The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-03-02
VOLUME X, Number g

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ball.
The interest in the Hagerstown
club is literally amazing. People
who haven't seen a baseball game at
the stadium for the past two or three
years tell me that they'll be back
when the season opens. And every
one to whom l talk seems deeply
grateful to Gene" Raney for saving
organized baseball for Hagerstown
and Washington County.
But on the other two subjects 1
find nothing but bitterness.
While John L. Lewis is condemned
by all, those to whom 1 talked are
equally bitter against President Tru-
man, whom they feel is just as much
to blame as Lewis is-an opinion in
which I heartily concur.
The tragic situation in our country
not only finds thousands upon thous-
ands of men out of work due to the
strike, but is also working an untold
hardship on the poor people, who do
not have the money to lay in sup
ply of coal and have had to buy it
a little at a time.
It is the opinion of the man on the
street that the Presidents dislike of
the Hartley Law and his refusal
to invoke it until he was literally
forced into it, is the real reason that
the strike has reached its present
disastrous proportions.
From the day that Lewis invoked
the three-day working week, it was
obvious that he was laying his plans
for an ultimate shutdown of the
mines, and the President encouraged
him by his persistent stand that
there was no emergency, and his re-
fusal to act under the existing law
Then when it comes to potatoes,
people are really burned up, particu-
larly the housewives. They just
simply can't UNDERSTANDING can I
why with the cost of living as high
as it is, the government has to dump
tons and tons of potatoes that have
been allowed to rot, in order that
prices can remain at their present
high levels
l, of course, know nothing about
the strategy of the Republican Party,
but if l was planning platform for
the 1850 elections l would center it
around the coal strike and the per-
sistent refusal of the Chief Executive
of the nation to do his sworn duty
until he was forced into it by public
opinion.
Whether the strike is settled today
or tomorrow, its effect on the nations
economy will be felt for many
months to come, and the pitiful part
of it is, that unless Congress not only
keeps the Taft Hartley Law on the
statute books, but strengthens it in
such a way that Lewis will never be
able again to plan and put into effect
a deliberate movement to wreck the
coal industry, then we will be faced
with a recurrence of this tragedy-a
tragedy that is playing directly into
the hands of the Communists.
Last Sunday heard one wonder
full sermon and later read another.
At the morning service at st. Paul's
Methodist Church, in observance of
Laymen's Day, Senator John j.
Sparkman of Alabama, who was the
guest speaker, preached sermon on
"a Layman's Faith" and it was a
message that l wish every layman
in the nation could have heard. In
simple language the Senator spoke
from his own rich experience from
boyhood up to the present, and the
point that stayed with me long after
the sermon was over, was his state
ment that if we would all live up to
the faith of our mothers the world
would not have much to worry
about
Then on Sunday afternoon read
the late Peter Marshalls great SER
mon, Keepers of the Springs"
which, although it is primarily adj
dressed te~Women cannot help but
stir the emotions of everyone who
reads it.
The great sermons of this beloved
Presbyterian minister are being
published in a number of the daily
papers of the nation and have also
been put into a book entitled MIR.
Jones Meets the Master" which l
strongly advise you to get and read.
Down in Tennessee you can always
look for something unusual, and /
have just received word from my
wife's sister-in-law of an unusual
hapDening that really tons them all