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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04

The Gypsy Players, under the direction
OF Mrs. j. .Somervell Dawson, will give g
concert at the High School, in Rockville
Friday evening. July 18th, at $50 o'clock
The program will be repeated at Pooles.
vile Saturday, July 18th, at $50 O'Clock
P. M.
The Just Government League of Mary
and has inquired of our delegates in the
Legislature, as it has of all members of
that body. their positions upon the oues-
ton Of calling an extra session of the Leg
islature to ratify the national suffrage
amendment. Mr.. Cashell gave a negative
answer as to the extra session and the
amendment Mr.. Burdette. Republican, dis
approved of an extra session but will vote
Tor the amendment if the session is called.
Messrs. Fawsett and Jones we have not
heard from. We think Mr.. Fawsett would
oppose both the extra session and the
amendment. Mr.. Jones would probably
vote for the amendment but declare him.
self against the extra session. Monteom-
ery's seat in the Senate is vacant.
The proprietors of the Liberty Milling
Company. of Germantown, are making ex-
tensive Improvements in their mill. They
are building large addition for ware
house and storage purposes, as well as
making some Improvements in the equip
ment, including the installment of an cleo
trio light plant for the purpose of lighting
the building. The mill has daily capacity
of 200 barrels and has established brands
of both winter and spring wheat. The
business is Incorporated, with a capital
stock Of $55,000 The owners are S. p
F. Kline. W. C. Geetine and A. R. Selby.
The management of the business is in
charge of Mr.. Selby. who has been in the
milling business for seventeen years. This
concern is looked on as being one of Mont
somery county's largest and most progress
sive business enterprises. twas purchased
of Bowman Bros. last fall
Mr.. Vernon Beall. of this town. is one of
the earliest farmers in the county to thresh
their 1919 crop of wheat. Monday he
threshed at his farm near Layhill and on
his return home at the close of the day
left a sample of the wheat at this Office
He threshed almost without interruption
and got only 585 bushel. when. he states,
he should have had return of 800 bushels
at least. The crop of straw was very heavy,
consuming much time in passing through
the machine, but the heads had been
blighted and the grain destroyed. The
sample contained large number of small
grains, but its condition is very good-firm
and Of bright color. His estimate of the
crop is 10 bushels per acre. and 200 bushels
have been sold to Hickerson Bros, milIers
of Rockville. at $500 per bushel. Tues
day Mr.. Forrest Beall threshed a field of
fallow wheat on the Brewinger farm. near
Norbeck, that yielded thirty-one bushels
per acre.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04
FOR STATES ATTORNEY.

To the Democratic voters of Montgomery
county:
hereby announce my candidacy for the
office Of States Attorney for Montgomery
county, subject to the decision Of the pri-
mary election.
II. MAURICE TALBOT.
hereby announce myself n candidate
for States Attorney Of Montgomery county.
subject to the decision Of the Democratic
primaries
WILLIAM +. PRETTYMAN.
hereby announce myself candidate
for States Attorney of Montgomery county.
subject to the decision Of the Democratic
primaries.
JOHN A. GARRETT.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04

structure they begun in February, 1914.
was built to last, the tree then planted
has borne abundant good fruit. the seed
they sowed has produced hundred fold
perhaps the growth was stimulated by the
discovery and introduction of Peruvian
guano in that same year.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04
FOR HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

hereby announce myself candidate
for the House Of Delegates, subject to the
decision Of the Democratic primaries.
FRANCIS SN0WDEN
hereby announce myself a candidate
for the House of Delegates, subject to the
decision Of the Democratic primaries.
WILLIAM S. STAMPER
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04
The County Levy.

