The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1952-05-22
Around Town With
The Editor


Congratulations to John Baer on
being named to the Washington
County Board of Education.
A strictly non-political nomina-
ton, his appointment will give the
Board the services of a man whose
sole interests is the betterment of
educational facilities for the youth
of the county.
The members Of the Republican
Central Committee are also to be
congratulated on their fine appoint
ment.
l understand also that Omer T.
Kaylor, Sr., will be named by Gov
ernor McKeldin as Washington
County's member of the statewide
committee he is appointing to study
the entire field of education in the
state, including teachers salaries,
with its findings presented to the
State Legislature during the 1858
session.
An important announcement by
the U. S. Treasury Department about
your Series E Savings Bonds, will
be found in an advertisement on
page three, sponsored, as a public
service, by Pangborn Corporation.
6The front page of Saturdays
"Daily MALI ought to be framed and
hung in the Assembly Hall of every
school and every youth organization
in the county, as tragic reminder
of the danger of excessive speed
while driving automobiles.
The front page not only carried
pictures of the two Junior students
at Williamsport High School who
were killed in an automobile acct
dent caused by excessive speed, but
it also carried two other stories of
young people driving at terrifically
high rates of speed, that could both
very well have resulted in the death
of the occupants of the cars and per
haps of the State Trooper who was
forced off the highway by one of
them
And by the same token, the very
fine editorial, MAKE Haste Slowly"
in Tuesdays Morning Herald"
should also be framed and hung in
the offices of all the magistrates in
Washington County, as well as the
office of the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles in Baltimore, as a reminder
to these gentlemen that they have a
solemn duty to perform in bringing
to halt excessive speeding by
young people when behind the wheel
of a car.
The Morning Herald's editorial
contrasts the fines melted out to these
young people who not only risk their
own lives, but endanger the lives of
others, as compared to the Jail SEN
tence of six months given man for
stealing less than $500 worth of
merchandise.
The editorial then went on to sug-
gest-and heartily agree with the
suggestion-that everyone, young or
old, convicted of excessive speed
should have their licenses auto
matically suspended, and along this
line I would like to suggest that the
State Department of Motor Vehicles
release to both the press and radio
the names and addresses of every
person whose license is either sus-
pended or revoked for violations of
the states traffic laws.
The increasing number of arrests
and convictions for excessive speed
ing is, in my opinion, positive proof
that fines will not stop this danger
Gus practice.
All my adult life have been ire
mendously interested in boys and
have done, and am still doing, ev-
erything I can to help youngsters
become better citizens of tomorrow.
For this reason I feel that am very
well qualified to state, from my ex-
perience through the years, that it
takes something more than fine =
that the parents usually pay = to
bring a young person to the realiza-
ton of his responsibilities.
When you take away from young
man something that he prizes highly,
such as the right to drive an auto
mobile, you stand good chance of
bringing him to a realization that the
right carries responsibilities with it.
It's worth trying anyway!