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PAGE EIGHT ■MHHMMiu: omwawiiiwv • :> lafw.'tt' r tu las..- ‘iWMMKi Hochschild.Kohn &. Co. | Harriet Knight Will Do Your Gift Shopping Birthdays. Christmas, graduations, weddings. Easter— ■ sometimes the question of "What shall I give?" becomes a really difficult one to answer. I Harriet Knight is always ready to give sugges tions. and prices, too. if you want them. There is a bountifully supplied Toy Section on our Sixth Floor—and no matter what the age or "leaning" of the child whose birthday you would celebrate, write to Miss Knight, and trust her to make the selection for you. You will be de lighted with her service. Teeming with "home interest" is the Silverware Section. 1 here are novelties in silver—always so welcome—that will offer Miss Knight a wide selection. • - Books—Miss Knight is ready to make intelligent gift suggestions of books. She knows about the n-w fiction. Stationery, candy and bonbons, toilet articles, delectable lingerie—the Gift Sections of Balti more's Best Store are practically unlimited! . .... ~r ... it. ,-yji- , : , ■ -•*■■**:, ...Ah: Hochschild.Kohn 8c Co. Baltimore. Md (6) Cool Porches Can Be So Attractive And Livable Given just a little thoughtful attention with an eye to their possibilities for comfortable furnishing;, porches can be made the most charming spot in the whole house for the summer month.-. A rug. well fitted porch shades that do not whip, a great deep chair or two. a magazine table of wicker, perhaps a swing or comfortable couch hammock—what golden hours of enjoyment and ease they can bring. May they ? Summer home comfort and beauty can be attained so easily and so inexpensively that it’s a wonder that we do not see more pretter and livable porches than we do. % W e should like to show you how very little money is re quired to make your porch in summer a source of restful comfort, for all summer, time porch comfort. \\ on t you visit u- and a>k us to show you -onie suminer- At least, may we not show you the following; Porch Hammocks, . . . $15.00 to $38.00 Porch Swings, .... 4.00 to 13.50 Wicker Chairs and Rockers, 20.00 Porch Chairs and Rockers, 2.50 to 6.50 Porch Rugs, 1.00 to 5.50 Porch Shades, 2.60 to 13.50 and lusy"store” SALISBURY. MARYLAND ______ We Offer Investments Located in Baltimore Tax Free in Md. to net OVER 8 PER CENT. Write for particulars. Townsend Scott & Son Established 1832 Bankers and Brokers Fayette street, opposite Post office Baltimore, Md. Hackett’s Gape Cure IT’S A POWDEP. The Chicks Inhale the (ioes Kiicht to the Spot. Kills the Worm As Well as the (irfm The whole brood treated at once. Saves time —saves the clucks. Wakes Poultrt liaising Iteth I’roll t aide and Pleasant Your money returned if not satis fied. It is almost infallible. Ask your merchant to keep it. Hackett's (.ape Cure. 10c.. postpaid Hackett's house Powder, iOr., postpaid Address HACKETTS (JAPE CURE CO. *ept. S, (3-9) HILLS BOKO, MU. THE DEMOCRATIC MESSENGER. SNOW HILL. MARYLAND. NEW PUNS El STATE GTERNMENT Survey Report Cal's for Eleven Major Departments AUDIT INDEPENDENT itr ~ Eleven Department* Proposed— Office Of Motor Vehicle Commissioner Would Come Under Commerce Department. • * ' •** Annapolis Regrouping of 'he S 5 Stain boards. co:niu:-sions and departments Into 11 major department**, with an Independ ent otlti e o: audit and control, is rec ommend' d in 'he report submitted by the Chiea ;o Arm which Governor Ritchie re amed to make a survey of the StaVa governmental organization. Thia is the report which will coma in for analytes and criticism by tho committee oi 71 Democrats which the Governor has Just appointed The administrative structure recom mended by the report provides for the following major divisions: 1 Executive Itepartinent 2 Department of Finance. 3 Department of I .aw 1 Department of Mill'la j Department of Welfare, ti Department of Health 7 Department of Education. S Department of Public Works. Department of Commerce. 10 Department of Labor 11 Depa.-tmetf of Employment and Registration. in addition, the scheme includes the establishment of the independent "of fice of audit and control." to be known as "office of the State Comptroller. - ' At the head of each department would b- u director. " appointed by th>- Governor and removable at pleas ure The 11 ■"directors'" would com prise -h-- Governor's cabinet "They would b- full? responsible tc him." says the report, "and in . in turn, because of their < 10-t- supervision thus made possible, would become chief ex ecutive in the full -eiise of th> term" The general policy of the report is to recommend that administrative com mission- be super.