The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-06

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ton County and submitting that pro-
gram to every candidate for every
Office in the coming general cleo
tons.
Donovan understands that the
committee will get to work immedi-
ately, so, that it will have a complete
program ready to submit to the can
didates of both parties who survive
the coming primaries.
This is the best news that Donovan
has dished out in long time-provi-
! ding (and its a most important pro-
vision) that the committee is nom
partisan and non-political. If either
major party predominates it will of
course have no value and will result
in nothing more important than an
other of these buck-passing games
between politicians of the two major
parties, that have brought the public
schools to their present sorry state
An action of this sort is exactly
what we need, and those interested
in the improvement of our schools
will know that it cannot be accom-
tplished without cost, probably in the
form of an increase in taxes to be
earmarked for the purposes set forth
in the committees recommends
tons. Certainly every patron of the
schools knows that what we are de-
termined to have costs mOney-and
those among us not willing to meet
those costs are probably very few.
Once the committee has presented
its recommendations to the candi-
dates, it is hoped that the replies of
those seeking office will be given the
widest possible publicity. If there
lis a candidate for governor, repre-
sentative, commissioner, delegate or
the state senate who feels that the
schools are not his immediate con-
Germ, the voters should know it we'll
in advance of election day. The time
is past for any man, imagining him
self to be qualified for public office,
to show indifference to public educa-
ton.
True enough, any candidate can
give a well-thought-out program
lip-service, but the matter of per-
Torrance in office will be hard to
duck, once the candidates views
have been publicly broadcast.
The announcement of the names of
the members of this vitality impor-
tant committee will be awaited with
great interest by the thoroughly
aroused parents of this community
and the county.
Donovan's tip sounded the right
note to me this morning-one of the
few pleasant and hopeful bits of
news in many grim, strike-ridden
day. The committee, as a symbol of
an informed and determined public,
is a wholesome sign in these troub-
led times and big step in the right
direction
TAPS: I belong to the old-fash-
Toned school of thought that holds to
the notion that Decoration Day is
not day for anything that smacks
of the word celebration. My par
ticular reverence for the day prob
ably stems out of my early memories
of the ceremonies that 1 used to at
tend in our little Indiana Quaker
village, when my fine old grand
father and his friends were still
alive.
The good old ladies of the G. A. R.
Auxiliary spent most of day before,
making up the bouquets to go on the
graves of the veterans of all the
wars, and early on the morning of
May 30, when 1 would accompany
members of the family to the ceme-
terry with flowers for our own
graves, the G. A. R. ladies would be
at work with their flowers and flags
Later on there would be the pa
rade, headed by color guard of the
old men who had fought the War be-
tween the States, wearing their dark
blue uniforms, with their decorations
pinned on the left breast, and wear
ing their broad campaign hats. They
were old men when I was small
child, but as long as they marched
they did it with a great deal of snap
and vigor, wearing their particular
brand of patriotism-that died with
them-in their proud and remem-
bering eyes. The old veterans who
were beyond marching followed the
color guard in a surrey-often as not,
one with fringe on top.
Then there would be the drum
corps and band or two and the long
lines of school children, dressed in
their Sunday best, carrying little
punches of flowers and looking very
stern and important.
The parade would march through