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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Lee LoWman and
daughter, Patsy, accompanied by
their eldest son and his wife, Mr..
and Mrs. Lee LoWman, Hagerstown,
motored to Denver, Col, where they
were summoned by the illness of
Mrs. Lowman's mother, Mrs Willy
While they were enroute Mrs. Witty
passed away and was buried shortly
after their arrival. They returned
home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Smith spent
the week end in Charlottesville, Va,
where they visited their daughter,
Alta, who is now Mrs. Henshaw.
They also visited Mrs. Smiths par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Miller, in Luray,
Va, en- route home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Stoner re-
turned home Saturday after a
weeks vacation at Ocean City, N. J.,
where they were registered at the
Hotel iWsley. During their absence,
Miss Mary Poe, stayed nights at
t h cir home with Mr.. Stoner's
mother, Mrs. Charles Stoner. On
Saturday evening Miss Poe enter
tanned the senior Mrs. Stoner at din
ner in honor of her seventy ninth
birthday.
Robert Bledsoe, Jr., two-year-old
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Bledsoe,
is recovering from a severe burn on
his left arm sustained when he at
tempted to get something from an
ironing board on which a hot iron
was standing.
Mrs. Joseph Bell, mother of David
Bell, is i'll at her home in Ringgold.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Itnyre have
purchased property in Smithsburg,
which they expect to occupy in the
near future.
Jesse Smith, the popular bus
driver, who has served on the Blue
Ridge bus lines through this section
for the past ten years, has been pro-
NOTED to the district superintend-
ency of the Uniontown, Pa, division.
Mr.. Smith expects to move his fam
lily to Uniontown in the near future.
His friends in this community wish
him well in his new work.
l. Keller Shank, president of the
Washington County Board of Com
missioners, was renominated in last
weeks Primary election.
Mrs. Carrie Repp Gilbert, Wilkes
Barre, Pa, a former resident of
Petersburg, is spending some time
with her niece, Mrs. Helen Lambert,
and her nephew, Mark Lambert,
Waynesboro. Mrs. Gilbert expects
to visit friends here before returning
to her home.
Miss Mary Poe was delightfully."-
entertained in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Weller and children, at a
dinner on Wednesday evening. The
Weller family purchased an old
stone property two years ago and
have converted it into a beautiful
modern home. The property for
years was known as the John-Dan
Spessard place, but was later owned
by the late Herman Myers. It is To-
Gated on the road connecting the
Leitersburg Hagerstown highway
with the Old Forge road.
Douglas and Eugene Dusenberry,
grandsons of the Rev. and Mrs. I. D.
Norman, who have served in the
Navy, have both been honorably dis
charged and have been visiting their
grandparents.
Mrs. Ruth Dusenberry, teacher
at South Potomac Junior High, is
attending summer school at the Uni
versity of Mexico, Mexico City.
John R. Kerr is attending summer
school at the University of Mary
land.
Miss May Newcomer, Charles
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Myers,
former residents of Leitersburg, are
announcing the birth of a son, Sam
uel Earl. The Myers family at pres
ent live in Maugansville.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

John R. Kerr is attending summer
school at the University of Mary
land.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

Miss May Newcomer, Charles
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

Mrs. Ruth Dusenberry, teacher
at South Potomac Junior High, is
attending summer school at the Uni
versity of Mexico, Mexico City.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

Mr.. and Mrs John d. Smith spent
the week end in Charlottesville, Va,
where they visited their daughter,
Alta, who is now Mrs. Henshaw.
They also visited Mrs. Smiths par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Miller, in Luray,
Va, en- route home.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

l. Keller Shank, president of the
Washington County Board of Com
missioners, was renominated in last
weeks Primary election.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

Jesse Smith, the popular bus
driver, who has served on the Blue
Ridge bus lines through this section
for the past ten years, has been pro-
NOTED to the district superintend-
ency of the Uniontown, Pa, division,
Mr.. Smith expects to move his fam
lily to Uniontown in the near future.
His friends in this community wish
him we'll in his new work.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-07-04

