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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24

Politics cost Washington County
a five-year, 100000 school building
program during the dying hours of
the recent session of the State Leg
islature, and now politics has cost
Washington County the State Hos
pital that was scheduled to be
erected on the site of the present
Washington County Home.
Governor OConor has officially
placed time limit-June 15-for
the Board of County Commissioners
to complete the arrangements made
when the State selected the Wash
ington County site for the hospital.
But the site is now involved in a
lawsuit instituted by the heirs at
law of John Nicodemus, who
decided the Bellevue farm to the
county, and the same heirs have
applied for an injunction to restrain
the Board of County Commission
ers from deciding the property to
the State.
Neither of these cases can pos
sibly be disposed of by June Is and
SO, as soon as the deadline has
passed, you can look for the Gov
ernor to announce that the hospital
will be built in Frederick County.
The Daily Mail has recently come
out with two blistering editorials
(camoufiaged as news stories)
against the present Republican
Board of County Commissioners for
their handling of the State hospital
proposition, but the Daily Mail
completely ignored the fact that
the act, which, it is charged, vio-
lated the terms of the deed by
which the late Mr.. Nicodemus
decided the Bellevue farm to the
state (the erecting of a County
Roads Department building on the
property was the work of the
Democratic Board of County Com
missioners, who were in office at
the time
Bitter political feuds, kept up
week in and week out; month in
and month out; year in and year
out; in utter disregard of the wishes
of the people of city and county
who elect their city, county, state
and federal Representatives by
Democratic processes at the polls
on election days, and at subsequent
elections, promptly replace those
they are dissatisfied with, are detri-
mental to good government and
bad for Hagerstown; bad for Wash
ington County; bad for Maryland,
and bad for these United States.
1t will be happy day when poll
ticians (and newspapers too, for
that matter) wake up to that ines
capable fact
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24
PLEASE COOPERATE

1t is important, that when
you receive your subscription
expiration card that you no
tify us at once about renewal
or cancellation. Thanks.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24
Clyde Stoufer Is
Acting Treasurer

Mayor Richard Sweeney announc-
ed on Monday that City Clerk Clyde
R. Stouffer has been named act
ing city treasurer and tax collec-
tor, pending the appointment of a
successor to the late Harold F..
Bester.
Since the treasurer is the only
city official authorized by law to
sign municipal checks, it was neces-
sary to appoint an acting treasurer
Immediately in order that current
disbursements could be made.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24
Died of Wounds

S/Sgt. James r. Smith, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Smith,
Route 2, Hancock, died in an Eng
lish hospital on May 6, of wounds
received in action in Germany on
April IA.
Besides his parents, he is survi-
we'd by two brothers, both of whom
are in the Service.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24
Missing In Action

Pvt. Richard r. Hull, husband of
Mrs. Dorothy V. Hull, Route 2, Han
cock, has been reported as missing
in action in the European Theater
of Operations.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24
Chief Peters Commends Scouts

The following itself The Scouts are members
OF Troop 81 sponsored by Emmanuel u Church.
niger, Scoutmaster.
CITY Oh HAGERS TOWN
Department Police
HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND
May
The Boy of America
McCrory Building
Hagerstown Maryland
Sirs:
1t gives great pleasure to F.
ger, Route Wiiamsport Maryland Donald Sahl 734
Virginia Avenue this city, who of
your organization My commencing
is to their honesty May 18TH 1915 Miss Mary
MAN, $50 East Avenue, lost her containing
dollars and other valuable The
medlaey returned the pocket book
of this type credit your organization
Sincerely,
WILLIAM H. PETERS,
Chief of Police
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24
Local and County
War Casualties

During the past week the follow
ing local and county war casualties
have been reported:
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24
$4,000 CONTRACTS LET

The Navy has granted more than
5000 contracts for aviation spare
parts and more than $4,000 con-
tracts for fleet maintenance parts.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24

A 141 inch cube of pure gold
weighs ton.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-05-24
RED CROSS ACTIVE

More than 200 American Red
Cross field and hospital workers
are now on active duty in the Lu-
ION area.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
TO BE Prepared ....'
By BENJAMIN De CASSERES