-ed-d by individuals who should rank as chief- of bureaus In the departments to which the work of such commis-ions has been a-- signed Thus, for example, the Road- Commission would be abolished, and in lieu thereof a Road Commissioner wonld he created, he to head the Un real! of Roads in the Department of Publii Works The report suggests, however, 'hat for the present that the Director of Public Works migtr al-o head the Bureau of Roads ■Similarly the office of the Commis sioner of Motor Vehicles, one of 'he largest of the State Departments un der the present dispensation would lose Ps independent identify and would become the Bureau of Motor Vehicle- of the Department of Com merce. The head of this Bureau would be the commissioner of Motor Ve hicles Two commission-—the Public Serv ice Commission and the Sta’- Board of Motion Picture Censors it is pro posed to retain “because of the quasi judicial functions exercised by these agencies The chairmen of these two comm!s-:ons. however, shall he desig nated as the chief- of their respective bureaus end shall be made responsible to th-> direc or of the department for the e(T--' t operation of the admin istrative and office de'atls of their re spective bureaus” If. however. the proposed reorgani zation would seem to impair the au tonomy ’r> -ay nothing of the dignity —of certain important State officials by making them bureau chiefs, subordi nate to department heads the plan would afford them the compensating benefit of security In office for 'o quo'e the report "The position- of the heads of the various bureaus should be placed tn the c!a-ifled serv ice of the State and they should be removed only for cause a- provided in the Merit System Law They would he the permanent expert executive heads as distinguished from he ordi narilv tran.-l-nt policy making ap pointees of the chief executive of the Sta'e ' Further, any possible loss of prestige due to the tranai'ion from chairman of a tommi-sion to a commissioner, who is mere!* chief of a subordinate bureau, would be oP-et b* a prospect ive increase in salary The report rec ognizes that trained and competent ex ecutive f-ticb a- the bureau chiefs would bei intis* p* wen patd. On this head the dictum of - he report is as follows • 'Commissioners at the head of the various bureaus should be full-time officials and adequately paid The State most compete to some extent wi'h private business by paying ade quate salaries if it i to interest com peten - and experience*) business executives in the public service Their appointment must naturally V. safe guarded by qualification requirements of a high order” Th* primary purisrse of the admin istrative machlnei% recommended by the rejtort seems the co-ordination of effort and the ecn’rallzation of ate thorlty and re-ponsibility The greater to-ordination la to be attained by aet. ting up the mavr departments with their subordinate tnt.''aua. la tin language of tb report: "Eat;/ major d-partment la to b madi' ,<> ot one or more bureaus and ran adiruiit'iraiive office The latter would concentrate the aduitulatraiive service work for the department a.i a whole and would have general cote trol and supervision over the prep U ara'ion of departmental estimates and over expenditures, cost account ms and reports. For most depart ment' tliis oilice would keep the con trolling accounts of the entire de parttuent. prepare accounting state men’s and reports, supervise the col -1 lection ot r- venues if any. and make ei il! disburse It would to- under the supervision of the department | director and iu direct charge of a ; chief clerk T 1 . , The centralization of authority aud „ respotisibilitj would he a Itieved (at ’"'!>> the ■'cabinet'' system by which 11 ’• department heads instead of 8a hoards, 1 I com missions, etc., w ould he directly '■ responsible to the Governor for the conduct of the State's business, and V (b) by the abolishing of commissions 'jin fay or ol the single commissioner 1 ! or bureau chief. On this latter head '• the report says: • ! "Iu accordance with the general 9 policy advocated in this report, il is 9 r <coinweiul*-d that boards and cominls ! sions be abolished wherever possible * On the other hand, the report rec ognlzes the function of a hoard oi a j commission as a poiicy-formiug ageucy if not as an administrative body. Thus, four advisory councils are suggested j Iu connection with the Department of Welfare--the State Lunacy Commis | slon. the Advisory Hoard of Parole, the i Advisory Council on Charities and tbe ! Advisory Council on Corrections." An Advisory Council on Health is j another suggestion. The policy of the I j report would be tor members