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VENIN VJ
By Quimby Melton
“Come Peace of God, and
Dwell Again On Earth,” written
In 1928, by May Rowland, an
English woman, though not in
cluded in many hymnals, seems
to be most appropriate at t h i s
time when the world is torn with
strife. The author herself says
It was written “when there was
much talk about peace and a gr
eat desire for it.” If this was
true then, 1928, it is certainly
true today.
Miss Rowland christened Mary
Alice was born Sept. 21, 1870, in
Oxfordshire, England. She was
educated at Someset, beside the
Severn Sea, and brought up as
a member of the Church of Eng
land. She was confirmed in Wells
Cathedral by Lord Arthur Her
vey, Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Early in her life she wrote stor
ies and poems of historic and
patriotic interest, many of which
were published in newspapers
and magazines. In 1902 she mo
ved to Eastbourne and became
Interested in work of her chur
ch, her chief assignment being
teaching a class of young boys.
The vicar at Eastbourne in the
early days of World War One
asked Miss Rowland to write a
hymn suitable for an open-a i r
service. She wrote “Hymn for
a Night Procession.” The suc
cess of this song encouraged her
to write more hymns.
Later In the war the Hymn
Society of New York conducted
a contest for a “Hymn for Air
men.”
By actual count there were
1276 authors who submitted the
words for this hymn, and they
lived in many lands. Miss Row
land was the winner.
The contest was not only for
words for the hymn but for the
music to which it was to be
sung. Composers were also invi
ted to submit entries. There
were hundreds of "tunes” sub
mitted.
There is an interesting thing
about this hymn writing contest
and the two winners, for after
the winners had been announced
it was found that the author
of the words and the music were
young English women and they
lived within a mile of each oth
er and had never met before.
This Joint winning formed a
friendship between the two, May
Rowland and Lily Randel. Miss
Randel wrote the music for
many of the hymns Miss Row
land was to write, including
“Come. Peace of God, and Dw.
ell on Earth Again.”
Lily Randel was bom in Lon
don five years after Miss Row
land had been bom. She was ed
ucated in England and in Paris.
Displaying great talent she was
sent to the Guidhall School of
Music and after completing the
course there became a noted pi
ano concert artist playing in
many lands in Europe and mak
ing trips to America to give con
certs.
The hymnody we rely on in
writing this weekly column of
hymns says that in recent years
“Come. Peace of God, and Dw
ell On Earth Again” has been In
cluded in the hymnals of various
denominations. We have looked
through several hymnals, one
published as late as 1966, and
have been unable to find it. We
also have asked several people
if they had a hymnal with this
in it. So far we have been un
able to locate it.
We have even called the Cok
esbury Book Store in Atlanta and
talked with the man in charge of
its hymnal division. He was not
familiar with this hymn, quickly
checked two hymnals he had in
stock and, not finding it, said he
would start a search for it at his
company’s national headquarters
and when he found it would send
me a copy.
So some of these days we hope
to publish the hymn “Come. Pe
ace of God, and Dwell on Earth
Again” because we consider
this a song all would like to know
and sing.
Weather:
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and mild tonight. Fair to part
ly cloudy and rather warm to
morrow.
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 87, low today
64, high yesterday 86, low yes
terday 63. Total rainfall .12 of
an inch. Sunrise tomorrow 6:30,
(unset tomorrow 8:51.
Inflation: Acute Pain In Pocketbook
By JAMES L. SRODES
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Un
checked inflation is giving
American consumers an acute
pain in the pocketbook.
It also is causing concern—
ranging from mild to serious—
among bankers, economists,
businessmen and union leaders,
members of Congress and high
government officials.
The measures on which
President Nixon has been
relying to curb inflation—
notably credit restraints and a
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(Griffin Daily News Staff Photo)
This view of the Spalding Courthouse rotunda, photographed from the third floor,
shows some of the wasted space in the building about which Judge Andrew Whalen
Jr. talked this week in his charge to the Grand Jury. He said the courthouse
was in bad shape and something needed to be done. Other pictures of the 59-
year-old building are on page three.
FBI Thinks
Hijacker Was
Black Panther
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—
The FBI says the man who
hijacked--a TWA airliner to
Cuba earlier this week was
Willie Lee Brent, the alleged
triggerman In a shootout
between police and Black
Panthers last November.
The tall, goateed black man
had identified himself as J.
Davis when he Joined 8 other
passengers and a crew of seven
on a Boeing 707 bound from
Oakland to New York Tuesday
morning. Soon after takeoff, the
hijackeer ordered the pilot at
gunpoint to fly to Havana. It
was the longest airliner hijack
ever.
The shootout, in which three
officers were wounded, took
place Nov. 19 when eight men
riding in a van marked “The
Black Panther Black Communi
ty Service” held up a service
station in San Francisco’s
Bayvlew district. Brent and two
others were urged by the
Panthers, who called them
"conspirators and opportunists
who raised confusion by acts of
banditry.”