The County Commissioners met on June
25th and completed the levy list for the levy
of 1919. fixing the general county tax rate
at $i06 on each 500 Of assessable prop
erty. The principal items of the levy are
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04

OF the general county rate Of $LO6
SLIPS per cent, is levied for school pur-
poses. being a very large increase over the
rate levied for the year 1918. due to the
general demand for increased salaries for
teachers and for new buildings for school
purposes. there having been numerous
delegations appearing before the County
Commissioners and petitions submitted to
them, signed by a majority of the tax
payers and citizens of the county. request
ing the Commissioners to levy the full
amount Of the budget for school purposes
as submitted by the County Board of Edu-
cation.
An increase in the appropriation for
roads is made over that made for the
year 1918, due to the fact that during the
year 1917 it was inadvisable on account
of the conditions resulting from the wal
to enter into general repairs or road
Improvement and to the further fact
that the repair fund levied for 1919 is
made up largely Of sums to be used foT
placing the State Aid Roads in condition
for acceptance by the State Roads Com
mission and. hereafter, to be kept in con-
dition by that commission.
The State tax rate for 1919 is 36 3l-72
per cent on each 500. and there are
special rates in the various districts due
to road improvements authorized by the
Legislature Of Maryland. as follows First
district. cent; third district. cents
fourth district. 8 IL cents fifth district
8 cents; sixth district. 10 cents; seventh
district. 9 $40 cents; eighth district. q
cents ninth district. 4 cents tenth dis
trict, II cents thirteenth district. IL cents
A levy Of $1,000 for Farm Demonstra'
ton Work will be placed in the hands Of
a committee Of farmers, later to be incor-
porated.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04
BOWIE F. WATERS.

] hereby announce myself a candidate
for the State Senate, subject to the decis-
ion Of the Democratic primaries.
ANDREW j. CUMMINGS.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04
EOR SALE.

EOR SALE.
IL go acres OF land situate on
the pike between Rockville and Potomac.
about 3 miles from Rockville improved by
a dwelling and other buildings. Price and
terms reasonable.
ALBERT NJ. BOUIC,
jan l8-tf Agent for owner,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04
FOR SHERIFF.

hereby announce myself a candidate
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-07-04
Announcements.
FOR STATE SENATE.

respectfully announce myself a candi-
date for the State Senate, subject to the
decision Of the Democratic primary cleo
tim
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The Child Not an
Enemy of the State

"There are two principles which it is
necessary to grasp as a foundation for
dealing with the child delinquent" con-
tinued DR.. Hart. zone is the value Of
the child and the other is the abandon
ment Of the idea Of retributive punish
ment The juvenile court should refuse
to recognize any child as a criminal and
a subject for punishment; he should be
thought Of as a ward, and never an
enemy, Of the state Instead Of being
dealt with in police courts and courts
Of justice, he should be tried in probate,
circuit and district courts by judges of
high standing receiving high salaries.
Instead of the lawyer there should be
the probation officer, whose duty it Ia to
investigate the case from the point OF
view Of the child's own interest
"Thc difference between this sort Of
court and any other Ia radical differ
ence~-it. means, In the phrase Of tho
criminal courts, not the case Of the State
versus John Doe, but the case Of the
State pro John Doe.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

tiary. | am inclined to think that a
sentence of from five to eight years
would be adequate, and that only under
very much better moral influence than is
said to exist in the state penitentiaries.
A case Of this kind ought to be treated
by means of education and the develop
ment of moral character. Our present
prison system seems to be in that par
ticular very lax.
"Is it not possible to secure from the
Governor, by means of petitions and
meetings, a further communication in this
case, to more justly mete punishment
fitting to boy of Chapmans age and
yet satisfy society?
"As a layman it appears to me that
the law is not presumptuous in imposing
sentences respecting youth. And neither
does 1t take into consideration in cases
of this character former good behavior.
1t occurs to me that the courts are tied
too strictly to statute.
Would 1t not be good idea to have
presented to the next Legislature OF
New York bill creating juvenile com
mission for the purpose of taking charge
OF those under twenty years Of age who
are convicted Of crime against tho
state! In case the jury finds q con.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

