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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-01-30
The MARYLAND Deficit

AS result of the work of the last
Legislature the State of Maryland now
finds itself more than one million dol
lars short of the funds necessary to
pay the amounts appropriated. This
fact was revealed last week in the re-
port of Comptroller Harrington.
But it is the Legislature that is to be
blamed for the failure of the state to
make ends meet
The last Legislature was a bungling
machine, the like of which was prob
ably never seen in the state before. 1t
made a muss of everything it under
took to do.
1t appropriated money as if the sup
ply We're ineXhaustible. 1t created
new jobs for an army of party favor
ties and paid out large sums of money
to people who rendered no service
whatever to the state.
1t continued the appropriations to a
string of interests that have no right
whatever to the support of the State.
Some of these regular appropriations
have been made by every legislature
for more than one hundred years.
Many of the institutions receiving sup
port have gone out of existence
ceased to exist long before any men,
Der of the last legislature was born.
Others have continued to exist only
for the purpose of receiving the mon
eys appropriated every two years to
keep them going.
Most of these abuses are the result
of local legislation by the states law
makers.
When a general assembly is called
upon to pass one thousand to fifteen
hundred bills in ninety days time,
how much attention can be expected to
be given to the merits of any bill by
any one member?
Each member of the Senate and
House of Delegates votes yes or no
in ninety days upon the merits of
more pages of law than he would be
able to read rapidly in six months.
We cannot expect anything better
of legislature made up of such ordi-
nary stuff as the last one. We could
not expect very much of an assembly
of really capable men if they We're
compelled to work under conditions as
they have been-passing upon local
affairs that have no proper place in a
state law making body. The best we
can expect of capable body would
be that it would hunt out and stop all
the leaks. The next Legislature ought
to be made up of men who are able
and willing to undertake to do this.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-01-30
STRONG LETTER TO PRESIDENT
WILSON.

A Pennsylvania Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION has sent strong, out-spok-
en- letter to President Wilson, urging
that he use his influence to bring
about the repeal of the Underwood
Tariff Law, even though such action
involve "a confession of experimental
failures.
The appeal is for relief, relief for
the poor, victims of circumstances
created by the change in legislative
policy at Washington, relief from the
business depression, which" says the
letter, "is deepening and spreading
with each succeeding month, Until now
we are face to face with a condition
nothing less than frightening"
Denial is made that the war is re-
sponsible. Destructive importations
have not ceased, it is asserted; in fact,
"the war has placed some business at
our disposal, and to this extent has
been beneficial" Even with the help
of such war orders, the association
points to the fact that industries, as
a whole, are crippled or idle
The remedy. says the letter, lies
with the President, who forced his
policy upon 'docile Congress" and
it is by him that measures for relief
must be inaugurated, adding:
1--WE place this question squarely be-
fore you. Why do you not make your
theories successfully work or give us
those that will? The business world
is asking Just that question, and we
now bring it to you direct. You must
accept the responsibility for condi-
tons we now face. Had your theor-
les, which have been enacted into laws
by docile Congress, brought forth
peace and plenty in the land, you
would have accepted the universal
gladness as part Of your reward
and the businessmen of this coun-
try would have given you ungrudging
praise.
"Since, then, these theories have
brought depression upon the indus
tries of our land and id,eness for the
vast hosts of the working class. upon
whom shall we place the responsible
ity for that result? It must come to
you. 1t rightly belongs there. From
that responsibility you cannot escape
and somebody ought TO be brave and
patriotic enough to squarely say So
1--WE have no desire to lay before
you disastrous conditions for which
there is no remedy and thus to merely
annoy you. We lay these conditions
before you for the very good and solid
reason that you can correct them. We
dare believe that in the presence of
want and hunger that now stalks
abroad in this land, patriotism de-
mands a remedy, even though the
cost Of that remedy may involve such
humiliation as goes with a confession
of experimental failures. What if
this shall be the price to be paid for
the prosperity Of the nation? Shall
the servants of the people hesitate to
pay it,"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-01-30
A GOOD ORDINANCE.

