The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-12-21
VOLUME TX, Number 81
Around Town With
The Editor

During this Christmas season all
the Hagerstown stores are, gaily
lighted; the streets of the downtown
section are decorated with lighted
Santa Claus wreaths; many of the
homes have beautiful light effects
symbolizing the Christmas season;
but, except for the hours of serv-
ices, all our churches remain in
darkness. Why?
Christianity and Capitalism
At a meeting of the newly formed
Northwest Enterprise Council of the
Central Atlantic Forum, of which J..
B. Ferguson is chairman (Which l
will comment on more fully next
week., held on Tuesday evening,
Donald D. Conn, executive vice
president of the Transportation AS
sociation of America, with which the
Forum is affiliated, was the main
speaker.
During his talk, Mr. Conn told us
that an official of the United Ma
tons who has just returned from a
trip through Communist controlled
countries, made the statement that
the Kremlin gets in its most danger
Gus work in the poverty stricken
areas of the satellite countries.
He said that during visit to
China he found that Russia was tell
ing the people of that poverty strick-
en- country that the terrible hard
ships they were enduring were
brought about by the evils of Chris
tianity and Capitalism, two of the
main weapons the United States
were using in their efforts to rule
the world.
With the knowledge that Russia
is holding up God as an instrument
of evil that is helping wreck civil
ization, what mockery it is to even
try, through diplomatic channels, to
negotiate with the heathens who
rule, not only Russia itself, but so
many other countries that they have
ground under their heel.
1t seems to me that what the world
needs today, more than anything
else, is the coming again of the
Saviour.
Congratulations to Winslow Bur
hans, president of the Board of
County Commissioners, and his fell
low Commissioners, on their deci-
sion to open their regular Tuesday
meetings with Prayer.
When the Commissioners held
their first regular meeting last week,
Mr.. Burhans opened with a short
prayer, and this Tuesday the prayer
was offered by the Rev. Scott R.
Wagner, pastor of Zion Evangelical
and Reformed Church.
The Mayor and Council, on the
motion Of Councilman Jack Hellane,
also voted recently to open their
regular meeting with Prayer, but it
was not done at their last meeting.
At meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Hagerstown Fair
Board, held on Tuesday afternoon,
the contract for the new grandstand
was let to Norman S. Farley & Son.
It will be constructed of steel and
concrete, and clearance for the steel,
which it is expected will be on the
grounds by January II, has been OBJ
tanned from Washington.
The Circuit Court, in a decision
handed down last week, denied the
petition of Amos Reeder, a candidate
for the Board of County Commits |
sioners on the Republican ticket, for
a recount of his votes and those of
Lester Mobley, one of the elected
Democratic candidates, but they left
the way open for his attorneys to
have the case re-opened if they
could furnish new evidence that
might warrant a recount being or
dered.
The Republican Central Commit
tee was scheduled to consider the
matter at meeting on Tuesday, but
up to the time we went to press I
had not been advised of what action,
if any, they took. /
Ralph B. Wyand, who when he
accepted the part-time post of Per-
sonnet Officer for the City, inform /
ed Mayor Mills that he could only
serve on a temporary basis, last
week rendered his resignation, which /
was regretfully accepted. +
Don't be surprised if the lob goes /