Brent, 39, apparently fled the
country to avoid his scheduled
trial next Monday in superior
court. The FB T Friday filed a
complaint against Brent, who
has been free on $50,000 ball,
charging him with air piracy
and carrying a concealed
weapon.
The FBI said here that the
charges were filed in Las
Vegas since the hijack took
place over Nevada,
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
federal budget surplus—have
thus far failed to cool the
overheated economy. Further
price rises, particularly on
meat and other foods, appear to
be in the cards for the
Immediate future.
Those were some of the
findings in a nationwide survey
by UPI of the impact of
inflation. The 20-man reporting
team which participated in the
survey also found that:
High Interest Rates
Retail prices which rose 4.2
Abernathy Arrested
Leading Night March
By WILLIAM COTTERELL
CHARLESTON, S.C. (UPI)—
Negro youths showered police
with rocks and bottles Friday
night while the Rev. Ralph D.
Abernathy, vowing a new
program of “militant nonviolent
activity,” was carried bodily to
Jail.
The deluge on a street in a
Negro neighborhood In this
historic port city injured at
least five policemen and a UPI
newsman. Rocks shattered the
windows of more than a dozen
cars.
National guardsmen and state
troopers rushed in quickly to
reinforce police, who restored
order within an hour without
swinging a blow.
Four persons, including Aber
nathy and Hosea Williams, a
top aide in the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence (BCLC), were arrested.
Abernathy and Williams were
charged with inciting to riot
and rioting, parading without a
permit and disorderly conduct.
Their attorney, F. Henderson
Moore, said they would not
make immediate bond.
The brief violence was the
worst yet In the three-month
old strike by 450 Hospital and
Nursing Home Workers Union
members against medical col
lege of South Carolina hospital
and the Charleston County
hospital.
Abernathy, leading an SCLC
campaign for the strikers, had
attempted to lead 400 Negroes
on a march across town to the
hospitals in violation of a city
restriction against night
marches.
Police chief John Conroy,
whom Negro leaders have
praised for his leniency with
demonstrators, met the march
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per cent in 1968 have risen so
far this year at an annual rate
of 7.5 per cent. Consumers are
borrowing record sums despite
the highest interest rates in
history. Corporation profits,
industrial wage levels and total
output all are rising and adding
ever more pressure to an
economy that has been booming
for 100 consecutive months.
Concern in official Washing
ton has reached the point where
Congress is virtually certain to
grant President Nixon's request
ers about five blocks from their
rallying point. He told Aber
nathy he had no parade permit
and the march was Illegal.
Abernathy turned and ad
dressed his 400 followers:
“We are going to practice
civil disobedience in Charleston
as it has never been practiced
before. We are going to have
militant nonviolent activity that
Dr. Martin Luther King and I
used to talk about but never
has been seen.”
The man who succeeded the
slain King as head of SCLC
then sat down In the street.
Many Negroes knelt to pray.
Conroy told the crowd
through a bullhorn to disperse
immediately. When there was
no move to do so, he ordered
officers to make arrests.
Country Parson
“It’s amazing how enticing
an item can be in the store —
and how (inattractive a month
later when the bill comes.”
Copyright 1%9, by Frank A. Clark
NEWS
Sen. Proxmire Says
Federal Reserve
Allows ‘Sabotage’
Sen. Sparkman
Says Increase
Savings Interest
By STEVEN GERSTEL
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Sen.
William Proxmire, chairman of
the Joint Economic Committee,
accused the Federal Reserve
Board today of letting large
commerical banks sabotage the
government’s battle against
inflation.
The Wisconsin Democrat
leveled his charge in testimony
prepared for the House Banking
Committee, which Is investigat
ing a decision last week by a
parade of banks to raise the
prime interest rate they charge
their best corporate customers
to a record BVi per cent.
“I am not pointing the finger
of moral blame at the banks,”
said Proxmire. “Banks are
private institutions and have an
obligation to their stockholders.
The real blame lies with the
Federal Reserve Board for
permitting the large banks to
undermine the FED’s (Federal
Reserve Board) tight money
policy."
Saving Account Interest
At the same time, Chairman
John J. Sparkman, D-Ala., of
the Senate Banking Committee
called on banks to raise interest
rates on savings accounts if
they cannot be persuaded to
lower loan Interest rates.
In a radio interview for an
Alabama station, Sparkman
noted that the current interest
rate on ordinary savings
accounts is 4.5 per cent while
the prime interest rate was
now almost twice as high.
“If the banks are going to set
their rate at this much higher
level, then it seems to me that
in all fairness the depositors
who leave their funds with the
bank ought to be given higher
rates of interest on their
deposits,” Sparkman said.
Close Loop Holes
Proxmire said the Federal
Reserve could have restrained
lending activities of the larger
banks in several ways—by
urging cutbacks in business
loans which worked in 1966; by
closing the discount window to
banks which dump government
securities; by closing the
loophole which allows banks to
borrow excessive amounts or
plugging the loophole which
permits banks to raise funds
through holding company affili
ates.
