The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-01-12

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counsellor at The Washington School,
dropped in to see me and discussed
the possibility of the school pub
fishing a weekly newspaper in The
Globe Independent lin other words,
a paper within a paper).
Because of my enthusiasm for
youth and my desire to help them
at all times, 1 readily gave my con-
sent to the idea, and you will find
the first issue of the new paper, 'The
Scarlet and Gray" on page two of
this issue (where it will appear ev-
cry week during the school term.
Personally, 1 think these young
sters have done a fine job with the
first issue, and l would like as many
of you as possible to take the time
to read their little paper and then
give me your comments on it, which
l WILL of course, turn over to the
editors for their perusal
1t is quite an expensive plan for
a school to publish its own paper,
and l am doing this at absolutely
no expense to the school whatever,
and 1 hope to continue the paper
until such time as they are able to
finance their own paper, the same
as the other schools do.
If anyone had the idea that the
board of directors of the Commun-
ity Chest were only active during
the annual campaigns, they would
have quickly changed their minds
had they been at the luncheon meet
ing of the board of directors held on
Friday.
During that meeting, which lasted
over two hours, every phase of
Community Chest activities was
gone over in detail, and during the
discussion many ideas were brought
forth that will make for an even
better Community Chest than we
have had before
There was full representation
of the agencies at the meeting and
as the president of the Chest, Mr..
George Bohman, stated, it was with
out question the best meeting of the
Chest directors that he has ever at
tended, and that sentiment was
voiced by everyone present.
AS a result of the various sug-
gestions brought out during the dis
cussions, a committee has been set
up to go into the various matters,
and they will report back to the
full board at another meeting which
will be called in the near future.
So you all can rest assured that,
in the hands of the board of di-
rectors of the Washington County
Community Chest, the funds which
you so literally give each year are
very jealously guarded.
| also want to report another of
the many instances that I've brought
out IN this column, that prove over
and over again that Hagerstown is
wonderful place in which to live
and make living.
Last week, Mrs. R. B. Huyett.
financial chairman of the Hagers-
town Girls Club, received a tele-
phone call from a local resident,
during which he asked her a num-
Der of questions regarding the Girls
Club, which she was glad to an
Swer.
At the end of the conversation.
the gentleman quietly remarked
that he appreciated her information
and that he intended to make a con-
trlbution to the capital investment
fund of the club.
While Mrs. Huyett, of course. ex-
pected check, she was amazed the
next day when she received a letter
from the gentleman in question. in
which was enclosed a check for $500
And here's the thing that makes
that check all the more wonderful
The only stipulation made in the
letter which accompanied the check
was, that nobody but Mrs. Huyett
was to know the name of the donor.
Surely nobody could make a great
er contribution to the underprivileg-
ed children of the community in a
more unselfish way, than a man who
would give as large a sum as $500
and then refuse to allow his name
to be even mentioned.
And here is more proof:
During the Christmas season Santa
Claus, Inc, under the able leader
ship of James I. Dudley, with the CO.
operation of various groups and Or
CARNATIONS, distributed games and
toys to no less than mo obi1dray,