Smyrna times., 1927-09-14
REFERENDUM TO Be TAKEN ON
CONTINUING WORK DEL-MAR-VA
PRESIDENT GRIER APPOINTS "A
REFERENDUM COMMITTEE
To Ascertain Public Opinion by Issu-
ing Ballots to Every Business Man
and Prominent Citizen on Peninsula

To Ascertain Public Opinion by Issu-
ing Ballots to Every Business Man
and Prominent Citizen on Peninsula
The members of the Central PENN
sula Referendum Committee as an
nounced by DR.. G. Layton Grier, Pres
ident Of the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
Shore Association, are: Former Gov
ernor John G. Townsend, Jr., repre-
senting Sussex County, Del; Former
Governor Emerson C. Harrington,
Dorchester County, Md; Senator Will
liam p. Jackson, Wicomico County,
Md; Calvin B. Taylor, Worcester
County, Md; and Wallace NJ Quinn,
Somerset County, Md.
The Committee has framed a Ref
erendum Ballot which will be mailed
out to Peninsula business leaders in
these central section counties.
The Referendum, it is announced,
will close on October 18th. On the
basis Of the replies received the Com
mittee will prepare a statement en-
bodying the practical results of the
vote which will be published for the
information of the public and it will
also prepare summary for the guild
ance of the Association and its offic-
ers.
In issuing the Referendum Ballot
the Committee says:
The undersigned have been appoint
ed Committee to ascertain what the
business leaders in the central section
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Association. On May 26th, the mem
bers of the Association assembled in
annual meeting, voted unanimously to
continue its operations indefinitely be
yond December 31st, next, and they
instructed their officers and governors
to prepare for the future on that bas-
is.
The Officers Of the Association feel
that this vote is inconclusive. In the
first place it represents only the $50
persons and firms who were signatory
to the original underwriting which
made the Association possible; second
" not all Of the $50 members were
present at the meeting.
The officers of the Association are
unwilling to proceed solely on the bas-
is Of a membership vote. They feel
the Association cannot render efficient
service unless there is by this time a
widely seated desire for the sort of
work the Association is equipped to
do.
In order to ascertain public senti
ment the Association has appointed
the undersigned as a committee and
requested us to formulate plans
whereby public sentiment can be
quickly and conclusively ascertained.
We have decided that the quickest
way is to attack the problems directly
by asking a selected list of business
men to speak their minds fully and
frankly.
We have therefore prepared Ref
erendum Ballot. 1t contains three
questions upon which you are asked to
vote, Eyes or MOI and two supplement
tary propositions upon which we ask
you to express your opinion.
Those receiving the ballot will be
asked to answer three questions, ac-
companying their answers with such
general suggestions as they may care
to make. They will be asked first, to
voice their individual view, second, to
give the view of the business inter
ests with which they are associated
and third, to summarize what they be-
lieve to be the prevailing opinion in
their community.
In addition to the three direct in
quiries, answers are requested on two
general propositions. First: those
who may vote in favor of continuing
the Association will be asked to make
their suggestions regarding additions
or revisions to its working program.
Second: those who may vote to discon-
tinue the Association will be asked to
suggest what other organization or
form Of organization cor what other
provision of any sort should be made
by Peninsula business in substitution
of theDe l-Mar-Va Eastern Shore As
sociation as means Of unitedly handl-
ing the following problems:
(a) Railroad, waterways and high
way transportation, problems, includ-
ing negotiations, claims and settle
ments with the railroads and inter
state and inter-county work with the
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