Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-14
WAR. COUNCIL IS
BACKED By Law
Its Powers Fixed BY General
Assembly.
BURDEN ON THE COMMITTEE
Executive Body, Headed BY Gen. Carl
r. Gray, Will Bear Brunt Of
Work, Including Control
OF Million Dollars.
Annapolis

AuUdpOllS-
Governor Harrington appointed the
Council of Fifty, an organization to
prepare Maryland for the war and to
keep it prepared The council was au-
thorized by an act of the General AS
sembly recently in special session. 1t
will take over the work and duties OF
the Preparedness and Survey Commits
sion and is composed, with a few ad-
ditions, of the same men who were
members of the old commission. 1t
possesses a distinct advantage, how
ever, over the old board. 1t is armed
with specific powers by the legislature.
To the original list, with certain
designations eliminated, the Governor
added the following names:
Frank A. Furst, Stevenson A. Will
liams, Judge Hammond Urner, Joseph
Y. Brattan, Louis X. Gutman and Gen.
Francis E. Waters.
This body will elect an executive
committee of five, and the latter, with
the Board of Public Works, will ad-
minister the million dollar emergency
war loan.
Personnel Of Commission.
The full personnel of the council is
as follows:
Carl R. Gray, Howard Bruce, Frank
N. Hoen, James C. Legg, Charles M.
Conn. Louis X. Gutman, A. W. Thomp-
son, Holden A. Evans, Charles E. RE
man, G. R. Sinnickson, Frank R. Kent,
William H. Killian, John NJ. Dennis,
Stuart Olivier, Francis M. jerks,
Joseph Y. Brattan, B. H. Griswold, Jr,
Redmond C. Stewart, Albert c. Richie,
Henry M. Warfield, DR.. Gordon Will
son, DR.. w. M. Manss, DR.. William
Bullock Clark, Judge Hammond Urner,
Stevenson A. Williams, Hon. Frank A.
Furst, Gen. Francis E. Waters.
Daniel AMMAN, ST., Cumberland;
Hon. Frank M Duvall, Annapolis;
Charles J. Fox, Orangeville; DR.. Philip
Briscoe, Mutual; Hon. Harvey l..
Cooper, Denton; DR.. Henry M. Fitz-
hugh, Westminster; DR.. Howard Brat
ton, Elkton; DR.. L. c. Carrico, Bryan
town; Hon. w. Laird Henry, Cam
bridge: James H. Gambrill, Jr., Freder-
lex; Gilmor S. Hamill, Sr., Oakland;
Thomas H. Robinson, Bel Air; Hon.
R. A. Johnson, Laurel; Hon. w. w.
Beck, Chestertown; Ohio H. W. Tai
bolt, Rockville; George w. Waters,
Laurel; John E. George, Sudlersville;
E. J. Plowden, Leonardtown; Col:
Henry ]. Waters, Princes Anne; Frank
G.. Wrightson, Easton; John B. Swee-
ney, Hagerstown; L. w. Gunby, Sails
bury; Marion T. Hargis, Snow Hill.
Mr.. Brattan succeeds Gen. Felix
Agnus, who resigned.
Executive Committee.
The executive committee will con-
sist of Gen. Carl R. Gray (chairman),
James c. Legg, Judge Hammond
Urner, Stevenson A. Williams, State
Comptroller Hugh A. McMuflin and
State Treasurer John NJ Dennis. Gov
ernor Harrington will be an ex-oftic1o
member of this committee, upon which
will devolve the burden of the work
in connection with the war.
Members of the commission will
serve without pay. They will be call
ed together at an early date and will
organize by the appointment of COM
mittees to which will be assigned varl-
GUS duties. The law authorizes the
commission to cooperate with and as
sist the Council of National Defense
in the execution of the duties pre-
scribed by the act of Congress of the
United States, approved August 29,
1916, or any act amendatory thereof or
supplemental or additional thereto"
Among other duties assigned by law
to the commission is to "organize and
direct such public employment labor
exchanges as it may deem necessary
during the present emergency, which
shall cooperate in every practicable
way with similar exchanges in other
States and with the United States EN-
ployment Service"
The council may adopt such rules
and regulations as may be necessary
or appropriate for the performance of
its duties. 1t may form advisory or
other committees or bodies from out
side it's membership to aid it in the
discharge of its duties.
All officers, departments, boards,
commissions, institutions and agencies
of the State government, or of any
county or municipality in the State,
are required by law to cooperate with
the council and render it such aid and
assistance and give 1t such informa-
ton as it may need or require.