The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-09-28


come up with a boner, and they
usually run in cycles.
The week before last I had the
Hagerstown Fair starting on Sep
TENDER 90 (the day it ended) and
last week, in the list of Democratic
candidates for the House of Dele
gates who won nomination, I listed
Edwin c. Schroyer when it should
have been George Elmer Snyder,
who received the fourth highest
vote.
During the special meeting of the
Mayor and Council on Tuesday night
(see story elsewhere on this page),
Councilmen Broom and Knight again
brought up their pet peeve - the
Police Department.
Councilman Broom, former po-
lice officer, criticized the size of the
city's detective department, and
Councilman Knight, a former police
commissioner, suggested that six
men should be cut from the police
force and that the salaries thus saved
could be used to give increases to
those remaining on the force.
While Mayor Mills accepted the
pay plan adopted at the special meet
ing, he was caustic in his criticism
of it, calling the plan for possible
retroactive pay increases child
ish thing"
Bob Dean, who is doing such a
whale of job on publicity for the
1850 Mummers' Parade, tells me that
a reporter and photographer from
the Baltimore Sun were scheduled
to be here yesterday to get material
for a feature story that will be in
this Sundays edition.
With Bob at the helm Of the pub
Lefty department you can rest as
sured that everyone, both far and
near, will know all about this years
parade.
At last weeks luncheon-meeting
of the Rotary Club, Stewart Paxton,
president of the National Associa-
ton of Approved Basketball Of
ficials, presented Earle H. Lightner,
ST., a gold plated honorary life
membership in recognition of his
outstanding contribution to the adj
vancement of basketball.
Earle, who not only has done lot
for basketball, but also for the adj
vancement of baseball Che coached
the Rotary Club Junior Baseball
Team, is one of fifteen men who
have been honored by receiving this
life-membership throughout the ma
ton and Canada, and is the only one
from the state of Maryland to be so
honored
hear a lot from time to time re-
garding profiteering and my wife
every now and again, when she
comes home from her shopping trip,
complains of advances in the price
of this item and that, but this pro-
fiteering came sharply to my own at
tention last week and it hit me where
it hurts most-in my pipe tobacco.
have been III the habit of buy
ing one-pound cans of my favorite
brand George Washington and
lately I have been noticing that ii
has been lasting me about two days
less than usual. Knowing that ]
have not increased my smoking i
know you'll say that that's impos-
sible-I started hunting around for
reason and I found the answer
when I bought can last week end
and here it is:
The tobacco was put up in the
usual pound can, but the tax label
which goes across the top of il
(and you have to look closely to see
it, shows that the contents had been
reduced from 16 ounces to IA ounces
but, of course, the price remained
the same.
The vicious thing about this type
of profteering is, that there has
been absolutely no notice to the
public by the tobacco companies thai
they have reduced the amount of to-
bacco in their so-called pound cans
and as a matter of fact one store
didn't even know it until I brought
it to their attention.
This isn't being followed by JUS
the tobacco firm that puts up George
Washington, but by nearly all O
them, because ! have examined a
least half a dozen so-called pound
cans of different brands and they
were all reduced, some just on.