The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-02-06
Around Town With
The Editor

A sign of the times - Mayor
Sweeney tells me that all through
the year 1916, only three applica-
lions for employment were received
in the Mayors Office and that all
three applicants were over sixty
years of age.
In contrast to this, he has already
received sixteen applications this
year, with all the applicants being
young and able bodied.
One of the funniest sights | have
seen in a long time, took place fol-
lowing the luncheon meeting of the
Retailers Bureau last Friday, when
Merrill Hays put on Ford Bryan's
overcoat by mistake, and Ford tried
to put on MerrilTs. l have always
known that those two were as thick
as thieves, but that was the first
time | knew that they wore each
others clothes.
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.
There was plenty of noise at one
table at the Historical Society's an
nual dinner meeting at the Hotel
Alexander on Thursday night. But
what else could you expect when an
undertaken, a newspaperman, law
yer and doctor are seated at the
same table. Someone said that it
sounded as if the doctor was MAX
ing out the death certificate; the
undertaken was claiming the body;
the newspaperman wanted the obit-
uary notice, and the lawyer was
clamoring to probate the will.
Committee after committee files
report after report on the traffic sit
uation, but the trolley keeps rumb-
ling along.
Roy Letter, Sam Phillips and
Walter Pollard stopped by at Ran
ey's Coliseum on Saturday morning,
to watch the newly formed Boys
Bowling League in action. They
were frankly amazed to see the ten,
five-boy teams in action and were
loud in their praise of the work
Gene Raney is doing to help settle
the juvenile problem in Hagerstown.
How about some more of you bus
mess men taking few minutes
next Saturday morning to do the
same thing? Don't think it doesn't
help the youngsters to have the
grown-ups show an interest in them
and perhaps compliment them on
their fine competitive spirit.
I wonder what's happened to the
perfect harmony between the diff
ferent factions in the Democratic
Party in Maryland, that was SO
widely publicized during the cam
paign. With dissention in the Party
already obvious both in Annapolis
and Baltimore, trouble reared its
head in Hagerstown last week, over
the recognizing of the local Dem
ocratic Club.
Despite the whitewash given SEN
ator O'Conor by the Democratic
controlled Special Campaign Expen-
ditures Committee, before it went
out of existence last week, don't
count Markey out in his effort to
unseat O'Conor.
The whole matter is now in the
hands of the Republican controlled
Senate Committee on Rules and Ad-
ninistration, whose investigators
are now making recount of the
ballots in five counties, to determine
whether those five counties show
enough discrepancies to warrant a
recount of the entire State. Until
the Committee makes its report pub
lie, the question of who will finally
wind up as Maryland's Junior SEN
ator, remains in doubt.