1684 VETOES.

SUNDRY LIQUOR BILLS.

House Bill No. 21 (Ch. 487) repeals the law relating to free
lunches in saloons where intoxicating liquors are sold.

House Bill No. 59 (Ch. 538) repeals the law relating to
the employment of minors under sixteen years of age handling
intoxicating liquors.

House Bill No. 58 (Ch. 567) repeals the law relating to
the hours for the sale of intoxicating liquors.

House Bill No. 60 (Ch. 563) repeals the law relating to the
sale of intoxicating liquors to minors.

House Bill No. 63 (Ch. 669) repeals the law relating to the
sale of malt, beer and other extracts not brewed as such.

These bills, therefore, undertake to repeal various provisions
of the liquor license laws of the State.

I do not see any good purpose to be attained by any of them.
It seems to me that if anything is to be done with the license
laws, the subject ought to be handled as a whole and with some
policy in view.

Certainly nothing is to be gained by repealing a few discon-
nected provisions which might be needed in the event that the
license law should ever be revived and made operative, either
in its present or in some modified form.

All of these bills will be vetoed.

ARMISTICE DAY.

(Chapter 661)

House Bill No. 436 requires Armistice Day to be a school
holiday. The State Board of Education and the School Board
of Baltimore City both oppose this bill, because it would re-
sult in four school holidays in November, one on General
Election Day, two for Thanksgiving and Armistice Day.
Armistice Day is already a legal holiday, and patriotic exer-
cises are held at the schools during the afternoon, which is
probably a better way to teach the spirit of the occasion than
a school holiday would be. I am advised that the signing of
this bill would force the schools in the counties to continue a
day longer in June in order to make up the time lost. For
these reasons the bill will be vetoed.