Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-19
UNIVERSITY CLUB
HOLDS MEETING.
Interesting Subjects Presented
BY Members. Discussion
Follows. Supper Served.
CONSTITUTION VAGUE.
Papers Read And "Talk-Fest
On Timely Topics At Y. M.
c. A. Hall, St. Johns
College.

While there was some change In the
regular program of the University
Club meeting held last night in the
Y. NJ. c. A Room in Mcdowell Hail.
St. Johns College, the interest was
none the less and the evening was
most pleasant and profitable one.
The first subject presented. was
Farming in Charles County" by Prof..
r. Wilmer who talked along the
! line of the old fashioned method OF
| farming before the Civil War, in slave
time. In those days, he said, the
| farmers were a happy-go-lucky set'
who delighted in fox hunting, morse
racing. coon hunting and left the farm
for others to look after. Those were
| the DAYS of the gentlemen farmers
and the overseer did all the work OF
directing. Tenant houses on the farm
were rented out but the rent rarely
collected If you met the farmer and
asked him how he was getting along
he would say first rate" even though
rents were not collected and the farm
was not being properly worked. The
farmers were a slip-shod sort in those
early DAYS, and the women cared
more. apparently, for dancing and
neighborly visiting than for the usual
duties of a farmers wife, raising
chickens, looking after the home gar
den and the like.
No care was taken of fertilizing the
soil and while quantities of wood were
burned, the ashes were never saved to
use as a phosphate in fertilizer, and
the manure was allowed to lie idle in
the sun and rain and deteriorate in
fertilizing value. The result was the
land became very poor, and in many
cases was hardly worth working. Al
ter the war conditions improved, but
it took years of hard work TO over
come the shiftlessness and thriftless-
ness of the early days of farming in
slave time
Mr.. II. j. Carter was down on the
program to talk on "Steel Wire" but
not being present, Major Hugh r.
Riley spoke on Training Men In
Camp" He told of his experience at
Camp Mcclellan, and gave interesting
sketches of life at the cantonment.
Prof Leonard A. Doggett spoke on
Electricity Aboard Ship" He told
of the various ways in which electric
ity is used now. and illustrated by way
of the Ford car, using its horse power
in his comparisons of electric force.
He talked of anchor raising by cleo
tricity, and illustrated by stating the
number of Ford automobiles it would
require to do the work. 1t would like
wise take so many Fords to move a
turret and so many Fords to elevate
gun, and to get the shell into the
gun In this maner he made the cleo
trical force very plain to the
laity who had not made especially OF
the study of electricity and its horse
power
Instructor Allen F. Westcott, who
was scheduled to talk on Peace Con-
ference" changed his subject and
spoke on the King James Version of
the Bible, 1911. King James, he said,
was the chief instrument in bringing
about this version, which bears his
name He appointed "a of the best
scholars in England including Bish-
ops. divinity students, and Greek and
Latin students. These "a were divided
into six groups. Their place of
work was at the universities and col
leges. They worked on translations
as individuals then the Board met to
make changes by common consensus
of opinion. The translation by indi-
viduals was sent to the groups, and
upon what the whole fifty-four agreed
became the text of the Bible In the
discussion which followed one of the
club members asked if the study on
the translation had any effect in de-
veloping the English language. One
member stated the translation had a
powerful effect and influence ON the
development and style of the English
language and literature. An interest
ing parallel was drawn between the
King James version and the Martin
Luther translation, both of which had
a powerful influence and effect on
breaking up dialect and setting and
determining literary language in
courts, schools and churches, etc
Instructor H. j. Fenton in clear and
forcible language spoke on "A Viola
ton of the Constitution which is in
tended TO provide that whenever per-
son committed a crime in one state
and fed to another il became the duty
of the Governor of that state on a
Tequisition from the Governor of the
other state where the crime was COM
mitted to deliver up the fugitive, so he
might be brought back for trial
There has been a hitch in the mat
ter, because Governors refused to do a
moral duty to comply with the request
of extradition. In 1898 Congress en-
deavored to remedy the vagueness OF
the Constitution in this particular
clause, and to make it legally imper-
ative for the Governor to yield. The
first case was a fugitive from Ken
lucky to Ohio, but again the Governor
of Ohio refused to comply, upon the
advice of the Attorney General of that
State, he said. Congress not having
made the clause in the Constitution
any more imperative than the origi-
nal. The case was taken to the Uni
ted States Supreme Court, which up
held the Ohio Governor. To this day
nothing has ben done and the clause
in the Constitution is violated. Con-
gress has taken no further steps in