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By Quimby Melton
“Again as Evening’s Shadows
Fall” written by Samuel Long
fellow, brother of the famous
American poet, has been a fa
vorite Vesper Hymn since the
middle of the 19th Century. Some
have said it was Samuel Long
fellow, who while pastor of the
Second Unitarian Church in
Brooklyn, from 1863 to 1869, re
vived the Vesper Service as an
, important worship service.
One Hymnody text book on
which we rely for information
lists seven hymns as being kn
own and sung today that were
’ written by Samuel Longfellow.
It also comments on two “res
ponses” from the pen of this
man. One hymn “Now On Land
' and Sea Descending”, often
sung at Vesper Services leaves
in the hearts of man the mess
age “Soon as dies the sunset
» glory, Stars of heaven shine out
above, Telling still the ancient
story, Their Creator’s changless
love.”
, Another hymn that is mention
ed “God’s Trumpets Wake the
World” is for morn
ing rather than the close of the
day. And still another, “I look to
1 Thee in Every Need” is said by
many phvsicians to be of great
therapy value in treating men
tally disturbed patients.
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Samuel Longellow, brother of
the great America" no°t
Wadsworth Longfellow, was
> born at Portland, Maine, June 18
18’9. and died there October 3,
1892. He was a Uniarian minis
ter and a poet of good repute
( in his own right. He did not have
to depend on the fame of h i s
brother to cause the world of
his day to respect him as a poet.
He served as pastor of sever-
• al churches in New Eng’a’”’ and
at one time at the Second Uni
tarian Church in Brooklyn. It
was while pastor there that he
, wrote the Vesper hvmn about
which we write today. During his
busy career he found time to edit
several hymnals, a book of po
ems, containins- many of which
' he was the author, and a biogra
phy of his brother.
He was a forceful preacher
a"d was in great demand as a
• visiting minister in churches of
many denominations. Church
historians say that his favorite
church service was the Vesper
Service.
Longfellow’s most famous Ves
per hymn has four verses and
no chorus. Here it is:
’ Again, as evening's shadow falls,
We gather in these hallowed
walls;
And vesper hymn and vesper
• prayer
Rise mingled on the holy air.
May struggling hearts that seek
release
' Here find the rest of God’s own
peace;
And, strengthened here by hymn
and prayer,
■ Lay down the burden and the
care.
O God, our Light, to thee we
bow;
Within all shadows standest
thou;
Give deeper calm than night can
bring;
Give sweeter songs than lips
can sing.
Life’s tumult we must meet ag
agin,
We cannot at the shrine remain;
But in the spirit’s secret cell
May hymn and prayer forever
dwell.
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Longfellow’s Vesper Hymn is
not as well known as some oth
ers, but he is said to have been
the’ “father of Vesper Services
in America”. One of his favorite
hymns was “Day Is Dying in the
West” written by Miss Mary
Artemisia Lathbury, born in
Manchester, N.Y., Aug. 10, 1841,
the daughter of a local Metho
dist preacher and sister of two
ministers. W. Garrett Horder,
English hymnologist, writes “It
is one of the finest hymns of mo
dern times. It deserves to be
ranked with “Lead, Kindly
Light” by Cardinal Newman.
The Country Parson
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r< God loves your neigh
bors- -but of course He hasn’t
been living next door to
them.
Copyright 1969. hy Frank A Clark
■ 5-STAR WEEKEND EDITION
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Doily Since 1872 Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., August 9-10, 1969 Vo,< 96 No. 187
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Local No. 1230, and Assistant
Postmaster Wayman Hutson.
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Devaluation
France Waits
For- Other - Shoe
By RAY F. HERNDON
PARIS (UPD—Millions of
Frenchmen caught by surprise
by devaluation of the franc
today awaited the other shoe to
drop in the form of price
increases and austerity mea
sures in the struggle to prop up
the nation’s shaken economy.
Finance Minister Valery Dis
card D’Estaing went on televi
sion Friday night to announce
France was devaluing the franc
by 12.5 per cent. It means the
franc is now worth 17.5 U.S.
cents rather than 20 cents.
Giscard D’Estaing said it was
the only way. He said France
otherwise would have been out
of gold reserves and foreign
currency by the end of the
year.
President Georges Pompidou
said devaluation was "inevita
ble.”
In Washington, the Treasury
Department said it would not
affect the value of the dollar
although the executive board of
the International Monetary
Fund was meeting on the
matter Sunday.
The French government said
the decision to devalue the
franc for the eighth time in 24
years was only the beginning in
a series of austerity moves to
try to bolster France’s econo
my, severely shaken by the
student worker revolt of the
spring of 1968.
Finance Ministry officials
estimated the prices will
probably rise from one to three
per cent although some goods
from nations belonging to the
European Common Market will
cost even more due to market
regulations.
For millions of French
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families, the news came when
they were on their traditional
August vacations. Many went to
the shore and the mountains
this summer knowing that
besides increasing food and
other costs they would have to.
pay 4 per cent more for
electricity and gas when they
got back.
