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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
AROUND TOWN
WITH THE EDITOR

being badly damaged by frost boils.
1t would seem, however, that since
the damage is already done, there
wasn't much sense in putting these
truck drivers and the firms they
work for to so much inconvenience
and expense, particularly as most of
the drivers knew nothing about the
emergency law until they hit Mary
land Highway and either saw a no
tice posted, or were stopped by a
State Trooper.
Taking care of our roads is one
thing (it's pity it wasn't done
years ago. but doing it in a way that
is causing bad feelings with out-of-
town firms, whose trucks were being
stopped, seems to be pretty poor adj
vertising for the State of Maryland.
This is American Brotherhood
Week, which is sponsored by the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews.
Here in Hagerstown the various
service clubs and organizations are
featuring Brotherhood Week at their
meetings, and the local committee of
the Conference of Christians and
Jews are arranging several other
meetings.
We are all becoming more aware
every day of the vital need for folks
to get together and discuss their
problems, and the problems of the
nation, state, city and county, with
out regard to creed or color. In my
own work in the Hagerstown Boys
Club we sit down at our board of
directors meetings with the two dir
ectors from the colored boys club,
and we discuss our problems to-
gether-problems that in most cases
are applicable to both white and
colored.
Everyone is entitled to their own
opinion-that's part of our Ameri-
can heritage-but bigotry has no
place in the American life or the
American home And the greatest
thing I see as l move around and at
tend many meetings in the COM
munity in which live and make a
living, is the representatives of var
ious faiths sitting down together at
the council table and at public gath
erings, to discuss the problems of
our community and our people.
We are all observing American
Brotherhood Week, this week, but
let's not stop there-whys not make
an American Brotherhood Week
throughout every one of the So
weeks in the year?
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
AeIOOKHAG
AND
AelHSTEAHAG
By Ellen Hagedorn

The following observations
were made while waiting half
an hour-more or less patient
ly-in our car, in a Hagers-
town parking lot.
First, and most serious, four
out of five car owners leave
their cars unlocked.
Second, the drab appearance
of the rear of store buildings,
bellies their frontal magnifi-
.cerlce.
Third, door with iron bars
across the upper window half
while next to it large win
dow, left Unattached, above
high outdoor cellar entrance.
Fourth, the hideous tangle
of wires from house to house
reminding one of a tenacious
spider web.
Fifth, the bobbing heads of
two women busy with a con-
slant stream of chatter.
Sixth, its darn cold waiting
that long for your husbandl
D.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
APPLE PURCHASE PROGRAM
BY GOVT ANNOUNCED

1t is expected that total purchases
of apples for school lunch and well
fare use, will amount to $2,400,000
by May 18th, according to Joseph H,
Blandford, Chairman of the Mary
land PIMA State Committee. The
The purchase program which is
operated by the Commodity Credit
Corporation is designed to aid in
offsetting the lack of export outlets,
Blandford reminded Maryland
growers that purchases are made on
on. offer and acceptance basis and adj
vised them to get in touch with their
county Office if they have apples in
storage.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
Church Women Hold
Devotional Meeting
Women's Missionary Society
OF First Brethren Church Hears
Inspiring Talks.

The Women's Missionary Society
of the First Brethren Church held
their February devotional meeting
recently, in the church auditorium.
Highlights of the meeting were
topics discussed by Mrs. N. V. Leath-
erman, the pastors wife, and Mrs.
]. R. Laughlin. Mrs. Leatherman's
topic conferred around the word
study of Service while Mrs.
Laughlin talked on the subject, "a
Woman Profitable to God" Value
of helpfulness was learned from
both these talks.
Beautiful poems and readings
were also given by Mesdames John
Crawford, Norman Poffenberger
and Orville Myers.
Mrs. c. Frank Myers was the lead
er of the meeting which was well
attended, and the president of the
society, Mrs. Ira Downey, presided
over the usual order of business,
which followed the program.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
Negro Nurse Gets
Army Commission

First Lieutenant Nancy C. Left
enant, Anityville, New York, is the
first Negro to be accepted in the
Regular Army Nurse Corps, the
Army said today. She graduated
from the Lincoln School of Nursing,
New York City, in 1914, and was
appointed second lieutenant, Re
serve Army Nurse Corps no Feb
ruary 2, 1915.
Lieutenant Leftenant served at
Lowell General Hospital, Fort Dew
ems, Massachusetts, and Gushing
General Hospital, Framinghan,
Massachusetts,, before receiving her
present assignment at Lockbourne
Air Base, Columbus, Ohio.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
Surrey School PIT A
Holds Founders Day
Former School Principals and
PIT. A. Officers Honored At
Meeting.