WE call attention to the Ordinance
published in another column by the
Elkton Town Council, relating to the
operation of motor vehicles within the
town limits. We have hoped for such
action by the Town Council for some
time and are glad it has been taken.
We now hope to see rigid enforce
ment of this ordinance. 1t is wise and
proper. Those who defy it should be
made to suffer the consequences.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-01-30

Sure there will be strong pressure
for the continuance of this and that
abuse, but we must have men who
will serve the state and it's people and
its future rather than themselves or
their own party or their own political
advantage.
After all, we predict that the men
who shine in their ability to serve the
state instead of the interests will be
the men who will thereafter be pre-
ferred politically.-Maryland Tribune
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-01-30
Partner Wanted

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PARTNER, Care Cecil Wing,
l6jan'* Elkton, Nd.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
The Giants Departed Glory.
tNew York Review.) )

A machine which is dependent upon the efficiency of it's component parts Is no stronger than any one of those parts. and this maxim seems to be particularly true in respect to 2 base ball machine
 The Giants are in the cellar of the National league for the first time in many years. Yet with the exception of three men the old Giant hall-play- ing championship machine is intact today, and those three men have been replaced by players just as good ar better. Once a baseball machine goes to smash it is impossible to re- habilitate it again. Comic Mack seems. .to have recognized this truth. for when his grand old team went to pieces battling with the Boston Braves for the worlds championship last fall he immediately proceeded to put 1t out of commission forever and to build up new machine Frank Chance was never able to revive the famous old Cub machine once it be- san to weaken, although he struggled hard to accomplish the task for two seasons. John J. McGraw evidently has been laboring under the delusion that if he preserved as much as he could of his old championship team Inc could make the Giants, with the addition of little new material. what they used to be; but the utter hopelessness of the task should now De apparent even to the Little Ma poleom of baseball. Ball players, like race horses. track athletes, prize fight CTS and all other contenders in the arena of sports, have their best days, and. once having had them, those best days never return.
 There are veterans playing on the Giants today who have so lost their punch that 1t is sad to see them per- form. It may be a nice sentiment to cling to these old-time favorites, to give them opportunity to come back. to be loyal to them as long as they can gambol about the green and swing d bat, but there is another side to the matter. It is a question whether it would not be better sentiment to re- tire some of these old-tirne idols of the diamond before their day of use- fulness has quite passed away, while they still possess some of their former prowess, so that fans may remember ti- en snot as they have deteriorated, but as they were in the hour of their greatness. To see the crowd on the b1eachers hiss and deride the one time mighty Giants is not an edifying spectacle calculated to make for the good of baseball, but that is what they are doing occasionally these days at the Polo grounds. aa
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
C. A. ANNIvERsARY. X

1alE. Mems Christian associa- passcd another milestone i'll
 the reports this year
 oetter than any previously hnd the work Tn which this |on is engaged gues steadily, Ind upward. To those who
 early days of the Y M. c.
 present membership, the
 of the association, the
 at has come to it and it's aence for good in the com elns wonderful. but these ad-
 were not obtained without
 k. without much planning, kffort and extreme cautious ee that everything went
 ere was a time when there Educational classes as they
 been conducted and the
 Apartment diG not nave the kcilities for carrying on it's
 sent condition of the Y. NJ.
 not obtained in a day; the has been growing and ex- Tor years and it is now up best, it's officers are capable hiding hand has ever pointed Int direction. That Is what 1t so successful. The people tritain have always admired Ire delighted to hear of it's growth and rejoice when It's are made, showing that Eogress has been attained. |ution has had a grand his- hs a beautiful, well managed bped home; the members
 the city is the better for it's lie good that it has done in cases may never be known |fiuence of the Y. M. c. A. in hin has frightened many |d kept it's inmates on the
 leads to success, not alone |al things, but in that which |e happy and citizenship E to be admired. Tne asso- hs been here a great many and # is difficult to imagine eity could get along without it's duty to it's people.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
People and the President. Baltimore American.)

Nothing is more curious than the that fundamental distinc-Ion may be drawn between the head of the American people and the American people themselves; and that ;n inter- national matters q condition of strain may be created between the two Amy superficial student of the American political system knows what Mr. Will son recently said is literally true with respect to all international matters, that he cannot do anything other than what the people empower him to do. He is empowered in the present state If the world to preserve the principle If neutrality between. the warning na- ticnsl This he has done so rigidly that the British critics charged that lie was bending backyard in his efforts to preserve the. record clear with regard to neutrality matters in discussions with their country. @s
 MT. Wilson has been ncutrally cor rect to the very last detail in alf- *his transactions with the. ..powers at wGrs He has failed to hlesses gny of them. But he has nightly spleased the American people, These are as ready to resent affrontss from one side as the other, and as rsad1sto depiore oc- easion for rcsentnient. II would be highly unfortunate for either side to single itself out for different treat n1ent than that which the head of the nation and the state department have uniformly given it. f'hisfis the nlent of uncplored neutrality.
 There is nor more possibility of the alninistration1yield to pressure to have the country show partiality to ere Of the other side than there is of the constitution of the United States falling to command the e;Avotion of tl.e American people and their alle-. glance to the ministers who are charged with it's execution. The United States of America is wholly apart from the exhibition of shame full and unredeemed aninnosity and world crin1inality that is in progress upon the other side of the water. It is war that ought never to have
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03

