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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22
GOVT OPERATION
OUT OF POL TICS'
Party Leaders Convinced by
Results of National Can
vass Of Editors.
INDICATES FORMER POLL.
Overwhelming Vets Like That Of Year
Before From Both Sides Of
Political Fence.

Washington Inner circles of both
political parties here are greatly in,
terested In the results Of d national
poll On the question Of government
operation among over 5000 newspa-
per editors throughout the country
With So per cent Of these editors, re-
gardlsss Of political faith, giving it as
their impartial opinion that the public
lis more than ever opposed to the gov
eminent going into business in COM
ypetiticn with its citizens, observers
here see little chance that either po-
Elitical party win find II profitable
campaign Issue.
IN the opinion Of party leaders this
sort OF q canvass among newspaper
editors Is the best possible index of
public opinion. They recall similar
lQuestiepnairs sent out d year ago in
connection with the proposition that
the government take over the rail-
roads permanently. Replies at that
time from approximately the same
number Of editors showed So per cent
against tAe principle Of government
operation. They recall also that with
In ten days from publication Of the
result Ok tia former questionable the
sentiment for return Of the railroads
to their cwners had definitely crys-
ttallized
Comparispn OF present results in de-
:&an with those OF a year ago con-
ivinces the political student not only
THAT these editors have been accurate
In their judgment. but that party con-
!siderationa played no part IN form
ling It From Democratic and sup
Eposedly radical Texas, for example,
the present quesfionnaire Brought re-
plies from editors OF IA papers. only
three OF which are Republican. Yet
the percentage against government
lo1eration was 50, which Is exactly the
same as that given By 200 editors
from Republican Michigan, among
whom were Representatives Of only
! three Democratic papers. Other
states that pair percentages signlf-
cantly are MassA chusetts and Nevada.
with 100; Connecticut and South Caro-
liza. with on; Maine and West Yir-
ginia. with 96: Kentucky and New
York. with 81 Missouri and Pennsyl-
vanIa, with &C.; Ohio and Oklahoma.
with 81.
The result OF the present poll as to
government operation In each state
are graphically shown by the follow
ling chart
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22
OPPOSES
|. GOVT OPERATION
Canvass of 5,15A Editors Shows
4,466 Communities Against
SoCialistic Experiment.
70 PPoslTIoN GROWING
EIchty-seven Per Cent In 1920 as
Against SO Per Cent In 1918
Think Public Is Opposed
to RadicalIsm.

The American public is more In
tensely opposed to Government opera
ton than twas a year ago, according
to the newspaper editors of the coun-
try. Out Of 5,154 editors replying to
a QUESTIONABLE sent out by the Press
Service Company Of New York, 1856
or SO per cent, gave it as their judg-
ment that the people Of their commu-
mites were Overwhelmingly against
the Government competing in business
with its own citizens.
In 1919 thS Press Service Company
conducted a similar canvass of editors
on the government operation of rail-
roads That QUESTIONABLE showed that
SO per cent Of the editors considered
their communities against Govern
ment operation of public utilities.
Apparently, then, If editors estimate
public opinion accurately, that opin-
lon in a year, considered by commu-
mites, has swung per cent farther
away from socialistic experiments.
Eleven Million Circulation.
The combined circulation of the pa
pers whose editors replied Is LAS
SIT, which means, according to the
usual estimated ratio between circula-
ton and readers, a constituency of at
least 100000. And this constituent
cy IS pretty evenly scattered through
out the country, no considerable sec
ton of any state being unrepresented
The estimate of opinion based on this
thoroughly diffused "A per cent OF the
eountry's population may, therefore
be considered a fair representation OF
the people as a whole.
another feature oflthe result is its
evident lack of partisan bias. The
major political affiliations Of the pa
pers represented are fairly evenly di
vided, being 1857 Republican and
1850 Democratic. There are also 1,485
independent and 462 miscellaneous
including labor organs, etc.
How. little the results are affected
by the politics of the papers is shown
in an analysis by sections. In the
Southern section, for instance, where
replies came from So Republican pa
pers and $50 Democratic, the per.
centage against Government operation
was So; in the Great Lake section
with conditions reversed. 4T8 Repub-
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22