The Parent Teachers Association
of Surrey School celebrated Found
ers Day with a program in the
school auditorium last Thursday
evening, at which the past principals
of the school and former officers of
the P-T.A. were honored. Dolls
dressed by Mrs. Harvey Miller to
represent Mrs. Bierny and Mrs.
Hearst, the founders of P-T.A. in
1897, adorned the speakers table.
Two of the former principals were
present: Mr.. John D. Zentmyer, al
so former principal of the Hagers-
town High School; and Mrs. Cecile
F. Gutelius, who is now a teacher
in the Antietam Street School
After brief remarks by Mr. Gent
myer, Mrs. Gutelius introduced the
former officers of the P-T.A. who
were present. This was followed by
a vocal solo, "Sing Me to Sleep" by
Mrs. Roy <. French, accompanied
at the piano by Miss Emily Troupe.
Mrs. L. V. Crist, a past president,
then gave a very interesting talk on
the history of the Surrey P-T.A.
This was followed by a piano solo,
Greek Nocturne," by Miss Martha
Petre.
A feature of the program was a
radio skit, with the following cast:
announcer, S. w. Sewers; narrator,
Mrs. Irwin Limbaugh; Mrs. Bierny,
Mrs. Daniel Foltz; Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst, Mrs. Robert Eckstine; and
Miss Taylor, Mrs. Julian Oliver.
Mrs. John A. Long, secretary of
the Maryland Congress of Teachers,
and Mrs. j. S. Cover, counsellor to
the Councils of Maryland, were in
attendance, and Mrs. Long spoke
briefly on the highlights of the Con-
ference held in Baltimore in Deem
Der.
At the conclusion of the program,
delicious refreshments were served.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
Marine Corps Opens
Recruiting Office

The U. S. Marine Corps has opened
a recruiting office in room 202, Post
Office building, with Staff Sgt. Nile
L. Wells in charge.
The Office will be open weekdays
from 800 am. to 4:30 pm, and on
Saturdays from 800 am. until noon,
and all young men from the age of
II to 20, are eligible for enlistment
The phone number of the new
office is 4908.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
Russ Morgan's Band Girl Scout Region
Coming Here Mar. Leaders Meet Here
Executives and Commissioners
OF Section 10, Region 3, Make
Plans For Annual Conference.

Section 10, of Region 3, of the Ma
tional Girl Scout Council, which in
cludes Cumberland, Frederick,
Waynesboro, Winchester, Martins
burg and Hagerstown, held a meet
ing at the Woman's Club on South
Prospect Street, on February II.
Representatives at the meeting
were Commissioners and Executive
Directors of the above named Coun-
ellis.
Mrs. Herbert Solenberger, of VIM
chester, Va, chairman Of Section 10
of Region 3, presided at the meeting,
at which final plans were made for
the annual conference, for all in
dividual Troop leaders in section 10,
to be held in Waynesboro, Pa, on
April 10.
Miss Betty Clark, member of the
National Girl Scout Staff, with head
quarters in Washington, D. c., was
the main speaker Miss Clark out
lined Girl Scout work for the next
two years and stressed the following
four points for Girl Scouts to work
on: a higher degree of world friend
ship; resourcefulness in projects
undertaken; service to community
and others; and more interest and
pride in the world wide organiza-
ton to which they belong.
Miss Katherine Mccullough is the
Girl Scout Executive for Washing
ton County.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
81 Are Present At
Leitersburg Grange
Family Life" Is Theme OF
Discussion - Two New Mem
bers Accepted.

The Leitersburg Grange held its
regular meeting February Is, with
Howard Strock presiding and 81
members present. Two candidates,
George Weagley, Jr., and Charles
Knepper were favorably balloted on
and will be obligated at the next
meeting. A flower fund was start
ed, which will be used to buy flow
ers for sick members.
During the business session, kit
chen Improvements were discussed,
and the possibility of another sup
per was aired. The donation of an
electric stove by one of the mem
bers was accepted, and another will
be bought for use in the kitchen.
The Home Economics Chairman
then gave the requirements for the
National Sewing contest. The article
to be made is blouse, the pattern
for which may be found in the
Grange Monthly.
The theme of the lecturers pro-
gram centered around Family Life
and opened with the singing of
Home Sweet Home" followed by
a reading, "The Family Parlor," by
Mrs Bertha Rockar. Family life of
the future was discussed by Betty
Lou Itynre and Van Itynre, follow
ed by a piano trio, "Minuet in G."
by Charles, Charlene and Clara
Barnhart. Family memories were
given by different members, after
which everyone joined in singing
The Family Toothbrush" At the
conclusion of the meeting baby pic
lures were identified, which proved
to be very entertaining.
At the next meeting, on March 8,
cookies are to be judged, and mem
bers are asked to bring any one of
three types-ice box, rolled out, or
drop cookies.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26

