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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Potomac Chapter Of National
Junior Honor Society Meets

In an impressive candlelight cere-
mony, twelve students of the South
Potomac Junior High School were
invested into the Potomac Chapter
of the National Junior Honor So
ciety, at an assembly held in the
school auditorium on Friday after
noon.
Miss Catherine F'utterer, vice
principal of the school and chairman
of the faculty advisory committee
of the society, in a brief address,
outlined the system whereby mem
bership is conferred upon those
scholars deemed worthy of the hon
or.
After the candidates for admission
had been escorted to the front of the
darkened auditorium, Joan Gordon
lighted the gold candle representing
scholarly achievement; Helen Smith,
lighting the blue one, spoke of the
investees' service to the school; Eva
Dele Scott lit the green taper sig
nifying leadership, and Gloria Bow
ard then lit the white taper, standing
for purity of character. The candi-
dates then lighted their small cand-
les at the taper, and formed a semi
circle across the stage while they
repeated the pledge after the presi-
dent.
William Donaldson, principal of
the school accepted the candidates
on behalf of the faculty and student
body and pinned on them the in
sigma of the organization-tiny gold
torches.
The new members indicted were:
Grade Nine, Marlene Warden, Lou
Use Groh, Lois Haupt, Jay Troxell,
Charles Chatkin, Nicholas Broad
water, Joseph Metz; Grade Eight,
Jeanne Rainey, Evelyn Schlotter-
beck, Sue Ann Ramacciotti, Mildred
Eckardy, Robert Potter. Other mem
bers are: Dolores Lands, Elizabeth
Lands, Lois Pugh, Ann Pilson and
John Minnich.
Members of the faculty advisory
committee of the Society are: Miss
Futterer, chairman; the Misses L.
Joan Bayle, Pauline Rowland and
Jane Martin, and Mrs. Rebekah
Stonebraker.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
HagerstOwn Garden Club
Holds Regular Meeting

Mrs. L. Vinton Hershey, The Ter
race, was hostess to the Hagerstown
Garden Club meeting, Thursday aft
ernoon, with the president, Mrs. J.
c. Fulde, in the chair. A compre-
hensive report Of the recent Mary
land State Garden Club meeting was
given by Miss Marguerite A. Camp
bell, after which the Horticulture
chairman, Mrs. Harry Rudy, gave
helpful hints and suggestions on
house plants and good sprays to be
used.
An attractive feature of the.meet-
ing was the showing of colored slides
of the Smoky Mountains, North
Carolina and Tennessee, by Miss
Mary Harter, with Mrs. Robert Nc
Cauley as the narrator.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Rev. Dickey Moves
To WalkersvilIe
Pastor Of Methodist Church
Hancock For Over Two Years
Gets New Appointment

The Rev. W. Dewitt Dickey, pas
tor of the Hancock Methodist Church
since June, 1914, has been appointed
pastor of the Walkersville, Md,
Church, succeeding Rev. A. N. Warn
er, who has been appointed assoc
late pastor of Mt. Vernon Place
Methodist Church, Washington, D.
C., the pastor of which is the Rev.
DR.. John W. Rustin. Reverend
Dickey will take over his new pas
torate on February II.
Entering the ministry in 1887, Rev.
Dickey served at the Howard Street
Methodist Church in Hagerstown,
and at the Smithsburg church, be-
fore going to Hancock in June, 1914,
where he served the six churches in
the Hancock Charge. His father,
the late Rev. Thomas M. Dickey, oc-
cupied the Hancock pulpit from
1916 to 1920.
Married and the father of two
children, Reverend Dickey has been
particularly interested in young
people and for over a year was
Scoutmaster of the Hancock Troop
of Boy Scouts. He leaves Hancock
with the best wishes of his congre-
cation and his many friends in the
community.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Business Men OK
Traffic Report
Full Approval Given To Re-
port Compiled By Chamber of
Commerce, Which Recon-
mends Some One-Way Streets.