Prices Rjsing
Labor leaders were already
warning there will be trouble
unless the government comes
up with something to improve
the lot of the lower paid
workers when they get back
from vacation.
Premier Jacques Chaban-
Delmas has promised a “plan
of action” tha the said will be
presented to lawmakers and the
people on Sept. 3 and 9.
Pompidou said he wanted to
avoid the “brutal deflations”
that would have been necessary
to maintain the position of the
franc in world money markets.
Its effect will mean cheaper
vacations for the tourists
flocking tc France. For the
French, it will mean more
expensive foreign holidays.
Tn his television address,
Giscard D’Estaing disclosed the
decision to devalue was reached
July 16 but known to only eight
persons up to Friday.
So many French francs had
flowed into West Germany late
last year during an internation
al monetary crisis that Pres
ident Charles de Gaulle had
been expected to devalue then.
But De Gaulle refused.
“It would be an absurdity,”
De Gaulle said at the time.
The devaluation will not
affect the British pound sterl
ing. British officials said.
1 But a foreign exchange
1 expert at one of London’s
’ biggest finance houses said the
’ devaluation would almost cer
tainly bring confusion in foreign
' exchange markets when trading
' starts Monday.
He said the French move
' would not. make an upwards
valuation of the West German
mark any more or less likely
' after the German elections in
’ the fall.
’ Chancellor Kurt Georg Kie
' singer’s government hoped it
. would help him and the
Christian Democrats in the
Sept. 28 elections. The Kiesin
ger government resisted econ-
1 omists’ demands to revalue the
, mark several months ago.
> Rover Road
To Be Paved
The State Highway Depar
msnt has called for bids for gra
ding and paving the Rover-Or
’ chard Hill road. The project will
1 begin at State Route 362 at Ro
ver and extend easterly to t h e
Griffin By-pass near State Rou
te three.
Bids will be opened Aug. 29 at
11 a m. in the State Highway of
fice in Atlanta.
1 Chemical gain
in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (UPI) - The
i output of the Mexican chemical
industry in 1968 — excluding
pharmaceuticals, paints and plas
tics — increased 15.2 per cent
over the previous year, reaching
; a value of $920 million, accord
• ing to the National Chemical
Industry Association.
Nixon Outlines
Welfare Reform
Program Would
Junk Old Rules
By MIKE FEINSILBER
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Nixon has laid before the
nation a fundamental reform of
the way it treats the poor. It
would assure a minimum
income to all who were willing
to work and to those who work
but remain impoverished.
If Congress goes along, his
“New Federalism” plan would
double the cost and more than
double the number of persons
receiving public assistance. It
would junk the old rules which
led fathers to leave home so
their families could become
eligible for a monthly welfare
check.
In their initial reaction,
Republican conservatives ap
peared to receive the Nixon
plan with considerable caution.
California Gov. Ronald Reagan,
for example, said he wanted to
“reserve comment” while the
studied the President’s nation
wide televised address and
Senate Republican Leader
Everett M. Dirksen was care
fully non-committal.
Under the President’s propo
sals, by 1971, the earliest they
could be put into effect, all
families of four would be
eligible to receive $1,600 a year
—ssoo each for the two adults
and S3OO for each child
dependent—as long as the head
of the household takes work or
trains for it.
The cost to the government
would be $4 billion more than it
now spends on welfare pro
grams and 24 million Ameri
cans—more than one in every
10—would receive assistance of
one kind or another.
For cities and states, there
was the promise of more
federal funds to relieve what
Nixon called the "crushing”
cost of a welfare system which
has become “a monster ... a
colossal failure.”
Even more significant was
the promise of federal sharing
of its tax collections with the
states and cities and with no
strings attached. This would
start with SSOO million in 1971,
$1 billion the following year and
much more in a short time,
White House officials said.
Out With The Old
And this, said the President,
would reverse the trend under
which “Washington has pro
duced a bureaucratic monstro
sity, cumbersome, unresponsive
and ineffective.”
A key feature of the
President’s plan was that it
would no longer be advan
tageous for some not to work
and no longer would a welfare
recipient suffer by taking a job
which removed him from the
welfare rolls.
Moreover, he said, “For the
first time, the government
would recognize that it has no
less of an obligation to the
working poor than to the non
working poor. And for the first
time, benefits would be scaled
in such away that it would
always pay to work.”
A family of five with an
income — through work —of
$2,000 a year, for instance,
would receive a $2,260 federal
subsidy.
While welfare benefits would
not be equalized among the
states, the federal minimum
would tend to curb the
migration of southern blacks to
big cities in the north, where
welfare payments are higher.
Mississippi now pays a welfare
mother with three children $39
a month while New Jersey pays
$263.
To encourage welfare reci
pients to train for jobs, they
would receive a S3O a month
bonus for taking training and
Nixon promised to find “150,000
new training slots” for heads of
families now on welfare.
To enable welfare mothers to
work, he called for day care
centers for their children.
The $4 billion cost is high,
Nixon said, but by 1971 the
money will be available and,
anyway, “This is a reform we
cannot afford not to under
take.”