"WHY should not not the public publ school, schools
physically and morally and ethically as any
presented TO Uncle Sam by any institution in
this broad land; and why should not this
great public school system produce and pre-
sent to the nation the best potential soldiers
in the world?"
The above question appeared as an edi-
torial in the I'm the News" column Of the
Hearst papers on May Is. 1910.
There cannot possibly be anything but a
vigorous affirmative answer TO that question
by any American who believes that self de-
fense, both national and individual, should
be the very basis of education.
We have hitherto given too narrow an
Interpretation to the word education. Educa-
tiOn can mean also universal military
training.
MILITARY TRAINING is AS IMPOR-
TANT IN A POSTWAR WORLD-IN WHICH
THE SWORD RATTLES TO GET OUT OF
ITS SHEATH-AS BOOK LEARNING, FOR
IT is MILITARY DEFENSE THAT MUST
ALWAYS IN THE LAST ANALYSIS SUS-
TAIN THE FREEDOM OF OUR SCHOOLS
AND INSTITUTIONS.
MANY we'll intentoned fathers and
vi mothers tremble and demur at the
words military training" They should, on
the contrary, support military training as
part Of the school curricula
In the first place, these nervous folk
should be assured that nothing will reduce
youthful delinquency more than the training
of boys, youths and young men TO be soldiers
in defense of their country.
II is the transformation of the fighting
instinct into the right channel.
Secondly universal military training in
Switzerland has proved that this discipline
does not engender wars, but actually prevents
them.
George Washington uttered immortal
truism when he said in his first annual address
to Congress in 1890:
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
PART II
Governor of Massachusetts,

PART II
TINE future division of tax revenue sources
i among the federal, state and local gov
ernments will answer the question as TO
whether states will continue as partners in
our governmental picture rather than become
too subservient to federal authority through
the federal purse.
We will have an enormous federal debt
and the cost of running the federal govern
ment after the war will be, therefore, far
above the prewar level.
Higher wages Of federal employees, retire
ment pensions veterans benefits, and larger
expenditures for military requirements will
all contribute TO the increased cost of federal
administration The committee on economic
development has estimated the postwar fed
eral budget as between II billion and IS
billion dollars
Many state governments have substantial
surpluses. Because of this, many will be de-
luded by the thought that the states them
selves are sound and have little TO worry
about.
We should remember that the states have
subordinate agencies of government, counties
and municipalities, and that it is the duty of
the state to see to it that these subdivisions
standard their governmental services. Un-
questionaby the individual states and local
communities in the postwar period will be
called upon to make unprecedented expend-
lures.
THERE can be no question that all types
i of government must collaborate in meet
ing the situation so that reasonable rela-
tionship between outgo and possible income
can be established.
We are rapidly exhaustng the sources
of tax revenue; the problem is now one of
inter governmental distribution. Because of
its very nature the federal government Is in
the best position to dominate the picture and
seems sure TO do so unless some federal,
state, municipal commission, or fiscal c0-or-
dinator of planning and advisory nature,
is set up to develop a master plan of taxation.
The problems that we face in attempting
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
Russia i'm the Pacific War

Russia has extensive and tre-
mendous interests in the Pacific
world.
Her Siberian provinces constitute
one of the greatest land holdings on
earth.
uER territorial aspirations en-
brace even vaster land areas on
the Asiatic continent, including
japanese. occupied Manchuria and
Korea, and including Mongolia and
other provinces to which Chinese
title is traditional but in which Rus
sian influence is strong.
Russia covets the japanese Ku-
riles, in extension of her strategic
Kamchatka Peninsula.
She envisions full and sole occu-
pancy of Sakhalin Island.
For nearly half century, she has
nourished the hope of reclaiming
Port Arthur.
But the American Pacific often
sive has already stripped Japan of
her Pacific empire.
The American bombings and
bombardments of the japanese main
island have already put Japan vir-
tually out of the war.
The American atomic bomb has
already sealed the doom of Japan,
irrespective of Russian entry or non
entry.
The Russian entry at this late
date seems clearly and frankly for
the purpose of GETTING IN ON
THE SPOILS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
knowledge Test

