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“The Light of God is Falling”
is the hymn we have chosen for
our weekly column on hymns
“We Love to Sing.” It was
written in 1910 by Louis Fit
zgerald Benson and is known as
• a “song of brotherhood.”
Louis Fitzgerald Benson
(1855-1930) was an eminant
Presbyterian minister. He was
* bom in Philadelphia July 22,
1855. He was one of the best
known hymnologists of his time
( and fellow hymnologists said of
him and his hymns “He never
forgot the fact that his bir
thplace and long time home
■ town, Philadelphia, was called
■City of Brotherly Love.’ ”
Dr. Benson graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania,
* School of Law, and after
practicing law for several
years, entered the Princeton
t Theological Seminary and was
ordained a Presbyterian
minister.
Among his many published
* works, one stands out as a
monument to his scholarship.
This was “The English Hymn,
t It’s Development and Use.” For
a generation he was sole editor
of the Presbyterian Hymnal.
His extensive and valuable
' hymnological library was given
to Princeton Theological
Seminary after his death, which
occured in Philadelphia, Oct.
” 10, 1930.
At a special Memorial Service
held for Dr. Benson at
, Philadelphia, Nov. 2, 1030, Dr.
Henry van Dyke, one of
America’s best known and best
loved authors, was the speaker.
«He counseled the churches to
cultivate Dr. Benson’s ideals for
hymns, “reverence, spiritual
reality, beauty and cheer
* fulness.” He said, “When
singing in all our churches has
these marks, the joy of worship
, will revive and the churches
will fill up.” (This advice of Dr.
van Dyke is a pretty good
suggestion for the modern
»church.)
Here is a stanza from “The
Light of God is Falling” that
may lead reader to look the
’ hymn up in their hymnal. It is
not often sung but is well worth
including among the hymns
< sung in any denomination.
The light of God is
falling
* Upon life’s common
way;
The Master’s voice
. still calling,
“Come, walk with
me today”;
No duty can seem
• lowly
To him who loves with
Thee,
And all of life grows
holy,
O Christ of Gali-
lee.
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Quake leaves thousands homeless
By MARTIN P. HOUSEMAN
SANTIAGO (UPI) -Relief
workers rushed emergency
provisions today to Central
Chile, where the country’s
worst earthquake in six years
Thursday night killed and
injured hundreds of persons and
left about 100,000 homeless.
National police said 81
persons died and 396 required
hospital care in 11 cities and
villages along the northern end
Wages gain
in Spalding
Spalding County payroll
wages for the last quarter of
1970 totaled $14,352,418, a report
from the Georbia Department
of Labor Employment Security
Agency shows.
The 1970 total paid in wages
for Spalding County workers
was an increase over the
$13,189,434 paid the same period
in 1969.
Manufacturing led the em
ployment list with the highest
number of employees, 7,139, in
the month of November.
Spalding manufacturers paid to
workers a total of $9,259,541 as
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
Sen. Talmadge, Gov. Carter, Sen. Humphrey at Tifton.
of the fertile Central Valley.
President Salvador Allende
said main areas were without
food, water and medical help
and estimated that 25 to 40 per
cent of the housing had been
destroyed in the three-province
disaster zone.
Allende, who visited the
affected areas by helicopter
Friday, ordered the immediate
start of emergency housing
construction and appealed for
compared to the fourth quarter
of 1969 when 6,567 employees
were paid 18,482,831.
Textile wages totaled
$6,299,114 for 4,745 employees in
the fourth quarter of 1970. A
total of $5,894,434 was paid to
4,636 workers for the same
period in 1969.
The construction boom in
Griffin paid 290 workers
$456,683 during the last quarter
of 1970, as compared to 251
workers receiving $395,854 in
1969.
Other industries in Spalding
County selected in this study
included chemicals, apparel,
food, transportation, com
munity and public utilities,
wholesale and retail trade as
well as finance, insurance and
real estate.
Counties surrounding
Spalding reported increases in
insured wages for 1970 over
1969. Upson County paid
$9,740,014 as compared to
$9,683,837 in 1969. Henry County
paid $3,147,467 as compared to
$3,065,740; Monroe County paid •
$3,087,632 as compared to
$2,955,433; Fayette County paid
$2,203,991 as compared to
$1,604,073; Butts County paid
$2,174,634 as compared to
$1,814,619, while Pike County
paid $563,288 as compared to
$358,570.
Employment in the state
covered by the Georgia Em
ployment Security Law reached
a high of 1,140,350 in December
of 1970. Wages for the quarter
were 5.0 percent over the
previous year, with increases in
all major industry groups ex
cept manufacturing.
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GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Sat. and Sun., July 10-11,1971
help from other parts of the
nation.