up to Constantinople to the house of
the man She stopped and put one
hand over her eyes, hand that bore
the tell-taIe tattoo of her Turkish mas
ter.
"But what does my story matter r.
she exclaimed Il am only one of so
many. 1t is my people and their fu-
'ture that matters. Somehow we must
rebuild our nation and show to the
Turks who tried to beat out our life
and to the whole world that despite
what we have suffered, Armenia is
still unconquerable."
Aghavni MILAN is, as she says. only
one of many. 1t is estimated that one
hundred thousand girls are still held
captive in Turkish harems. The Near
East Relief, Americas official agent
in Armenia. is making this work of
rescue one of the most important fea-
lures Of its program, and 1t is to them
and the support they receive from
the American people that Aghavni's
unfortunate sisters, still captive, must
look for their release.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22

Assyrian, Greek and Armenian, Jew
and Christian-all rescued from the
fear Of the Turk and under the care OF
American men and women.
Most of the children are cared for In
229 American supported orphanages.
The first ceremony in receiving these
starved, almost naked children, is to
clean them up. They are not only ema-
eiated, but dirty with sores and YER
min-69 hospitals and over 5000 beds
are kept full Of the little sufferers
But the children keep changing. Last
year they were all thin and pitiful /;
now 1t is the newcomers who are thin.
The orphans who have been from six
months to a year in American care are
we'll fed and well clothed.
Best of all for a new Near East
which surely must come out of all this
distress, every child old enough is be-
ing taught trade which will make
him self supporting.
They are thrifty lot, these little
parentiess exiles. From their scant
store of bread they always carry a
portion in small bag about their
necks-they fear the day of another
killing, another drive into the desert.
They horde the shoes sent from
America until snow fies-they rernem-
Der their barefoot pain in the SHOWS
last spring.
They cling to their new found
friends. Every day other little waits
find place in the orphanages and are
told of the generous people of the
United States. Soon the entrances will
be crowded with children frozen ont
from their temporary summer quarters.
Then the table Of the Near East Re-
lief must be extended-many. many
new leaves will be needed. and Amer
lea is asked to set the table.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22

W OF know other day when l tella
4 you bouta go cen dat restaurant
and make a waiter mad dreenka too
moocha coffee? Well, lasa night
invita- my frien go weeth me cen dat
place. i no lika dat waiter and he
no lika me, too, so feegure was
gooda idee getta preety hungry so
could eata everything before he hava
time for taka back to da cook.
But 1 tink my frien getta leettle
deesgust. He say, "Wots matter,
Pietro, you eata too queeck?" He
tella me I gotta indigest eef eata SO
fast. I say wot's deefrence-eef eata
Queeck getta indigest, and eef no eata
queeck I am still hungry.
Ny frien say l should geeva tip for
da waiter when we stoppa eat and
go home. was cen da feever one
time when he tip and I no like yer
mooch. So ! tella my. frien mebbe
was besta idee just skid leetle bit.
But you know I gotta wrong idee
bouta wot was dat tip when my frien
GADldllldf NStlu tuCs koO L lSlltl llCCIu
ALA right eef dat waiter no TAXA my
food back to da cook I tip heem and
eef he do I hit heem.
aska my frien wot was besta way
for tip. He say when pay for da
food geeva waiter feefty cents for tip.
But when we was flemish l geeva
ten cents and tella heem was justa
Ieetle skid.
But 1 fink he try getta fresh weeth
me, 1 dunno Jnsa before we leavea
dat place he breenga leetle bowl wot's
fill weeth water. l ask my frien wot
was dat for and he say washa da feen-
gel. cen. And righta queek am sorry
L geeva dat waiter ten cents. You
know dat son-of-a-gun breenga water
for wash cen but he never show up all
night weeth da soap.
Wot you tink?
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22
THE DEMOCRATS AWAKE.
Meetings Scheduled for Every Night
Next Week Large Audience at VIM