icr1 tfiat Juvenile cases of the kind most common to the local court, can be dealt with better by d man than by woman.---Waterbur American.
 Until the ill-fated submarine F4 IS raised and subjected to closer in- spection than has yet been possible 1t would appear like straning an unpleasant point to undertake to make political capital out of her deplorable mishap Fair minded people will accept at face value the report made of the vessels condi- lions shortly before she went down for the last time. The official record made at that time reads. Machinery. good; batteries, excellent: ship, very good: personnel, excellent That is, so far as humans could discern, she was fit. Beyond that, it is not customary to probe, at least not until the unexpected has happened.- Hartford Times.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
ways. Thers Is nothing eiseslfke

highways- There is snothing eisesslfkeI 1t, The manufacturer may. employ nls keenest skill the nectar may be distilled l from the choicest of flowers, but the scent does not equal in sweet ness ' and delicacy that which isfwafted oii the breeze from the pink and white blossoms on the branches of the ap- pie trees. It cannot be gathered in a Wal and preserved for social occa- sinns, but the perfume as inhaled from the apple blossoms now so plen- tiful and beautiful, is not only pleas ing to the sense of smell, but it af- which pure delight is extracted.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
c. E. LITTIEFTELD DEAD.

Charles k. Littlefield, who it will be remembered, delivered an address here at the annual banquet of the Rusiness Mems association S few years ago, is dead at the age of GA years. He had most interesting career, and Maine in 1906, after having served three terms, he had arrayed against E:m the American Federation of Labor: Samuel Gompers took the s.ump against him and his majority was cut down from approximately 10000 to less than one thousand. President Taft went into the district and spoke for him and this undoubt- edly had much to do with saving him from defeat. He liked congressional life but he opposed organized labor from Maine after that memorable campaign and took up his residence in New York in order that he might more successfully practice law The real IGdSOIl, however, fWaS that he IeIC that if he ran again he would be de- feated and sooner than take a chance at it he declined to be a candidate Ggain and resigned his office. Mir. Littlefeld was an orator of the fiery kind and could be very severe when in a denunciatory mood. He had ability and for a time 1t was understood that Colonel Roosevelt had him write his trust legislation but this story was subsequently, denied. He was a close friend of MT. Roosevelt however, and this more than anything else fur nished the ground for the impression that he had prepared legislation for him. He succeeded Nelson Dingley in congress and as the latter had en- joyed wide reputation as d states man. MT. Littlefield started his con- gressional career by having attention attracted to him at the outset. He had political experience in the state before that, but it was as a member of congress that he became best knowna.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
Lincoln's Anericanis1n.
(American Review of Reviews.

(Anerican Review of Reviews.)
 President Lincoln accompanied the federal troops when they entered Richmond April 4, 1865; Lee sur rendered to Grant at Appomattox April 9; Lincoln was shot in the even- ing of April IA and died the following day. Wholly without prejudice or sec tional feeling, Lincoln vas intensely occupied with plans for the restoring of harmony and the quick return of the seeded states to their full auton- omy and their proper places in the Union when his death plunged the na- tion in grief. He had the same con- caption as Jefferson's of the para mount importance of national union and of maintaining our continental re- public upon the basis of tine federal system.
 For his leadership all parts. of the country ought now to be profoundly grateful. If he could have lived. a few years longer, we should perhaps have been spared some unfortunate chapters of our subsequent history and should have worked out policies, beth domestic and foreign, that would have made US a greater and stronger nation than we are today. But he accomplished enough to earn secure fame as statesman of supreme rank. He was an American in whom were blended the characteristic of all parts of the country in a way that made him national in the full sense; a humani- tarian of great vision, in whose heart there was no animosity toward any nation or race of mankind. The worlds greatest need today is of lead- CTS of the Lincoln mold, who will be- lieve that the welfare of each nation can be made to harmoniZe with that oce all the others. Hating war Ltrl- coin was. nevertheless, impelied to lead a colossal four years struggle on behalf of an American unity that should make for permanent peace and human liberty.
 If he were alive today he would probably hold that our country ought to ascertain and then to express in clear terms the common sentiment of the n-belligerent countries. He would stand for the worlds liberation from war, upon the basis of principles and agreements that would remove the, causes of strife. and provide a higher structure than national sot- ereignty. He would have America strong enough to make it's voice heard in the councils of the fearful and the self-seeking. He was like the great est of. our early statesm en-Wasiaing ton, Franklin and Jefferson--in the br eadth of his synpathies and in his grasp of the large essentials of human nrogress. His; Amcricanisln had in 1t no element of hostility toward any other nation; cn the contrary, his principles and methods, if adopted by the leading peoples of Europe, would have led the world, lcng before this time. to practical disarmament and to some form of union that would have made each nation. whether small or large. as safe as Rhode Island and Pennsylvania and Arkansas find t!feln- selves under the arrangement by which they accept a modified sov- ereignty for themselves, and yield to. the federal Union the right to adjust all possible differences and to manage many common concerns.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03

