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By Quimby Melton
In the process of rearranging
our library, both that at home
and at the office, ran across
“The Book of Today”, publish
ed in 1925, This tells of the late
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst news
paper editor whose column "To
day” was carried on page one of
all Hearst papers and some not
affiliated with the group. Arthur
Brisbane was the father of Page
One Columns of comment.
We found time to scan parts of
this book and was especially in
terested in the first chapter “Fif.
ty years past — and Fifty To
Come.” Mr. Brisbane began this
column by stating "What the
past has shown, we know. What
will the future show?”
“Millions of men remember
distinctly the past 50 years, and
their fathers 50 years further
back. The one hundred years be
hind us have seen a complete
change in she ways of human be
ings. The stage coach went, st
eam cars and steamboats came
In."
We wonder what Mr. Brisbane
would think? If he were living
today. For certainly within the
past half a century there has
been more change than in any
like period before.
Mr. Brisbane continues cit
ing the changes:
“The telephone has come —
conquering space;
“The wireless telephone and
telegraph have come — conqu
ering space and time;
“The flying machine has lift
ed men from earth — conquer
ing the laws of gravitation.
What a column Arthur Bris
bane would have written if he
were alive today, when man not
only has conquered space and
time and gravitation and has
landed a man on the moon and
returned him safely to earth!
♦ —
Commenting on the automo
bile, Mr. Brisbane wrote "The
automobile has replaced the
horse on the city streets, and
will replace it on the farm.”
Wonder how he would feel today
driving along on a super high
way at 70 miles an hour? past
former farmlands now surbur
ban developments and with giant
tractors being used on what
farms are left?
He also tells how electricity
has played an important part in
the changing times.” Man, born
with ten fingers, provided him
self through electricity with a
thousand million fingers of
steel.”
“Nations”, wrote Brisbane
"gather together and bargain,
as individuals used to do. They
borrow billions from each oth
er. They do not keep their bar
gains well, and do not repay the
billions they borrow. But there
is at least a start in internation
al dealing to replace internation
al wars." Little change today
Mr. Brisbane!
— ♦ —
The famous page one colum
nist was a man of many talents.
It is doubtful if any newspaper
man ever possessed more. Am
ong them was the gift of pictur
ing conditions in an easily un
derstandable way. For instance,
wishing to warn man against de
veloping a case of “big head”, he
wrote “The last fifty years have
been years of big things, built up
by the power of big crowds
working together. But the indi
vidual man is not much better,
bigger or happier than he was.
The Pacific Ocean is big, but a
drop of water in that ocean is no
bigger or more powerful than a
drop of water in your wash ba
sin. Men are still little human
beings, drops in a human ocean,
constantly getting bigger and
bigger and more powerful, but
the drops not changing in them
selves.”
Mr. Brisbane was warning
the people who read his column,
to beware of the individual, who
was an extreme egoist, who took
credit for everything good and
blamed the other fellow for ev
erything bad. He warned ag
ainst the modern Pharisee. If
our memory serves us correct
ly it was Arthur Brisbane who
first described a certain man as
“one who struts even when sit
ting down.”
Dr. Sam Will
Grunt And Groan
COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPD—Dr.
3am Sheppard will make his
debut as a wrestler Aug. 1
when he meets Bill ‘ Wild Bill-
Scholl in a benefit match at
Waverly, Ohio.
Sheppard, 45, who spent 10
years in the Ohio Penitentiary
after being convicted in the
murder of his wife in 1954, said
his business adviser, George
Strickland, will train him for
the match. Strickland is a
professional wrestler.
The match will be a benefit
for cancer research.
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
| INSIDE TODAY
sports. Pages 2, 3.
Editorials. Page 4.
New Dorm. Page 5.
Woman’s News. Pages 6,7.
Georgia News. P a ge 8. ,
Funerals. Page 13.
Stork Club. Page 13.
Hospital. Page 13.
Hural Housing. Page 18.
Dr. Brandstadt. Page 19.
Rev. King. Page 20.
Fulton School. Page 20.
Pope Paul. Page 20.
Comics. Page 21.
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dent Richard Nizon is surrounded by a sea of hel-
Court Panel
Eyes Meeting
Who will be the judge of the
Spalding County Small Claims
Court?
When will he be appointed?
When will the court began op
erating?
