Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1937-01-14
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many OF US was CH0re d
time in Maryland when we had as
many actual, potential, and favorably
mentioned candidates for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor. AL
though the primary is yet more than
a year and half off, there is much
talk Of Gubernatorial possibilities.
We are not sure we can name them
all but see the following list, every
one of whom has been publicly men
toned as candidate.-There's Mayor
Howard w. Jackson, Of Baltimore,
Senator Lansdale Sasscer, President
of the State Senate; Howard Bruce,
Democratic National Committeeman;
State Comptroller William S. Gordy,
former Acknowledgement William
Preston Lane; Attorney General Her
bert R. O'Conor; U. S. Senator Mil
lard E. Tydings; David G. Wine
brenner, Col. William G. Knapp,
State Senator J. Allan Coad and 9TH
ers.
The list includes some who probably
will not consider entering the race
but there are probably many more
whose trial balances will be released
during 1887. Whatever the outcome,
the public is in store for a rare treat
before the fall of 1888 rolls round.
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EVEN THE LINDBERGH LAW
has failed to scare off that most
despicable criminal, the kidnapper,
although the law is plain and the
violator faces certain death. The
Mattson case stirs the entire coun-
try. Our hearts reach out to the
bereaved family. We can almost rec
oncile ourselves to lynch law, prob
ably three out of five persons any
where would be glad to plant swift
bullet in the body of anyone so cal
lous and so cruel as to mutilate and
destroy q harmless lad whose only
fault was that he had the misfortune
to be the son of a wealthy and
prominent man.
X X X
THE GROWING NUMBER of
airliner crashes is getting serious.
Surely, there must be some expla-
nation of the increasing disasters
which have occurred recently.
Whether it he carelessness on the
part Of airline officials or pilots or
whether it be due to faulty airplane
construction, the matter should be
thoroughly Investigated, not only to
curtail human destruction, but for
he sake of air traffic in the future.
II X X
A FOUR-POINT PROGRAM of
activities in traffic accident control
for communities of all sizes has been
released by the Motor Vehicle De-
partment of the State of Maryland
with the publication of 4s-page
traffic safety manual, Creating
Safer Communities" Copies of the
book are being mailed to city and
town officials, police executives, school
authorities, etc, as far as the copies
go. 's%rF :.
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THE FOUR BASIC FEATURES
Of the suggested program include the
preparation and use Of accident
facts, the extension OF child and
adult education, improved enforce
,ment Of traffic laws sand better en-
cheering for traffic safety. The
organization Of q "Citizens' Traffic
Control Committee" where no. such
scoinaittee now exists, is called for.
This committee is urged to work
in close cooperation with municipal
and town authoriti }, the police, the
lshools and the courts. Where pos
sible, the appointment OF the COM
mittee's chairman by the mayor or
corresponding authority Is recon-
mended. The manual, Creating
Safer Communities" Is divided into
five parts. Part One, entitled SECT
ting the Program Under Way" de-
scribes in detail the preliminary
steps for organizing the Citizens
Traffic Safety Control Committee.
It tells how the ground work for
community program should be inaug-
urated with the appointment Of four
committees for action.
X X X
PART TWO DEALS with the
work of a subcommittee charged
with TIE duty of getting accident
facts. The committee, it is recon-
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