The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1951-02-15
Around Town With
The Editor

1890
37-day strike at Fairchild's is over
and that the men and women are
back at work.
The attitude of the management,
in agreeing to the elimination of the
merit system for the duration of the
National Emergency, so that this dis
astrous strike could be terminated,
cannot be too highly commended,
and l hope that all the employees
will forget the hard things that were
said during the strike and settle
down to the job of building the best
packets they know how, which are
SO urgently needed in the present
emergency.
City employees, who have been
entitled to an increase in wages since
the first of the year, are deprived of
the money due them, simply because
the members of the City Council
continue to squabble among them
selves over the appointment of a
new personnel officer.
The nomination of Park 10y for
this part-time job, made on several
occasions by Councilman j. Frank
Elliott, has been turned down each
time by the other four members of
the Council, and since Mr.. Logs eX-
perience in personnel work makes
him the ideal man for the position,
the refusal of the Council to appoint
him obviously stems from the fact
that he is a retired employee of the
Potomac Edison Company. A child
ish reason, if I ever heard of one.
Councilmen Luther Broom and
Roy knight continue shipping at our
Police Department. This time their
complaint is over the retirement,
due to ill health, of acting sergeant
Leroy c. Karn.
You would think that the fact that
Knight is a former police commits
sioner himself, and that Broom is a
former police officer, would make
them doubly appreciative of the
splendid job that Commissioner Ell
linger is doing, but just the opposite
seems to be the case.
If any of the mothers of those Air
and Explorer Scouts who gave that
demonstration of cooking in the
Square on Saturday, in observance
of Scout Week, want to take a day
off from the kitchen some Saturday
or Sunday, they can, with perfect
confidence, turn the cooking chores
over to their Scout sons.
Cooking over a charcoal fire, the
boys prepared and served to a group
of City and Scout officials, delicious
chicken platter, complete with two
vegetables, that fairly melted in
your mouth. Following that demon
stration of their cooking ability,
they then prepared really tasty
beef stew, serving samples of it to
over a hundred people, who paused
to look; stopped to taste, and then
remained to enjoy every mouthful.
Their final demonstration of the
culinary art was barbecued beef, and
according to police officer Schmidt,
who handles traffic on the square,
it was the best he has ever tasted
- and he ought to know, for he came
back for seconds, and even thirds.
l really got a kick out of the
statements made by some of the
members of the House of Delegates
before they voted to override Gov
ernor McKeldin's veto of their bill,
making it mandatory for the Gov
ernor to fill vacancies on boards of
County Commissioners from the
same political parties in which the
vacancies occur. (The veto mes
sage now goes to the Senate for a
final vote)
During the years of Democrat
Governors, all attempts of the Rep
ublican members of the House to get
identical legislature passed were
blocked by the Democrats Cat the
last session State Senator McLaugh-
lin had such bill for Washington
County passed in the Senate, but
Democrat delegate Howard Anken-
ey, then chairman of the Washington
County Delegation, locked the bill
up in his desk and refused to bring
it up for vote in the house,. But
now that the shoe is on the other
foot, with Republican Governor in
Annapolis, the Democrats are
screaming to high heaven that the
Governors action is a political move.