The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1952-07-24
Around Town With
The Editor


have enjoyed the best rest have
had in many years, but just the
same it is good to be back on the
job again.
For an account of our trip, see my
story, "The Blue Ridge Parkway"
elsewhere on this page.
am also glad that the Council APP
proved the Mayors official family,
whose terms of office had expired.
The members of the Board of Pub
lie Works, the Park Board and the
Water Board have all done a fine
job and their appointments are,
l believe, in the best interest of the
city.
While in Nashville / looked up
Brestle Rupert, formerly of Fair
child's, who is now vice-president of
Tennessee Aircraft, Inc, sub-con-
tractors of aircraft electric compon-
ents, whose headquarters are in
Nashville. He took over as vice
president on June Is and is now COM
fortably settled in the capital city
of the Southern state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rupert have pur-
chased a beautiful, rambler-type
home, located at 1895 Cross Creek
Road, Nashville IL, Tennessee, and
Mr.. Rupert has been accepted into
the Nashville Kiwanis Club Che was
formerly member of the Hagers-
town club
l hope that Mayor Mills, Gene
Raney and the many others who take
a delight in kidding me about my
political predictions, took note that
l predicted Eisenhower would win
the nomination as far back as last
fall, and if they will check with my
good friend, Sam Strife, they will
find that also predicted, shortly be-
fore l left for my vacation, that he
would get the nomination on either
the first or second ballot.
And now some echoes of the Re-
publican Convention. 1t was evident,
to me at least, that Senator Taft's
chance of getting the nomination
went out the window when the dele
gates to the convention seated the
Eisenhower Georgia delegates, and
my prediction on that score was
definitely proved when the first bal
lot for the actual nomination ran re-
markedly close, state by state, to
the Georgia vote.
/ also believe that any chance the
Taft forces had of winning the fight
on the Georgia delegates was killed
when Senator Dirkson, speaking for
the Taft forces, roared out his bitter
denunciation of Governor Dewey.
1t is one thing to insult man in
a private caucus, but when you pub
licly insult the Governor of the big
geSt state in the union so that it can
be heard, not only by the thousands
in the convention hall, but also by the
millions who were either listening
at their radios, or watching the pro-
ceedings on their television screens,
that is political suicide.
Finally, the often heard statement,
gu pelo9Ia SEM IoMoqu9s!4 ]! 4gql
would not be his own master, was
very efficiently answered in the
nomination of Senator Nixon as his
running mate.
l, don't believe that anyone is
naive enough to believe that the
old-guard Republican Party would
ever have selected a rookie senator,
such as Nixon, for this important
Office, and it is very evident that
Nixon was Eisenhower's personal
selection - and he couldn't have
picked a better man.
Don't be surprised if next Novem-
Der brings Republican landslide.
AS this is written-Tuesday morn
ing - the Democrat Convention is
just getting underway and I predict
that, unless Kefauver gets the nomi-
nation by the fifth ballot, Governor
Stevenson will be the nominee