Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-06
PLEA FOR JONES
MADE BY ANTS
His Election to Senate Essen
tiaI to Progressive Sue
cess, They Say.
By a STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
WASHINGTON GROVE, Md, Sep
| TENDER 6.-Re-elect DIR. Eugene Jones of
Kensington to the Maryland State SEN
ate or do not vote for any person on the
legislative ticket of the Montgomery
County Progressive Democrats, was the
plea made last night at political rally
here by E. Barrett Prettyman, chief
compaign speaker and candidate for
the House of Delegates.
We have lot of changes we want to
make" Mr.. Prettyman declared but
our hands are tied without DR.. Jones.
There Is no use sending some of us to
the House of Delegates if you don't send
DR.. Jones to the Senate. Unless he is
In the Senate to help us We might as
well be at home as at Annapolis"
Statement as to Taxes.
Calling attention to a statement
made at a recent rally of the Democratic
organization ticket Mr.. Prettyman said
Lee giving the amount OF taxes paid by
himself and by Robert c. Hilton, can
didate for the State Senate on the
organization icket, Mr.. Prettyman said
the large sum of the Lee taxes and the
small amount paid by Hilton was a di-
rect lntimation that Maj. Lee would be
the real Senator If Mr. Hilton is elected
The statement by Maj. Lee was in an
swer to the charge that Mr.. Hilton paid
little taxes and consequently would not
be affected by any legislation he helped
pass.
The tenor taken by all of the speak
ers reflected confidence in the outcome
of the primary elections Monday. The
first public prediction of the ma iority
the ProgresSives expect to roll up was
made by Raymond L. Schreiner of Ia
koma Park. who presided. Mr.. Schreiner
said the anti-organization forces would
be victorious at the polls by approx
mately $500 votes.
Jones Speaks on Schools.
After asking his audience of between
500 and 500 persons to put an end to
"bossism," Senator Jones, the first
speaker, turned his attention to the
public schools. He quoted William
McCeney of Burnt Mills, a member of
the board of education, as saying that
so cents of the 10 cents school tax
levied against the county is the most
the schools ever actually have received
during the four years he has served on
to the other 10 cents DR.. Jones as
serted, and I don't believe they know
themselves"
He said $4,000 was appropriated in
1924 to build the Glenmont School, OF
this amount, he declared, $4,000 was
spent for the site, and lit is farce to
say that the three-room bungalow they
have there cost the remaining $4,000"
The Senator said the Glenmont School
leaks, the Blair Takoma High School
is built in a "mudhole" and that the
water at the Poolesville School was
polluted until the third well near the
school had been drilled
Albert M Bouic, Rockville attorney,
spoke at length on the bond policy OF
the administration, condemning it as
placing a mortgage on the future OF
the next and even the second gener-
alton to come.
Attacks Regular Platform.
Mr.. Prettyman, to whom, throughout
the campaign. has been delegated the
Job OF explaining the issues as embodied
In the party platform, spent half his
time pointing out faults in the platform
of the organization and the other half
in showing how the plans of the pre-
gressives would remedy them.
The principal objects Of his attack
were the alleged waSteful, extravagant
and unbusineSSlike policy of the organi-
cation, bond issues, the Cramton act
and the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission.
Mrs. c.. Parker Weller of Beallsville
was the last speaker. She confined her
self in the main to discussion of the
school system, covering practically the
same ground already gone over by SEN
ator Jones earlier in the evening.
The audience was an unusually en-
thusiaStic one and continually inter
rupted the speakers with cheers and ap-
plause. The meeting was held in the
Washington Grove Tabernacle.