Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Judge BrauIt Says
Soldiers Letters
Oppose Charter
Speakers Committee
Announced by Advocate
Of Proposed Change

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Montgomery County Citizens Com
mittee to Defeat the Charter asking
them to vote against the proposed
change in the countys government
are being answered with a majority
of the writer's promising to vote
against the charter, Judge Albert E.
Brault revealed today.
At the same time, the Montgomery
County Charter Committee an
nounced a list of speakers who will
present charter advantages to
organizations and civic groups
throughout the county.
More than a score of letters have
been received from servicemen serv-
ing in all parts of the world, Judge
Brault said, and more than 80 per
cent say their writers will vote to
defeat the charter.
Burns Me Up"
One private wrote from France,
where he is fighting with the Army,
Judge Brault said, that the charter
campaign is 1.-The kind of thing that
burns me up while I am overseas.
I wonder sometimes what people
think We are fighting for"
Judge Brault said another Army
man who has been overseas for Is
months wrote the committee that
"we members of the great American
Expeditionary Forces are interested
In the happenings at home more
than anything else and we want our
communities to be just as we left
them"
Terse Notes Received.
Still another wrote the committee
that the II 900 servicemen now away
from home ''have not had the op-
lportunity to examine the charter
question and should not have to
decide at this time whether or not
to change the county government.
Under the circumstances, there is
only one logical way for seryicemen
to vote-against the charter
While most servicemen have given
their reasons for voting against the
charter, Judge Brault said, others
have written terse notes that they
will oppose the change.
Charter Speakers Listed.
Mrs. James v. Bennett, chairman
Of the Charter Committees Speak
ers' Bureau, said many prediction
radio talks and addresses before
civic associations already have been
scheduled.
Among those who will speak for
the charter, Mrs. Bennett said, are
Marquis Childs, Washington column
list; DR.. j. Hilknan HOLSTER, pastor
of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church; DR.. Theodore Martin of the
National Education Association;
Merlo Pussy of the Washington
Posts editorial staff; Ray Tucker
Washington columnist; Howard P
Bailey, assistant to the managing
editor of The Star, and Adlai Magee
who conducts the Montgomery
County radio hour.
Speakers from the upper section
OF the county will include Mrs
Vestus Wilcox, Laytonsville, former
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of Women's Clubs; Judge Thomas
Anderson, Rockville: Everett Jones
Damascus, and Tarlton Brooke
Norbeck.
. Other Speakers.
Other speakers will include Rich
ard Barker, president of the County
Civic Federation: Mrs. joseph Ma
guire, president of the County Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs; Mrs
Frank Garfield, president of the
County League of Women Voters;
DR.. Oscar Blackwelder, former pres
ident Of the Washington Federation
of Churches, and Mrs. Miner Hos
teller, past president of the League
of Women Voters.
Other members of the speakers
bureau are James v. Bennett, Ralph
D. Boyd. Sherman F. Booth, Mrs
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