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TAXPAYERS COMMITTEE SUB MITS REPORT Statement Of Work Undertaken And Accomplished Wasteful Expenditures——Politicians Prevent Reforms To tile Taxpayer* ot Cecil Cluntyi At the public meeting nt the Tax payers in January, 1933, Your Com mittee were given definite instruction which we have endeavored to carry into effect. This has required num erous Committee meetings, a great many sessions with the County Com missioners and a number ot visits to the General Assembly at Annapolis. Our efforts have been partially suc cessful although faced with almost complete lack of cooperation on the part of the officials through whom these economies must be effected. We have met with some opposition, con fined almost entirely to the politicians whose offices we contended were un necessary or overpaid and of course we have been villified and slandered by those who have been the direct re cipients of the various gratuities from the hands of our officials at the ex pense of the taxpayers. For the most part we have ignored these personal attacks and would not permit our selves to be drawn from the object of our endeavors, namely, the elimina tion of waste with Its resultant reduc tion in taxes. SHERIFF A Bill was prepared by Your Com mittee and our delegates secured the passage thereof at the last regular Session of the Legislature, placing the Sheriff upon a salary basis. This sys tern has worked very satisfactorily in other Counties and should result in a substantial saving to the taxpayers of this County. <4|| COUNTY COMMISSIONER’S COURT At the instance of Your Committee a Bill was Introduced and passed at the last session of the Legislature re ducing the salary of County Commis sioner from $2,000 to SI,OOO. Being relieved of supervision of the County roads the new salary will be compen satory and the taxpayers are saving $3,000 each year. Our delegates were presented with the Bill limiting the salaries in the Treasurers office to $4,500, which also provided the Assistant Treasurer should be appointed instead of elected, but this was not introduced. COUNTY ROADS AND BRIDGES Our representatives gave their as sistance to the measures whereby the State took over the supervision of the County roads for a limited period, the expense of operation to be secured from the special fund for the elimina tion of grade crossings. The enact ment of this measure relieves the County of an appropriation of approx imately $78,800 each year. Your Committee is opposed to the building of bridges by the County other than by competitive bid and then ’ only upon contract. This should be further qualified by stating it should be done only when imperatively neces sary. A striking example that brings about this recommendation is Scotch man’s Creek Bridge. This proposition may have been founded in ll.e very best intentions yet it stands as a mon ument of gross extravagance and waste of public money. The bridge is of concrete construc tion with an actual length of approx imately 400 feet. Excluding fills made necessary by the manner of construc tion, it has cost the County $50,800.00. The probabilities are this item will be included in our budget, directly or in directly, for years to come. PUBLIC SCHOOLS Your Committee believes that eco nomies could be effected in the man agement of the public schools, the elimination of unnecessary courses, the abolition or at least the curtail ment of the offices of supervising teachers and the like, the adjustment of salaries of those in charge of our schools, etc. Our schools are so im portant we believe the entire subject should be investigated by men spec ially qualified, to be selected by the School Board and the Taxpayers of Cecil County. Our criticism is not that we spend too much to educate our children but that we waste too much in special courses, supervision, etc., which do not contribute to the education of the child. Possibly all of these objection able items have some merit, yet it seems to us now is the time to relieve ourselves of these luxuries and to make our sacrifices for those that are necessary. Ifi our judgment a reduction in the salary of teachers would not be just ified. These fine, intelligent young women and men are charged with the grave responsibility, not only of edu cating our boys and girls in tne three R’s, but also with shaping their mor als. Their tremendous influence on the lives of our young people is well recognized. In our opinion, however, there .should be a substantial reduc tion in the salary of County Superin tendent of Schools ($3500), the State Superintendent of Schools .