Douglas and Eugene Dusenberry,
grandsons of the Rev. and Mrs. l. D.
Norman, who have served in the
Navy, have both been honorably dis
charged and have been visiting their
grandparents.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
The Honor Of
American journalism

AS humanity enters the margins of the
new Atomic Age, there is one established
fact-one absolutely certainly-upon which
we may tread with safe, sure footsteps into
the future. This absolute certainty is the
precise and powerful force we call Truth
Accordingly, it is with fear and miSgiv-
ingS that we observe the willingness of
some great metropolitan newspaper to dis
tort the facts in order to be dramatic" or
to serve some temporary political end
In this new age of Atomic Power, itself
founded upon automatically precise Truth,
mankind will have nothing to fear as long as
truth and understanding are served through
newspapers which adhere strictly to dem
onStrable facts.
Never before, in the history of human in
telligence and communication, has the vital
Importance of Truth as the foundation of
safe human understanding been so clearly
evident This is a world of people, and
people whose emotions and thoughts are
warped by distorted reporting may SIAM
pede governments into paths of destruction
for ALL
We feel that it is the duty of the Press
itself, the institution so proudly known as
"The Fourth Estate, to monitor the report
ing of its individual members. We accord
AAStJ uePioic . oho punt Will aIdiH W SuCl
evident distortions as that which the New
York Daily News permitted in a recent John
ODonnel column in which the columnist
sought to present one group of Americans
in an unfavorable light.
The great Daily News, however, is not
alone in such distortions. We could name
others, notably the Chicago Tribune. It is
time for the Press, as an institution, to call
a halt on distortions of the record. lest dis
tortion lead to destruction of humanity.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
Open Mouths:
Closed Minds

Every now and again in this easy-going
country OF ours the majority works up a
slow mad against the noisy few who delight
IN hating everybody not of their own par
ticular church or tribe. The blunt fact is
that bigots who are ordinarily considered
merely as Doors or bores occasionally be-
come so obstreperous and insistent upon
their own narrow views that they become
temporarily = an obstacle on the path of
progress.
We are interested to see this point made
recently in the by-and-for soldiers news
paper, "The Buckaroo" published at the
Ordnance. Camp in Texarkana, Texas. That
paper has been annoyed by the spoutings
of the hatriotS to the extent of taking time
OFF to examine bigots in general and the
way their minds work in particular In an
open letter" to the breed of bigotS "The
Buckaroo" accuses them of having open
mouths and closed minds "You know be-
cause you know and that's all there is to it"
the soldiers accuse their bigoted fellow
citizens
How true. Again and again it works out.
Nothing can touch the true bigotS stubborn
hostility to new information or fresh ideas.
He knows because he knows period It's
right because he says it's right exclamation
point Writes the Texas soldier newspaper:
1T doesn't matter that representation
are among the most decorated fighters f.
or that Negroes have repeatedly proved
their ability or willingness -" the bigot
will not believe either eminent authority
or social statistics. He knows because he
knows and he believes only what it suits
his prejudices to believe
Speaking for the United States "The
Buckaroo" arrives at the conclusion, to
which we heartily subscribe, namely, bigots
ARE standing in our way" They're trying
to stop the development of our country At
heart all bigotS despise democracy and favor
dictatorship dictatorship of themselves.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
City Of Bluff

1t has remained for Oregon'S United States
Senator Guy Gordon to give the people
little picture of the false front that is gradu-
ally acquired by our public servants in
Washington. On recent trip to his home
in Oregon, Senator Gordon said Washing
ton is the city of bluff. l firmly believe
-. members of Congress should be
compelled to return to their states about
twice year in order to get the thinking
of the people and renew their sense of the
true American way
In Washington, the atmosphere is I'M
natural and unhealthy, and you are con-
fronted by so many experts that you lose,
If you are not very careful, the true Ameri-
can way of doing things. Then, when you
get back to your own people you find that
after all everything doesn't depend upon
you, but upon the will of about 140,00O0OO
people who compose this great nation-and
you feel better"
Senator Cordon's remarks are worth re-
Numbering, for in the last analysis it is the
l4O,OOO,OO0 citizens and taxpayers who will
pay, for their earnings, every dime of the
enormous appropriations that are asked of
Congress for peacetime spending. Unless
you want to pay more in future tax bills,
don't demand public funds to do things
which the people and industries should do
for themselves.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
No Time To Be
Slow But Sure

