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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Group of County
Men Indicted

Board 2 announces that the fol-
lowing county men, having passed
their final physical examinations,
were accepted for service in the
Armed Forces on December z:
Army
Charles Wayne Eakle, Rte. 5, Ha-
gerstown.
Harry Kenneth Potts, Rte. Q,
Smithsburg.
Charles Nevin Longnecker,
Chewsville.
Glenn Linfold Bowers, Rte. /, Ha-
gerstown.
Victor Richard Martin, E. Water
street, Smithsburg.
Marvin Elwood Bohrer, care ia
cob Coonrod, Rte. /, North Rose,
NJ Y.
David Leslie Martz, Keedysville.
Russell Wesley Priest, Rte. 4, Ha-
gerstown.
Navy
Verdeen Chopper, 10 Wise street
Hagerstown.
Charles Leroy StuInbaugh, 13t
Vermont street, Williamsport.
Hiram Otto Shives, Rte. 2, Han.
cock.
Willard Raymond Miller, Rte. j
Boonsboro.
Wilbur Clair Trostle, p. o. Boz
105, Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.
George Preston Ferguson, 32l
Mortified avenue, Waynesboro, Pa
Floyd Clark Main, Security.
Ralph Eugene Pine, Rte 2, Ha
gerstown.
Marine Corps
Maurice Clifford Landers, Boz
1874, Rte. /, Hancock.
A group of Hagerstown men &C
cepted for service, will be published
of next weeks issue.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Farmers Council
Blasts Lewis

CHICAGO, Dec. John l.. Lewis is
trying through his United Dairy
Farmers Division District so, United
Mine Workers of America, to jockey
himself into the position where he
can say to farmers Join my union
or l will not let your products go to
market" P. c. Turner, President Of
the Interstate Farmers Council of
Baltimore, Md, charged this week
Should we allow that day ever to
come" Mr.. Turner added, I'VE will
have lost our democracy at home
while fighting to preserve it against
foreign dictators."
Speaking at the twenty-fifth an
nual meeting of the American Farm
Bureau Federation in Chicago, Mr..
Turner said: Agriculture must
guard against the day when the con-
troll of transportation, processing
and distribution of farm products
gets into the hands of some labor
dictator.
Farmers" Mr.. Turner said,
recognize that labor has the same
right to organize for self-protection
that farmers have. At the same
time we condemn the leadership of
unions that countenance racketeer-
ing and call strikes during this ma
tional emergency"
Pointing out that there is nothing
in common between coal mining
and milk production, Mr.. Turner
said that through no stretch of the
imagination does the Lewis scheme
to take over farmers make sense"
Mr.. Turner reported that the In
terstate Farmers Council, set up IS
months ago, is made up of SO farm
organizations and cooperatives with
a combined membership Of more
than $4,000 farmers in Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia. He said
that farmers through their own or
CARNATIONS had blocked Lewis in
his move to take them over against
their wishes, but admitted that
Lewis lis persistent, relentless foe
who doesn't hesitate to hire quis-
l1ings to do his bidding" :
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
New Low Reached
Ii, Benefit Payments

AS a result of greatly increased
employment, due to the war, the
Maryland Unemployment Compen-
sation Board will close the current
calendar year with an expenditure
of less than $1,O0O,0O0 for unem-
ployment benefits. In the Boards
first year of full operation-1938-
total benefits paid exceeded $10,-
100000.
The total benefits thus far paid
for 1943 has been more than offset
by the interest credited to the Board
by the U. S. Treasury on the Boards
balance in the Treasury, which inter-
est on Sept 30 amounted to more
than $1,000,00O for this year.
Benefits paid to the unemployed
by the Board in November amount
ed to $45,918, the years lowest,
bringing the eleventh. months total
to 1857, 565.
At the end of November the
grand total benefit payments by
Maryland amounted to $32, 126,000
and the balance on deposit available
for future benefit payments was
$50, 985,272. Up to November &c
benefit checks from the beginning
averaged $9.66 weekly, while the
average for November last was
$15.24, the larger figure being due
to higher wages and the more lib
eral benefit rate provided by the
Legislature.
On November 80 the Unemploy-
ment Compensation Board had col
lected from employers a grand total
of SLIT, 900, and this sum would
have been greater had the Legisla-
ture not changed the employer con-
tribution rate by creating an ex.
perience-rating system Ito enoour.
age stability of employment which
became effective in the September
quarter Under the new schedule
the contributions of employers as {
whole are reduced about one-sixtt
from the original 81 percent.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Fruit Growers
Annual Meeting

