The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-08-17
VOLUME TX, Number 80
Around Town With
The Editor

mayor ana COUNCIL OA NOiudy
night, l listened to special broad
cast of the Mutual Broadacsting Sys-
tenn over WEI, in which top flight
American, Canadian and British war
correspondents and commentators
held round table discussion with
some of them in this country, some
in Canada and the other in Tokyo,
Japan.
AS ! listened to these men tell each
other of their experiences in the
Korean war theatre, l couldn't help
but feel how trivial it was for our
own city council to spend nearly an
hour arguing who should pay how
much for laying down sidewalk
around part of Rose Hill Cemetery.
One of the American correspond
ents during the broadcast asked one
of the men in Tokyo what the Amer
lean G.I.s thought about the way
the Korean situation was being
handled, and his answer was that
the G.I.s were too busy fighting for
their own lives to worry about any
thing else. But l couldn't help won
dering then what these young lads,
who just a short while ago were in
high school, would think if they
knew that too many people over
here were more concerned about
their own little local problems, or
whether they could get all the sugar
they wanted, than they were about
the near tragedy that these young
sters are facing on foreign soil.
AS you know, my greatest interest,
outside of my paper, is working with
the youngsters of the community in
every way 1 can, and l am particu-
larly interested in the Hagerstown
Boys Club because it is doing the
best it can to help along the under
privileged youngsters. You can
imagine, therefore, how happy 1 felt
when Mr.. Thomas w. Pangborn sent
me sixty tickets to the Civitan Clubs
Charity Fund double-header base
ball game at the Municipal Stadium
on August 20, to be distributed to
the members of the Boys Club.
This, of course, is not the first time
that l have had proof of Mr.. Pang-
born's interest in the youngsters of
this community. In the early days
of the Boys Club, before we became
members of the Community Chest,
it was through his liberal contribu-
ton that we were able to send our
first group of boys to a summer camp,
and it was also through his gener-
osity that the same club was equip
ped with an electric motor for the
woodworking shop.
I happen to know, also, that in adj
dition to sending these sixty tickets
to our Boys Club, Mr.. Pangborn has
sent similar number to the Hagers-
town Girls Club and probably to
several other kids groups as well,
and on behalf of the kids and my
fellow members on the board of the
club, 1 want to express our deep ap-
probation for his thoughtfulness.
The political pot is really begin
ming to boil.
There is a knockdown, dragout
fight in the Democratic gubernatorial
primary race between Governor
Lane and his opponent, Mr.. Ma
honey, and from all l can gather
things are also far from harmonious
in the Republican party in connec-
ton with the Senatorial primary
race, in which Mayor Mills, General
Markey and Mr.. Butler of Baltimore,
are, as this is written, candidates.
Since my paper has to be printed
on Wednesday in order to reach
subscribers on Thursday morning in
the mail, tried in every way could
ON Tuesday to get some information
from Mayor Mills as to his stand in
the matter, since rumors have been
flying around for several days that
l. he was going to withdraw from
the race; and 2. that group of peo-
pie were going to wait on the chair
man of the Republican National
Committee, Mr. Gabrielson, and ask
him to use his influence to get Gen.
eral Marley to withdraw.
/ do know that group of mer
from Baltimore and the Eastern
Shore spent all Monday afternoon
with Mayor Mills; in fact, the meet.
ing lasted so long that it made the
Mayor a little late for the council
meeting, but I could get nothing from
him as to what transpired at the
meeting. My guess, however, is tha
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