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Fhe fhagetstonn Globe
Hagerstown’s
Independent
Publication
VOL 1.
STATE FIREMEN TO STAGE PARADE
CONVENTION PLANS
ARE GOING FORWARD
Hagerstown to Entertain
3,000 Visiting Firemen
- June 24th, 25th 26th.
A mammoth mummers’ parade, with
no less than 3,000 firemen and their
friends in line, will featurs the big Mary
land State Firemen’s Convention to be
held .in this city starting June 24, it
was announced today by Max Hoover,
chairman of the convention committee.
Plans to make the convention one of
the greatest ever held by the association
in a community outside of Baltimore
City, are fast taking form. Delegations
from every paid and volunteer fire com
pany in the State will be in attendance.
Many of the ecompanies will enter their
equipment in the parade.
In an effort to make the convention
a huge sucecess, the Hagerstown firemen
are striving to build up a fund of $4,000
this money to be used for parade prizes
and entertainment for the visitors.
Plans are practieally completed for the
raising of this money during the next
two months. The principal means of
support will come from the business men
of Hagerstown and Washington county
who will be asked to advertise in an
elairorately printed program.
A firemen’s convention is never com
plete without a parade, but local fire
men are going the association ‘“one bet
ter,” and on the eclosing day of the
meet, an “old time” firemen’s parade
will bring the three-day gathering to a
conclusion. In this parade will be seen
the firemen marching in bright red uni
forms, the onece-familiar hand-drawn
fire wagons, reel-teams and bringing up
the rear will be seen the most modern
firc fighting machines in the country.
The Baltimore Fire Department will
send a large delegation to the conven
tion, together with several fire trucks.
Quite a number of out-of-State depart
ments have also signified their intention
to take part in the convention’s activi
ties and compete for the cash prizes and
scores of loving cups. :
Members of the Washington County
Committee, and the companies they rep
resent are as follows: Max Hoover, Jun
iors, chairman; John Corderman, Pio
neers, secretary; -Daniel Nicodemus,
Boonsboro, treasurer; Glenn W. Wil
liams, Funkstown;. Joseph (Stotler,
Bognsboro: Clarence Pound, Clear
spring ; Warren Seymour Williamsport ;
Published Semi-M onthly In the Interest of Maryland’s Most Progfessive
Community: Hagerstown, “Where North and South Meet.”
HAGERSTOWN, MD., FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1936
LITTLE HEISKEL
s Well, that flood played
havoc not only with a
heap of property, but
- with these old- timers,
ite, ~ who never hesitated to
R wERes tell us about the high
waters during the great
i A Johnstown Flood. Now
: i they’ve gotta take a back
seat, because the best
e _.-' high water thrillers can
be related by any seven-year-old Kkid!
It all goes to show that nature often
helps to relegate our heroes to the back
ground.
I wonder what’s become of all the jig
saw puzzles, chain letters and mah-jung
sets? ~
CONGRESSMAN GUYER
TO SPEAK IN THIS CITY
Representative To Address
Men’s Bible Class; Well
Known Here
Congressman U. 8. Guyer, of Kansas
City, one of the best known speakers in
the National Capital, will address the
Men'’s Bible Class, of t. Paul’s United
Brethren Church, this city, on FEaster
Sunday morning. e
Congressman Guyer is an orator of
note and has appeared here on previous
occasions. Several years ago he was
the principal speaker for the Young
Men’s Republican Club at its annual
Lincoln Day Banquet. He is a per
sonal friend of Bishop A. B. Statton,
the two having been class-mates at Le
ander College.
0. R. Zarfoss will be the class speak
er on Palm Sunday morning.
HEAD OF AMERICAN RETAILERS
SEES BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT
L. K. Sharpe, president of the Ameri
can Retailers Association, at its conven
tion recently in St. Louis, said: “From
all available facts, we may with assur
ance expect a decided improvement in
retail trade this spring.”
e e s
J.B. Fritz, Hancock; Ernest Wolfens
berger, Maugansville; Simon Clopper,
Smithsburg: A. Kretzer McGraw, First
Hose: William Ecton, Antietams; J. A.
Andrews, Western Enterprise.
EMERGENCY ENDED
IN HOLC FINANCING
Total Volume, Urban Mort
gages in 1935 was $1,702,-
000,000, Report Shows
According to an analysis made pub
lic by the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board, the resumption of home loan ac
tivity by private lenders in 1935, “re
flected the end of the emergency and
included a volume of private mortgage
loans for new home construction more
than twice as large as any previous
year since 1931.”
Of the total volume of urban mort
gage finance undertaken by all Federal
and private agencies in 1934, amounting
to $2,512,000,000, only $110,000,000
was for construction of new homes, That
figure contrasts with $2,456,000,000 lent
for new home construction in 1935, the
peak year for all time. Total loans for
home econstruction in 1929 aggregated
$1.222,000,000. In 1934, HOLC made
distress-financing loans in the amount
of $1,993,000,000, which was 80 per cent
of the entire estimated volume of urban
loan financing done by all institutions
in the United States that year.
In 1935 the estimated total volume
of urban mortgage financing was sl,-
702,000,000, of which the HOLC sup
plied $816,000,000, or less than half of
the 1934 HOLC figure and also less
than half of the entire volume for last
year by all Federal and private lenders
combined, indicating the passing of the
emergency in home finance.
THE OBJECT IS RECOVERY
ON SOUND, PERMANENT BASIS
“The primary objective of the govern
ment is recovery on a sound and per
manent basis. We propose to care.for
the unemployed and the unfortunate;
but we should find a system not merely
of relief, but under which relief shall be,
insofar as humanly achievable, unneces
sary. That system should comprise, in
brief, every element and factor in a pro
gram caleulated to work fairness, equity,
and every reasonable benefit, comfort
and security to employes.
“The purpose also is to eliminate and
destroy the major evils, abuses, manipu
lations and other unfair practices in fi
nance and commerce and industry to
the detriment of legitimate business, of
labor and of the general publie.”—Sec
retary of Staite Cordell Hull
TRY THIS
We shall be much happier if we never
say evil or unkind words. When wa
have nothing good to say, let us remain
silent.
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