We Americans may not like to think OF
ourselves as being slow but sure; but IN at
least one respect this is perfectly fair
description of us.
We have always recognized the danger
of fascism whenever it has appeared i'm
portantly in the world. In this sense we
have been sure. But we have always been
slow in our recognition.
Mussolini marched on Rome. MuSsolini
used castor oil as political weapon His
cohorts raped Ethiopia and murdered Spain
and stabbed France in the back. With judi
cious calm we watched these actions over
a period of some two decades and finally
come to the conclusion that this thing in
Italy was dangerous.
We watched the rise of Hitler in Ger
many. We read "Mein Kampf" We saw
the newsreels of pogroms. We read about
the invasion of Poland, the enslavement of
Scandinavia, the crushing of France, the
coventrzzing of Britain. Once again slowly
but surely we came to the conclusion: this
German thing is fascism-and it is danger
ouS.
We heard about Emperor-worship in
Japan. We heard about Nipponese thought
police. We saw the slaughter in Manchuria.
Finally, when American flesh and American
armor plate were blown into the waters of
Pearl Harbor, we said 'now at last we know
this Japanese thing is fascism."
This carefully-studied, unhurried process
was not too bad in pre-atomic age. After
all, in those days if we failed to recognize
fascism in its early stages and allowed it to
continue, the worst it could do was to pre-
cipitate war in which only few million
people would be killed and perhaps only
country or two destroyed
1t was safe in pre-atomic days to recog-
nize fasciSm in retrospect.
It is no longer safe.
In this atomic age the full Towering of
fascism in any country will be accompanied
by the pressing of the button that sets off
the atomic rockets. 1t is necessary that we
learn some simple method of recognizing
fascism before it reaches its full, aggressive
stage.
When books are burned, when churches
are closed, when public meetings are for
hidden, when free elections are barred,
faScism exists. At that stage we must so
label it and oppose it. To blink our eyes
at 1t then, to appease it then, is to allow
it to grow. If it grows we are lost. There
will no longer be Dunkirk Pearl Harbor
offered to us as an acute symptom of fas-
cism, and leaving us sufficient time to act
against it. Only living people can oppose
fasciSm. An atomically vaporized people
can't.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31

announced that there was plenty Of
shipping space available. Everyone
concerned was happy over the pros
pect of getting home soon.
Then came the stab in the back.
Does the Army think we are a
bunch of idiots not capable of
thinking for ourselves? 1t GER
tainly looks that way. They have
been handing down one excuse
after another trying in despera-
ton to keep us CPS overseas so
the highly paid brass can con-
tinue to earn their easy money.
Their first excuse for not getting
men home was that the war ended
so suddenly and things were in q
mess; second, it was lack of ship
ping. Now that shipping is avail
able, their alibi is occupational
needs IN hostile countries. If the
people in Korea are hostile, we
hope to be dipped in a barrel of
tar. We sincerely believe that our
presence here is uncalled for.
A number of us are in the 1919
point bracket with Is months Of
overseas service. We saw 81 con-
secutiye days of combat on Oki-
nawa. The promises of a speedy
return home of combat veterans
has been broken. Why are we be-
ing made to suffer? The morale
in this unit has hit an alI-time
low. From all indications it looks
as If the reunion with our loved
ones is long way off.
We are making a plea to you
readers of the Wyandotte News
Herald. Please contact your con-
greSsional representatives and SEN
ators and urge them to do some
thing about the raw deal which has
been given us. You can help.
Richard E. Roberts
(and SO others)
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
IS YEARS AGO
IN WYANDOTTE

