January 1970
Insuring survival
Photo caption in the Times: "Heritage Preserved — County Executive Omar J. Jones is expected to seek the approval of County Council shortly to spend $9,500 on the basic measures required to insure the survival of the county's first seat of government.
"It was scheduled earlier to be razed along with other substandard dwellings in Ellicott City's Fels Lane-Mercer Street complex. The Howard County Historical Society hopes to raise enough money to renovate and restore the small three-story building."
"J. Glenn Beall To Visit County: Congressman J. Glenn Beall Jr., representing Howard's Second, Third and Fourth districts, will visit the county Thursday, January 8 , when he will be available for questioning by his constituents between 3 and 5 p.m.
"Following the practice established the first year of his term, the Republican Congressman said he has found the visits throughout his District, Maryland's Sixth, to be 'most valuable.'
'Quite often we have been able to assist those who come to us with problems concerning the Federal Government, or at least direct the individual where he can be helped.' "
January 1940
Communism and Hitlerism
From an article in the Times:
" With the market crash, bank failures and breadlines of depression and the blasting of hopes by the recession, the general outlook was gloomy. Not without reason, many people felt that our entire system of life and government was near collapse.
"Then we saw the ruthless barbarism of Communism and Hitlerism, both of which had seriously been offered as curatives for our own ills. Undoubtedly few Americans ever looked upon these systems with real favor. With the brutal suppression of all forms of individual liberty and, finally, the rumbling of cannon in Germany and Russia, their forms of government became absolute anathema in this country.
"Whatever else we may have lost during the trying times of the last decade, we still have our liberty — liberty of speech, thought, religion, enterprise. Our people have suffered, but no great mass of them have starved to death because of the whim of a dictator, as occurred in the Soviet 'republic' of Georgia. No group or sect in this country has been beaten and tormented merely because its political or religious beliefs differed from those of the Administration.
"Now the United States has begun to experience an improvement of business. Prospects for the coming months are bright. And best, of all, we are not at war."
Well, Britain was at war, as of Sept. 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, and the next year we would be too.
"Howard Bruce Opens Campaign At Session Here This Evening:
"Democratic National Committeeman Howard Bruce will open his campaign for the United States Senate at a mass meeting in the Ellicott City elementary school gymnasium tonight. The meeting will start at 8:15 p.m.
"Mr. Bruce will outline his views on national and other issues of the campaign, the committee in charge of the meeting announced. The committee is composed of C. Ferdinand Sybert, James Clark, Charles Carroll, Joshua N. Warfield, Raymond L. Pickett and Milton W. Baxley."
January 1915
Knock, knock
Times social notes:
"Mr. and Mrs. Winsor Kessler and son, Mr. and Mrs. George Buckingham, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis and son Raymond and Clyde spent Christmas day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank T. Buckingham.
"Mr. George Kessler, of Gathers, spent several days of last week with his brother, Mr. Winsor Kessler here.
"Mrs. John H. Owings has returned to her home in Baltimore after spending some time with her mother Mrs. Lillie Hutchins here."