The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-13
DURELY
/ Official
BY BALLOT BOX


If any further proof was needed
that the opponents of j. Millard
Tawes are getting desperate, it can
be found in the smear campaign
launched against him last week, in
connection with the visit of Mr..
Tawes and his family by automo-
bile, in May, 1913, for the dual
purpose of being present at the grad
uation of their son from the Army
Infantry School at Fort Benning,
Georgia, and of being present at his
wedding - a wedding that had to
take place Immediately after the
graduation exercises, because the
ten days leave granted him so that
he could be married at home had
been cancelled and he was scheduled
to leave Immediately for overseas
service.
One might, perhaps, expect the
Republican opponent of Mr.. TaWes
in the general election to bring up
this three-year-old incident, even
though such Republican opponent
would be mighty hard up for an
issue on which to base his campaign,
if that's all he could find to talk
about. But when the gasoline in
cident is resurrected - not by Re
publicans, but by members of his
own political party - it smacks of
the cheapest sort of desperation tao
tics.
Moreover, what makes it doubly
cheap, in my estimation, is the
sneaky way in which it is being pub
licized
You don't find his opponents in
the Gubernatorial race coming out
in the open and charging Mr.. Tawes
with violating OPA gasoline regu,
lations. Oh moi nothing like that,
The story first broke on Friday,
June 7, in an Associated Press News
release, which told that one Kent
r. Mullikin, a former Democratic
floor leader in the Maryland House
of Delegates and former official of
the Federal Housing Administrator
- how | love those former people,
who, now on the outside, are trying
so desperately to get back inside
again - in announcing his support
of William Preston Lane, Jr,, inject
ed the trip to Georgia into his an
nouncement and also took the OPP
portunity to take crack at Attor-
ney General Curran - another typi-
cal piece of anti-Tawes tactics.
This initial attack was followed
up over the past weekend by the
circulation through the United States
mails, of a siX-page pamphlet, bear
ing the printed name of one Jacob
Freedenburg, of Severn, Maryland,
which is nothing more or less than
the cheapest kind of smear campaign
- the kind of smear campaign that
stoops to accusing Mr.. Tawes of
'stabbing his own nation in the
back when we were at war" and
other statements, just as cheap, and
just as exaggerated.
don't know who this Jacob
Freedenberg is, his pamphlet did not
give his background so that those
who received it through the mail
could weigh his responsibility in his
community. But I do know it costs
money to print six-page pamphlets
and pay postage on them - to say
nothing of the envelops used -
which needless to say were plain -
which leads me to wonder, if this
Jacob Freedenberg footed the bill
for the printing, mailing and en-
velops, why he took the trouble to
mail the pamphlets from Baltimore,
instead of his home town of Severn!
| had been hearing whispers in
Baltimore for several weeks that
the gas" case was going to break
soon and now that it has broken, I
repeat what said when I first heard
about it - If the opponents of Mr..
Tawes, either directly, or indirectly,
bring up the 'gas" case in the Demo-
cratic Primary campaign, it will gain
votes for Mr.. Tawes, instead of los
ing them, for the simple reason that
every father and mother in these
United States, whose boy was head
ed overseas, perhaps to give his life
on the battlefield, would have done
just what Mr. and Mrs. Tawes did
DIR. Albert Einstein, organizer of
the Emergency Committee of