Meetings Scheduled for Every Night
Next Week -Large Audience at VIM
field.
The Democrats of Carroll county
started off by invading a Republican
strong hold On Tuesday night. The
meeting at the Hall in Winfield was
very encouraging to those in charge
of the campaign The Hall, which IS
rather large, was filled with women
and men from that locality. The
meeting was addressed by Mr., Charles
o. Clemson, Guy w. Steele and Michael
E. Walsh of Westminster. Mr.. Glenn
son started off by outlining the record
of the Democratic party, and touched
on the League of Nations. Mr..
Steele went into lengthy discussion
on the League of Nations. The speak
ers laid great stress on the Importance
of rejoicing Senator John Walter
Smith and Congressman Carville ID.
Benson, so that the platform and
pledges of the Democratic party might
be redeemed
The largest delegation of Carroll
county people ever known went to
Baltimore last night to the Cox meet
ing.
There will be a large meeting at
SykesviIle on Friday night at The
Lyceum. Senator Wade H. D. War
field will preside The meeting will
be addressed by Congressman Carville
D. Benson, Guy w. Steele and Charles
10. Clemson
There will be another meeting in
Taneytown Saturday night. address
SEES will be made at this meeting by
Hon. Charles U. Harris, of Raleigh,
~ c.; Mrs. John Glover Wilson, who
addressed the Womens meeting at
Sykesville last Tuesday afternoon, and
Mr.. Guy w. Steele, of Westminster.
The Democrats will be kept on the
move from now until the campaign
closes. There is a meeting sehedt4-
ed for every night next week, closing
with a big State meeting in Westmin-
ster, Saturday night, October both, at
the Opera House. Governor Albert C..
Richie, Congressman Caryille b. Ben
son, and some other national speak
ers will make addresses.
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nean and 155 Democratic, the oppo
sition was 81 per cent
Replies from the West, Middle Wesi
and Southwest show that It is a mis-
take to. consider those sections vastly
more favorable to radical Government
experiments than the East. The rad
icals can get little comfort out Of the
SO per cent Of thumbs down. pei
cent above the average-in the South
west, including Arkansas, Louisiana.
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Tex
as. Texas, once supposed to be much
given to Government regulation ex.
periments, returned 90 per cent Of I'M
favorable replies Out Of the pa edi'
tors replying from that state only
three edited Republican papers. The
90 per cent opposition Of the North.
west, including Iowa, Minnesota, Mon
tana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South
Dakota and Wyoming, and the S3 pei
cent veto Of the Far West group, in.
Guiding Arizona, California, Idaho
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Colo
RADIO, Utah and Washington, are sig
nificant Of the prevailing conservative
sentiment on this question even In
the more radical sections.
Judgment Apparently Unbiased.
The QUESTIONABLE closes with a re-
quest for the EDITORS personal opin.
ion on certain concrete cases as fol'
lows:
"Do you personally believe that the
Federal Government should own and
operate competitive industries to pro
vide: (a) Fertilizer? (b) CIothing3
(c) Automobiles? I'D Farm nipple.
ments? (e) Foodstuffs?
Substantially all the editors who
gave estimates of their readers opin-
ions also expressed their own by re-
plying to this last question. Proof Of
considerable effort to avoid personal
bias is found in the fact that In many
cases the editor differed from the
opinion he credited to his community.
The percentage of "nos" ranl (a)
IS; (b) 50; (c) Sc; (d) 80; (e) 70.
While the questions were based on
general principles involved in the
Government participating in COMPETE
tive business, the so-ealled Muscle
Shoals Bill now before Congress was
used as a concrete example of a Gov
eminent operation scheme. Under this
bill a aforementioned corporation
would be given broad powers to oper-,
ate and develop Government plants
and properties. It would produce at
Muscle Shoals various fertilizer prod
ucts and sell them in competition with
producers and merchants in the fer
tilizer business.
Tho strength of the opposition to
Government operation is indicated by
the replies from Alabama, where the
Muscle Shoals war plant is and where,
OF course. there is intense interest
and local pride in getting its expected
peace-time operation under way at the
earliest possible date. Fifty editors
from that state replied, Of whom 38
were opposed to Government opera
ton, in favor and 4 doubtful
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22
BLACKS CORNER

spent Tuesday visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
grandson and Ralph W. Copenhaver
Edward Copenhaver, Of near Bethel
Church
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Morelock and
son, Monroe, Of Hanover, and Mrs.
and Mrs. James Crabbs and son,
Erwin, of Georgetown, were Sunday
visitors at the home of Mr. George
Mayors and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson H. Study spent
Sunday evening visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
.Mervin J. Harner.
We are having real hot weather at
this writing.
Our farmers have about finished
sowing grain and are busy husking
corn.
The health of the community, good.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22
CARROLL HAS 1886 VOTERS.
Republicans Have Lead Of le5 Over
the Democrats in Afiliation -ooiored
Voters Number ge5.