US Department of Agriculture re-
search workers have some promis-
ing new varieties of strawberries
which have not been given names.
They will be tested further before
being released for commercial pro-
duction. The experimenters found
that the vitanin c content of vine
ripened berries is higher than when
half-red berries are picked.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26

luncheon tomorrow at the Hager
House at noon. j. Frank Ridenour's
talk, "The Hagerstown of Days Gone
BY" is something you just won't
want to miss. And as an added at
traction, Chester Hays will be show
ing his collection of old-time pic
lures of Hagerstown.
The largest Lincoln Day Banquet
ever held in Hagerstown (there
were over 600 present, with the over
flow dining at the Hager House and
then returning for the addresses)
took place last Wednesday night at
the Masonic Temple All through
the banquet hall there was an OBJ
vious feeling that this is without
question a Republican year in ma
tional politics, and the principal
speaker, Congressman Dewey Short
of Missouri, held the attention of
his audience throughout his address.
Looking back on the banquet,
cannot help but get the feeling that
the public wants to be told what the
Republican Party is going to do
when it takes over the reins of gov
eminent in Washington. And al
though, of course, it is a good thing
to poke fun at the opposition to keep
an audience in a good humor, much
more than that is needed to win
elections. l hope, therefore, that as
the campaign develops, the Repub-
lican Party will get away from the
old, WORKOUT policy of ridiculing
and belittling the opposition, and
come up with a fortnight statement
to the people of just what the Party
will do to stabilize living conditions
and to promote a lasting peace
aboard.
The women of the country are 60
ing to have good deal to say in the
election of President and Congress
this fall, and they want facts. When
lady goes into grocery store and
finds that her dollar bill will just
buy about sixty cents worth of food
for her family, and she asks the Re-
publican Party what they are going
to do to remedy that condition, she
doesn't want joke about the Dem
ocratic Party for an answer-she
wants something concrete that will
lead her to believe that her dollar,
under the Republican Party, will get
back to buying a dollars worth of
food.
Enthusiasm reigned high at the
Lincoln Day Banquet last week
let's keep that enthusiasm high with
campaign based on a real Repub-
lican platform, and if we do that,
we will have Republican President
in the White House in 1949 and
Republican Congress with suffi-
cient working majority to puts its
plans into effect.
The weighing of trucks by State
Troopers under an emergency order
of the State Roads Commission and
the forcing of the truck drivers
(mostly from out of the State) to re-
duce their load to a prescribed max
imunl, and in some cases OBTAINING
the truck drivers for quite some
time, strikes me as being another
instance of locking the stable door
after the horse is gone.
The emergency order of the State
Roads Commission, which reduced
the loads which trucks can carry
over Maryland Highways, was l
understand, the result of the roads
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
Chairmen Named
For Red Cross Drive
Mrs. Joseph w. Byron Named
Asst. General Chairman-Op-
timist Club To Head Commerce
iaI Division.

The campaign chairman for the
Red Cross annual drive, Evan Cross
ley has announced that his assistant
general chairman will be Mrs. Jo-
seph w. Bryon.
Other committee chairmen for the
drive, which gets under way March
/, are as follows; Harold Helm, city
canvass; Mrs. Joseph H. Dagenais, Of
Petersburg, county canvass; Warren
Smith and Harvey H. Heyser, Jr., in
dustrial division; Mrs. Fred Wright,
Jr., organizations; Mrs Odello Lett
err, campaign office committee; Ste
wart w. Phillips, publicity.
It has also been announced that
the Hagerstown Optimist Club will
head the commercial division, and
the club will oppoint its own chair
man.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
Concert
Tickets Available

Ticket Subscriptions For BaIti-
more Symphony Orchestra
Concert March 8, Now Being
Accepted-Public Sale of Tick
cts Starts March a.
Ticket subscriptions for the Balti-
more Symphony Concert, to be held
at the Hagerstown High School Audi
torium March at $3.50 pm, can
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
LOCAL BOYS IN NAVY HAVE
BEEN SEEING THE WORLD