What poet asked the ques-
ton. "Breathes there a man
with soul so dead, who never
10 himself hath said, This is
my own, my native land ,
ta) w. s. Gilbert. (b) Fell
cia Hemans, Co Walter
Scott?
2-Three O'Clock in the after
noon in the army Is called
tai 1900 Cb) 1900, (c) 1900.
3--What Shakespearean play
begins: when shall We
three meet again la)
Macbeth" (b) Julius Cae-
sar." (c) "Othello?'
4--Is It nue (al that "Old Man
River was compoSed by Cole
Porter Ibl that 20 Promise
Me was composed by Ted
.Fiorito; tcl that 81. Louis
Blues was composed by w
c Handy?
5-Can YOU identity this gentle
man by his most famous
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

ITO be prepared for war is one Of the
most effectual means of preserving peace"
We prepare our boys in school to fit them
for the struggle for existence through books.
But books are not enough.
There is vaster struggle that all Ameri-
can boys should be prepared for
1t is the possible meeting Of An invading
enemy when the ability to handle the complex
and varied weapons of modern war will then
be of more immediate Importance than any
amount of theorical learning.
Washington also said-and this applies
TO us today-that If there had been prepara-
tory military training in the colonies the
Revolutionary War would have been shortened
by some years and thousands of American
lives saved,
AS the Hearst editorial asks. why should
not this great public school system produce
and present TO the nation the best potential
soldiers in the world?
WHETHER we like it or not, historical
w necessity has decreed that we are going
into world in which wars will threaten for
many years.
Shall America alone sit unprepared,
wrapped up in some ideastic belief that II
cannot be Pearl Harbored" twice.
The opponents of military training in our
schools take just that position.
And let us not confuse public school
military training With the regimenting of our
youth or the introduction of the civil goose
step as some legislators in Washington have.
Training for defense is one thing.
Potential state-slavery under the forth
of a revived CCC is quite another thing and
we want none Of it here-ever.
Edward n. Scheiberlng national COM
mander Of the American Legion, recently put
the whole question of military training into
simple sentence of great significance and
blunt truth when he said:
Opponents of universal military training
must bear the responsibility II war comes
again.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
WHAT DO You KNOW?

we're the first election re-
turns to be broadcast by
radio. (b) BOYS can marry
at the age of Is without the
consent of parents through
out most of the United
States.
An actor playing the part Of
policeman IN the movie
Wonder Man" has been
playing policeman roles for
Ii years. Do you know his
name? w
0-The 7212-ton Hawaii Mars,
which was recently launched,
is the worlds largest air.
plane. Would YOU guess her
Widespread is 100, 200 or 400
feet7 #.
6-What quotation from the
Bible is Inscribed on the Lib
erty Bel? --.-s
Can yoU guess the location
Of the largest oil refinery
operated by the Allies dur
ing Void War II?
(Answers on opposite page)
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

phrase: Give me liberty or
give me death, (a) Heinrich
Hlmmler. tb1 Patrick Henry,
(c) Napoleon Bonaporte?
If you cook, it will be easy
Tor you to make the correct
choice: (a) TO soak In boil
ing water TO remove skin
blanch or blend; tb) the
main dish for dinner-entree
or hors d'oeuvres; (c) TO
brown in frying pan-sim-
mer or saute; I'D a flexible
knife-spatula or skillet; te)
TO add liquid and mix-me-
rlngue or marinate.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

DUSSIA has entered the Pacific
~ war, at her own time and be-
cause it is TO HER OWN GREAT
INTEREST,
There is unquestionably a great
satisfaction to the American people
in the Russian declaration of war
against Japan.
There will be a substantial mill
tary advantage to the United States
in Russian participation, if Japan
elects to continue the hopeless con.
flict and finds the means to do so.
In whatever degree the Russian
entry shortens the Pacific war it will
be an American advantage,
1t will save American lives.
1t will contribute to the bringing
to an end of the enormous expendi-
ture of materials and wealth.
THESE are purposes for the attain
ment of which all Americans
earnestly hope and pray, and in
which the assistance of any ally is
welcome.
But they are NOT the purposes
for which Russia has gone to war
against Japan,
Russia has probably always in
tended to enter the war against
Japan, but at time when it would
best suit her interests and ambitions
and cost her the least
Russia has always intended to
participate in the PEACE MAKING
in the Pacific war and to share in the
spoils.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

