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BURNING QUESTIONS
IN PENINSULA TOWNS
Matters That Are Very Seriously En-
gaging The Attention OF some
County Seats.

Chestertown-Sh Shall there be more
hitching posts?
Salisbury-Shall there be more or
fewer hogs?
Easton-Shan there be municipal
ownership?
Princess Anne-Shal we wake
Up and Be on the Map?
PocomOke City-The Greatest OPP
portunities of Modern Times Con-
front Our People.
Crisfeld-Shall the Crab Laws Be
Properly Enforced?
Elkton-Are Minister'S Salaries or
Marriage Fees the Greater?
Centreville-The Garden Spot OF
the Peninsula, the Prettiest Women
and the Most Distinguished Gentle
men.
Cambridge-Who Will Be the
Next Mayor?
Appropos of these momentous
questions that are simply taxing to
the utmost endurance the faculties
of the citizens of the several places,
we republish the following article,
taken from the current issue of the
Baltimore American:
In dear old Chestertown, that
beautiful cluster of dwellings and
stores, the seat of Washington Col
lege and the county seat of Kent,
interest in the European War, the
greatest known in history, has
waned. Indifferent are the Chester
townians whether the Allies or the
; Teutons gain or lose three and
half inches of ground in the titanic
struggle at Verdun. Little care they
whether Theodore Roosevelt splut-
tiers and shows his teeth when he
reads the primary election returns
that reveal his disappearing chances
| for nomination for President. To
them President Wilson's raillery at
England for peeping into letters OF
| American citizens is only passing
shadow. Villa may come and Car
rama may go, Carranza may come
and Villa may go, the whole Ameri-
can Army and thousand mules may
be pricked by Mexican cactus and
chased by desert crabs, but why
should the peace loving citizens of
Chestertown worry? What care they
that Governor Harrington has ex-
hausted his list of desirable appoint
ments without bestowing a single one
! upon deserving Kent county Demo
Icrat? Gone to the waste heap are
| the memories of that fateful politi-
+ cal duel between Hope Barroll and
! Wethered Barroll on one side and
! Levin W. Wickes and W. w. Beck
on the other.
J All present-day momentous Ques-
| tons, all memories of a great and
glorious past pale into insignifcance,
j; dwindle into innocuous desuetude,
alongside the burning issue which
/ has rent asunder the peace-loving
town. That issue is:
Shall there be more hitching
posts?
The question has permeated every
home. 1t has been taken up by ba-
| bies, whose first lessons in talking
have been fastened by the constant
discussions of their parents. 1t has
been carried into the circles of sew
| ing societies. 1t has been taken up
| by the women. 1t is served at each
meal at the hotels and boarding
houses. 1t is debated while the gro
Ger wraps up a pound of coffee,
while the storekeeper measures off
yard of calico, while the butcher
chops off pound of beefsteak. 1t
has gone beyond the limits of the
town and has struck the farmers,
who will stop blowing on dry and
sunny day to berate townspeople who
happen to wander into the country
for trying to deprive them of facili-
ties for hitching their horses. The
automobiles, at first Indifferent, are
opposed to more posts, because they
do not need them.
The whole town and Kent county
will keep up the exciting discussion
until the Town Commissioners, upon
whom rests the onerous duty of de-
Gliding the all-absorbing question, get
together and pass or reject the pend
ing ordinance.