LIMOS, where the first juvenile
court in the United States was
established, managed to give chill
dren the protection of the court
without first submitting them to the
stigma Of arrest and indictment for
crime. But in New York State we mud
died it, We said that no child should be
found guilty Of crime except in certain
definite circumstances, but of juvenile
delinquency onIy-and then we made
juvenile delinquency crime by arrest
ing the children and accusing them of it!
1t is a farce to do away with the COM
mitment Of children for specific crimes
and create new crime for which they
must be indicted before they can avail
themselves Of the benefits of the court"
said DIR. Hastings II. Hart, head Of the
department Of child helping of the
Russell Sage Foundation. DR.. Hart was
seeretary of the committee which drew
up tbs original juvenile court law, Of
which tbs Hon. Harvey B. Hurd was
author, in Illinois in 1898. He also
neaped 10 frame the cbildren's codes of
Dpth Minnesota and Missouri, and has
nad more varied experience with the
problems Of children under the law than
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

are the mothers of tomorrow. They
must be made ready. The nation needs
and will need fine mothers more than
ever before, and it's our job to see that
they are ready to bear and bring up the
next generation Of clean minded men.
There are women who realize IL to-
day. Some of them are the women doc
tors who have been working under the
government. They go around the coun-
try, from Oregon to Florida, talking to
girls in schools, factories and clubs.
They talk to the mothers, too. but il is
the mothers who are hardest (next to the
fathers) to reach on these matters of
SEX The girls respond marvellously.
Even so. it is only small number of
our women whom these doctors can
reach. Won't the other women wake up?
We ought to feel shame whsn we realize
that woman born nearly hundred
years ago had the clearness of vision
to put her finger on the crux of the
matter.
Zone generation Of instructed mothers."
Nothing could be more wonderful or
more worth aiming for. The war is
bringing US to our senses in q lot Of
things and it is helping us here, too.
With our eyes on the future We women
now can help mould that generation Of
mothers, instructed as to the head, who,
God willing, will have nothing SO horr;-
BILE as this war to upheave their convic-
tions.
Then, and only then, can we be sure
of having boys who, being taught
cleanliness of mind and body, will be-
come pure minded men.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Each man for himself

most accidentally, the children pick up
information and an understanding Of
fundamental laws
These trips are taken by all the chill
dren, but with the six and seven year
olds more definite programme is fol-
lowed than with the younger ones.
They begin to study food, and their at
tention is called to everything which
relates to it's distribution and prepara
ton.
Back in school they are all quick
to reconstruct what they have seen with
blocks and toys, pencil and clay, each
child going about it in his own way.
One little boy sat high up in the bal
cony provided to leave the floor SPACE
free, drawing a picture of the battle
cruisers he had seen in the Hudson
Several were making small replicas of
carts at their carpentry benches, while
the floor was pretty we'll occupied by a
subway system exhibiting none of the
defects of the Interborough, and vii
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

lage in which the streets stay laid the
year round
AS | looked at the youngsters, each
absorbed in making something,
thought Of the frequent query one used
to hear, Mother. What can | do?"
The Play School child is too busy to ask
that Toys are so few and simple, and
raw materials SO plentiful, he takes
naturally to constructing his own play
things-anima)s that will fit the barns
he builds, furniture not too large for
his house, and wagons his horse can pull
The rooms bear mute testimony to
the strength of the creative impulse in
children. Strange little clay figures,
drawings which suggest the modern
school of art in its return to simplfied
expression, are everywhere. One boy
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Doctors, Lawyers and
Laymen for Commission

This commission should be appointed
by joint session of the Legislature, and
should be made up of persons who are
interested in the development of youth.
consisting of physicians, lawyers and
laymen Of both sexes. There should be
at least nine on this commission from
various parts of the state, three Of whom
should be recognized physicians, three of
judicial mind and three laymen. The
appointment should be for a term of
years. carrying with it an adequate sal-
airy, so that the proper ability may be
obtained
"Of course, this would necsssitats the
establishing OF an institution suitable for
such cases, It's object being TO train tho
young mind Of the sc-called criminal
into useful puysujts.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

for now: Chastity in the man as we'll
as In the woman limitation Of offspring,
because Equality IL q better testimonial
than quantity.
"Pcople should desire children beyond
all mere earthly possession; they pay
their own way, you cannot afford to live
without them. But you must
not invite these little ones to your home
any oftener than you can provide for
them in body and in spirit, and for the
health of the mothers who are to bear
them.
"A great part Of the physical and
moral deterioration Of the present day
arises, it seems to me, from the fact that
children are not conceived in the desire
for them and out of the pure lives Of
their fathers as we'll as their mothers
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Everything but
The Three Rs