Robert McIntire, fireman, second
class, USN, son of Mrs. r. L. Nc
Intire of ia Greenmount Ave, Ha-
gerstown, Md, recently visited Ha-
vana, Cuba, while serving aboard
the submarine USS Sablefish.
While in Cuba the crew members
participated in a parade and cere-
monies concentrating the loss Of
the battleship USS Maine on Feb.
Is, 1893 The men also enjoyed the
Winter Fiestas there.
John w. Yost, seaman, second
class, USN, son of Mrs. Ross A. Yost
Of Hancock, Md, is serving aboard
the destroyer USS Bordelon, which
has returned to the United States
after a six-month cruise in Euro
pean waters as part of the Northern
European Task Force under Ad-
miral Richard L. Connolly, Com
mander of Eastern Atlantic and
Mediterranean Naval Forces.
During the European cruise, the
crew of the Bordelon visited Bre-
merhaven, Germany; Glasgow, Scot
land; Rotterdam, Netherlands and
Plymouth, England.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26

The itching sensation that some
people mistake for ambition is mere
ly Inflammation of the wishbone.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26

Your head size is fixed by the
size of your hat but there isn't any
limit to expansion in your heart.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26
Creator OF ''Music In The Nor
gan Manner" To Present His
Orchestra At Franklin Court.

Russ Morgan, creator of the famed
Music in the Morgan Manner" and
his orchestra, will be at Franklin
Court Auditorium on Thursday
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-26

Don't miss the Retail Bureaus
luncheon tomorrow at the Hager
House at noon. j. Frank Ridenour's
talk, "The Hagerstown of Days Gone
By" is something you just won't
want to miss. And as an added at
traction, Chester Hays will be show
ing his collection of old-time pic
lures of Hagerstown.
Evening star., 1948-08-29
This Week in the Garden

The current crop of bagworns in
Testing the arbor vitae and other
evergreens land deciduous shrubs
may be controlled through hand
picking and burning. If that seems
too large a job try spraying the
shrubs every week or 10 days with
lead arsenate Il tablespoonful to
gallon of water). If allowed to
go uncontrolled the bagworms will
so weaken the plants that they
will die.
An interesting low-growing shrub
that is now in flower is the chaste
tree-Vitex macrophylla sometimes
called v. agnus-castnus) The pale
lilac-blue flowers are borne over a
long season in the late summer and
fall. The chaste tree is hardy in
this area and while it will grow to
10 feet in favorable situations, to
6 feet is the usual range in height.
If good floral display is desired
the bushes should be severely pruned
in the early spring, this will also
aid in keeping the bushes low.
If the daffodils are SO crowded
as to give sparse bloom in the spring
it is not too late to lift and reset
them in well-enriched soil. Deep
soil preparation is necessary If the
plant food is to be below the deeply
set bulbs. If digging is impracti-
cable at this season try feeding the
bulbs by spreading 3 or pounds
of commercial fertilizer per 100
Evening star., 1948-08-29
Life on 40 Acres--Quail Stops Moving

No one. I am sure, who has never
worked his own land can ever be-
come intimately acquainted with
his soil.
Flowing and moving have been
my two introductions to my soil, and
! find that each job gives me a more
complete knowledge Of my fields.
During spring plowing I learned
something Of my soil types, and in
clipping the weeds from my pasture
during the summer I have learned
to appreciate the life that goes on,
unnoticed, in the heavy mat of
vegetation.
1 have watched the development
OF one field this summer, from pow
erty grass and weeds, to something
that now almost resembles a pas
ture. AS the weeds we're moved
other grasses slowly took hold. The
result is that my COW has been able
to reduce her work-hours in CROP
ping her daily ration.
+*4
was moving the other day, down
by ditch that has grown up into
wildlife border, when a quail
scampered out in front of the trac-
tor. One wing was dragging, and
her feathers were ruffled as she fiut-
tered off through a clump of pines.
I knew at once what it was. She
Evening star., 1948-08-29

square feet over the bed and work.
ing it into the soil. Do this in Sep
tember and again in late February
or early March. The rain will wash
the plant food down to the feed
ing roots. Lifting and separting the
bulbs is preferable to heavy feeding
4 y
Just because the Japanese beetles
are disappearing Is no reason to for
get them. They have laid their
eggs in the grass lands where the
newly Matched grubs will soon be
feeding on the grass roots through
out the winter and early spring.
Now is the time to apply the milky
spore disease to the lawn, which
is the best method of control.
X 4 \ II
1t will soon be time to SOW the
seeds of hardy ANIMALS, such as
the larkspur, bachelors button
nigella, portulaca, etc. Seeds should
be ordered now so that the plant
ing can be done as soon as the
soil Is ready. w. H Y.
Evening star., 1948-08-29
Farmers Advised
To Mis- Grasses
For Best Grazing