The forty-sixth annual meeting of
the Maryland State Horticultural
Society will be held in Hagerstown,
on January 5 and 6, it is announced
by A. F. Vierheller, specialist in
horticulture for the University of
Maryland extension service, who is
also secretary of the state organiza-
ton.
Control of fruit-set and saving of
labor required for hand thinning
fruit by the use of caustic blossom
removal sprays will be one of the
pertinent topics for discussion, and
the latest results in use of sprays
to prevent dropping of fruit at har-
vest time will be explained, and al
so the possibility of new forms and
increased supplies of fertilizers.
The program will include such
topics as mouse control in orchards;
better solution of the orchard la
Dor supply in 1914; prices and prof
its in fruit growing; some new an
giles in cooling moth control; and
the many problems which will con-
front growers in the postwar peri
cd, both in the foreign market and
on the local front.
Prominent authorities in various
lines will appear on the program.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Volume of Mail Is
Ahead of Last Year

According to Postmaster Simpson,
the volume of mail handled by the
local Office is already ahead of last
year Mail for and from members
of the Armed Forces is responsible
for some of the increase, of course,
but, beginning about a week ago,
Christmas greeting cards began
coming in, in ever increasing num-
bers.
With the post office staff, like ev-
cry other organizations, suffering
from the manpower situation (but
let's not fail to give a hand to the
women clerks in the Office, who are
doing swell job), the cooperation
of the public in these last two hectic
weeks will be appreciated.
Here are a few simple rules,
which, if followed, will help post
master Simpson and his staff ire
mendously:
l. Use Special Delivery for ur-
gent mail.
2. Pack articles carefully, in
strong durable containers.
3. Packages containing articles
easily broken or crushed should be
plainly marked fragile"
a. Packages containing perisha-
bles should be plainly marked 'Per-
ishable."
5. Put your return address on the
upper left-hand corner of the pack
ages you mail.
6. Address every package care
fully. If a tag is used, put the adj
dress and also your return address
on the package as well as on the
tag. Remember that the tag might
get torn off in handling.
Z. Prepay full postage on all
packages. If you are at all doubtful
about the amount of postage neces-
sary, have the package weighed at
the post Office before you mail it.,
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Leitersburg Man
Back From Japan

John Myers, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Myers, Leitersburg, who
returned to America last week on
the vessel carrying exchange pris-
oners, after an absence of Is years.
arrived at the home of his parents
on Dec. 5.
He enlisted in the Navy and
served 20 years, after which he was
given an honorable discharge. Con
tinuing to live in the Far East he
was made a prisoner of Japan. AT
ter being confined in Jap pris-
on camp for nearly two years he
was fortunate enough to be ex-
changed.
On Saturday he went to Wash
ington to reenlist as he says he
wants chance to help pay the Japs
what America owes them by win
ming the war.
He reports that food was scarce
and poor in the prison camp.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Annual Artists
Exhibition Plans

DR. John Richard Craft, director
of the Washington County Museum
of Fine Arts, announces that the
18th annual exhibition of Cumber-
land Valley Artists will be held at
the Museum from January 80
through February n, 1914.
As in the past, any artist resident
of the prescribed area, known for
the purposes of the exhibition as
the Cumberland Valley, bounded on
the north by Harrisburg, Pa, east
by Frederick, Md, south by Win
chester, Va, and west by Cumber-
land, Md, is eligible to enter works
Also, any artist serving in the
Armed Forces and temporarily sta
toned within the area, or any for
mer resident of "the Valley" now
serving in the Armed Forces ano
stationed anywhere within our con
tinental borders is eligible to enter
works.
Each artist may enter two works
- paintings in oil, watercolor
gouache, pastel, drawings in ink
pencil, charcoal; prints; sculpture
Entry cards for the exhibition have
been mailed to all former contribu.
tors. Other interested persons may
obtain cards by writing to the
Museum. These cards are to BIZ
filed in with the name of the artist
the title of the work, its medium
ETC., and returned to the Museum
before January 1, 1914.
All works must be delivered a
the Museum in Hagerstown at thc
expense of the contributing arts
between the dates of January / anc
Is, 1914. There is no entrance fee
A departure from previous year,
is that whereas the exhibition ha,
been no-jury show it will this yea
be judged both for entrance and fol
prizes. A first and second prize anc
three honorable mentions will b.
awarded by the jury, and cash will
be given for the first and seconc
prizes.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Holiday Events
At the Hospital

