, where seven months after
the revocation of twenty-seven saloon
licenses the gain in bank deposits
amounted to $2,269, 1856, or about 500
| per capita.
The moral side of this question il
most frequently referred to. The econ
omic side as set forth by the Pittsbure
organization is another and a larg'
|