At a joint luncheon meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Ha-
gerstown Chamber of Commerce,
committees from the Retailers and
Manufacturers bureaus and repre-
sentatives of the local service clubs,
held on Monday, unqualified ap-
proval was given to the 18-point
program presented by the cham
ber's committee, which has been
studying the subject for some time.
The main points of the proposed
program, which will shortly be PIE
sented to the Board of Street Com
missioners, for their consideration,
and recommendations to the Mayor
and Council, are:
That Franklin Street be made one
way, west bound, from Cannon
Avenue to West Side Avenue; that
Antietam Street be made one way,
eastbound, from Washington Square
to Cannon Avenue; that Prospect
Street be made one way, south
bound, from Pennsylvania Avenue,
to Park Circle, and that Summit
Avenue and Jonathan Street be made
one way, northbound, from Lee
Street, to Pennsylvania Avenue.
Other recommendations call for:
The revision of the local build
ing code to require business pro-
perty owners to provide rear en-
frances, wherever possible, in order
to eliminate unloading at the main
entrance; the undermining of the
city's traffic light system; the pass
ing an ordinance, if necessary, to
give the city administration control
of the taxicab operations, and the
employment, by the city, of a traffic
engineer to study the local traffic
situation and make recommends
tons to the mayor and council.
The 30-page report was compiled
after several months of study and
investigations, aided by civic and
other organizations in the city.
Members of the traffic committee
are: A. F. Macdonald, chairman;
c. r. Poffenberger, Roger Charlton,
d. M. Glass, r. A. McCune, Norman
Kaufman and Frank Cave.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
John G. Patterson Heads
Insurance Agents Assn,

John c. Patterson was elected
president of the Hagerstown Assoc
iation of Insurance Agents at a meet
ing of the organization held last
week at the Hotel Alexander. Other
officers are:Irwin F. Hoffman, first
vice-president; Morris B. Bassford,
second vice-president; Harry A.
Bauer, treasurer; Mary Louise Case,
secretary.
Owen A. Donegan, Baltimore man.
ager of the Fidelity and Deposit
Company through the courtesy OF
Clare2ce Keedy & Co., was the guest
speaker and spoke on the relatively
new, broad form, comprehensive dis
honesty, disappearance and destruc-
ton policy.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Trinity Friendship Glass
of Smithsburg Meets

The Trinity Friendship class of
the Trinity Lutheran Church,
Smithsburg, staged it's regular
monthly meeting at the home of
Louella Gardenhour, on Tuesday
evening, January %. During the
meeting the following committee
chairmen were appointed by the
president, Mrs. C. I. Bikle: Visiting,
Mrs. Frances Bell and Louella Gar
denhour; Recreation, Miss Evaline
Hershberger; Ways and Means, Mrs.
C. l. Bike, Mrs. John Miller and
Mrs. Jane Crunkleton.
The class voted to purchase shoes
and overshoes for the Lutheran
World Action project being spon-
sored by the church.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Farmers Oppose
Coop Tax Bill
Farm Organization Set Up
Farmers Defense Committee
To Fight Bill With Roy c. F.
WeagIey AS Chairman

The Maryland Farmers Defense
Committee announced today that
farmers throughout the state are
bitterly opposing bill now pending
in the Maryland General Assembly
which would impose a special state
income tax on patronage refunds
paid by farmer cooperatives.
The Defense Committee repre-
sents all farm organizations nd
farmer cooperatives in Maryland.
Roy c. F. Weagley, of Hagerstown,
State Farm Bureau leader, is chair
man.
Weagley charges that the bill
would discriminate against farmers
by changing the historical status of
cooperative refunds from savings
to farmers, to Income" to the CO.
operatives.
Farmers are beginning to realize,
Mr. Weagley said, "the full signifi-
canoe of this proposed legislation
and its threat to their rights, under
the free enterprise system, to work
together comparatively to market
their own products and purchase
their supplies.
Members of the Assembly close
to agriculture take the view that
the legislative council could not
have understood the real purpose of
this bill, and now feel they have
been the victims of an adroit scheme
to shove through the assembly dis
criminatory tax bill under the guise
of tax equality" incidentally,
farmers are still wondering why not
single cooperative was notified
when the Legislative Council acted
on this vicious proposal.
"Now, through the efforts of this
committee, everybody knows that
farmer cooperatives enjoy no ex-
emptions under present Maryland
tax law, consequently, farmers and
their representatives in the Assem-
bly, are taking firm stand against
this BILL"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Chamber Commerce
Banquet Feb. IL
VIM. r. Schneider, Noted Au-
thor And Publisher To Be
Guest Speaker.