These are some of the ques
tions left today following appro
val in a referendum yesterday
of a Small Claims Court.
The unofficial vote this morn
ing was listed at 795 to 447 in fa
vor of the court. It was one of
the lightest turnouts for voting
in modern Spalding County his
tory.
Bart Searcy, Griffin insurance
and real estate man, told the
Griffin Daily News today that he
would cal) a meeting of a spec
ial grand jury committee early
next week to discuss a nomina
tion for judge of the new court.
Mr. Searcy was in Athens
at the University of Georgia's
Continuing Center of Education.
He will not return to Griffin un
til next week.
He said the committee had re
ceived one application for the
fob and one man had talked with
him about it. He had advised
the man to write out an applica
tion for the committee but so
far has not received it.
Mr. Searcy pointed out that
the committee does not have to
act on applications. He said it
was within the discretion of the
panel to make a nomination as
it sees fit.
Others serving with him on the
committee are George Sibley.
Roy White, Jack Tinley and
Want Ads. Page 22.
Weather. Page 24.
McDermid. Page 24.
Gun Bill Dead. Page 24.
Local Weather
LOCAL WEATHER — Esti
mated high today 91, low today
64, high yesterday 89, low yes
terday 66. Sunrise tomorrow
6:50, sunset tomorrow 8:39.
Fred Badger.
Mr. Searcy said he had no idea
of when a nomination would be
readv.
Under terms of the act setting
up the court, the committee has
30 days to act.
The committee was appointed
toy the last Spalding County Gr
and Jury to act for the entire gr
and jury.
Under terms of the act, a gr
and jury must make a nomina
tion and submit it to the judge
of the Spalding County Superior
Unofficial Returns
For Against
City 1 33 41
City 2 45 25
City 3 324 70
City 4 57 18
City 5 27 33
City 6 74 38
City 7 39 1
Cabin 17 13
Orrs 28 13
Akin 25 21
Mt. Zion 10 9
Union 28 23
Africa 27 38
Line Creek 1 5
Experiment 45 73
East Griffin 15 26
Total 795 447
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Wednesday, July 30, 1969
Tar As We Can Go/
Nixon Says In Saigon
(UPI RADIOPHOTO)
meta as he greets combat troops at the Ist Division’s
base camp at Di An, 10 miles northeast of Saigon.
Court.
Judge Andrew Whalen Jr. said
today he had not discussed the
nomination with the committee.
Ho said he would be unable to
act until it submitted a nomi
nee.
The judge has the right to re
ject a nomination. Should he do
so, then the committee would
have to submit others until one
acceptable to the judge is found.
NEWS
Dahlonega
Padlocks
City Hall
DAHLONEGA, Ga. (UPI) —
The Dahlonega City ’Coit'cil
Tuesday night fired three city
officials accused of arson by the
state fire marshal.
At a special called meeting it
also was voted to padlock City
Hall and place guards there and
at this northeast Georgia town’s
water plant. The guards will re
main until city records are au
dited and the State Health De
partment tests the water sup
ply-
Those fired were John Neil
Porter, the city fire chief and
water superintendent; Howard
Green, assistant water superin
tendent; and Miss Virginia
Bruce, city clerk - treasurer.
These three, along with
three foreme policemen, were
charged with arson in the burn
ing of two houses earlier this
year.
The Country Parson
“I’m suspicious of folks who
occupy the same pew every
Sunday— they could at least be
oanng enough to try a differ
ent location within the
church.”
Vol. 96 No. 178
It’s Time
For Other Side
To Respond’
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
SAIGON (UPI) — President
Nixon flew today to Saigon and
declared “we have gone as far
as we can or should go in
opening the door to peace...it
is time for the other side to
respond.”
Nixon’s five and a half-hour
visit to the South Vietnamese
capital took him from a
glittering palace reception in
Saigon to a U.S. infantry base
outside the city where he told
the Gl’s. “I only hope we can
bring the war to an end worthy
of your sacrifice.”
Mrs. Nixon accompanied the
President here from Bangkok
and she visited wounded
American soldiers at Long
Binh, 15 miles north of Saigon,
and an orphanage.
Maximum security was in
effect for the visit, the first by
an American President to the
capital.
An army spokesman said the
security included the “rocket
belt” a seven mile radius
around Saigon within which the
Viet Cong in the past have
shelled the capital in the months
past.
