The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-03-17


kept my nose fairly well to the
grindstone, without any vacation eX-
cepting a couple of short week ends. |
AS a result of this l am faced with |
either taking a couple of weeks real
rest, completely away from my work |
on the paper, or risking a complete
physical breakdown. Needless to
say hate the thought of going on
vacation right in the middle of an
election campaign, but after all my
health comes first, and so, as you read
this, I hope to be stretched out un-
der the sun in Tampa, Florida, talk
ing life easy for awhile.
1 cannot express too strongly my
appreciation of the cooperation l
have received from everybody,
without which it would have been
a pretty hard thing for me to go
away for two or three weeks. In
the first place, our regular adver
tisers have been good enough to plan
their advertising right through the
end of the month for me in adj
vance; everyone at the plant in Mid
dletown is pitching in to help get
my paper out and see that it reaches
you every Thursday as usual, and
last but not least my very efficient
secretary, Mrs. Roessner, who af-
ter all does most of the work on
this paper anyway, at least as far
as the office work and gathering of
news is concerned, is going to see
that things run smoothly from this
end.
Because of the absence of Mrs.
Douglas and myself, her Home
makers Column will be missing next
week, as will this column and the
sports column on the back page,
Behind Home Plate" And would
also ask your indulgence in ac-
cepting an eight-page paper after
this week, until l get back
At the Mems Republican Club
meeting last Wednesday night, the
membership voted overwhelmingly
to put on a real old-fashioned Re
publican Rally before the election
on March % to be held at Frank
lin Court Auditorium. Arrange
ments were made to give the Rally
plenty of good publicity, but the
next day Mr.. Mills called the whole
thing off.
am wondering why he did it af-
ter it was favorably voted on by
such a large majority of the mem
bers. I'm also wondering what the
members of the Mems Republican
Club think about his action, and al
so how the Republican candidates
for Council feel about it.
It's an absolute crime that the Re
publican Party in Hagerstown al
ways has to run into factional strife,
instead of being welded together in
united party, with good of the
whole group, instead of individuals,
being the goal.
We all know that four years ago
John Dunn lost the city election,
not because of the work that the
Democrats did, but because of dis
sension in the Republican ranks.
And here we have the identical
same thing in this election, only
much worse. And again it might
be the cause of a Democratic Mayor
and Council being elected for an
other four years.
know I'm not setting very good
example myself, but as I explained
above, cannot help myself, 1 do
urge, however, that everyone of you
reading this, to go to the polls on
Tuesday and cast your ballot for
the Republican candidates for City
Council.
We all should remember that the
Council, and not the Mayor, runs
the city, and this was never more
clearly illustrated than during the
Light Plant controversy, when des-
pite the pleas of Mayor Sweeney for
an acceptance of a tie-in, the ma
jority of his Council voted against
it.
My heartiest congratulations to the
editorial stats of Hoo Wair N Wat,
the Hagerstown High School paper,
and Santa Maria, the st. Mary's High
School paper, for the high honor
bestowed on both papers, at the
Columbia Scholastic Press Associa-
TONS annual school newspaper and
magazine competition.
With over 1000 other school pub
locations in the nationwide contest,
Hoo WAR N Wat won first place