The annual banquet of the Ha-
gerstown Chamber of Commerce
will be held in Franklin Court audi
torium on Tuesday evening, Febru-
ary Is.
The speaker for the occasion will
be William r. Schneider, of St.
Louis, Missouri, a noted author, pub
Usher and attorney, who will speak
on the subject, fundamentals of
National Ills and Their Remedies"
A member of the Missouri legisla-
ture for six years, Mr.. Schneider, is
the author of the Missouri Work
mems Compensation Law and is re-
garded as one of the national au-
thorities on that subject. An at
torney and publisher Che is presi-
dent of the Schneider Publishing
Company in st. Louis), Mr.. Schneid-
er has a well-rounded experience In
political, economic and industrial re-
lations matters, that qualify him to
speak with authority.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, February 8, 1947
is the 37th anniversary of the
founding of the Boy Scouts of
America which has been
chartered by the Congress of
the United States, and
WHEREAS, the organization
has affected the lives of 49,
100000 American boys and
men since its inception and
now has an active enrolment
of 100000, and
WHEREAS, the skills and ex-
periences acquired through
Scouting are the greatest in
fluences for building young
Americans into self-reliant
men and participating citi-
zens, thus making an meal
culable contribution to the
civic enterprise of this and
countless other communities,
and,
WHEREAS, the Boy Scout
Movement is a great factor
for the promotion of world
peace, and marks this ami
versary with the theme,
Scouts of the World-Build-
ing for Tomorrow" with
practical assistance to brother
Boy Scouts overseas to re-
build their organizations;
NOW THEREFORE,, 1, Richard
H. Sweeney, Mayor of the
City of Hagerstown in the
State of Maryland, do hereby
proclaim the week of Febru-
airy z to 10 as Boy Scout Week
in Hagerstown and urge its
citizens to recognize the I'M
selfish service of the leaders
and do all in their power to
help promote this fine pro-
among our youth.
Dated February 6, 1947
RICHARD H. SWEENEY,
Mayor.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06

P. Richard, president; Mrs. H. L.
Kemp, first vice-president; Mrs.
Warren Shirley and Mrs. Eva Row,
second vice-presidents; Mrs. Nora
Barger, third vice-president, Mrs. F.
NJ. White, treasurer; Mrs. Edna
Johnson and Mrs. Brody Bonney,
pianists; Mrs. Charles Hawn, COM
munity chairmen; Miss Edythe
Boyd, U. w. A. leader; Mrs. Vernon
Wilson, G. A. leader; Mrs. Elizabeth
Gossard, Sunbeam leader.
The treasurer, Mrs. F. M. White,
reported that 1886 had been collect
ed for missionary work from Octo-
Der through December. Mrs. Yer
non Wilson also reported marked
improvent in the young peoples or
ganization of the Girls Auxiliary.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Junior Girls OF Legion
Auxiliary Meet

The Junior Girls of the Morris
Frock Unit, No. %, of the American
Legion Auxiliary, held their regu-
lar meeting Tuesday evening, Jan
uary %, at the home of Mrs. Cam
eron Elgin, Hager street.
At the business session, plans
were announced for making scrap
books and favors for children in
hospitals. In planning for group
activities, the members arranged for
a skating party to be held February
81.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Local Army EnIistments

The following four men enlisted in
the Army through the local recruit
ing Office in City Hall, last week:
Kenneth E. Wilkins, BAT South Null
berry street; Daniel B. Drury, 434
Carlton avenue; Lester J. Miller,
Clear Spring, Route / and Glen C..
Ridenour, Hagerstown, Route 5.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Salvation Army Advisory
Board Elects Officers

The Salvation Army Advisory
Board met January 80, at a dinner
meeting at the Hotel Hamilton last
week, and elected the following Of
ficers: S. Mitchell Fockler, chair
man; A. H. Warne, vice-chairman;
Mrs. Andrew Coffman, secretary;
Luther Spangler, treasurer.
The new divisional commander,
1t. Col. Robert Rose, was introduced
to the gathering, after which Miss
Elizabeth Bushong, head of the FAM
lily service department, spoke briefly
on the problems and operating pol
icies of her department.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
First Baptist Church
Women's missionary Union

The Woman's Missionary Union
met at the First Baptist Church re-
Gently, at which time new officers
were installed and various reports
given. The new officers are: Mrs. J.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06