$10,000) and his Assistant ($6,000.) We believe a change is due and should be made in the present method of operating our school system. The State Superintendent of Education, practically- an appointee of Governor Ritchie,. In conjunction and with the assistance of the local School Board, who are also appointed by the Gover nor, prepare a budget of the school re quirements for the coming year. This budget is presented to our County Commissioners who have no alterna tive but to deduct this sum flora our tax receipts, regardless of how un necessary or objectionable some of the items comprising the same may be, except, the schools cannot have appropriated for their use over 47 per cent of the total. In other words they can receive forty-seven cents out of every dollar of County budget re quirements, and they always do. There is no way the people of Cedi County can protect themselves again st waste and improper management of the schools, even though the tax payers own the schools and provide the money for their operation. Such a situation taints of autocracy and something should be done to cor rect It. BILLS AGAINST THE COUNTY There was' nothing we were re quested by the taxpayers to do that Involved more sacrifice of time than to protest the accounts which to our notion, should not be paid. When the bills filed against the County were published we protested until it wjis conclusively, demonstrated to us that ■ we were wasting time and stationery. ! Every protest meant that we would ' t*S*| WHO# & wjuaieut with the politicians and some of the office holders, incidentally they always pre sented a united front, and while prob ably a percentage of our protests were not well founded it is hardly con ceivable we were wrong in every in stance. Suffice to say the County Commissioners decided against Your Committee on every occasion. Charges of office rent, telephone, electric light, fees in excess of the schedule of fees provided by the Court, printing bills hundreds of dol lars in excess of the amount author ized by law, fees of witnesses, con stables and Sheriff, services tendered individuals and charged to the County by public officials, to say nothing of the ferry service we maintain across the Susquehanna River, just a few of the items we complained against. These protests are on file in the Treas urer’s office and may be examined by any citizen of the County. Our contention is and has been that .where the law provides a certain sal ary or a limit to expense for certain matters connected with the County government the County Commission ers are bound to that amount. They, however, have taken a contrary view and their action on these protests have resulted in the expenditure of thousands of dollars that would have otherwise been saved to the taxpayers. ELECTIONS A classification of the incomplete election costs reveal the following: Rental of property $ 913.00 Printing 2400.00 Salary and Expense 481.00 Qualifying 276.00 Making Returns 270.00 Returning Books 270.00 Posting Notices 405.00 Overtime 1508.50 Suspected Persons 95.00 Election and Registration 1732.00 Moving Books ’ 55.00 Delivery Ballot Boxes .... 95.00 Doorkeepers 265.20 Carpenter 239.17 The books of the Treasurer of Cecil County show the cost of tile last gen eral election to be $9,112.58. "When you consider it cost the taxpayers ot this County S3O for each vote cast at this election it is apparent to the man who pays these bills that something should be done. The first item of $913.00 we believe could be almost entirely eliminated. In one instance we paid SIOO rental for a property that is assessed for S4OO, In two other instances we paid SIOO, in another SIOO, in another $126 and in still another $174. These charges in our opinion are unconscion able yet unless affirmative action is taken by the taxpayers we will con tinue to make donations to certain property owners. Our contention in this matter has been made known to the Board of Election Supervisors who coni end our suggestion that elections be held in the school buildings' is not practical. As a consequence they have refused to adopt the plan although it could be done under existing law. AY e own the schools, or at least we have paid for them, and in our judgment elec* tions could be held therein without damaging the properties in any way. The next item, printing $2400, is also out of reason. To correct this situation and prevent its recurrence a measure was prepared and g'ven our Representatives in the Legislature providing, ‘‘the estimated require ments be submitted to the bid of the newspapers in Cecil County and that ’’the contract be awarded the lowest bidder.” This Bill never made its exit from Committee. The next item, salary slßl, could be reduced and Still compensate officials for their service. To this end a Bill ivas prepared and given our Repre sentatives providing for the v rate of compensation to election officials re main as at present except that "no salary should be paid them in the years in which no elections are held.” It is not quite clear to Your Commit tee W’hy Election Supervisois, Attorn eys, Clerks etc., should be paid sal aries in those years in which they havq no duties to perform. This Bill also failed to make its exit from Com