The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-05-25

and Son.
understand that work on the
huge project, that will cost in the
neighborhood of a million and a
half dollars, will get started in the
near future and will be finished by
the fall of 1851.
l thought that the 1949 balance
sheet of the Washington Board of
County Commissioners was one of
the healthiest l have ever seen, and
as l read it l could not help remark
ing to myself: This is one time the
DAILY Mali will not be able to
criticize it''-but / was wrong.
If you happen to have read the
Daily Mails story on Saturday after
noon on the front page, you will re-
member that they came out with a
two-column head reading: Audit
Shows County Board Spent More
Than It Received Last Year." and
their whole story dwelt on this one
items to the practical exclusion of
almost everything else. l want to
point out, however, that the Daily
Mail failed entirely to give any eX-
PLANTATION of the cash disbursement
of something over $4,000 in excess
of actual cash received during the
year.
If YOU will turn to the report,
published on page six, you will note
two very important items that the
Daily Mail failed to touch on. First,
at the end of the report you will
notice that the county had cash
balance on December 81, 1913, of
$100,977.97 and that would more than
take care of the $4,000 odd that
they spent last year over receipts.
Second. at the beginning of the re-
port you will also notice that as of
December 81, 1949, there was still
due the county $2,716.36 in accounts
receivable, and $152, 144.57 in unpaid
taxes-all of which are collectable.
Had that explanation been given by
the Daily Mail, it would have been
a much fairer statement of the con-
dition of the county at the end of the
year.
l think, also, that too much credit
cannot be given the Board of County
Commissioners for the magnificent
job they have done in the school
building program. Talking the other
day with school officials of Frederick
County, they told me that Washing
ton County was the envy of the
whole State for the way they had
gone ahead with their school build
ing program on pay-as-youg plan.
Chief of Police, Jesse B. Brown,
informs me that the police depart
ment is doing everything in its pow
er to prevent any further accidents
to children through the handling of
dynamite blasting caps.
The department has placed large
posters on bulletin boards of all the
schools, that not only warn the chill
dren against handling these danger
Gus caps, but also explains fully and
clearly just what these caps are and
the damage they can do, so that the
children, should they happen to come
across any more of them, will give
them wide berth
The Captain also has asked me,
through my paper, to warn all work
men to keep these dangerous blast
ing caps under strong lock and key,
reminding them that by doing this
the child they save may be their
own.
Talking to very good friend of
mine last week, he came up with
this question: Doug, why are you
always picking on Mayor Mills?"
My answer to that question was that
he was under misrepresentation, and
l went on to explain that l never
intended to pick on Mayor Mills,
but that 1 am very much disturbed
at the what seems to me to be, his
cold-blooded administration.
/ always have and always will
maintain that no city administration
should be run like private business
where the natural main objectives
are profits and dividends.
l attended the meeting of the May
or and Council last week, at which
time the Council unanimously voted
to authorize the water department
to provide water for the newly de-
veloped settlement o nthe Dual High
way, just outside of the city limits
During that discussion the Mayor
stated quite frankly and plainly that
no one must expect anything fol
nothing from government, and that
if the people wanted water they