Farmers should use many differ
ent pasture plants in order to have
maximum grazing at all seasons OF
the year, according to P. H. DeHart,
Virginia Extension Service agrono-
mist.
The weakest link in the grazing
system on most farms is the period
from late November to early April,
Mr.. DeHart said. Use must be made
of plants adapted to cool weather
to provide grazing during this Pc
riod. he added.
For good winter grazing, he sug-
gested a mixture of two to three
bushels of small grains, Is pounds
of rye grass and Is pounds Of GRIM
son clover, all seeded after the first
good rain in August.
He recommended 900 to TOO
pounds per acre of 3-12-6 or 4-12-4
fertilizer, applied at the time pas
ture is seeded. If more grazing is
needed, top-dressing with Is to Is
pounds of nitrogen per acre can be
done in February, he added.
olc pIOpeTly leTIAl4Icu acre oA
this pasture, he continued, will pro-
vide grazing for five to six dairy
cows, or their equivalent in other
livestock, from November Is to
April IS, except at such times as
the land is covered with snow or
the temperature Is below freezing.
Seeding two fields to this mixture
is advisable, Mr.. DeHart said. One
field should be grazed during late
fall sand winter and the other after
January /, he stated.
Evening star., 1948-08-29
DI4S;9} Is ;}7Et N9ttss2s Ns9Sts2 $
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In Des Moines, Iowa, a man put a
pan of food on his back porch for
his dog. The dog, German shep-
herd, ate a little, then grabbed a
piece In her mouth and went be-
hind the barn with it. Twenty
minutes later the dog returned and
again started off with some in her
mouth. The dogs owner thought
perhaps the animal was i'll. For
three days in succession the dog ate
her food in this manner.
Becoming worried. the dogs mas
ter summoned a veterinarian He
thought there might have been some
obstruction In his pets throat that
caused her to carry away food with
ont swallowing it. The veterinarian
found nothing wrong with the dog.
Food again was placed on the back
porch. When the dog started off
with some in her mouth, the vet
erinarian and the dogs master fol-
lowed her.
The dog went behind the barn,
headed across field into some
woods. A few hundred yards farther
on the dog stopped and deposited
the morsel in front of a little mon
grel pup that had been caught in a
steel trap. The pup had been miss
ing for two weeks.
Just how the shepherd discovered
Evening star., 1948-08-29

Betty Herndon, 13-year old to-
bacco grower Of near Bowie, Md,
has her eye on the awards being
offered to All Club members and
Future Farmers Of America by the
University Of Maryland and the
State Fair Board in tobacco con-
test.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
T. G. Herndon, who operate a farm
belonging to the Catholic church.
Betty has her own half-acre plot
near the fields of tobacco that are
her fathers chief crop.
Her plot looks good. too-better
than the acre she grew two years
ago, and which brought her 1928.
That crop sold for an average of
So cents pound, or a little more
than 10 cents above the market
average.
Betty became interested in rails
ing her own tobacco through help
ing her father on the farm. He buys
her fertilizer and seed in exchange
for the work she does for him. She
then gets two-thirds Of the money
Evening star., 1948-08-29

Not long ago . sign appeared by
the drive to inform me that the
place would henceforth be known
as Brookside, and from q shiny
new mail box I learned that Brook
side is owned by Fulton Want.
MI. Want, I gather, is, like my
self, strictly a week end farmer since
most things seem to happen there
from Saturday to Monday. From the
highway, as pass, can look down
into Mr.. Wants front yard, so few
of his projects escape me.
watched the fences being paint
ed, the hay being made in the front
fields, and the other day I noticed
new, red tractor down beside the
house.
If Mr.. Want had asked me, I
should have told him that buying a
tractor with headlights can lead
only to one thing. 1t happened to
me, and I noticed the other night
that he, too, had fallen to the lure
Of night field work.
AS I passed I could see the lights
Of the tractor in a back field. He
was hard at work getting ready to
SOW grass. But half an hour later
the field was dark, and 1t was only
$50.
On our 40 acres, Mr.. Want, we
never quit before midnight.