The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-11-03
ADOlJ. 50 TOWN
WITH THE EDITOR

The biggest and best Mummer's
Parade ever staged by the Alsatia
Club has come and gone, and while
time will dim the memory of some
of the fine. floats and organizations
in the parade, it will be long time
before l will forget the wonderful
turnout staged by the Hagerstown
Girls Club, which ought to make
the Hagerstown Boys Club crawl in
to hole and pull the hole in after
them. be ,u.',
With not only every girl but al
so the members of the board of di-
rectors of the Girls Club attired in
identical Halloween costumes, the
go or more; that. were in the group
made a most impressive showing
and well deserved the second prize
that they were awarded.
The Young Republican Club of
Washington County, whose up-and-
coming methods might well be copied
by the senior organizations, held an
old-fashioned Cracker Barrel session
at the club rooms on Tuesday night,
with the meeting and the discus
sion-heing open to both the older
and young Republicans of the Coun-
ty.
The main topic was the future of
the Republican Party-from the
state and national, as well as the To-
cal angle-and after the session end
ed it was the general opinion of
those present that unless the Re-
publican Party not only stops its
pickering and presents a united front,
but also comes out with a positive
program of its own, instead of be-
ing satisfied to weekly WOO the vot-
ers through so-called program
based on criticism of the present
administration, plus the threadbare
and shopWorn platform-we can do
the same things that they do, bet
ter than they can-then there is
little chance of the Republican Par
ty getting very far, either in the
State or Nationally. An opinion
with which agree 100 per cent.
Those taking part in the interest
ing and constructive discussion were.
State Senator Kenneth D. McLaugh-
lin, j. Forney Young, Sr., Mrs. John
Haller, Mrs. r. M. Schoen, Miss
Electa Ziegler, Mrs Arma E. Rush
and Warren Stultz.
Possible candidates for Governor
in the 1850 state elections are beat
ing the bushes in quest of support.
even though the election is still one
year away. Mr. Mahoney and his
supporters held a meeting in Ha-
gerstown last week, and / notice
that our own Mayor Mills has been
making several talks in Baltimore
recently; which would seem to lend
support to the fact that he too might
be candidate.
/ understand that former Mavor
McKeldin is very definitely not con-
templating running, and so far the
only other Republican possible can
didate has been General Parnell.
l guess it's all right for interested
parties to be sending up these trial
ballons, but it seems to me that they
are going up far too early to be of
any real value.
I guess by now that Police Com
missioner .Ellinger realizes that
ignorance of the law is no excuse. |
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On Saturday, members of the
press and radio from this area will
be conducted on personal tour by
the Maryland State Roads Commits
sion to inspect some of the new high
way projects completed and being
completed by the Commission in
Western Maryland
Ina phone call that I received
Tuesday morning from Clinton H. |
Johnson, public relations director
of the Commission, he told me that
Saturdays tour would cover all the
road projects in both Frederick and
Washington Counties, including the
big $2,500,000 job at Sideling Hill |
Mountain, where for seven miles |
along US. Route 40, the present 20
foot road that twists and turns as
it climbs over the mountain is to be
replaced by a '36-foot highway with !