mittee. The next items, qualifying $276, making returns $270, returning books $270, in the opinion of Your Commit tee are absurd. Why an election of ficial who sacrifices but a few min utes of his time to qualify, make re turns or return books should be paid In each instance the sum of $6.00 on the theory he had sacrificed a day Is not made excusable by the fact that it Is the taxpayers money being spent. There probably Is reason for a charge of this kind by officials living in re mote districts as it probaoly takes them the best part of a day. Our ex perience with election officials thru out the County leads us to the conclu sion they desire to be paid only for the service rendered and this is borne out by the bills presented to the Board of Election Supervisors. In a great many instances bills presented for SI.BO, $2.40 and for other amounts less than $6.00. These amounts w T ere changed by the Board of Election Supervisors to $6.00 and when ex planation was requested they stated this was done to place them on a uni form basis. Your Committee wonders if they would change an officials charge from $3.00 to $6.00 for the sake of uniformity if they were spend ing their own money. The next item, posting notices $405, is ridiculous. The taxpayers are fa miliar with the nature of the notice and the places posted. We paid sixty six of our officials 6.00 each for post ing these notices. In the opinion of Your Committee this Is a most flag rant waste of the taxpayers money. The Item of overtime, $1508.50, is one of considerable importance. The law of this State provides that over time shall be paid at the rate of $.30 per hour, yet this item is composed, entirely of overtime at the rate of $.60 per hour. Y'our Committee is composed of men who have had more or less experience about polling places and have a fair idea of the work In volved. We 4° n °t attempt to say that $.30 is a compensatory rate but we have no hesitation In stating that under the Act of Assembly* above re ferred to, the Board of Election Super visors and the County Commissioners had no right to pay in excess of that amount. It seems to us, from a practical standpoint, that the manner in which elections are conducted In this State could be changed, resulting In the ex pediting of returns and eliminating tbs U* !it SYStUttS: Vds( THE MIDLAND JOURNAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934 the present system there are more of ficials during- the day than actually needed In order that the strain of counting ballots, etc,, at night may he divided among, many, yet at the clos ing of the polls all the men are near exhaustion, particularly since _sp ; many ate men of advanced years. Would It not be possible and prac tical, also economical, to divide he force at the polls, those reporting with the opening to carry through un til the closing of the polls, others to report at 1 P. M. to begin the counting of the ballots or to replace those on duty and have them later report at the j closing of the polls. If the former complete returns would be available an hour -or two after the closing of the polls and all officials would have completed their labors within the regulation day. Your Committee prepared a Bill ■ that the States Attorney should be the legal adviser without compensation. | This Bill failed also. In our opinion I the passage of this measure would I have resulted In economy to the tax-* payer without adding a burden to the States Attorney. COI'IVTV AGENT We have made known to the County Commissioners the sentiment of Your Committee and the taxpayers general ly In regard to this office, appropria tions for which exceed $2,600 each year. This office may have merit in prosperous times, this Is subject to considerable doubt, but In the strug gle for existence that is taking place at present there can be no justifica tion for it. However, tne County Commissioners continue to appropri ate, this item being Included in their budget for the present year. ORPHANS’ COURT CRIER We have also urged the County Commissioners not to appropiiate for this utterly unnecessary and useless position. The item of expense is not very large but large or small if the office is not necessary the cost of maintaining should be saved to the taxpayers. In this the Commissioners do not agree with Your Committee and the office, with Its cost, will be continued. SUPERVISOR OP ASSESSMENTS Your Committee prepared and had introduced at the last regular session of the Legislature a Bill eliminating the office of Supervisor of Assessments in this County. Your representatives were not successful in having this enacted Into law', the measure having failed to make its exit from com mittee. Since the creation of this office in 1914, the taxpayers of Cecil County have paid salary amounting to $25,- j 000. We have no personal knowledge of any benefit to the taxpayers from this office and the records failed to disclose any justification