Opposition Expected
Liberals were expected to
object to a provision that would
deny food stamps to those who
sign up for the federal
minimum supports. Conserva
tives were expected to com
plain about the cost and about
greater federal control over
who gets assistance and how
much—matters previously left
to states, counties and cities.
The National Welfare Rights
Organization, a group of
militant black welfare mothers,
called Nixon's $1,600 annual
minimum payment to a family
of four inadequate. It said
$5,500 was needed for the basic
necessities.
Nixon said while the costs
would be high, eventually as
people received “workfare”
rather than welfare, costs
would decline. His plan, he
said, would end the govern
ment’s "chronic failure to
deliver the service that it
promises.”
Os the present welfare
system, he said this: “It breaks
up homes. It often penalizes
work. It robs recipients of
dignity. And it grows.”
The President promised to
send Congress next week three
measages spelling out his plans
in more detail. Actual legisla
tion will not be submitted until
Congress returns from its
summer recess Sept. 3. Legisla
tive hearings will be certain tv
take many months.
Magazine Says
Population,
Buying Power Up
According to the marketing
magazing “Sales Management”,
Griffin and Spalding County had
increases in population and ef
fective buying income during
1968.
The publication lists Griffin
population as of Dec. 31, 1968 as
24,800. Spalding County popula
tion was estimated at 40,500. The
gain in city population is 10 0
persons and county population
over 1968 figures is 1,300 per
sons.
The effective buying income
for Griffin was listed as $60,-
778,000. Spalding County regis
tered $93,653,000. The increase
for the city over 1967 is $3,771,-
000 and the county $8,246,000.
Sales Management estimated
the percent of households by
cash income groups in Spalding
County as 22.6 had earnings of
SO-2,999; 17.4 were in the $3,000-
4.999 range; 23.4 earned $5,000-
7,999; 14.6 had incomes of SB,OOO-
9.999 and 22.0 had earnings of
SIO,OOO and over.
Loral Weather
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
91, low today 69, high yesterday
90, low yesterday 68, sunrise to
morrow 6:57, sunset tomorrow
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’ ■President Nixon outlines
■_\velfare Program.
Glover Plans
To Appeal
Ruling In Pike
By TOM LAWRENCE
ATLANTA (UPI) —An im
mediate appeal and more racial
disorders for Pike County were
promised Friday in the wake of
a federal court decision affirm
ing the county school board’s
dismissal of Negro school prin
cipal D.F. Glover.
“We are going to resume the
demonstrations of last spring.
The children said they would
hot go back to school unless
Mr. Glover was their princi
pal,” said John Bascomb, a
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference field organizer.
Glover was notified on April
23 that his contract would not
be renewed. Students at his all
black Pike County Consolidated
School left classes and vowed
they would not return until the
school board changed its mind.
The students participated in
almost daily marches on the
predominately-white Pike Coun
y High School in Zebulon, the
county seat.
Thursday, U.S. District Judge
Newell Edenfield ruled that
Glover had been dismissed for
non-racial reasons.
Glover, 42, said his attorneys
are planning to appeal the case
which the SCLC wanted to use
as a test case to stop what it
called “unfair dismissals of Ne
gro teachers across the South.”
“We feel we can get justice,”
Glover said. “We have already
spotlighted what needed to be
spotlighted — that Negro ad
ministrators in this sate have
no protection from local school
boards.”
His opponent in the suit,
School Supt. Harold Daniel, was
elated over the decision. “We
won the case,” he said. “Mr.
Glover just didn’t fit in our
system.”
In his decision, Judge Eden
field also ordered the school
board to employe a Negro prin
cipal in Glover’s “old position.”
The wording left some con
fusion, since that position no
longer exists.
Glover was principal of the
all-black high school which,
under a desegregation order
last spring was consolidated
with the white high school for
the 1969-70 school year.
Edenfield left for a vacation
after handing down his de
cision, but Negro officials in
terpreted the wording to mean
a Negro principal would head
what used to be Glover's school
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but is now Pike County Junior
High, an integrated institution.
Daniel said the school board
was searching for a qualified
Negro but most Negro leaders
said they did not want a black
principal at the school.
“We are hoping that no black
teacher will work there because
they are unprofessionally and
unethically treated,” said Dr.
Horace Tate, head of the most
ly-black Georgia Teachers and
Education Association.
Glover added that “even if a
Negro takes the job he will be
only a figurehead rather than a
principal in fact.”
Traffic Heavy
In Griffarea
The Griffin Post of the Geor
gia State Patrol said raffic in
the Griffin area was heavy yes
terday due to Sunday’s running
of the Atlanta 500 stock car
race at the Atlanta Internation
al Raceway at Hampton.
A trooper said the density on
the highways would increase as
race time approaches. The race
was called last Sunday because
of rain.
He said a number of campers
were seen around the raceway
yesterday as fans began arriv
ing.
Motorists were warned to dr
ive with extreme caution in ar
the race traffic. Those going on
trips to other sections of the
eas north of Griffin because of
state were asked to use routes
other than the main arteries.
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