The concert given by the j. L.
Hudson musical organizations In
the Majestic theater Melted more
than 500. 1t was to be used for the
soldiers memorial fund.
In an open letter to Wyandotte
residents, q group of civic-minded
men expressed their aspirations for
founding a civic-commercial organ
ization which was to become a
clearing house for the best
thought Of its citizens IN matters
that affect the civic, commercial
and industrial welfare Of the COM
nunity.
The city council gave consider
able attention to q bill before the
state legislature which proposed to
include the Detroit river front, on
the American side, In the Port of
Detroit" chiefly because the meas
ure would add to the local tax bur-
den, would permit condemnation of
private and public lands along the
river. and also allow condemnation
of Wyandotte's river park for dock
purposes.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
Michigan Mirror
by gene alleman

creased expenditures have been
those for larger state appropria-
items for education, old age assist
ance, the care of children, more
hospitals and other desirable social
services"
In addition to the Michigan Edu-
cational associations appeal for
increased state aid, running into
many millions, the Detroit Board
of Education has dumped into the
legislatures lap the fate of Wayne
university.
Here is the thirteenth largest uni
versity in the Nation; an institu-
ton with 10,500 students currently
enrolled, of which around $500 re-
side in Wayne county. Financially
unable to maintain the university,
the Detroit school board has Of
fered to turn 1t over to the state.
L is estimated that at least S3,O0O,-
600 will be needed in legislative
appropriation to assure continual
ton of Wayne university.
Here is the setting for the leg
islative session. If educational, hos
pital and welfare needs are TO be
met first by the State of Michigan,
the s27,OOO,OOO surplus will be more
than absorbed. Actually, this fund
won't go far enough to meet 1916
actual needs. If the local govern
ments succeed in diverting part of
the surplus to their local needs,
they will do so at the expense of
the states own program. It's a
squeeze play, to use an old phase.
State legislators must make the
decision.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
Don't JUST
Talk Give!

1t is all right to talk about lifting ones
self up by ones bootstrapS i. if one has
the bootstraps. In Europe, China and the
Philippines the victims of this war haven't.
UNRRA representatives and other relief
workers report that the tired, terrorized
people of the bomb-gutted, mine-strewn,
fire-scarred, looted lands are trying desper-
ately to help themselves. We can give them
the wherewithal for this self-help.
We've all got world to build. But the
war sufferers have first got to build roof
to shelter their families, a place of refuge
for their sick and their old and their dying.
a small place of peace and safety in which
the heirs to this brave new world may be
born. They must be clothed against the bit
ter world they now inhabit. They must be
clothed with more than courage to meet
the challenge of the better world they mean
to build.
For us to part with a used coat or pair
of outgrown shoes doesn't seem like great
deed of self sacrifice nor is it much of a
deprivation. But to the destitute man or
woman overseas that used coat or second
hand pair of shoes may be a passport to
the future. In hundred thousand cases it
may be the difference between hope and
despair, between life of usefulness and one
of dragging miSery-between life and death
itself.
Twenty-Five million people in Europe,
China and the Philippines were clothed as
result of Americas search of its atticS,
closets and chests last spring. Total victory
and the consequent opening up of the iber-
ated territories have revealed misery to tax
our imagination. Twenty-Five million is only
a small percentage of the homeless, ragged
millions of the world.
President Truman says a second clothing
appeal in America is imperative. The Vic
tory Clothing Collection from January 7th
to 31st is a nationwide effort to collect 100,-
600, 900 serviceable garments with additional
shoes (tied securely in pairs) and bedding
for the relief of war victims overseas. We
are invited to enclose messages of good will
with our contributions.
These millions of war victims don't ex-
pect Q sudden Utopia any more than you
q. They only hope you will help tide them
ever Q period of direst emergency. What
can you spare that they can wear?
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
7 WASAlNGION ~
SEAlzA9 OTIS y,