"Self-starting" airplane tires, that
start rotating before plane touches
ground by action of the airstream
on fins built into their sidewalks,
and thus greatly decrease the land
ing shock, are now in regular service
On some airlines.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
1t Happened During the Week

Brief Review Of The Weeks Happenings In Hagerstown
And Washington County. For An Up-tohe Minute Summary
OF National And international Happenings, Listen To The
GlobeIndependents Associated Press Feature 1t Happened
During The Week. Broadcast Over Radio Station WEI Every
Sunday Night At The New Time, 8:15.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06

The worlds largest island, Ausral-
ia, has 2,974.581 square miles of ter
ritory.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
BOY SCOUT week

Nearly 100000 Scouts Boy Senior Scouts will
observe the 3h anniversary the Scouts America during
Scout Week. 18TH Through their World Friendship
of gifts America given $11O
4646 to help Boy Scouts rebuild their organizations
During the first of their Backs project
than 400 twenty tOnO Scout Uniforms and equps
menk collected from Scouts contributed to Scouts i'm IL
nations Scouting has always been active force In promoting
better understanding mutual goodwill the nations Above
Is the official poster marking the event
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06

The best helping hand is at the
end Of your arm.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06

Don't drive when you're sleepy.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06

WANTED - Someone who will
take the time to tell Harry Warne
how to get to Burkittsville. At
the Retailers luncheon on Friday, he
was getting route information from
everyone within six seats of him and
they had him going every which
way, from the dual highway to the
Pennsylvania turnpike.
Evening star., 1947-10-01


suits, are endless little notes on
South America. Before I quit writ
ing about that continent perhaps I
had better get a few of the notes
down on paper. I trust you won't
mind.
In one of the most prominent
squares in Cuzco, Peru. stands a
magnificent statue of an Indian.
That would be all right if the
Indian in question didn't happen
to be an American Indian. wearing
full feather headdress and looking
as no Peruvian Indian ever did.
1t seems that years ago a smart
Yankee drummer came through
Cuzco, ancient capital of the Incas,
and wangled an order for a statue
of an Indian. He sent them the
American type. Cuzco's city fathers
were indignant at first, but the
Peruvians' soon saw the humor of
the affair, and now the statue is
one of the first things tourist
is shown.
heat CutS sightseeing.
It was hot and dry when we were
in Guayaquil, Ecuador, which meant
that we didn't do too much sight
seeing because of the traffic prob
lem. You see, cacao is vital
to Ecuador, so when the weather is
dry and warm dozens of streets,
both large and small, are closed to
traffic to allow the beans to be
spread out on the cobblestones and
dried. Hundreds of men with
shoVels stand by, ready to remove
the beans if the rains come. E'he
odor of the drying beans, from
which comes cocoa, is enough to
make your mouth water. ..
The coolest things in South Amer
lea during the wintertime are the
hotel radiators They are used
strictly for ornamental purposes. To
huddle close to one, or to touch
one, is to risk frostbite. -.
The most disappointing sight
saw in South America was Evita
Evening star., 1947-10-01

terms, IAN i'm Dorothy Thompson.
perialist-capitalist power" seeking
to make "a coolie Of Europe" we are
in addition-"Fascist
This barrage emanates, with COM
plete una ahimity, from Moscow, War
saw, Belgrade, Sofia and other
points in Eastern Europe. to prove
if further proof were necessary-that
the idea that these states are "sov-
ereign" or possess freedom of action
is balderdash. Thus, in single
mornings papers we are accused by
the Soviet Union-in political po-
lemic and even poetry" by Yugo-
slavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and even
Czechoslovakia.
Previously Professor Oscar Lange
of Poland, addressing the United
Nations Assembly, accused the
United States of dividing Europe"
by the Marshall proposals. He
neglected to mention that American
aid was offered to a consortium of
all Europe, and that both Poland
and Czechoslovakia had decided to
attend the Paris Conference until
sharply pulled into line by Moscow.
Yugoslavia Takes Lead.
AS usual, the Yugoslav government
is the most aggressive in the bar
rage. After abducting three Amer
ican soldiers from the Trieste area
and attempting. apparently, to scare
them to death with pictures Of
Stain and Lenin and talk of enor-
nous Russian strength, Tito called
If necessary-for armed struggle
of Communist forces in Europe.
From Bulgaria came word that the
new liberalized Greek government
was no more acceptable 10 Bulgaria
"a wNrtime Hitler ally) than the pre-
vious one, and that only govern
ment with the Communists would
mean peace" In Albania, the Rus
sian-trained dictator discovered an
American conspiracy, ETC., etc.
Now, what is the Kremlin up to
in this war of nerves? For 1t Is i'm
portant that we should not cooper
ate to make it successful.
Leaders Must Be Calm.
Whether Russian Bonapartism
wins in Europe depends far less on
tho Kremlin than on Washington,
as the Russians well know. They
are, therefore, trying to break the
morale of Washington by dividing
American public opinion through
fear of war, and by convincing us
that further aid to Europe will be
throwing good money after bad.
They want, above all, to capture
Italy before Washington moves in
Evening star., 1947-10-01
On the Record
u. S. Subjected to Propaganda Barrage
Without Parallel Since Hitler's Heyday

