Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-29

office he should be reelected and con-
tinued in office until he becomes in
capacitated or reaches the age of
retirement as fixed by the Consti-
tuition.
In the inferior courts of the State,
such as Judges of the Peoples
Court, the Juvenile Court, the Traf-
fic Court and justices of the peace
exercising civil and criminal juris-
diction throughout the State, no one
should be selected for any of these
offices who is not fitted by training,
education and temperament to adj
minister justice without fear or
favor and without reference to po-
litical considerations.
We approve the recommendations
which have been made by the COM
mission on the Peoples Court of
Baltimore City and pledge our
party to the prompt enactment of
such legislation and the submission
of such constitutional amendments as
may be necessary to accomplish the
benefits of these recommendations at
the earliest possible time.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
We recognize the obligation on the
part of the State to equalize the
salaries of white and colored teach
ers having the same teaching qualifi-
cations, and we pledge the accom-
plishment of this objective at the
earliest possible time.
We further pledge our party to
maintain non-partisan, non-political,
efficient, forward looking school
boards by the appointment to the
State and county boards of educa-
ton of men and women of the high
est type selected only because of
their knowledge of an interest in
| public school affairs.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
We pledge ourselves to the adop-
ton of legislation to create a council
composed of members of the Legis-
lature for the purpose of pre-
pairing and sponsoring a program of
legislation to be introduced at the
! ensuing regular or special sessions
of the Legislature.
ELECTIONS
We pledge our party to a revision
of the election laws, and to a fair
and impartial administration of those
laws to further safeguard the val
liable right of our citizens and to
avoid SO far as possible a repetition
of the protracted delay which has
been experienced in ascertaining the
result of the recent primary cleo
ton held September IL.
RELIEF
| We subscribe to the modern concep-
ton of social responsibility which
imposes upon the State and it's sew
eral political subdivisions the obi
cation to prevent suffering among
its people. We believe that the
problem of meeting this obligation
is permanent one, varying only in
degrees with the vicissitudes of the
social, economic and business life of
| the State and should, therefore, be
met by the adoption of a compre-
hensive, long-range program instead
of continuing the haphazard, con-
fused and ineffective methods of the
present Republican administration.
We believe that such a program in
wolves the acceptance by the political
subdivisions of the State of their
fair and just portion of the cost of
meeting the needs of their own un-
fortunate as well as the response
bility for administering the funds
discussed, with the State at all
times contributing its proper share
of the total funds needed throughout
the State.
|
FISCAL POLICIES
We pledge ourselves to an
honest application of a fixed, sound
fiscal policy of meeting current ex.
penses with current revenues
We pledge ourselves to the adoption
of graduated income tax embody-
ing the main features of the present
Maryland act with a scale of rates
ranging from minimum of one pei
cent to a maximum of six per cent
with reasonable exemptions and de.
auctions. -. We recommend the
adoption of the constitutional amend.
ment to be voted upon in November
authorizing the adoption of a grad
uated income tax. F.. Simultaneously
with the enactment of such an in
come tax we propose that the pres
ent four and a half mills intangible
security tax ba repealed. /. :.
We oppose any attempt to raise
needed new revenues through real
estates taxes in any form except
only in exceptional emergencies
We further oppose any form of gen.
eral sales tax or gross receipts tax
-. We vigorously oppose the States
continuing the practice of resort to
the licensing of pinball machines and
similar gambling devices as a means
of raising revenue. . We propose
and pledge ourselves to repeal of the
existing State tax on admissions to
theatres and moving pictures and on
cosmetics and toilet articles.
MERIT SYSTEM
We pledge ourselves to per-
manent retirement system for State
employees, set up on a sound fiscal
basis, as long-range program. We
pledge our continued support to the
Merit System in the selection of
State employees.
ALMSHOUSES
Recent surveys disclose regrettable