The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-05-13
Around Town With
The Editor

eral years to take fifty copies of my
paper to the Hospital every week
for the use of the patients. Last
week prominent physician, who
happens to be a very good. friend
of mine, handed me $500 for a years
subscription with this remark: I've
been in the habit of reading the
Globe at the Hospital every week,
but one of the other doctors has beat
me to it the last couple of weeks,
so l want you to send it to my Of
fee"
Any more doctors, please?
The newly elected president OF
the Chamber of Commerce, Herman
Hopes, together with the two vice
presidents, John Shockey and Arley
Sica, and the Chambers secretary,
James Stone, called on Mayor
Sweeney on Tuesday and offered
the Mayor and Council the whole
hearted cooperation and services of
the Chamber of Commerce toward
building a better community. Mayor
Sweeney expressed his appreciation
and his desire for understanding and
a sound working relationship be-
tween the two bodies
The meeting was a step in the
right direction, and it is just one
more proof that the Chamber OF
Commerce is going all out to make
Hagerstown a better place in which
to live and make a living.
It's too bad that there has been
misunderstanding regarding the
present campaign of the Washington
County Historical Society to raise
funds for the restoration of the
home of the founder of the City of
Hagerstown, Jonathan Hager, a pro-
iect which has my wholehearted
support.
1 think the Editor of the Daily
Mail, in his recent editorial, straigh-
tened out the situation beautifully
when he stated that this was pure
ly voluntary campaign, and those
who felt they couldn't afford it, or
even those who were against such
a project, did not have to give to
it. l have talked to a great many
people the last week or so, and the
majority of them are 100 per cent
behind the project and are going to
support it.
I attended the trial of the four
nine year old boys who were
brought up in Juvenile Court last
week, following their arrest on
charges of series of robberies.
1t was pitiful to sit there and listen
to those kids tell of the almost pro-
fessional manner in which they
committed the various robberies to
which they confessed But the ter
rible thing about it all was that
some of the fathers didn't think it
was necessary to even attend the
trial. AS Judge Miller put it: at
would seem to me that it is far
more important that the fathers of
these boys should be present at a
time like this, than losing part of a
days pay, as some of you mothers
have told me is the reason they are
not here"
AS representative of the Hag-
erstown Boys Club, I talked with
all four of the mothers, and the one
father who was present, and invited
them to send their youngsters down
to the Boys Club where we would
try to help them along by teaching
them organized recreation, and l ar
ranged to meet them personally at
the Club last Saturday morning
But I'm sorry to have to report that
only one mother showed up.
This, to me, is just another proof
that most of the trouble the chill
dren of Hagerstown get into can
be laid directly at the door of the
parents, and it is high time that
Hagerstown put machinery in mo-
ton that will punish these parents
who willfully neglect their children,
as is now being done with such good
effect in Baltimore.
l am attending a dinner in Balti-
more this evening, given by Mr..
Jacob France, Republican National
Committeeman for Maryland, at
which the guest speaker will be
Congressman Charles Hallack of In
diana, majority floor leader in the
House of Representatives. AT the
banquet, the six Republican Con-
gressional Candidates from the Free
State will be introduced.
Mr.. France, in asking me to be his