The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1951-09-27

| Ounudy morning.
Unless you do this you will find
yourself getting to church one
hour too early.
Although this is an off year as far
as elections are concerned, the COM
bined Republican Rally, held at A.
K. Coffman's clubhouse at Conoco-
cheague on Friday, drew crowd of
over 400, among whom were a dis
tinguished group of Republican lead
ers, including Governor McKeldin,
Congressman Beall and Miss Adkins,
Republican National Committee
woman.
Speeches were held to minimum,
with the Governor taking the lead
in a brief talk, during which he
exhorted his hearers to present a
solid front in 1852 and also explain
ed why he had been forced to veto
the teachers salary bill. Congress
man Beall also spoke briefly, as did
General Marley, who has just re-
turned from an official trip to the
Pacific.
If there is anything that really
makes me mad it's people who start
vicious and unfounded rumors.
The latest of this type of thing to
reach me is a rumor that two of the
players on the Hagerstown Braves
team got into fight on the bus dur
ing the last trip to Wilmington.
Knowing, as l do personally, the
fine team spirit of the entire club
during the 1851 season, felt there
could be no truth to the story, but in
order to be absolutely sure l con-
tacted Bud" Ecton, who drove the
Braves bus all season, and this was
his answer:
mir, Douglas, you can take my
word for it that the story is abso-
lutely untrue from beginning to end.
Not only has there never been a fight
between any of the players on the
bus, or as far as l know anywhere
else, but the boys have shown the
greatest friendliness towards each
other always"
As I drop in from week to week
on the Tuesday meetings of the
Board of County Commissioners, l
become more and more convinced
that Washington County has a Board
to be proud of. Although three
members of the Board - president
Winslow F. Burhans, Chester F.
Delphey and E. Lester Mobley, Sr.
are Democrats, and the other two
members-Clarence V. Eldridge and
Joseph NJ Hoffman - are Republi-
cans, the five members work as
team in an effort to provide good
government for the County.
Some weeks ago the Board was
confronted with a request for pay
ment of over fourteen hundred dol
lars by a farmer who claimed that
rowing dogs had killed a number of
his hogs. The Board realized that
under the law the County must pay
damages when cattle, hogs, sheep,
ETC., are killed by rowing dogs, but
they also realized that they were
custodians of the county's money.
Because of these two factors, the
Board made a careful investigation
of the claim and then, by unanimous
vote, refused to pay it, because they
found no satisfactory evidence that
the death of the farmers hogs were
caused by rowing dogs.
Right now the five Commissioners
are concerning themselves with the
awarding of a contract for the pro-
posed new Salem Avenue School and
their approach to this problem is,
to my way of thinking, full proof
that the voters knew what they were
doing when they elected these five
men,
All five members of the Board are
not only 100 per cent behind the
building of new schools in the Coun-
ty, but also of building the best type
of school possible within the limits
of the budget.
When the plans for the new pro-
posed Salem School was examined
by the Board, Commissioner Delphey
voiced his objection to some phases
of the plan which he thought were
too elaborate and would materially
add to the cost of the building. After
Mr.. Delphey's objections were thor
oughly discussed, the question of the
acceptance of the low bid was then
taken up, after which the Commits
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