Christmas festivities get under
way at the Washington County Hos
pital tomorrow evening, when the
annual party for ward supervisors
and student nurses will be held in
the main nurses home.
The Garden Club will continue
their custom of decorating the hos
pital, on Wednesday, Dec. %, and
in the evening of the same day the
trees will be decorated in each of
the three homes of the student
nurses.
On Christmas morning, student
nurses and other personnel of the
Hospital staff have planned to gath
er and serenade the patients with
traditional Christmas Carols This
will be followed by the holiday
breakfast for the hospitals nurses,
with the dining rooms decorated in
keeping with the holiday season.
The personnel of the nursing Of
flee of the hospital will be hostesses
on Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 20, at
the annual student graduate tea.
On Thursday evening, Dec. 30,
The Women's Club will be the scene
of the holiday dance for the student
nurse body and their guests.
Christmas vacations for student
nurses at the hospital will begin
Dec. 10 and continue until Jan. 8,
1914.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Manager of c. of c.
Tenders Resignation

Paul M. Horst, popular manager
of the Hagerstown Chamber of
Commerce, has rendered his resig-
nation, effective on January Is,
1914, to accept the position as state
secretary of the Brethren Mutual
Fire Insurance Company.
The Board of Directors accepted
the resignation of MIR. Horst at its
meeting on Monday, at which time
a resolution was passed expressing
regret that he is leaving the Cham
Der and thanking him for the faith
full service rendered to the organi-
cation during his term of office.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Another Telephone
Employee Honored

Margaret D. Wade, an employee
in the Hagerstown office of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company Of Baltimore City, re-
ceived, during December, a two
star emblem in recognition of ten
years of service with the company.
During December, 80 employees
in the c. & P. Telephone Company
in Maryland were awarded en-
blems. They had an aggregate of
no years of service.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Music Concert To
Be Held Jan. 10

The Civic Music Associations con-
cert, postponed from last Monday
night, because of the illness of WV
ian della Chiesa, will be given on
Monday night, January 10, 1914.
On hearing of the illness of Miss
della Chiesa, the association voted
to postpone the concert, rather than
try to secure another artist to re-
place the famous radio and opera
singer.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Order of Police
Elects Officers

At meeting of the Pangborn
Lodge, No. 88, Fraternal Order of
Police, held on Monday night, Lew
is R. Schmidt was elected president.
Other officers elected for 1914
were: Raymond F. Lewis, vice-pres-
ident; c. B. Bikle, treasurer; Lewis
w. Downey secretary; Grason
Doarnsberger, conductor, and Will
liam H. Peters, chaplain.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Story Hour At the
Library Tomorrow

The final in series of six week
ly story hours sponsored by the
Children's Room of the local library
will be held tomorrow (Friday) af-
ternoon at 4 o'clock.
Miss Vivian Brown will be the
story teller and, in keeping with the
season, has selected a story about
Christmas.
All children of school age are well
come at these weekly hours.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Foods For Russia and Britain.

Grain is the main food the U. S.
is sending to Russia, according to
the War Food Administration, while
meat, primarily pork, will be the
largest item among foods to be
shipped to Great Britain in the next
10 months. In Great Britain, sup
plies from the U. S. will be shared
by civilians and the armed forces;
in Russia, nearly all will go direct
to the army.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Fair Assn Will
Nominate Officers

At stockholders meeting of the
Hagerstown Fair Association, to be
held Saturday afternoon, nominal
tons will be received for the vari-
GUS officers and directors of the as
ISOLATION.
The election will take place at
the annual meeting, Saturday, jan
uary l, 1914.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
RATION
DEADLTNES
CANNED GOODS

A, B. and C stamps
(Green) in Ration Book
No. 4 are valid now and
remain valid through De-
cember goth. Stamps D, E
and F can also be used now
and remain valid through
Jan. 20, 1914.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Have You Heard

About the little Moron girl
that swallowed some bullets
so. that her hair would come
out in Bangs!
Then there's the one about
the little Moron boy who
backed off the street car be-
cause he heard that someone
was going to grab his Seat!
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Germans Are Learning.