But no Incidents were report
ed. either in the capital or in
the Nixon’s separate trips to
the countryside, and they
returned safely to Bangkok at
5:30 p.m. Bangkok time .6:30
a.m. EDT).
Nixon’s declaration of no
more concessions to the Com
munists was an obvious refer
ence to the Paris peace talks
which formally began last Jan.
19 after preliminary skirmish
ing at the conference table. The
United States and Saigon made
a number of concessions. The
Communists have not budged
from their demands for with
drawal of all U.S. troops and
imposition of a Communist
dominated “coalition govern
ment” in the south.
Nixon landed at Tan Son Nhut
air base and flew to the
presidential palace in the heart
of the city where he declared:
"We have gone as far as we
can or should go in opening the
door to peace and now it is
time for the other side to
respond. Otherwise, the other
side must assume the responsi
bility for the continuing suffer
ing of people who have already
suffered much too long, both in
North and South Vietnam.”
“As I look over the period that
that has elapsed since the time
I became President of the
United States. I believe that the
record is clear as to which has
gone the extra mile on behalf of
peace,” Nixon said.
He noted the United States
had halted the bombing of
North Vietnam and the United
States was withdrawing 25,000
troops from Vietnam, 750 of
whom left the nearby Bien Hoa
Airport today for McChord Air
Force Base, Wash.
“We have made and you have
made a peace offer which is as
generous as any ever made in
the history of warfare,” he told
President Nguyen Van Thieu,
whom he last saw at Midway
Island in June. Since then Thieu
has called for free elections in
which the Viet Cong could
participate but the Communists
rejected the offer.
Nixon flew from the palace
reception to Di An by helicopter
then drove by jeep to an area
where two infantry companies
were assembled. One of them
was about to begin a helicopter
assault operation.
The President presented Dis
tinguished Service Crosses to
three of the mdn —Capt.
Enriue P. Rodriguez, 32,
Miami Beach, Fla; Ist Lt. Gary
L. Tucker, 24, Chokuteau, Okla;
and Sgt. Michael J. Murray, 21,
Columbia Station, Ohio.
"I know that you know why
you are here," he told the 400
troops. “Each of the three
countries I’ve been to are
watching Vietnam. What hap
pens in Vietnam will determine
what happens to peace and
freedom in Asia.
A
188
(UPI TELEPHOTO)
Double
SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA. — “What’cha got there little
girl?” “A cantaloupe.” ‘‘lt sure is funny looking.
Do you like them?” “No sir.” “What are you hold
ing it for?” “Well somebody had to hold the silly
thing for the picture.” Five-year-old Terry Huff
displays a 4% -pound double cantaloupe grown on the
Walton County farm of E. M. Lynch. In his 66-years
of farming, Mr. Lynch said it was the first time he’s
ever seen or heard of this oddity in the mellon family.
White Mice Tests
Key To Moon Germs
By AL ROSSITER Jr.
UPI Space Writer
SPACE CENTER. Houston
(UPD—Biologists inject lunar
dust into germ-free white mice
today in a crucial test of
whether chunks of the moon
brought back by the Apollo 11
astronauts harbor infectious
organisms or poisonous chemi
cals.
So far as the pilots’ two
doctors are concerned, all
evidence indicates the moon
material is safe and that Neil
A. Armstrong, Michael Collins
and Edwin E. Aldrin should be
released from quarantine on
(UPI TELEPHOTO)
Next?
PASADENA, CALIF. — This photograph of Mars,
taken by the Mariner 6 at a distance of 463,250
statute miles from Mars, shows the equatorial region
which will be covered in the near encounter phase
of the Mariner 6 pass. The bright erea at top is
Cydonia and the prominent dark feature parallel to
the equator in the right-hand part of the photo
graph is Meridiani Sinus and Sabaeus Sinus.
Inside Tip
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schedule Aug. 11.
But they agreed Tuesday
night that the start of biological
testing on the white mice,
tissue cultures and bacteria
supporting substances today
was the key to whether
microscopic organisms thrive in
the rock and soil samples
Apollo 11 brought back last
week.
Dr. William R. Carpentier,
one of the two physicians living
in isolation with the moon
pilots, said the astronauts and
12 other persons housed in the
$11.5 million Lunar Receiving
Laboratory “continue to appear
in excellent health.”