The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-05-14
Shades Of Hitler's Gestapo!

timore, by an agent working under
Marvin H. Smith, special state as
sistant attorney general charged
with enforcing the Ober Law, sounds
like a story of Hitler's hated Gestapo
and I want to congratulate Governor
McKeldin on his strong protest of
this Un-American activity.
l hope the Governor will go even
further than that, by ordering a stop
put to this rotten spying on decent
citizens, even if to do it, he has to
call a special session of the Legis-
lature to amend the Ober Law to
prohibit such tactics.
Congratulations to the Board of
County Commissioners who, at their
meeting on Tuesday, refused to put
up mo Lettering" signs in front of
the Court House.
am personally very glad that
they have turned this ridiculous re-
quest down as, if it had gone through
/ might have found myself arrested
for lettering, as l quite often hang
around" the Court House in my
search for news and human interest
stories.
l quite agree with E. Lester Mob
ley, chairman of the Board, and his
fellow commissioners, that both the
city police and the deputy sheriffs
of the county are fully aware of the
panhandlers and drunks who hang
around there in the warm weather,
and it seems to me they don't need
any no lettering signs to either keep
them moving, or place them under
arrest.
In the near future, Mayor Bur
hans, City Attorney Oswald and City
Engineer Williams are expected to
go to New York to confer with Mr..
Frazer, of the Compost Corporation,
with regard to the city's request that
he cancel the contract made for the
setting up of a Compost plant in
HagerstoWn.
Both the Mayor and his Council
are anxious to get this veXing ques-
ton settled as quickly as possible,
so that they can start work on some
permanent garbage disposal plan.
The meeting is being arranged at
the request of Mr.. Frazer and here's
hoping that the unfortunate situation
can be ironed out without having to
take the matter to court.
With all the new members of the
Mayor and Councils official family
now in office, the city fathers are
getting settled down to the job of
running the city for the next four
years. They have got lot of prob
lens facing them-mostly financial
and like the way they started
on the job by feeling their way
along, instead of rushing into COM
mitments that they might later be
sorry for. n
The Mills administration, in their
four years in Office, despite the fact
that they were beset with many diff
ferences of opinion within their own
official family, gave the city four
years of good government.
Among their accomplishments
were: the giving to Hagerstown, for
. the first time in its history, zoning
ordinance; the providing of annual
increases for the city employees on
a five-year plan; and the setting UP
OF the Housing Authority, with its
two fine projects providing modern
and comfortable homes in two Sec
tons of the city, to mention Just a
few.
Last week, in my column, COM
mented on the fact that the check
for $4,000, representing the donation
of the Fairchild Aircraft Division
employees to the 1853 March OF
Dimes campaign, had not been re
turned to Fairchild's, although the
Washington County Chapter had
announced that they could not ac-
cept it, due to the system under
which the Fairchild employees con-
tribute to all the local drives
through payroll deduction plan
being contrary to the National
Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
regulations.
Having since learned that the
check has been returned, l tried tc
find out whether it had been return.
ed before, or after, my story was
written, in order, if l was wrong ir
my statement, that I could correct it
But, for some reason, 1 ran into
a blank wall!
Anyhow, it has now been definite.
ly established that the check ha.
been returned.