The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-01-06
Around Town With
The Editor

prepared in Hagerstown, but will be
handed to the Legislators when they
arrive in Annapolis. | have also
learned that one of the provisions
of the Bill will permit moving pic
ture houses, in Hagerstown only, to
open at 100 p. m. on Sunday after
moons and continue open until the
regular closing hour at night, which
is usually around II p M, without
any Interruptions.
If the County delegation intro
duces a Bill into the legislature
with that clause in it, it will, in my
opinion, be a discriminatory bill,
since there are now laws on the
statute books which force the Mu-
nicipal Stadium, the Municipal
Swimming Pool and the local Bowl
ing Alleys to close up on Sunday
promptly at 600 o'clock. This will
mean that the Bill gives to the Ha-
gerstown moving picture theatres
privilege (Which / am informed
Mrs. Wachter, owner of Henrys
Theatre, does not wanD of keeping
open after 600 p. m. on Sundays,
while the other places of amuse-
ment, such as the Baseball Park
the Swimming Pool and the Bowl
ing Alleys must close their doors
promptly at 600 o'clock.
l cannot believe that our dele
gates will present a Bill with that
clause in it, even though the pur-
pose is 10 also have a referendum
clause attached, and if any Sunday
Movie Bill is introduced, it certain
ly should carry the exact same pro
visions as the present laws carry
that deal with places of amusement
being open on Sunday
With three Republicans and two
Democrats already having filed for
the office of Mayor, and total of
nineteen having filed for the five
seats in the City Council a pretty
lively Primary is assured, and don't
be bit surprised if there are more
candidates for both the office of
Mayor and members of the Council
before the deadline of midnight,
January IL.
l am reliably informed that some
potential candidates cannot file at
the present time, because they are
not registered voters of Hagerstown,
but it is their intention, so l am
told, to register next Tuesday and
then file for whatever office they
seek. One possibility, so l under
stand, is that there will be another
candidate for Mayor.
It sure is wonderful what cleo
tions will do. Neighborhoods got
lighted and decorated Christmas
trees that never had them before.
Some officials get suddenly law
conscious and stage raids" while
others get sudden urge to take
the public into their confidence on
everything pertaining to civic af-
fairs
You've got to hand it to Mayor
Sweeney, however, since he still adj
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fuses to give out any information
until it has first appeared in the
Daily Mail Sometimes, when /
think of the way His Honor con-
tinuously gives the Mail a break on
every bit of worthwhile news ema-
mating from City Hall, l wonder if
he remembers back four years ago,
when the same paper printed an
editorial in his favor that somehow
or another didn't get into print
until the day after the election was
over
A great many people have asked
me which candidates I'm going to
be for in the Primaries, so let me
make myself perfectly clear on that
subject right now
While | personally will work for
those candidates l hope to see elect
ed, my newspaper will take abso-
lutely no part in the Primary cam
paign, It always has been, and still
is, my firm belief that a Primary
with plenty of candidates from both
political parties is healthy. and that
the public should be allowed to
judge for themselves whom they
wish to elect as their party candi-
date, and that it is no part of a
newspapers place-any more than
it's the part of state central COM
mittees-to take any partisan part
in Primary fight.
Needless to say, however, when