foi it. It seems to Your Committee it is high time this wholly unnecessary office be abolished, with the resultant saving to the taxpayers of this County. OUTSIDE INSANE At the previous meeting of the tax payers it was recommended a change be made in the law relative to the commitment of the insane, making It mandatory that one of the examining physicians be connected with the Board of Health who should perform this service without additional com pensation. The duty of this physician would be, in addition to the medical examination, to ascertain the financial condition of the person to be commit ted and to report his findings to the County Commissioners. This resolu tion called for some very dramatic oratory on the part of one of the members of the Bar and due to the lateness of the hour and the compara tive unimportance, of the matter it was not pressed by Your Committee. Investigation discloses that we have in our insane institution sixty-five persons, sixty-two of whom are direct charges upon the County. In every instance it cost the County Ten ($10) dollars for the medical examination w'lth an average Sheriff expense of Twenty-Five ($25) dollars. The res olution above referred to would save one half the medical fee and the re cent Act of the Legislature, placing the Sheriff upon salary, eliminates that expense entirely. The County records disclose that we are charged for these sixty-two pa tients at the rate of One Hundred and Twenty-Five ($125) dollars per year. Of this number seven have estates ranging from SI,OOO to $4,000, an in determinate number have property and -several were not citizens of the County at the time of their commit ment. so we are informed. We see no reason why the more ec onomical method could not be em ployed, saving the taxpayers of this County thousands of dollars each year, especially since the proposed change would not interfere in the least with the care and treatment of these unfortunates. STATE ROADS We favor the widening, improving and beautifying of Routes One and Forty in Cecil County and are oppos ed to the building of a new highway that W'ould eliminate these two routes.. That the Administration con templates doing so is evidence by the failure of the Governor to carry out the provisions of the Act of Assembly approved on April 12, 1931, which had the improvement of these thorough fares as its purpose, and the manoeu vering of the Governor and his forces at the Special Session of the Legisla ture. What happened at this Session of the Legislature and its effect on the property owners and cittzens of Harford County Is now a matter of history. We know of no blow the Administra tion could level at the people of Cecil County that would be as injurious to the citizens generally or demoralize business conditions to a greater ex tent than the virtual abandonment of routes One and Forty by the building of a new highway. Property along the two routes would be dept eclated in the huirareds of thousands of dol lars, the life savings and entire busi ness investment of many that are de pendent upon the traveling public would be destroyed, and the business of many small towns along the routes would be stagnated. Nothing could justify this terrific loss. We own roads in Cecil County and, assuming we contribute our share to State government, we will pay for these improvements, no matter of what they consist. Common sense tells us, since we live in the United States, we should dictate where, when and In what manner they should be improved, etc., but under tht system organized under our present Execu tive, so far as roads are concerned, we are virtually under a dictatorship. He, through his appointee the State Roads Commission, states where the highways shall be and it Is unfortu nate If the citizens do not agree with him. His Excellency, advocate of the doctrine of ‘State’s Right' denies to the political sub-divisions of the State the principles he enunciates. MISCELLANEOUS We deplore the idea that seems to prevail in the minds of our public of ficials that more desirable assistants can be secured from' distant points. Th} is jUwtmsd & the 1 WOODLAWN Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Montgomery, Ruth and Stanley, of Coe.tesville. ! j Pa., spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William E. Rea. Mr. Eugene Hite spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Glack in, Felton, Md. The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. I Glenn McGrady, leaving a baby boy, Glenn, Jr., to brighten their home. ! Mr. and Mrs. William Feather and son, of Collingswood, N. J., spent Wednesday, the 17th, with Mr. and Mrs. George Tyson. Mr. William Lair visited nis wife at the home of their daughter, in Chester, Sunday. Mrs. Lair has been quite ill for two months. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sweeney and Mr. Forrest Miller, of New Bruns wick, N. J., spent the week-end with their sister, Mrs. S. Rowland Tome and family. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKay and Elsie Lou spent the week-end with his parents at Kennett Square. His brother Norman, who spent *he past five months with them, has returned home. The Ladies Aid Society held a Covered Dish Luncheon in the Church House, Friday the 26ih, with 75 present. Tlje chairman, Mrs. Geo. W. McCullough, arranged the program, an instrumental solo, Miss Ruth Wiiliams. Humorous reading, Mrs. R. G. Terry; Solo, Mr. Geo. McCullough “Home on the Fange;” Mr. Carroll Tyson, “Pal of My Dreams;” Duet, “There’s an Old Spinning Wheel in the Parlor,” Mrs. Harold Tyson and Mrs. McCullough. In the absence of Mrs. Carroll Tyson, Miss Virginia Abrahams read an original article written by Mrs. Tyson in honor of her parents’, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Thompson’s fifty third wedding anniversary, which was that day. A puzzle contest was held in charge of Mrs. Terry. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bell, of Glen olden, Pa., were Tuesday guests of her parents. Mr. Charles F. Bryde, of Drexel Hill, Pa., visited his brother David, Sunday. regularly of persons residing in other parts of the State and in sume in stances from other states. These po sitions should be filled by citizens of our own County as in our opinion only in exceptional cases is the em ployment of persons from other coun ties and States justified. An exami nation of the lists in all departments of our County government, and in those branches of State government pertaining directly to Cecil County, will disclose many such persons em ployed, while our citizens who are qualified for these positions endure an enforced idleness. A Bill was preiVared for our dele gates providing for the payment of State and County taxes in install ments. This measure failed of pas sage. Your Committee is most anxious to know why electric current, g,.neratea within our border, should cost resi dents of this County ten cents per kil ! owatt when the same current, after being transported seventy miles or so, costs residents at that point tut four cents per kilowatt. Obviously this should be reversed. Insufficient data at our disposal prevents us from making a recommendation other than our officials and representatives should investigate. It Is apparent the resi dents if this County are being over charged. CONCLUSION Your Committee has confined its at tention almost entirely to waste and our criticism of various public officials is from an impersonal standpoint. We believe this criticism to be just and merited by the facts and have no hesitation in stating from an exami nation of the matters herein reterieu to If waste were eliminated and changes made in the law with a view of economy, our County tax rote could be reduced to 75 cents, wl’liout im pairing the efficiency or financial in tegrity of our local government. We favor expenditures that will harmonize with the policy of Presi dent Roosevelt, yet we do not under stand him to advocate waste. Our County government last year cost $lB for every man, woman and child, a total of almost one half million dol lars, and this year it will cost sl4 for every man, woman and child in the County, or a total well in excess*'of one third of a million dollars. The reduction, almost in its entirety, was brought about by the Acts of Assem bly at its last regular session. Oui citizens are in financial distress, ou, farms mortgaged to the hilt, out homes threatened for non-payment ol taxes, yet our public servants do not seem to be conscious of that fact. The expense connected with the prosecution of the matters hereinbe fore recited have been absorbed by the Committee, having received no do nations, directly or indirectly, from anyone. Our servicos, such as they have been, we gladly contribute and we hope our efforts will be pioduetive of results beneficial to the citizens of this County. In conclusion, we pledge ourselves, individually, to an unremitting war on waste and to the abolition of those of fices not necessary to our welfare Having completed our Tabors to the best of our ability, we respectfully beg to be discharged. For the Committee Hnrold E. Cobourn, Chairman. O West Nottingham Presbyterian Church Rev. A. U. Hibshman Ph. D„ Pastor 1 Sunday School 10:00 A. M Worship 11:00 A. M. Young People’s Meeting 7:30 P. M \ these services. Dr. Hlbshman’s subject l> r next u Sunday will be “Why the World ] Should he MI&S ChxiaUsn." Ij r DEATHS SAMUEL M. WELSH The funeral of Samuel M. Welsh, i age 30, a former resident of Bay View, this county, and a Union vet eran of Civil War, who died Jan. 22, at the home of his nephew in Cam den, N. J., was held Friday after noon from Ebenezer Church, near Greenhurat, this county Inter ment was in the adjoning cemetery, ihe deceased was the last surviving member of North East Post, G. A. R. He Is survliod by a daughter, ivirs. C. M. Gorman, of Gienoiden, ua., and