The President went on
television wearing the same
turtleneck sweater he wore on
the helicopter and also an
nounced a special program of
direct government aid and
credits to owners of damaged
homes and business places.
“In Hierro Viejo, Petorca and
Salmanaca there is no electrici
ty, there is no water, there is
no bread, and other foodstuffs
are scarce,” Allende said.
“But the populace is taking
the catastrophe well, and its
sense of confidence is impres
sive.”
In Washington, the Agency
For International Development
(AID) announced Friday the
U.S. government would begin
an airlift today of 1200,000 in
supplies to the disaster area
that included 1,000 litres of
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TerHorst, (1) climbs rope upside down, hand over hand above the turbulent
Clear Creek to rescue Tommy Thompson, 17 (r). Thompson’s companion
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plasma, 12,0000 woolen blan
kets, 1,500 cots and 600 family
sized tents.
“A church is where folks
ought to be more interested in
understanding others than in
admonishing them.”
Weather
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Vol. 99 No. 162
Rural decay
shocks HHH
TIFTON, Ga. (UPI)- Sen. Hubert
Humphrey, D-Minn., leadings fact-finding
tour of rural America, left south Georgia
Friday “amazed that a country with
resources as great as ours should allow
rural areas to become as impoverished as
they are.”
Humphrey’s rural development
subcommittee visited Alabama and tiny
Alma, Ga., during the two-day tour before
concluding with a hearing and Southern
style meal of pork chops and fried okra at
this agricultural center.
“It amazes me that we allow our rural
population to pile helter skelter into our
overcrowded cities,” the 1968 presidential
candidate said.
The committee heard a fivepoint plan
for rural rebirth proposed by Gov. Jimmy
Carter and complaints that red tape was
one of the greatest obstacles in the way of
local communities obtaining federal help.
Accompanying Humphrey in 90-degree
heat on the tour were Seas Herman
Talmadge, D-Ga., chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee, James Allen of
Alabama and David Gambrell of Georgia,
all Democrats, and Carl Curtis of
Nebraska, a Republican.
At Alma, the group heard a progress
Bank assets here
almost $92-million
Assets at the three banks in
Griffin were almost $92-million
at the end of June. They were
$69.02 million at the same time a
year before, and $75.42 million
six months before.
The precise figure at the end
of June of this year was
$91,988,682.92. Over two-thirds
of the assets were of the
Commercial Bank and Trust
Company which had
$61,131,204.45. A year before, it
had $44.5 million and six months
before $49.06 million.
First National Bank of Griffin
showed assets of $24,086,827.13
at the end of this June com
pared with $20.39 million a year
Gary Lamb, 17, Van Alstyne, Tex., was found drowned five-miles
downstream. The boys were attempting to cross the stream to climb rocks.
Thompson was rescued and is in good condition. (UPI)
report on the smallest and only rural
community participating in the Model
Cities plan. Rep. W. S. “Bill” Stuckey, D-
Ga., who hosted the committee at a dinner,
said the senators needed to see “what we
are doing in our area so when it comes to
voting on federal money coming here,
they’ll know they want to vote for it.”
Humphrey said he was impressed with
what he saw in Alma and urged the
community to “print a pamplet or do
something to let the people know what you
have done.”
In his testimony before the committee,
Carter urged “carefully planned
programs to bind us together, not separate
us.”
His plan emphasized state participation
in coordinating and directing programs,
financial incentive for programs in rural
areas, continued efforts to see that
agriculture gets a fair share of the nation’s
property and funds to implement planned
developmental facilities and services.
Richard Lyle, assistant director of the
regional office of the National Urban
League, told the committee there was an
“epidemic of malnutrition” in the rural
South with 40 per cent of the families
having what is classified as poor diets.
before and $21.15 million six
months before.
Griffin’s newest bank, the
Bank of Griffin, had assets at
the end of June which amounted
to $6,770,651.34. A year before
that the amount was $4.1
million, and six months before it
was $5.2 million.
Consolidated reports of the
three banks show that as of
June 30, Commercial Bank and
Trust Company had $2,400,000 in
surplus and $685,279.38 in un
divided profits, a total of
$3,085,279.38. First National
Bank of Griffin had an even
million dollars in surplus and
$593,077.29 in undivided profits,
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a total of $1,593,077.29. The Bank
of Griffin had $150,000 surplus
and $182,212.59 in undivided
profits, a total of $332,212.59.
Thus, surplus and undivided
profits at the three banks here
totaled $5,010,569.26.
Commerical Bank and Trust
Company had 8,000 shares of
common stock outstanding at
the end of June. Par value was
SIOO per share. First National
Bank had 50,000 shares and its
par value was $lO per share.
The Bank of Griffin had 25,000
shares outstanding, par value
also $lO. AH three banks had all
the stock they are authorized to
issue outstanding.