ol such advisory councils to serve without 'compensation, though "members of rtie State Lunar;- Commission, be cause of tiie larger demands made j upon them, should be paid for the tune they actually devote to their work." The report also looks tot ward to changes .a the St.it** organization which yy-'Uid require ConsLiutionat Amendments Such changes me: Appointment by tie- Governor of the Attorn* y General instead of the latter's election by. the voters of the State. Superseding of the State Treasurer by a Director of Finance. Fending the passage of a Constitutional Amend * nient. tin State Treasurer, as at pres ent elected, on Joint ballot of th House and Senate, would serve as such Director. Selection of the State Comptroller li) the General Assembly instead of his election by tire voters The report notes ’tie recent tendency in Maryland to centralize administra tiou dtities in a single commission taiher than to distribute tin nr among 1 a plural-head-*d board. The creation ot a Commissioner ol Motor Vehicles In stead of a Commission is cited as a 1 case in point. As the Police Depart men of Baltimore City does not com* within the purview of th- report, what is perhaps an even more striking ex ample, the substitution ol one Coinmis sioner In place of a three-man board, is not mentioned. The report finds in the creation of a Central Purchasing Bureau (with re • sponsibiliiy practically vested iu on* - Individual the Sta’e Purchasing Agent) and of a .State employment Commissioner further illustrations ol ' the tendency towards centralization a 1 ready manifest in this State In this connection the report pays ' a compliment 'o the Maryland Merit ' System law. drawn by Philip B Perl ' man. Secretary of State, when it says: "Th*- Civil Service of most other Governmental bodies is in fact ad ministered by a commission, so that ’ the action ot Maryland in this regard (establishing a single I'ommissioneri is in advance of most other States aud ’ cities For Conservation Session. 1 Governor Ritchie has written to Gov 1 ernor Davis, of Virginia, suggesting 'he advisability of a conservation confer -1 * ne*- similar to that held by the Kxecu ■ lives of the two Slate' in I’lK. Chair ‘ man Vickers ol tli** Maryland Conner -1 vatioti Commission iias already sue I geeted such a conference to Governor 1 Davi'. but the la*t*-r lias not a-* yet ■ acknowledged th*- Vickers communica tion Such a conference, if held, would 1 deal principally with the propagation and conservation of crabs. Tile crus taccans. as the rural journals like to 1 say. are rapidly diminishing in iium hers, it is said, and both Governor Ritchie and Mr Vickers think tha’ joint action by the Commonwealth - if Mary land and Virginia is imperative * if the crabs are to be saved 1 Hagerstown. One hundred and fifty 1 delegate- and visitors attended the 1 biennial convention of the Catholic Daughters of America, formerly Daugii ' ters of Isabella in Hagerstown The ' visitors included II grand regents. ■ three dl-trict deputies and five State officer- Mr.- Gen-vi*-ve H Walsh, su preme regent, of New York, who recent ly estabi-hed five courts of the order tn Porto Rico and M F Kelley, supreme r secretary. I 'ici N Y, were present Frost burg After several months' * prospecting Andrew M* Manilla, coal opera* >r and miner, struck one of the ■ largest veins of txnl discovered in Mils r section for several years, at Allegany. f n'*ar the Savage Mountain Fire Brick ■ Company The vein contains an ex ’ cettent quailtv of coal. U 5 feet 7 * Inches thick. l<s feet wide, and is said > to core: on area about 4.UUU acrea it) e d r Herringbones One of the new patterns in j all j ; WO °^ WeaVeS lS af * - H They are shown in Gray, Gr ?en 1 If t hey avor most ev er y I mi WM man, especially young men. * jWM m{ We have Herringbones a pie ;nty -11 l BSi f° r everyone in— ; m 11 1 Kuppenheimer f Good Clothes Drop in at your leisure and iook them over. Every gar ment tailored to the highest standard of quality. Macje to fit and to keep on fitting, during the long service obtained from Kuppenheimer Clothes. Prices $30.00 Up i 1. H. MERRILL CO. 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Ever dip into the sport of rolling ’em? Get some Prince Albert and > the makin’s papers quick and cash in on a ciga rette that will prove a revelation! ■m Prince Albert the national joy smoke PptTIPITIKAt 4 that The Messenger printery makes a ; ■vcmemDer speciahy of aH dasses of p ; inting and ; engraving. The very highest grade of work at less than city prices. See our samples and get our prices. We can please you. 1 Advertisers in The Messenger Secure Results ( I . JUNE 4. 1921.