427: begins with Mencken, 1922 essay on "Maryland: Apex of Normalcy." in Nation "Ideas are suspect. No one appears to be happy. Life is dull."
 

uses automobile to indicate dramatic change in lives of Americans/Marylanders: need for better roads; cites Clark report; 1/4 roads belonged to turnpike companies;
 

through 1906 Maryland Geologica Survey handled $400,000 in matching funds for county roads.
 

1908: Crothers creates State Roads Commmission: 430; $2000 in 1913 derived from taxes on automobilies applied to roads. (430); by 1921 Maryland had purchased the last turnpike (Frederick to Woodsboro [still a legal problem]) In 1915 state completed Road system (431);
 

by early 1908 all but one ES county had gone dry by local legislation; Worcester last holdout (Ocean City)
 

in sum: Automobile inhanced the State's power (434)
 
 
 

434: notes impact of Federal involvement in work of Army Corps of Engineers and at Naval academy post 1899 expansion. 1899: 25 graduates, 1907: 350; notes resistance of town;
 

notes: College Park and Airport (1911)
 

438: looks at the impact of the War on Baltimore: notes industrialization briefly;
 

440: women into the workforce; problems of the germans: 443: in September 1918 the city council renamed German Street for Lt. George B. Redwood, the first Marylander killed in France.
 

notes suburbanization; Noters that in 1892 Hyattsville adopted Henry George's single tax (first in the country to do so, Judge James McSherry of Court of Appeals declared it unconstitutional, p. 445)
 

Suburban Sanitary Commission, sewer's connected with DC sewer system;
 

447: Quotes Raymond S. Tomkins about Maryland soldiers in WWI: "Marylanders had stopped making history for themsleves. They had become part of the history of the United States." [?]
 

448: "odern age left Marylanders searching for a moderate middle course between government control and liberty, conscience and tolerance, tradition and more Progressive change."
 

looks at prohibition and women's suffrage, notes Etta Haynie Maddox and Emilie A. Doetsch admission to the bar; Maryland Suffrage News; JHU 1907 admitted women to Graduate school, 1916 added woman faculty member (Bamberger);
 

1910 split between suffragists
 

1912 800 go to Annapolis to protest, bill dies
 
 
 

451: turns to Ritchie, notes his work as assistant General Counsel to the Public Service Commission; in 1915 ran ahead of the ticket;
 

NOTE; Charles Grasty (452) leaves Baltimore in 1908, to return in 1910 as president of the AS Abell company; resigns in 1914;
 

453: refers to Ritchie's divorce in 1916, fact he moves in with his mother
 
 
 
 
 

notes Ritchies efforts to win over women.
 

455: according to newspapers 105,000 women registered in Baltimore City, 10,000 in Baltimore County, 2,500 in Carroll county; split evenly between Democrats and Republicans
 

notes reforms, modification of Griffenhagen report; fights with Federal authorities; Ritchie first governor returned to a second term;
 

Baltimore,by 1926 moved from 6th to third place among exporting cities, behind only NY and New Orleans
 

notes continuing fascination with aviation: Trippe and Hambleton-to Pan Am; Glenn L. Martin;
 

War revives Tobaccco: demand for crabs rises, oyster harvest falls; miners quite for work in Kelly Springfield plant; labor remains largely unorganized
 

BSO with Preston's help, first of its kind in America;
 

the James Adams show boat, in 1924 Edna Ferber toured with the company, gathering material for novel, Showboat (p. 464)
 

notes horseracing, baseball; Elkton and sudden marriages;

bootlegging; Congressman John Philip Hill, trial 1924, acquitted (471)
 

471-472: black community "Old West" and Pa avenue;
 

Hubie Blake, b. East Baltimore, 1883
 

Baltimore/Md fight prostitution, perhaps inadvertently suppress Jazz;
 

476: Rise of the Klan in Maryland (1922, 2500 descend on Church Circle in Annapolis)
 

Klan and politics (dry and anti-catholic as well as anti-black) by 1925 a large organization, series of gala rallies;
 

courts denied tax exempt status, refused use of armories, Baltimore required marchers to show faces. (477)
 

477: turns to writers, [were Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain accidents? or predictable products of Maryland? Sophie Kerr? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Mencken?]
 

480: "Indeed, [Fitzgerald's] work reflected the ambivalence that had so much to do with the history of his father's home state. Fitzgerald wrote of men and women of money, but their wealth without ethics finally brought hollow rewards, the illusion of good, sudden death."
 

Mencken: graduate of Poly, 1896;
 

485: The average professsor "must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness" Mencken
 

488-489: uses Mencken to explain the middle ground of Maryland "People owned homes and stayed in Baltimore, where "under a slow-moving and cautious social organization, touched by the Southern sun," friendships endured and life brought agreeable charms."
 

"Mencken searched for a civilized temperament in a new age, an aesthetic of the middle."