Feeling as though had been set down
in liliputian world in which the bust
ness of life was carried on by children.
the province of grown-ups being merely
to look on, l retraced my steps to Miss
Pratt.
II have" / admitted, something on
my mind. These children are certainly
learning; but how do you manage about
the three Rs? Unless he can read, write
and cipher a child cannot go into the
regular school grades, can he?"
Reading and writing for little children
really raise difficult question" Miss
Pratt agreed. "We find that the younger
children seem to feel no interest in
either, but the seven-year-olds of their
own accord have taken to both. It may
be story which is read to them and
which they long to finish for themselves
that starts them off. The natural step is
to turn to the books and blackboards,
which, with the teachers help and lit
tie regular application, are soon mas
tered.
1.-The approach to arithmetic has
come about even more simply. A child
must know how to use foot rule accu-
rately If he is going to build things, and
this brings in the use of figures and
even fractions. Also in playing store
simple arithmetic is involved.
After all, we do not expect when a
child leaves here he will have gained
any special technique. All we attempt
is to- lay broad foundation which will
serve him well whatever he decides to
build. Do you think"-Miss Pratt
smiled-"we are too sanguine?"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
No Place for
Woman's $ Intuition

The seven-year-olds were investigating
the laws of physics the morning | found
my way into the Play School. Sitting in
a semicircle on the rug, they watched
the rapid descent Of small and a large
block from the mantelpiece and tried to
determine which first reached the floor.
Il know; / know" volunteered a small
girl before the experiment was under
way; "they both get there together"
mo fair, Edna; you're making up
your mind before time stead of waiting
to see what happens" reproved Peter.
A sign that, though Edna still clung to
her woman's intuition, he, Peter, had
adopted the experimental attitude tow
ard life suited to his surroundings.
For Miss Caroline Pratt's Play School
is itself an experiment. But, instead of
being the usual kind performed by adults
upon children, it is one in which the chill
oren do the experimenting. They learn
the c s of education in the same
way they learned to walk and talk-by
the method of trial and error.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

Editors Note: The news came too late
last soeek to print on this page that
Assensbtvnon Donnslly's bill, foundsd on
tho case Of Paul Chapman, the sixtssn-
year-otd boy spho mas sentenced to stec.
frocation and saued bv Governor Wait
mans communication of his sentence, had
passed the Assembly mithout oppositic,..
The oil provides for the embellishments a.
capital punishment for minors uMSer
eighteen. and 10 should hare direct bear.
ING on the case Of the fomrtsen-ysay-old
c'rt just indicted im this state for ,wwvSer
in the fret degree.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

THE sentence should carry minimum
and maximum lengths of time, and the
institution should be put on a level
that would take from a sentence the
odor OF criminality so far as possible.
1t should be product of careful thought
and study. The maximum sentence
should not be imposed unless in the
opinion OF the commission it is necessary.
and then the one convicted, if not prop
eriy re1ormed' should go to tho
.f'ai cour. Tor sentence an asylum
for the criminal insane, or. as the enae
may be, to the state penitentiary."
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Before Six the Child
Is an Individualist

