The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-08-03

takes a delight in springing Scotch
jokes on me, dropped in the office
Tuesday to tell me that the diff
ference between an automobile bat
terry and a Scotchman was the fact
that ga battery can be overcharged."
Mon, mon, that has all the ear
marks of a dirty crack
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| was sorry to hear that John
Dunn was in the hospital with
mild heart attack, but glad to get the
word that he is getting along fine.
Now, John, you just follow the
advice you gave me few years
back when I was in the same boat.
Remember how you told me to take
things quietly and not to worry about
anything? Well, that is exactly what
l did and I have made a complete
recovery. So you too can forget all
about the store and politics, adver-
Using and anything else for that
matter, except following the doctors
orders completely and you, too, will
soon be up and around again.
It's too bad that the kitchen and
breakfast room in Walter Daniels
home on Potomac Avenue were
slightly damaged by fire on Satur-
day night
But l imagine what burned up"
Walter and his wife more than any
thing else, was the loss of that beau
tiful ham simmering on the stove.
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At long last it looks as if the pri-
maries are coming back to the peo-
pie
Too often in the past each party
has made up a slate which went
through the primary without any
opposition at all, thus denying the
people the right to choose their own
candidates. But this year, in prac-
tically every field, there will be a
wealth of candidates from which the
voters of each party can select the
ones they want - and that is as it
should be.
Elsewhere on this page you will
find the complete list of candidates
for the various offices.
General Markey's announcement
on Monday that he had withdrawn
from the gubernatorial race and filed
instead for United States Senator
on the Republican ticket means there
will be a ding-dong battle between
the General and Mayor Mills.
| felt for sometime that if Theo-
dore McKelden filed as a Republican
candidate for governor that General
Markey would withdraw, and since
he made that surprisingly close race
against Senator O'Connor four years
ago, it was only logical that he
would try for the same office again.
Every so often one or other of the
service clubs presents speaker who
comes up with message of vital
Importance to all of us. The unfor-
tunate part is, that when this occurs
it is only the members of the diff
ferent clubs and few guests who
are privileged to hear the talks. Such
an instance occurred at last Thurs
days meeting of the Kiwanis Club
when John J. Porter, prominent Ha-
gerstown industrialist and church
layman, addressed the club on the
subject of Our Russian Policy"
During Mr.. Porter's thirty minute
talk, he gave very fine interpreta-
ton of not only Russia's policy
through the years, but also of how
the United States could combat it.
While / was interested in the whole
address Gas was everyone else pres
ent) was particularly impressed. by
Mr. Porter's final statement that
finally we can pray" quoting the
words of Benjamin Franklin - Il
have lived long time (81 years.,
and the longer 1 live the more con-
vincing proof see of this truth, that
God, governs in the affairs of men
and if a sparrow cannot fall to the
ground without His notice, is it
probable that an empire can rise
without His aid?"
Then Mr.. Porter ended his talk
with this stirring message:
$50 let all who love America pray
often and fervently that God will
endow our leaders with some portion
of His infinite wisdom, to the end
that this may continue to be ''the
land of the free and the home Of the
brave" Remembering that ''The eff
fectual fervent prayer of q righteous
man availeth much"
After the address was over sug-
gested to Mr.. Porter, and to some
of his associates. that the address