an effective way. The whole cam
paign is a diversionary tactic to
cause alarm and, therefore, delay.
Now is the time for our leaders
to keep their shirts on, put Russia
out of their minds, and pursue a
vigorous American policy of dogged
reconstruction. The United States
Government is not going to. drop
atomic bombs on the Kremlin, and
the Russians know it. Neither is
Tito going to move his armed forces
beyond the present Yugoslav from
tiers, for his masters are not going
to risk what would certainly happen
if he did-a return of fire. Neither
Is there going to be a maSs-rising of
the European proletariat. If the
Russians thought there might be,
they would be seriously land cor
rectly) alarmed, for reasons I shall
set forth later.
The only thing the Russians can
do in Europe is to plunge it further
into chaos and misery. What they
want to prevent is not war but Euro
pean reconstruction under American
leadership, and in this they are be-
having stupidity.
The people in Washington who
are falling for the Russian propa-
ganda are men like Senator Capper,
with his talk about no more rat
hole" money; the crowd who attrib-
ute American high prices to Euro
pean exports, which is by no means
the~primary, secondary, or even ter
tiary cause of them; and the poll
ticians who would rather risk civili-
zation than the next election.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1947-10-01
This Changing World
Congress Members Probing Conditions
In Europe Find Trip Is No Joy Ride

them could be worse than what they
have already experienced. (2) The
almost confiscatory income tax Is
a deterrent to hard work in a coun-
try where free enterprise still had
a place of honor until the advent of
the present Labor government.
While the capitalist is being
treated like an orphan, and his ex-
tinction is gleefully forecast by
Labor's left wing, the tax on workers
incomes, too, is so heavy as to dis
courage longer hours of toll. Why
work more than four days week,
say the miners and textile workers,
when the excess over a small take
home pay simply goes to the govern
ment? They prefer to spend theit
time in the parks or movies or in
attending union social.
In Germany the bewildered
workers toll as long as they are
asked. But scarcity of basic foods
weakens them SO they are forced to
limit their physical activity. More
over, they all wonder what will hap
pen to them, since they feel they are
caught in the conflict between
America and Russia.
Vicious Circle.
France and Italy are not so close
to starvation, the American Congress
members, say. But here again there
is little incentive for the heavy work
required for economic reconstruction
because of political insecurity and
uncertainty. Moreover, the labor
unions, overwhelmingly controlled by
Communists, are insisting on shorter
hours and higher wages. When
wages fail to keep pace with the cost
of living, strikes are ordered. These
in turn further diminish production,
which gives another boost to the
cost of living. 1t is a vicious circle
which cannot be eliminated SO long
as the labor organizations follow
Moscow's political pattern.
There is no agreement yet among
Congress members now in Europe
over whether the siphoning, of hun
dreds of millions of dollars worth of
American supplies-food and coal
from the United States to Europe
will solve the plight of those coun-
tries. Some believe it might act as a
palliative which will set the ma
chinery of production in motion
again. Others fear that unless the
various governments put their
houses in order by energetic policies
American aid would have no lasting
effect.
The travelling Senators and Rep
resentatives will meet next week in
London to prepare preliminary re-
port of their findings. While minor
ity reports are to be expected, the
majority is likely to recommend a
policy to both houses of Congress.