A joke currently making the
rounds among German soldiers, ac-
cording to report from overseas
reaching the Office of War Informa-
tons recently, runs as follows: ut
is very easy to recognize Allied
planes. If you see more than three
planes at a time, you know that
they are Allied planes
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
TO ENTERTAIN LIONS

The A Capella Choir, under the
direction of Raymond x. Hollinger,
will give a program of Christmas
music at the regular luncheon meet
ing of the Lions Club next Tuesday
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
To the Editor
Sir: :

Last year, about this time, the
writer proposed an idea for elimi-
mating, in the interest of economy,
the mailing of local Xmas and New
Years greeting cards, by substitute
ing, in their place, for the duration
of the War, an inexpensive notice
in our daily papers. This idea APP
pealed to our local papers, but they
were afraid that any such sugges-
ton on their part might be inter-
preted as being dictated by selfish
motives and those of our readers,
who may have seen my last years
letter, apparently did not give ii
serious thought.
But let us, just for moment, do
a little figuring together. There are
about 32,O00,000 families in these
United States and if we assume that
each family, on an average, mails
only six local greeting cards during
the holiday season, this would mean
a total of 192,000,00O cards to be
bought, addressed and stamped by
individuals, and to be distributed by
our already overburdened mail car
riers. If we further assume (and
this is not over-estimated) that, on
an average, each card with its en-
velope, weights 1/3 of an ounce, we
find that 1872 millions cards would
weigh 100000 pounds, or 1000 tons
of valuable paper and shipping
space, which certainly could be used
to much better advantage in the
service of our armed forces.
I know of many individuals who
mail out so, 100 and more local
greeting cards each year, so that the
figures given above are most likely
far below actual facts.
The time required to buy, address
and mail these cards runs into mil
lions of manhours, representing q
national waste of effort that is APP
paling in times when every minute
should be devoted to work for vic
tory.
The cost of these cards, based
upon an average cost of only ten
cents per card, amounts to over 19
million dollars and the postage (at
1c per card) to another almost
million dollars, or a cash waste OF
81 million dollars, merely to let our
neighbors know that we think Of
them and that we can afford this
extravaganza, war or no war
If our local papers would reserve
page, or part of page for "Holi-
day Greetings to our Neighbors,
where those really interested ir
saving for Victory could have their
name listed, say during the time be-
tween Xmas and New Years, at q
small cost per daily insertion, each
family would save enough in cash
time and effort to buy one or more
War Bonds, the Nation would save
1000 tons or more of valuable paper
and the Post Offices throughout the
country would have over 1000 tons
less mail to handle.
If you are in sympathy with such
a plan, and determined to forget
sentimental considerations, in the
interest and for the benefit of oul
War Effort, why not drop line tc
your local papers promptly, ex-
pressing your sentiments?
We can help save our, Nation {
cool 81 million dollars this year end
We can ease the work of our Post
Office workers. We can save our.
selves hours of work preparing oul
mailing lists, addressing and stamp
ing and mailing local cards, and we
are helping our country and hurting
Hitler, thereby speeding the day o.
Victory
VIM. A. ROSENBERGER.
Hagerstown, Md.
12/I4/43.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Shortest War Communique

Major General Ralph c. Smith, commander of the
son revealed interview the
the author of the Wars shortest communique
Smith command of the 9th when captured
the time the Marines taking Tarawa Speaking
Honolulu Smith said he dispatched the conquest
spondents in just two words Maxim Taken"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
Bread Ration In SIovakia Low.