"You will find the three and four
years old if you will go down the alley
few steps," Miss Pratt directed.
"They are in another building just at
present"
The room l entered was divided into
sections by latticed screens, and each
child was carrying on his play in his
own small inclosure. In it were a chair
and table, and besides this he had
access to the common materials, such as
blocks, crayons, paper and clay. Like
Christian on his famous pilgrimage,
| asked the meaning of what saw.
Cup to the aga of six a child is an
individualist," il was explained. "It is
only gradually fhat he learns to work
with other chi Fren, These screens make
1T possible Il each one to carry out his
ssss." s~s idea A''' i"'''''''''" fro" the
An excellent scheme, decided, max
ing mental note of good many people
older than six who would profit by such
isolation.
AT this moment the four year-olds
were summoned to a luncheon of milk
and crackers, with stories interspersed.
"Once upon time." small girl began,
"there was a wolf, and he ran 50 fast
you couldn't see his legs. Like this"
she demonstrated, sprinting across the
room. Gould you see my legs?" hope
fully.
"A little," one honest child admitted
There are the three-year-olds," said
the teacher, in an undertone to me,
pointing to window which looked out
on a yard-and such yard!-with a
sand pile and bars and packing boxes
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The Court Should
Act as Guardian

"The Juvenile court goes wrong unless
it is founded on the idea of guardian.
ship. In New York it is in reality
criminal court, although the Judges are
able in effect to make it court OF
chancery And Massachusetts is so far
from the ideal that child must be con-
victed of crime in order even to be
paroled!
"Other states are further advanced than
those of the Atlantic seaboard---they do
not permit their children to be cassed as
criminals, whatever they have DONE and
| am amazed to SEQ that the Federal
government does not recognize this"
DR.. Hart turned to the pages Of the
recent census and pointed to the place
where page was headed: prisoners
and Juvenile Deinquents"
"That classification when applied to
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

fare of our race. both moral and physical,
requires that they be understood, and II
80, the truths that need TO be stated
should be stated with delicacy, but In
language that can be understood, and
language that plainly conveys it's mean
ing is far better in its moral effect than
that which deals with its subject in CO.
vert and ambiguous expression and thus
suggests concealed indelicacy and stimu-
lates unwholesome curiosity.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Crime: Juvenile DelinQuencv
vAARIEDE y
By MARIE DE MONTALVC

the population of these states is abso-
lutely wrong and Illegal" said DR.. Hart
Il think New York is the only state
where Juvenile delinquents are criminals
yet here we find them divided among
grave homicide; burglary; larceny;
fraud; forgery; vagrancy; and other
ofences' ;"
1t was significant to notice that in New
York out of 1856 child terminals" listed
2,0S3 we're under "othcr offences" In
the grand total the figures stood 12,9bS
out of 24,974!
Daniel II. Willard, of 115 Broadway,
referring to the Chapman case, believes
that life imprisonment is far too severe
a sentence for a young boy, and sug-
gests novel plan for dealing with
youthful offenders.
A Commission of Citizens to
Sponsor Youth
Mr.. Willard outlined his idea in this
way:
81 should like to see the Chapman case
treated entirely from humanitarian
standpoint. 1t seems to me that boy
OF Paul Chapman's age irrespective of
the crime and the subsequent convic-
tion, should receive no such communication
az u life sentence in the state peniten-
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Where Are the
Potential Newtons?

Look at us grownups to-day No jury
would ever convict us of being expert
mental minded. Are we the same peo
pie who as children took the clock to
pieces to find the strike, and tried to see
how many green apples could be eaten
without fatalities? What has become
Of our one-time spirit of inquiry?
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

vlction and the court imposes sentence
OF guilty, it will direct into the custody
OF the commission such a youth for such
a period as the statute provides-of
course, carrying with the conviction a
minimum sentence, if not sooner par
doned by the Governor with the approval
OF the commission.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
She Saw What
Came of War

of six drew aeroplanes, guns and ships,
and then smudged the whole thing with
red crayon. Asked what his drawing
represented, he said: THAT? Oh, that's
war. Isn't it mess?"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

large enough to live in. 1t looked more
like a tiny village than yard, and that.
in fact, was what it was. The sturdy
citizens were busily engaged at the time
in transferring the contents of the
sand pile to another corner of the yard.
A real, old-fashioned bucket brigade it
WAS
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

Suppose, for instance, child is ar
rested for burgary-to my mind the i'm
portant thing is not in the least what
the child has done (that is, burglary
except in it's relation as an incident in
his life to many other incidents which
form his history and reveal the trend of
his character.