The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-02-26
Around Town With
The Editor

/ am amazed at the leilpeSt III
a Teapot" over the forthcoming pre-
sentation of 1.-THE Myth That Threat
ems The World" to be given at the
Hagerstown High School auditorium
on Sunday night at $3.50 o'clock,
under the sponsorship of the United
World Federalists.
To begin with, Roy Dancer, Jr., is
president of the Hagerstown Chapter
of the organization, and anyone who
thinks that Roy would associate him
self with any organization about
which there was even the faintest
suspicion of 'pinkness," ought to get
his head examined.
Further than that, an official of
the United World Federalist move
ment was the guest speaker some
time ago, at a luncheon meeting OF
the Kiwanis Club and although some
of us who heard him myself in
cluded) didn't agree with every
thing he said, l never heard anyone
at that meeting even suggest that
the World Federalist movement
might lean to the left.
To be brutally frank, all this
hullabaloo smacks to me of INC
Carthyism" in its worst form, par
ticularly the story that one of the
actors in the play was mentioned in
an "Unamerican Activities" report.
In all the newspaper releases about
the "The Myth" the point was en-
phasized that it wasn't being put on
for propaganda purposes or to sign
up members for the organization -
to which, by the way, over 10000
patriotic American citizens belong
but was being presented solely for
the purpose of bringing before the
public, in a dramatic, as well as
entertaining way, the fundamental
purpose of the United World Fed
eralists, and then leaving it to the
audience to weigh the evidence pre-
scented and judge for themselves the
merits of the plan.
So why don't you take in the play
on Sunday night and decide for
yourself whether or not, on the evil
dence presented, you approve of the
movement.
So many people seem to be con-
fused regarding the law on the ap-
pointment to the Washington Coun-
ty Board of Education, that l think
it is we'll to give the correct facts.
Under the old law, it was neces-
sary for the minority party to be
represented on the Board. This pro-
vision, however, has now been eli
minated and under the new law,
which you will find in Article n of
the Code of Maryland, it simply
calls for the election of the Board
members by the Governor, who is
also responsible for naming Board
member to replace someone who has
either resigned or whose term has
expired.
In Washington County, however,
the practice is still continued, al
though not necessary, of having a
member of the minority party on the
Board.
While the Governor, on some ap-
pointments, is bound by law to make
the appointments from list sup
piled by the Central Committee, this
does not apply to the School Board,
and although, of course, the Cover
nor asks the Central Committee for
their recommendations, he is in no
wise bound to accept them. In other
words, the final choice, in case in
appointment to the Washington
County School Board, rests solely
with the Governor.
Congressman Dewitt S. Hyde in
his column, "Along the Potomac,
which you will find on Page 4, asks
another question of his constituents
that I think you ought to write to
him about.
He is studying the possibility Of
amending Social Security to make
payments available to the disabled
at the age of so instead of IS and ne
wants to know what your opinion is
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