“None of these actions were
taken,” Proxmire said, adding,
“if the Federal Reserve won’t
act to restrain the large banks,
Congress will. There already is
substantial sentiment for rolling
back the prime interest rate.”
He said “legislation of this
type would be unnecessary if
the FED would require com
mercial banks to start cutting
back their business loans. I
hope the warning will be
heeded."
for a one-year extension of
higher income and excise taxes
now due to expire June 30.
Some government economists
are now voicing private fears
that the tax extension may
prove to be too little and too
late to halt the wage-price
spiral that is eating away at
the dollar’s purchasing power.
So far, however, there is no
serious prospect of the adminis
tration asking for or Congress
approving wage-prioe controls.
No other drastic anti-inflation
steps are presently contemplat
Train-Car Wreck
Kills 10 At Vienna
VIENNA, Ga. (UPl)—With its
brakes squealing and emergen
cy whistle howling, a Southern
Railway freight train rammed
an automobile stalled on a
crossing Friday, killing nine
children, one adult and leaving
twi in critical condition.
Dooly County Sheriff H. C.
Johnson said, the train smashed
into the white 1961 Ford dead
center and dragged the twisted
metal frame about three-quar
ters of a mile, leaving children
dispersed along the trackside as
it bulldozed ahead.
The driver of the car, Mrs.
Annie Mae Lowe, 27, was
rushed along with her 6-year-old
daughter Faye to Crisp County
Hospital. Both were listed in
critical condition.
The si x children of Mrs.
Frances Lewis, who was not a
passenger in the ill-fated ve
hicle, were all killed. They in
cluded Wanda, 3, Deborah, 5,
Morris, 6, Eric, 8, Holsey, 9
and Theresa 12, all of Vienna.
Mrs. Eula Mae Pitts 24, and
her daughter Jackie Lango 8,
both of Miami, Fla. and visiting
this small South Georgia town,
were killed.
Also among the dead were
two more of the Lowe children,
Sylvia, 8, and Vickie, 4.
Johnson said all the victims
were Negroes and he said it
was thought the two adult vic
tims and Mrs. Lewis were sis
ters.
Why the car stopped on the
tracks and why no one attempt
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Second Chute
GOOD THING, THAT SECOND PARACHUTE — Pfc. Mike Breland of Austin,
Tex., floats down under his backup parachute after the first one got snagged in a
jump from a helicopter at Ft. Hood, Tex. He’s training with the 71st Brigade,
Texas National Guard.
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ed by the administration.
President Nixon fears that too
rapid an application of brakes
might cause the economy to
slide into a recession—some
thing he is determined to avoid.
”We are engaged,” said one
administration official, “in an
attempt to achieve disinflation
without deflation. It’s a touchy
business, and it takes time.”
Bill Browning is an automobile
dealer In Dallas, Tex., with an
Income of about $200,000 a year.
Mrs. Sara Smith is a maid at a
Dallas theater, with an income
ed to escape remains a mys
tery. “I don’t know
didn’t Jump,” the sheriff "bald.
The engineer of the train, a
local freight with two engines
and eight cars bound from Val
dosta to Macon, said he was
about two-tenths of a mile from
the dirt-road crossing when he
saw the Ford approac’ 'ng.
One tenth of a mile from the
crossing he saw the car stop
and he applied the brakes,
sounding an emergency whistle.
“I figure she probably got
excited —panicked—and the car
must have Just choked out on
her,” Johnson said. “That train
was just too close and there
wasn’t time. But we may never
know what happened.”
The train was traveling about
40 m.p.h. when it struck the
four-door automobile, Johnson
said the engineer told him. He
Postmaster
At Conyers
Being Checked
ATLANTA fUPI) _ Conyers
Postmaster Guy Wallis was on
leave while a federal postal In
spector looks into possible ir
regularities at the Conyers post
office.
Postal inspector J. L. Heard
said Wallis had not been fired
but would face possible dis
charge if irregularities were
discovered. He did not divulge
the nature of the investigation.
of $3,240 a year. They have at
least one thing in common:
both feel they are being badly
hurt by inflation.
“It’s eating me alive,”
Browing told UPI. "Any
economizing I do in any
department is eaten up by
increased labor costs.”
Mrs. Smith is distressed
about the other half of the
wage-price spiral.
“It’s much worse this year
than last,” she said. “Last year
I could stretch S2O over a
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said there were no signals at
the crossing but the view down
the track was unobstructed.
Johnson said he found Faye
Lowe, critically Injured, and the
body of Mrs. Pitts in the
smashed automobile when he
arrived. He said the car was
demolished, with the nose of the
train plowed about half way in
to its otructure.
The other victims, he said,
were strewn along the track. He
said their bodies were njt muti
lated.
“It was the worst accident
I've ever seen,” the sheriff
said. *‘l hope to never see an
other one like it.”
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