coordination in taxation will, in my opinion,
be difficult but not impossible to solve.
1t is my feeling that there is a sound
middle ground on taxation where the federal
and state and local governments can and must
meet. What is needed is new attitude. a
broadening in the scope of our thinking,
compromise approach.
In conclusion, to have a strong United
States of America with all of the freedoms
that we have enjoyed for almost a century
and three-quarters it is absolutely essential
Cd that we provide for strong, self support
ing local governments with revenues sufficient
to avoid over burdening real estate taxation
and CD that we have an ALLEGATION of sources
of revenue to the sovereign states sufficient
to enable them to render their services with
out too great dependency upon the federal
government.
ON THE basis of the study by the CON-
~ mittee on economic development this pro-
gram can be effectively worked out on the
basis of 140 billion dollar national income.
1t is their estimate that the federal govern
ment can raise the required IS billion dollars
annually from the following sources: Import
duties, corporate and personal income taxes
(at rate substantially lower than present
war levels but somewhat higher than pre-
war levels); alcohol and tobacco taxes, in
heritance taxes, and the present federal
gasoline tax
If all of the other fields in which the
federal government is now collecting taxes
were definitely allocated to the other two
agencies OF government, unquestionably there
would be sufficient revenues to meet any
postwar situation and all dangers of the great
Capitalization of power in the hands of federal
government will have been eliminated.
strongly urge that an attempt be made
TO set up study commission representing
the federal government the governors con-
ference and the United States conference of
mayors, to arrive at conclusions, definitely
defining the responsibilities OF the three
agencies of government and agreeing on all
ALLEGATION OF fields of revenue that will pro-
mote the best social and economic welfare OF
he American people.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
Brain. Game

Where Is the small. Republic
of Andorra? M
In baseball when can a run
ner be put out by the ball
alone -?
or false fa) The re-
turns of the 1920 presiden-
ual election (Hardins-Coxl
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

IO-C The DETROIT TIMES
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
The AfOnl-BOnlb

THE destructive force released
against key japanese cities and
military strong points in the form of
the new atomic bomb is frightening
and fearful thing to contemplate,
and its use is only justified by the
prospect it affords of shortening the
war and saving American lives.
That this will be accomplished at
the cost of almost incomprehensible
destruction and loss of lives in Japan
goes without saying, and no civilized
nation views such destruction with
equanimity or undertakes it with
pleasure.
But the japanese nation, having
chosen to live by the sword, is being
visited by the implacable penalty of
such course-and will inevitably
and inexorably die by the same
means, if it persists in it's fanatical
and suicidal resistance.
Japan has had the offer of a ma
tional existence with peace and
dignity, with survival of her cultural
and economic and spiritual life, and
with an ultimate place of respect in
the world family of nations.
Japan's only alternative, as the
new and fearsome atomic bomb
proves, is a matter of her own last
remaining choice-disintegration and
obliteration.
The immediate purpose TO be
served by this new and amazing de-
structive force is of course the short
ening and the ending of this terrible
conflict.
It is not, however, essentially or
necessarily force for destruction
alone.
AS PRESIDENT TRUMAN and
Secretary Of War Stimson have
said, in announcing the first release
of the atomic bomb against Japan,
the peaceful and constructive and
beneficial uses of such force are
beyond calculation
1t has unmeasurable and unimagi.
nable possibilities for the improve
ment and betterment Of the
conditions of living among all nations
and all peoples
I0-C IHE DETROIT TINEx
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