Tall; blue-eyed James w. Full
bright is Missouri boy, and smart.
He's a Rhodes scholar and former
president Of the University of Ar
kansas, where he played right half
back on the football team and took
his Alb. in 1925.
One of the youngest men in the
U. S. Senate, Fulbright, who is 40,
has to his credit a number of Con-
gressional accomplishments despite
his less than four years in the up
per chamber. He believes in trim
ming essentials from Govern
ment budgets.
Fulbright, who delights TO tell
people he's "just a boy from the
country" has voted for incentive
pawn rs to farmers, more money
for soil conservation, and rural
identification, and funds for crop
insurance
Varied Interests
On domestic issues involving La
Dor policy, however, he has sup
ported the Smith Connally anti
strike bill and voted to override the
Presidents veto Of it, and he sup
ported the Hobbs anti-racketeering
bill.
He was born in the small town
CT Sumner, Mo, and moved with
his family to Arkansas where he
attended high school In Fayette-
vile before winning his degree at
State University. He studied law
at George Washington University
and was admitted to the bar In the
District Of Columbia.
In addition to his public inter-
ests, he has been teacher, presi-
dent q an investment company.
and student of political science and
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
Weather Calls Lead

CHICAGO UP - Seemingly, it is
more important to know what the
weather is than to know what the
time is in Chicago, since the rec
ords of these two services of the
Illinois Bell Telephone Co. show
that 100000 people a year call
for weather reports and about H.
100000 call for the time.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
To The Editor

To The Editor
News-Herald
Dear Sir:
AS you may be aware, the City
Of Wyandotte has been awarded the
National Victory Garden Institute
plaque for our efforts during the
past year in encouraging Victory
gardens and home food preservation.
I wish at this time to thank you
for your contribution towards our
program. The publicity afforded us
by your paper undoubtedly contrib
uted much to the success Of the
program, and, I might mention, it
is our intention to continue the gar
den program, at least for the COM
ing year.
Thanking you for your coopera-
ton, I remain
Louis Brohl, Sr.
Chairman
Victory Garden
Committee
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
Letter Box
Cts ASK RETURN

CHS ASK RETURN
To The Editor
News Herald
Dear Sir:
1 don't know whether you are
interested in seeing that the serv-
icemen who still remain overseas
are home soon or not. But you have
always seemed to defend the rights
OF each one that you felt was in
the right Therefore, I'm hoping
you will find room somewhere in
your paper for these letters
my husband has sent me. They were
written by a soldier who at the
time is in Manila awaiting his re-
turn to the States. 1 feel he states
his case clearly as well as that Of
the other Servicemen he talks Of.
feel sure that as q whole the
people Of Wyandotte share the
same opinion in this case. But in
case there are some who do not
feel this way, this paper may clar-
ify things for them.
Mrs Robert Hall
Excerpts from Halls letter fol-
low:)
q. You are being told at
home that we are needed over
seas because our overseas for
ces would be dangerously under
strength in occupying hostile
countries If all eligible men were
returned before sufficient replace
ments arrive Since when
were the Philippines. Hawaii or
the like, hostile countries?
do you know what our occu-
patton duties consist of in the
philippines? Beyond waiting on
each other We have nothing to do
except keep ourselves from stag
mating. The Philippine people are
as capable of looking after them
selves as they were before the
war and our being here is but a
hindrance to their return to nor
NAL life." q
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31
STAB IN THE BACK"

PuSan, Korea
January 8. 1916
To The Editor
News Herald
Dear Sir:
We have decided to write the
Wyandotte News Herald, because
We believe that your newspaper be-
lieves in upholding and printing the
truth. Please print this letter in
your paper.
The stab in the back came two
days ago. The Army announced
that starting February the points
would be dropped less than five
points and that discharges of men
overseas would be governed not by
shipping space available but by
occupational needs. Recently it was
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1946-01-31

SHREVEPORT, La. UD-Two for
the price q one.
Mrs. GlGia Vucinovich bought q
coconut 1t the market, took it
home and cut it open. Inside was
another undeveloped coconut.