The number of voters on the poll
book show that 12,S7S are registered
at the last registration in this county.
Democrats 5957, Republicans 6122, In
dependents 100, Prohibitions 100 and
Declined 122 There are 1928 white,
and s65 colored.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22
WAITING FOR US TO
SET The TABLE
Photo International
lily Arrived Armenian

A table twenty-four miles long is
plainly an extension table and that is
just the length that would seat all Of
the orphans now being fed by the Near
East Relief This table Is set In sec
tions all over the hills Of Asia Minor,
Syria, Armenia and in Northern Per-
STA. 1t is not in one piece. The Turks,
who still keep the Armenians In state
Of terror, do not allow i.
But there the table is, seated on
both SIDES with orphans-Syrian and
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-10-22

zzp OPPOSED TO GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
Eaa6 NJ FAVOR or GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
6% DOUBTFUL OR FAILED TO REPLY
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New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Eight Clubs Represented
In Local Chess League

Eight clubs, including the New York
Athletic Club and team from New
York University, both newcomers in
the ranks Of the Metropolitan Chess
League, have entered this years inter.
club championship competition. A full
schedule of seven rounds has been
drawn up by Charles Broughton, sec
retary Of the league
Another new entry is the Swedish
Chess Club, Of Brooklyn and Columbia
University again will be represented
Following is the official schedule o.
matches:
First round. January 3i-Brooklyn -.
Ocean Hill. New York A. c. vs. Columbia.
staten Island We. Swedish c. C.. and Rice
Progressive VS.. New York University
vs.. Ocean Hill. Staten Island vs. New York
University. Brooklyn vs.. Columbia. and
New York A. c. vs.. Rice Progressive.
Third round. February II - New York
VS.. Swedish c. c.. Rice Progressive CO.
lumbia. and Brooklyn VS.. Staten Island
Fourth round. February 2l-Rice Pro-
gressive W: Ocean Hill. staten Island vs..
Columbia. New York A. c. VS.. New York
University. and Brooklyn vs. Swedish G. I.
Fifth round. February ?s--New York a.
G. Va. Ocean Hin. Brooklyn vs.. Now York
university. Rice Progressive vs.. Staten
Island. Swedish c. Z. Columbia.
Sixth round. March S--staten Island vs..
Ocean nm. Rice Progressive Va. swedish
G. c.. Now York A. c. vs.. Brooklyn. and
New York University vs. Columbia.
Columbia. Brooklyn vs. Rice Progressive.
Swedish G. c. VS.. New York University.
and New York A. c. VS. Staten Island.
Unless otherwise agreed all matches
club. and the flrst mentioned club In each
pairing 10 the home club.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Giants to Get
An Early Start
anAntonio
Members of Team Living in
New York City and Vicin.
ity Leave on February 27
BY w. ]. Macbeth

