The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-11-18
Story OF The Week

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Story Of The Week
Last Saturday was the birthday of
Christopher Craft, son of doc"
Jack Craft, our esteemed director
of the Washington County Museum
of Fine Arts.
In an effort to do something diff
ferent to honor the lads birthday,
Doc obtained three reserved seat
tickets to the Baltimore Colts game
in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon.
In good time on Sunday morning,
Doc and his boy, together with an
other friend of Christopher's, got in
the car and leisurely made their
way to Baltimore and the Babe Ruth
Stadium On arriving at the gate,
Doc put his hand in his pocket to
get the tickets out, only to find that
he had no wallet However, he did
remember exactly the numbers of
the three tickets and so he explain
ed his dilemma to the gatekeeper
and told him to see what could be
done
After waiting close to an hour,
the head of the ticket division came
back and told him that he was sor-
ry, but all the records were at the
downtown office, and the only sug-
gestion he could make was that Doc
buy three $150 admission tickets
and then proceed to his regular re-
served seats.
But when our museum director
pointed out that he didn't have the
$3.50 since his wallet was gone, the
ticket man told him he was awfully
sorry that he couldn't let him in.
In deep disgust, he rummaged
through his pockets and finally found
that he had little change in silver,
and with this he took the two lads
to a nearby hot dog stand, where
they had hot dogs and something to
drink and then returned disconsol-
ately home.
When I heard the story l thought
naturally that Doc in some way or
another had his pockets picked, but
the true facts are that, in his usual
absent-minded way, Doc had chang
ed suits for the trip and left the
wallet, with the tickets in it, in the
suit that he had taken off!
Did somebody say something about
an "absent-minded professor?
Like hundreds of other men in
Hagerstown and Washington Coun-
ty, I have been working the past
week on the Community Chest
drive, and I cannot help but ex-
press my appreciation Of the splend-
i'd way in which, at least those
have called on, have responded.
1 did not receive one single turn
down, nor did I have anyone re-
duce their contribution this year.
And better still, I did get some sub
seriptions from people who last year
gave nothing.
I And strange to say, only met
one person who made any comment
about the workers getting free
lunches during the week of the
drive, and he admitted, after l had
explained the situation, that he was
wrong in his criticism.
Is it any wonder that l keep re-
peating over and over again, that
Hagerstown is fine place in which
to live and make living?
$50
Hagerstown is now experiencing
its second industrial strike during
the past few weeks, with the en-
ployees of the Brandt Cabinet Works
on strike since Monday morning
over a wage dispute. However, like
the previous strike, everything is
being conducted in quiet and ord
erly way, and it's my sincere hope
that the differences between the
company and the employees will be
settled quickly and amicably.
One of my Oldest subscribers has
accused me of jumping on the Tru-
man, bandwagon because of my re-
marks in this column last week, and
also because of statement made
in my editorial on Armistice Day
in which / stated:
''The free citizens of the United
States of America, once they def
nitely make up their minds what
they want, go out and get it-refus-
ing to be n1isled by false prophesies