The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-09-29
Around Town With
The Editor

per scoops a daily, but the Globe
Independent did it twice last week.
We were a full day ahead of the
dailieS in announcing the new speed
limits on the Cavetown Pike, and
this column was first to break the
news that Governor Lane attributed
part of his political success to the
fact that he ate Maryland oysters,
the item appearing in the daily pa
pers two days later
Gee, it's good to have something
to brag about sometimes.
About everything that can be said
about the City Bond Issue has been
said, and now it remains for the
voters to decide what they're going
to do
The radio address by Mayor Mills
on Monday night, as far as I'm con-
cerned, would have been much more
effective had he left out his re-
marks about the Daily Mail The
Morning Herald, the Daily Mail and
the Globe independent all publish
ed editorials regarding the proposed
Bond Issue, each of the three edi-
tors giving his opinion as he saw it.
And just because the Daily Mail
did not see the need of the Bond
Issue at this time was no reason for
the Mayor to single that paper out.
In my opinion we would have a
very poor press if all papers just
docilely followed the leader and
the fact that the Daily Mail saw fit
to oppose the Bond Issue was no
reason for them to be singled out
for attack.
There are still a good many of us
who feel that when the financial
statement for 1949 is finally struck
off, it will be found that the city
is not in such bad financial situa-
ton as the administration seems to
think it will be, and also there are
some of us who still feel that even
without Bond Issue, talk of a $500
tax rate is ridiculous.
However, time alone will tell who
is right, and in the meantime it is
up to you voters to weigh the mat
ter carefully and then go to the polls
on October 4 and vote the way your
conscience - not your prejudices =
dictates.
In the September 26 issue of the
Wall Street Journal I read an as
founding article by Winston C.
Fournier, staff correspondent of the
journal, in which he stated that;
Deep in cool cave in Kansas are
$4,000 tons of eggs. They will never
be fried-or poached, or hard-boiled
They will likely (most of them) new
er be eaten at all. They are in dry,
powdered form Diverted from the
nations skillets and frying pans,
they were put there by the govern
ment to keep hen fruit costly"
After making this astounding
statement, Mr.. Fournier went on to
say that this month in Chicagos big
wholesale market, the price of fresh
eggs has climbed to the highest lev
ell in more than a quarter of a CEN
fury
1 got dizzy trying to figure out how
many eggs were in $4,000 tons, but
it seems to me that there is some
thing wrong with Price Support
program that sends the wholesale
price of eggs up to over 60 cents a
dozen, while the government takes
approximately five out of every
hundred eggs laid and stores them
away probably never to be used, in
order to keep prices on a high level
MFR. Fournier estimates in his ar
ticle that so far in 1949 the Federal
Government has purchased some
thing over two billion eggs in order
to keep prices p,and that's enough
to give one-egg breakfast to near
ly every man, woman and child on
the earth.
Something should be done about
it.