Slovakia has the third lowest ra-
ton of bread in Europe, according
to newspaper issued and edited
by the Czechoslovak army in Great
Britain. Only Greece and Finland
have lower bread rations, the paper
said.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
SUGAR

Stamp No. 20 in Ration
Book No. 4, good for 5 lbs,
can now be used and re-
mains valid through Jan.
Is, 1914.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
MEAT. BUTTER.
OILS

L, M, N and P stamps
Brown in Book 8 are now
valid a d remain valid
through Jan. /, 1914. @
stamps, also good through
Jan. /, 1914, can be used be-
ginning next Monday, Dec.
20.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
GASOLINE

Last day for use of No. 8
"a" gasoline coupons Feb
bruary 8. "B" and &c" cou-
pons expire according to
dates on individual books.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16

A fool friend can do you a lot
more harm than wise enemy.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
SHOES

Shoe stamp 10 valid until
further notice. Stamp No.
l, on the "airplane" sheet
in Ration Book No. 8, is
also good now and remains
good until further notice.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-12-16
FUEL. OIL

Period / coupons in new RAJ
ton sheets are now valid
and remain valid through
January 8, 1914. Period z
coupons can be used now
also.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08

Schmidt. He is fighting, on all
fronts, with logged fortitude, be-
cause he feels that it is a matter
of personal and national sur
vival. But he thinks less than
nothing of the political leader
ship that got the world into this
mess by doing too much or by
doing too little.
Without ever having studied
David Ricardo or John Maynard
Keynes, and as ignorant of Karl
Marx as he is of Tang dynasty
ceramics, the common man
nevertheless has heard it whis-
pered that what with inventions,
technology and the transmuta-
ton of elements, there's enough
on this earth for everybody if
everybody works just little, and
steadily. This is highly eXplo-
sive idea. Since the beginning of
time the common man stood with
his hat in his hand before his
"betters," because he had a
bunch there wasn't enough for
everybody, and SO one had better
stand in with the prosperous.
Economy of Abundance"
But he has seen goods with
held from the market-capital
freezing" to avoid risk, manu-
facturers organizing to maintain
price" governments ordering
food plowed under. To the COM
mon man, this is nonsense. He
doesn't know how to solve the
economic problem but he can
and will blow up the world If it
Is not solved.
The common man has heard
the words economy of abun-
dance" and the words are, the
prettiest poetry ever uttered.
Furthermore, he believes they
are not fairy tale. They could
come true.
Coming true would mean
world where you could have a
room of your own, constant hot
water, three square meals a day,
a good mattress at night, and fun
on the side, 365 days in the year,
and ripe old age.
The common man wants to
court a nice little wren, marry
her, with wedding picture
taken, settle down and have two
boys and a girl. send them to
school In neat shoes and socks,
: cute hats and coats and have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08

caste is SAID Constantine Brown.
to be the selection OF the other
field marshals and generals.
These men consider the mill
tary situation OF the Reich with
growing apprehension and are
said to believe that the Reich
will not be defeated if matters
are handled carefully by profess
SIGNALS and not politicians like
the Fuehrer.
In the background, these re-
ports say, looms the bulky figure
of Reichmarshal Hermann Goer-
ing, who always has been the
favorite of the officers of the
army, because he Is lone OF
them" Goering comes from an
aristocratic family.
A professional soldier, he dis
tinguished himself in the last
war as an aviation officer.
Hence he has everything the
German military caste likes. His
foibles for spectacular uniforms,
multitude of medals and high
living may appear as buf1oonery
to us, but they are in keeping
with the German military tradi-
ton. In the days before the
republic, each officer had to have
at least seven different types OF
uniforms, from gaudy gold
braided tunics Of white, red or
blue cloth to the field "litevka,"
which corresponds more or less
to our service uniform.
More Popular Than Hitler.
Because OF his easygoing and
cheerful manner, Goering also
has been more popular with the
masses than the somber and sin
lister Hitler. Even the fact that
the bulky Reichmarshal is not
as rabble rousing an orator as
Hitler or his henchman, such as
Joseph Goebbels, Is counted in
Goering's favor.
1t Is especially in his favor
at this particular time when the
Germans are looking for deeds
rather than words to ease the
blow dealt to their morale by the
setbacks in Russia. At a given
moment Goering may become a
desirable "ersatz" for Hitler.
In some aspects the situation
in the German high command
has some similarity with that
which existed early in 1918, when
the Kaiser, who had been play
ing strategic lunches Just like
the Fuehrer, placed the supreme
command of his forces In the
hands OF F1eldmarshal Paul Won
Hindenburg and Gen. Erick Luz
dendorff.
Important o m m n d 5 have
been given to field marshals like
Walther Brauchitsch, Fedor Won