1t is being used now to Illustrate
evil, and to restore peace to the
world.
In the right hands, it will always
oppose evil and preserve peace.
But this poses great problem
and creates great responsibility.
OUCH a force, now the servant of
~ men and nations seeking a
peaceful and productive world, must
never be the servant of evil men and
nations striving for their own
aggrandizement.
Our best assurance that it will
always serve the interests of peace
and not the cause of evil may well be
found in the recent proposal by the
Kilgore committee of the United
States Senate for a PERMANENT
American agency to maintain Ameri-
can proficiency and superiority in all
scientific fields related to war and
national defense and the we'll being
of mankind.
The harnessing of atomic power
has been the achievement of Ameri-
can science.
1t is being hailed, and seems cap
able of assuring us of the fulfillment,
as the instrument which will give us
victory and peace.
EFT us assure ourselves, immedi-
- ately and perpetually, that all of
the world powers and forces will be
harnessed by our own men of science,
for our own peace and security and
for the peace of the world and the
freedom of mankind.
Let us reflect upon the goodness
of our fortune that this devastating
weapon has been entrusted to our
hands, and not to the hands of our
enemies.
This is good fortune that can.
not be without Divine wisdom and
intention.
Let the American government
and the American people, after avail
ing themselves of the DESTRUC.
TIVE uses Of so great a force, vim
dicate the judgment thus placed upon
them by finding and utilizing and
controlling the same force for the
benefit of humanity.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10
Need of Master Plan
Of Taxation Stressed

EDITORS NOTE-Foins selected address
period, deLd Co
Mk Island, Mich, July by Governor Tobn Masachuset
By THE HON. MAURICE J. TOBN
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

RUT if wages are now in
- creased for the special union
class, prices must 60 higher 10
the average man and If a gen.
eral wage increase is allowed
every one, the economists say
there VIII surely be initiation
which Will destroy still further
the value Of everyone's wages.
Clearly then, this is not a
problem 70 be handled by poltl-
cal panaCcaS such as a spending
program. or even BY Straighten-
ING out the governments muddle
Of bureaucratic conflicts, the
adoption Of the Mead recon.
mendatlons or a mild success for
the Acknowledgment confer
cnfe MN w
II is AS difficult in lis rami-
fllCatonS as the foreign problem
and a greater threat 10 the ma
tion
Dstrlbu'e1 hy K1E Features syn1 Inc
Reproduc"po IN whole ot IN part
strictly prohlBitsd.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-10

OR SUPPOSE you do make a
" borry from Old Sam and
start that lunch-wagon or a
little trucking business and hire
some of your old comrades
from Okinawa 10 fry two or
move little cargo around your
home county.
If you don't make those fell
lows Join up and shower down
10 the unioneers they will picket
your greasy spoon with signs
stating that the food is full Of
ptomaine; they will expel from
other unions any of your GUS
toners who refuse TO boycott
you, and they will strike the
plant of any neighborhood busi-
nessman who goes through their
pickets TO trade with you.
Or, If you are the one with
the little trucking business, they
Will pull strikes against any
firm that hires you 10 deliver
cargo and any firm that ac-
ceptS II.
That certainly is a noble little
gilt button IN your lapel and
your fellow citizens salute and
honor II and the man who
wears II.
But don't fash il on tne
unions.
world copSusnt. ls4S, kins Features syrA
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-17

The full picture of how Ameri-
cas- railroads are just now be-
ginning to feel the impact of dis
elimination and jimcro practiced
by key railroad unions, is revealed
in Grace Discrimination in Unions"
a pamphlet prepared by Herbert R.
Northrup, former instructor in
economics at Cornell, and research
associate for the Carnegie Corpora
TONS NEGRO in America" survey.
According to the Northrup
pamphlet the following railroad
unions exclude Negroes by color
bar in bylaws:
A. ALL affiliates
. Railroad Telegraphers, Order Of
Railway Mail Association
. Switchmen's union of North
America
B. Independent unions
. Locomotive Engineers, Brother
hood of
. Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men, Brotherhood of
. Railroad Trainmen, Brotherhood
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-08-17

a report from an UNRRA official
had indicated no difficulty had been
experienced in the placement of
Negro personnel in the European
theatre as team members or as
team leaders. A direct report from
Europe, however, obtained by
NNPA, reveals that a Negro has
been appointed a team leader to
serve in Germany only after a long
period of do-nothing waiting and a
threat to report the UNRRA off
cial who was blaming the delay on
the military authorities. SHAEF
(Supreme Headquarters, Allied Ex-
peditionary Forces) subsequently
denied having ordered that no Ne
groes as team leaders be sent into
Germany.
Both these instances seem to in
dictate that policies of UNRRA as
set down by the top officials and
contained in the UNRRA charter,
are being emasculated by lesser
officials without knowledge of the
director and deputy directors.