Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1941-08-29
We Are Disguised

the Health Association all has finally boiled over
and all the dirt and filth connected with running down
the cutters of Greenbet
We have quarrel with solid citizens who have
formed their opinions the matter after careful invest
cation and awaiting their chance have their say in
open democratic meeting Our quarrel is with those self
appointed guardians your welfare who stop at nothing
to force their views on you
The first of these to crawl of hiding signed their
names to mimeographed statement last Saturday.
statement that contained of the deliberate lies
and malicious distortion of aimed at the Cooper
ator In the past have been the target others with
differences of opinion those whose ambition has been
to control u.s. We have fit to ignore of them
cause time has the right Those people disap
peared and have been forgotten But when the very
dalton OF Our paper is macousy maigned cannot
ignore it.
The facts in the case are Just this:
Monday night August 18, the G. H. A. board took &C
ton Tuesday night, after office opened we placed
call for Mr.. Custer and Dr. Siagy for statements Mr.
Custer reached and he replied that he would try to
give statement before press time We were unable
to reach Dr. Sagy after repeated efforts Mr. Custer gave
statement and printed it. later conversation
with Dr. sagy he informed that he did not receive the
message, but willing to give statement this week
You will find elsewhere in this edition. This was re-
grettable circumstance but could not be helped Wednes
day night about $780, after the paper had gone bed
Mr. Gawthrop called with the statement that he had
some We told him could not take it the late
date and time He turned this over to Aaron
Chintz, who told the very thing with the sug
next week The complete to the charges and ac
cusations can be summed up simply as this:
/. The deadine for ordinary is pm. Mondays;
special happenings Tuesday evenings and requested items
before pm. Wednesday night We have printed this time
and time again before, so that it is not new.
2. The alleged story referred to pre-
sented to this paper We time saw or knew of the
contents of this news" until it printed Saturday in
the mimeographed flyer.
g. If this alleged news had been presented to us iii
time for publication would not have been printed Those
paragraphs not news they editorial comment. We
have enough material for editorials and do help
from the outside in determining policy Any reporter
turning in such tripe metropolitan paper
would be fired sight
A. fractional disputes not Only those papers
wishing to stir up trouble will print them SUCH
operative such factions have free and democratic right
of expression of thought in open meetings If printed
statements and news from such sources, would be
filed each week with the opinions of malcontents and
decrng the action of each board of every
ganization in town.
s. Who these people that demand that the press
be stopped every time they wish to make startling
nouncement? If they speaking in official
capacity perhaps would stop the presses. Is Mr.. Cav
throp speaking head of the council Mayor Green
belt? Is Mr.. Chintz speaking for his wife, G. H. A.
board member? Are the rest of them speaking for their
organizations in which they active? If they
didn't tell Consequently, must consider them just
malcontents dissatisfied with the actions of majority of
duly elected board of directors of an organization to
which they belong
The believers in cooperative medicine in Greenbelt
should look well to their house. Otherwise these factions
by their very actions will tear down that house. They
the enemies of cooperative medicine They the enemies
of all that good and wholesome in the cooperative