A murder was not committed here yesterday, at least the victim of the shooting still lives and is expected to Ire cover, but the fact that she was not killed instantly is due more to acci- dent than to anything else. The cause is said to be of a woman's refusal to marry her assailant, while the newspapers contain accounts almost every day of husbands killing their wives. Tn fact one of the recent ex- .ecutions at the Wethersfield prison was that of a New Britain man who shot his wife. It seems like a peculiar sort of affection that leads a man to kill a woman who will not marry him, but the shooting here yesterday is only one of many of the same char acter throughout the country. The assailant yesterday proved conclu- sively that he is not very desirable mate for q -woman, and sine is lucky to have 'escaped him.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
SPIRAL TROUBLES HERE.

as New Britain free from in- Erouhles and the same can be he entire state, unless there
 strikes which have not at Sutside attention. There was
 n Meriden, but the difficulty |hd and the employees returned 3 A number of men and occa- a few women are still to be he factory gates seeking ern- so that it is still apparent ziness has not reached that here it can be said to be as 1t was before the European an. The general indication, is that there is constant inn ht, but it is still far from hesired.
 used to be a feeling that
 To were about to cilange their
 residence would do so on Ind those who were unable to
 'ansportation facilities would
 soon after as possible. There
 been much of that of late
 New Britain and, less than Iig year. The reason for this here has been such a scarcity hents in this city that the hat had q good piace did not tve. lest in making a change place would be less satisfac- N the old one. 1t IS reported
 re are a number of vacant |ts in New Britain al present, Fe are nevertheless great {n1ilies living together and |conaplaint is made the answer ay is that it is ditilcult to eneinents such as are desired. |nses are very numerous; it E if there were never as many |Idings going up as there are h outside labor is becoming |ntiful. This is a good feature it means better business all land that is what the city has liking for two years.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
3. MCMILL.A 199-2O1-oO3 MAIN STREET

been, and from which it is difficult to prceive any lasting good result. To the American sentiment the exhibition is revolting to the sensibilities and the principles of justice and humanity upon which the United States is founded and which it uniformly seeks to illustrate. It would be unthink- able for this country to exhibit sym pathies in the strife.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
FACTS AND RANCHES.

The New .Jersey man who tilted his sweetheart when he learned that she was thirty after she had told him she was only nineteen made q mistake. A woman of thirty who is clever enough to pass for nineteen possesses q re- sourcefulness iil coping With adverse conditions that ought to prove very useful in meeting with some of the tlials of domestic life.--Providencc Journal.
 Graduation day is a gooG deal morc important at this minute than it will seem when viewed with the perspec- tive of a few years hence. The oc-. casion should not be ore aof lavish display ol the part of those who can afford it. nor should it be tlhe nspira- ton of false pride on the part of those who cannot afford it. Pre- eminently, it is the chance for both
 parents and the girls to show that they possess good sense. Norwich Re- ccrd.
 Up in sThompsonrile the public
 service corporations display tlle same
 keen ability to anger everybody and invite competition that they do else wEe Eere -aThere was a town meeting the other seFcning to pass upon cer- tain measures before the general as- .embly relative to amending the char ters of the 1ccal companies dealing ill water and light and power and the
 vote was. unanimous agains; them. The meeting also went on record as favor Ing public ownership. .--.3ridgeport l Post Tn his 'valedictory'' as judge of the City Court, Judge Thonl45 discusses with the wisdom born Of his two I years experiences, various problems i tlli.t come up there from time to fine He believes that most of the
 boys brought before the court, for l minor offenses, are more mischievious than vicious and should De dealt with 1 as such. Tn Probation Officer Ccn1bel- l lack, says Judge Thomas, these boys have friend who Is really ii1tereste l ir them and who really helps them. ], He (the judge) is strongly of the opin-
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03

composer of the song ''When Ple Blossom Time in Norman |st have received his inspira- |m q day in an orchard when Es were in bloom. It is not Fy however, to visit Normandy
 E to enjoy the beautiful sight.
 aalo the sweet perfume. The round New Britain are now sith blossoms and the odor can ten by those passing on the
New Britain herald., 1915-05-03

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New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
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New Britain herald., 1915-05-03
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