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SNOW HILL VS. MENCKEN-SUN
Resolutions Passed By Snow
Hill-Worcester Chamber
of Commerce
At its regular monthly meeting last Monday night the Snow Hill-Worcester Chamber of Commerce passed the following resolutions:
Whereas, the Baltimore Sun published an article written by H. L. Mencken, a Baltimore journalist, in its issue of the Evening Sun on the 7th of December last, which was a flagrant misrepresentation and an intentional gross insult to all the people living on the Del-Mar-Va Peninsula, particularly those of the Maryland counties, known as the "Eastern Shore," and,
Whereas, the residents of Snow Hill and vicinity are not concerned about Mr. Mencken's opinion of them as ev-pressed in his article, but they are interested in knowing how he was able to secure space for his article in the Evening Sun, and,
Whereas, many members of Snow Hill-Worcester Chamber of Commerce are, or have been readers of the Sun papers, and are customers of Baltimore merchants—
Resolved, that the publishers of the Sunpapers be asked to defend the publication of the Mencken article or admit by their silence that it had their unqualified endorsement, and further,
Resolved, that the business men of Baltimore be requested to define their opinion of the Mencken article, and recite what action if any they have taken to denounce its publication by the Evening Sun, if it did not meet with their approval, and,
Resolved, that a copy of this resolution be mailed to the Baltimore Sun and also to the Baltimore Association of Commerce, with the request that they make a reply to be in the hands of the Secretary of this chamber on or before the 21st of December for the consideration of its members at that time.
Presented and passed December 14, 1931.
Copy. B. HERMAN ADKINS,
Secretary.
Snow Hill, Md., Dec. 15, 1931.
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