a son, John E. Welsh, of Philadelphia. HENRY O. DEARKL* Y Henry C. Dearnley, aged 44 years, formerly of Philadelphia, died sud denly at the VeLeraus’ Administra tion Facility, Perry Point, on Janu ary 18, 1334. He had been a mem uer of the 28th Training Battalion of the 73th Division. A military funeral for the veteran was conducted by Joseph L. Davis Post No. 47, The American Legion, on Sunday, January 21, 1934, and the remains were interred iu Mount Erin Cemetery, Havre de Grace, taps were sounded by Frederick McClintock, Jr., a member cf the Junior Drum and Bugle Corps. Rev. William Canning and the Post Chaplain officiated. HOSEA R. SMITH Hosea R. Smith, aged 81 years, died Wednesday at his home near Appleton, Cecil county. H, ; s first wife died in Newark, Del., about twenty years ago. He married again fifteen years ago and is sur vived by his second wife find an adopted daughter. His son, by his first wife, was the late Prof. Edw. Lawrence Smith, head of modern language department of Delaware College, Newark, for a number ot years, died some years ego. Mr. Smith spent most of his life in Newark and as a farmer near Ap pleton. The funeral was held Friday af ternoon, with interment in Lead of Christiana cemetery. MRS. MARY E. DEAN Mrs. Mary E. Dean, widow of John B. Dean, formerly of Elkton, out for some years past residing with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hanly, died Jan. 19, at their home at Hillcrest, Del., aged 82 years. Before marriage he was Miss Mary Enos, and most of her married life was spent in Elk oon. She is survived by five child .en—Nona, wife of Fred H. Leffler, of Elkton; Alma, wife of T. Lee Moore, of Holmes, Pa.; Miss Eva S. Jean, of Philadelphia; Alice, wife of W. M. Hanly, of Hillcrest, ard Jacob 3. Dean, of Colbert, Wash.; also ■light grandchildren and one great grandchild. Interment was made at the Elk -on cemetery. o COLORA A new truck belonging to Charles 3oyd, Colora, was destroyed by fire one day last week near Lancaster. Stewart Pierce will farm this sea ion for Fred Taylor. It is said Mr. daylor and family will reside in this town. A goodly number attended the Parent-Teachers meeting here in the jehool building, last Friday evening. Mrs. Harry Plummer, of Avon lale, visited relatives here. William T. Jenness has been ipending some time in Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Riley and daughter Miss Mary, West Notting uam, were Wilmington visiters Sat urday. Mrs. Alberta J. Brown, of Balti nore, who has been visiting her ousin Miss Bertha M. Tyson, is uow spending some time with her urother Elmer Janney, who is quite ick at his home at Cherry Hill. David Price, Harry Price and Thomas Price, attended the funeral >f their uncle Robert Richardson, in .Vest Chester, last Fridaj* Dr. A. 11. Hibshman preached at Aberdeen last Sunday and was the linner guest of Misses Nellie and Jiriam Rowland. The Tuxis Club meets in West Nottingham Chapel this Saturday, it 2 p. m. Mrs. A. H. Hibshman will enter- 1 ain the Westminster Guild Saturday afternoon, at the Manse. ] Mrs. William T. Jenness is im- i proving from an operation last week < at the Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore. _ A daughter, who has been named Harriett Ann, was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Jenness, Elkton, last Thursday morning. The babe is a '< granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- < Ham T. Jenness, Colora. < Mr. and Mrs. Berkely V. Hastings, * of Milton. Pa., are receiving congrat- * ulations on the birth of a son, Ber- c keley Penn, born January 10. The t mother will' be remembered as Miss s Frances Steel, daughter of the late t SSL IM Mrs- w*u§ Steel* Qoiois. I ( YOUR Holiday Gifts should be adequately protected with insur* ance. We’ll be glad to advise you of your needs. CHAS. S. PYLE Insurance RISING SUN, MARYLAND PUBLIC SALE Real Estate and Personal Property at Calvert, Md., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1984 at 1:30 p. m. Two story, 8 room bouse in good condition. Front and back porcues. excellent well of water on back Good cellar. barn and poultry bouse, both in goou condition. One acre of ground, O ood trucking soil. ibis property is nicely located, >vith loveiy view of surrounding country. Close to stores, cUurches, main highway past the property. Also at the same time the nouse uold goods belonging to this home, consisting of Living and Dining uoom Furniture, Rockers, Beds, oiands, Carpets, Tables, Radio and many other articles will De iuciuded m tbis sale. Terms, Cash. Terms on property will be made mown on day of Bale. SARAH P. BROWN. Fisher, Auctioneer. MRS. JENNIE TAYLOR Licensed Funeral Director Gentleman Embaiinei Li censed for Maryland and Pennsylvania. Dignified service given all calls night or day. Phone 122 Rising Sun. Md. Cor. N. Queen & Wal. Sts. - I;avawawavwavww RALPH M. 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