Secretary Joseph D. O'Brien, Of III.
Giants, announced yesterday tho de,-
mite plans for spring training that
he has effected at the suggestion q,
Manager John j. McGraw, who ;s :,
Cuba.
In his renewal Of the chase for
pennants McGraw purposes to take ad.
vantage of every day allowed to him
by the new spring training ruis
adopted at the last annual meetinc
OF the National League. The cluh
owners OF the old major at that ses-
sion voted to permit managers lee
way of six, instead of four, weeks ia
prepare their charges for the cham.
pionship campaign. It is McGraw's
purpose, therefore, to have all his ath-
letes assembled in San Antonio. Tcx
in time to begin training the morninv
of March 2. The National and Amer;s
can leagues will begin the 1920 cham.
pionships on April ID.
Except those players who reside in
the Far West and who will 20 direct
from their home towns to San An
tonic, the Giants this year will mobi-
lize in one body. All the PLAYERS rs.
siding around New York and in the New
England States will leave the Greater
City the morning of February 27, trav-
cling to St. Louis. Here, under thu
fatherly eye Of Chief Scout Dick Kim
sella, should be awaiting all the candi-
dates who winter in the middle vest On
the night Of February 28 the combined
party will pull out of St. Louis for
San Antonio, arriving at the spring
time late in the afternoon of March |.
Secretary O'Brien has practically
completed the most important prepa-
rations of the trip--that is, the itln-
erary of the joint journey homeward
with the Boston Red Sox. These dates
in full will be announced probably
some time next week. Two dates ara
still open which will allow the break
ing of the jump from New Orleans to
Memphis. 1t is planned to play some
dozen games in Texas and interlyinr
cities on the way home.
The Red Sox-will train at Hot
| Springs. Ark. but will break camp
about March 26. so as to establish con-
nections with the Giants in Texas. The
| two teams will play the more important
cities of the Lone Star State, and then
move eastward to New Orleans. The
i tour will dip northward as far as Mem
! phis, then across to Chattanooga and
Atlanta, and thence by the northwest.
ern route into Virginia.
The big joint tour with the Red Sox
should prove very beneficial to the
Giants, as was the case a year ago.
when these teams travelled in company
from Florida. Manager Ed Barrow, Of
Boston, believes he will have even a
better pitching staff than the one that
so worried the Giants in 1919, now that
he has Harry Harper. The American
League teams are permitted to begin
practice whenever they choose. Barrow
ls going to send his veteran battery
men to Hot Springs ahead of time. so
that he can hold real batting practice
from the very start.
The Pirates are also going to train in
Hot Springs, and Boston and Pitts
burgh have arranged number of early
practice games. McGraw will depend
on Texas League opposition to prepare
for the more serious tilt with the Red
| Soy
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Prohibition Makes
lit Extremely Hard
TO Pick Trophies

DEL MONTE, CAL, Jan. 17.-In
this age of prohibition it Is difll-
cult to determine on prize that
will catch the eye Of the sportsman.
In the good old days" it was quite
appropriate to reward a mans ath-
letic ability through the medium of
the cocktail cup or a highball COB
let, but no more are these little
tokens appropriate, for the simple
reason that fluid to place therein is
getting scarcer every day.
The Del Monte GLIB accordingly
has a problem on its hands in So
lecting trophies that will .,e given
away at the various sporting events
in this coming season. 1t is proposed
that something in the line of soft
drink receptacles be set up, to be
known as sarsaparilla or ginger ale
goblets.
The little cocktail cup will still
be kept In the trophy case. hut 1t
will be so designed as to be ser
serviceable as a holder for orchids
or any other flowers that the win
ner's wife or lady friend may care
to place therein. A set of sarsa-
parilla or ginger ale goblets will
be one of the prizes during the polo
tournament here which starts Janu-
ary 81.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
George Washington
Basketball Team
Defeated by Navy
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Jan. 17.-In win
ming from George Washington Univer-
sity here this afternoon by 40 to 13, the
Naval Academy five made high figure
in scoring for the season, in spite of
the songs and cheers of the co-eds
which the George Washington team
had with it. The Navy team played
fast basketball, particularly in the sec
ond half, and showed steady improve
ment in team work.
The midshipmen were little slow in
was tied at s points midway of the
first period. Then floor goals by Wat
ters and Grebe1r gave the middies a
goood lead, which was steadily in
creased to the end.
Gilman, the visitors left forward,
scored all of their points, shooting
successfully four times from the floor
and five times from the line.
The summary and lineup:
Naval Academy (4o) George Wash u3)
Burkholder IL. F......... .Brachlow
Byerly. r. F. Gilman
Greber. ....".. Center. .......... Meyers
McLaury. .........R Boteler
Referee-Mr. Callowhll, Baltimore Cen
trail Y. NJ G. A. Field goals-Naval Acad-
emy IN RIHs byer1y 1y %; Waters e. Burkhoder
George Washington: Gilman G49. Foul Foul
goals--Naval Academy: Waters, in II
Blue. In 2; George Washington: Gilman,
in IL. Time of halves-2o minutes Sub,
stitutions-Naval Academy: Olsen for
Burkholder. Blue for Byerly. 1enhart for
GGtreber: Gtr Butler for Waters, 1.ebIond for
for Brachlow. Underwood for DAILY Auit.
man for Underwood.