The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-02-12
Around Town With
The Editor


Congratulations to the members
of the City Council, Board of Street
Commissioners and the City Engin-
eer, on their quick response to my
suggestion in this column last week
that streets be roped off in every
section of the city after snow storms,
to provide safe shedding for the
children.
And my congratulations, also, to
the Board of County Commissioners
and the Board of Education, on their
fine joint statement, which will
be found elsewhere on this page.
The statement is just another proof
If any were needed-that, in this
great Democracy in which we are
all privileged to live and make a
living, there is no question that can
not be settled when thinking men
sit down together and discuss it
across the conference table.
Even in this advanced day and
time, many people believe in the
old-timey remedies. If you don't
believe it, read the story of the RED
Feather" cure in the Leitersburg
News column elsewhere in this is
sue. The story reminds me of the
much talked of cure for arthritis--
putting sulphur in your shoes-or
the other remedy being stung by
bee.
An old railroader tells me that
the thermometer has never dropped
below zero in this area after Feb
ruary l5 | wonder if that's going
to hold good this winter?
I've just received a letter from
a young English friend of mine
formerly an officer in the R.AF)
who is now living in Paris, who had
this to say regarding one of the
Friendship Trains:
"The Friendship Train arrived
about five days before Christmas,
and happened to be in the Champs
Elysee when the trucks, loaded with
good things, and carrying posters
and American and French Flags,
passed through on their way to the
main distribution depots. The French
government was very fair in the
question of who should have and
so, therefore, the school children, old
people, poor people and the infirm,
were the happy receivers. / under
stood that some of the goods are
being kept for later distribution as
the need arises / do know for
fact that the French thank the
American people from the bottom of
their hearts for their goodness"
I've often stated in this column
that the main trouble with the whole
school PROGRAM in Washington
eCounty was the unfortunate fact
> that it was stepped far too deeply
in politics.
And if any further proof of this
was needed, it can be found in the
fact that the signed statement by
the three Republican members of
the Board of County Commissioners
(who constitute a majority which
appeared in full in the Morning
Herald last week, was significantly
absent from the news columns of
the Daily Mail
This statement, signed by elected
representatives of the people, in
which they gave in clear language
their reasons for refusing at this
time to sanction bond issue for
school building program, was news
Ito every taxpayer in Washington
County, whether they be Republic
San or Democrat And the failure of
1.-THE Daily Mail to carry the signed
sstory can be attributed to nothing
lelse but politics, particularly as the
Daily Mail has carried story after
story in favor of the bond issue, in
scluding many, many communica-
stions to which the writers didn't
Fcare to sign their names for publ
cation.