The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1951-08-23

mented on the fact that lines would
not deter drunken drivers and other
serious traffic violators, and that the
only thing that could be done, both
in an effort to stop the guilty people
from repeated violations-and also
as a warning to others-would be
jail sentence.
In talking this matter over with
Judge Berkson, who has consistently
sentenced drunken drivers to jail
terms, l find that he is persistently
being presumed by friends of the
sentenced men-such as employers,
pastors and close friends-to have
the sentence suspended, on the
grounds that the violator is good
citizen, a good employee and a good
husband and parent.
While it is understandable that an
employer, a pastor or close friend
would want to do everything pos
sible in such a case to help the Of
fender, in my opinion they are TAX
ing the wrong action in asking the
Judge to suspend sentence in such
cases.
The fact that a man might be a
good citizen, a good employee and
a good parent and father wouldn't
make much difference if, while driv
ing under the influence of liquor,
he should kill himself or somebody
else, and 1 sincerely hope that both
Judge Ingram and Berkson will
make it a practice, in all serious
cases, of sentencing the guilty per
son to a jail sentence-and make it
stick
On Tuesday, July "a, when the
curtain rang down for the summer
at the end of Act 10 of Hagerstown's
version of that great drama, ''To Be
Or Not To Be" Chat was when the
Zoning Ordinance case was heard
by the full bench of the Circuit
Court, it was expected that the
stars in the cast would also take
summer vacation.
However, on Friday afternoon
they suddenly decided that the cast
would appear in new show, "a
Comedy of Errors" and the first act
was played that same night at the
City Hall before a rather small
audience.
Due to the suddenness of the
show-the curtain went up less than
three hours after it was decided to
put the show on-some of the stars
in the cast were not quite up on their
lines and even the ''prompters" got
little mixed up too.
The decision to put on the new
performance was due to the permits
sion given by the Circuit Court to
give the city a chance to make
'procedural correction" in the zon-
ing program, this correction being
the posting of advance notices
throughout the city regarding the
zoning of the city of Hagerstown,
which action was not taken when
the previous coming laws were
adopted.
Act of the new show will be held
in the City Hall on the night of Tues
day, September 4, when another pub
lie hearing on the coming question
will be held.
Later on in the same evening, Act
3 of the Comedy of Errors" will
take place, when the Council will
probably go into executive session
and again pass the coming law which
was the plot of the many acts in the
ITO Be Or Not To Be" drama. If
the procedure of the past is follow
ed, Act of the Comedy of Errors"
will be veto by the Mayor of the
Councils action and that will be fol-
lowed by Act 5, in which the Council
will act on the Mayors veto.
With the falling of the curtain on
Act 5, the late summer show will
probably close for good and then
the cast will wait for the rising of
the curtain of Act IL ITO Be Or Not
To Be- which will come when the
Circuit Court hands down its de-
cision on the entire zoning program.
There are some that believe that
this will be the final act of the drama
but it is my belief-as it has always
been-that the play will go on and
that the final curtain will not fall
until late this year, or early next
year.
On Monday night City and Coun-
ty officials discussed the vexed cues
ton of odors arising from the Ha-
gerstown garbage collections that
are fed by the contractor, William
Grim, to the hogs on his farms in the