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By Quimby Melton
“Wonderful Words of Life” is
the hymn we have chosen for
this week’s column on Hymns
We Love to Sing. Philip P. Bliss
wrote both the words and music
for this. Many consider Bliss,
next to Fanny Crosby, the best
American writer of gospel
songs.
Among other hymns Bliss
wrote are “Let The Lower
Lights Be Burning”, “Almost
Persuaded," “It is Well With
My Soul,” and “What Will the
Harvest Be?”, all songs sung
over and over again especially
in revival services.
Philip Paul Bliss was born in
a log cabin in northern Pennsyl
vania, July 9,1838. At the age of
eleven he left home and worked
in lumber camps and saw mills,
and on farms for five years. As
a small boy he had a keen love
for music. Early in his life he
joined the Baptist Church and
hymnody tells us he was a “boy
who loved to sing like a bird."
While yet a lad he wrote a
song which he sent to George F.
Root, at the time one of Amer
ica’s most popular song writers
Young Bliss asked that Root
pay him for the song, if he
thought it worth it by sending
him a flute. Root complied and
Bliss taught himself to play the
flute. The boy also taught him
self to play other instruments
seeming to have “an ear for
music.” Root became in
terested in Bliss, encouraged
him and when the boy turned a
young man Root took him with
him as an evangelistic music
team — Root and Bliss — that
sang for the evangelist Ira E.
Sankey.
Bliss was a fine looking man
“one of the handsomest men I
have ever met” an acquain
tance described him. He had a
deep resonant voice, and it was
said that handsome Bliss with
the sweet, deep voice may have
bought more women to the
gospel tent than the preaching
of the great Sankey.
Bliss was never a rich man
though his royalties from songs
he wrote were large. It is
estimated he received more
than 130,000 in royalties, all of
which he gave to finance
evangelistic campaigns of his
church.
His death was tragic. When
but 38 years old he and his wife
were returning to Chicago after
a trip to the east, the train on
which they were riding was in a
bad wreck near Ashtabuka,
Ohio. The car in which they
were riding caught fire. Mrs.
Bliss was trapped and Bliss,
who could have escaped,
remained and sought to rescue
her. Both of them, along with
nearly 100 other passengers
were burned to death on the
night of Dec. 29, 1876.
If you are not familiar with
this beautiful song suggest you
learn to sing it. Here’s just a
sample of its beauty.
Sing them over again to me,
Wonderful words of life,
Let me more of their beauty
see,
Wonderful words of life.
Words of life and beauty,
Teach me faith and duty;
Beautiful words, wonderful
words
Wonderful words of life.
Two post bonds
in bogus case
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - Two
Augusta men have been released
on $5,000 bond each after they
were arrested on federal charges
of possessing a quarter million
dollars in counterfeit $5 Mils.
Secret Service agents said
Charlie Reid Sr., 49, and Wal
lace Span, 39, were arrested
leaving an Augusta printing
company early Friday morning.
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WASHINGTON — If it takes place, President Nixon’s meet
ing with Red China’s Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse
tung will only be the first step in what, at best, will be a long
Man slain
at store;
owner held
Jessie Gay, 69-year-old
grocery store operator at Or
chard Hill, was being held at
Spalding Jail today in an in
vestigation of the shooting
death of Pearl Underwood, 29,
of Route Two, Green Valley
Road, Griffin.
Underwood was dead on
arrival at the Griffin-Spalding
Hospital last night, Deputy
Richard Cantrell of the
Spalding Sheriff's office said.
Deputy Cantrell is handling the
investigation.
The sheriff’s office received
the call about the incident at
8:50 last night.
It happened at County Line
Grocery store on the County
Line road off U. S. 41 at Orchard
Hill.
Underwood was shot once in
the midchest with a .38 pistol,
Deputy Cantrell said.
No charges have been placed
against Gay, but he is being
held in connection with the in
vestigation, Deputy Cantrell
said.
The deputy indicated he
would take some material to the
state crime laboratory in
connection with the case.
Deputy Cantrell said he had
not talked with Gay about the
incident and Gay had made no
statement.
U. S. moves against
horse sleep sickness
United Press International
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI)-Secre
tary of Agriculture Clifford M.
Hardin declared a national
emergency Friday, authorizing
a release of “such sums as
may be necessary ... to control
and eradicate” a horse sleeping
sickness epidemic spreading
northward through Texas and
threatening other states.
The disease, Venezuelan
Equine Encephalomyelitis
(VEE), already has killed up to
6,000 horses in Texas and
Mexico and made hundreds of
humans ill.
Doctors reported Friday a 6-
year-old San Antonio girl died
DAI LY#N EWS
Daily Since 1872
Labor picture grim
as strikes mount
By United Press International
A grim picture was painted
on the labor scene today as
selective strikes against the
Union Pacific and Southern
Railroads moved into the
second day. Management offi
cials retaliated against the
United Transportation Union by
imposing new work rules—the
reason for the dispute—on other
railroads.
The new rules Friday result
ed in the mass firings of
employes on other railroads
and tremendous pay cuts for
those still on the job.
The Nixon administration
called union and management
back together today to try and
end the decade-old fight over
Speeding ticket called political
WARRENTON, Ga. (UPI) -
State Rep. Bobby Johnson of
Warrenton says a speeding tick
et he was given by a state
trooper in Warren County earlier
this week had political motiva
tions.
Johnson said Friday he was
willing to post the necessary $25
bond but that he was informed
of some form of encephalomye
litis, possibly the Vee strain.
But it was emphasized that
VEE, though fatal to horses,
almost never kills humans.
The girl was identified only
as the daughter of an Air
Force enlisted man.
Representatives of states
bordering Texas clamored for
vaccine to protect themselves
before the epidemic spreads
further, but what short supplies
of vaccine the government has
on hand are being used
exclusively in Texas.
Louisiana State veterinarian
Dr. Frakk Wheeler said there is
“absolutely no hope” the
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process of delicate negotiations bound to have deep implica
tions for several other nations, particularly the USSR and
Japan. (UPI)
the work rules, with hopes of
resolving the issues before the
strike spread. The UTU next
week could walk out on three
more railroads.
However, the walkout against
the railroads Friday morning
was just another thorn in the
side of a nation suffering under
the mounting pressures of
strikes.
A half million telephone
workers remained out of work
today; the copper industry,
with little progress, attempted
to reach a settlement in a
strike which has idled 39,000 ; 25
West Coast ports remained
closed because of a longshore
men’s strike with no talks
scheduled, and similar stale-
by County Ordinary Jewell John
son that the warrant for the leg
islator had not yet been signed
and she could not accept his
bond money.
“The fact that the warrant
hasn’t been signed yet proves
to me this is a political deal,”
the controversial legislator said.
“It appears to me they want a
disease can be kept out of
Louisiana.
Oklahoma Rep. Tom Steed,
whose district is known for its
quarterhorses, said “there is a
great deal of alarm” in
Oklahoma, and Sen. Joseh M.
Montoya, D-N.M., said the
same is true in New Mexico.
Even in Texas vaccinations
and spraying for mosquitoes
which spread VEE, were far
from adequate.
“The request for vaccine is
much greater than the supply,”
said Dr. E.S. Cox, veterinarian
in charge of the Animal
Disease Control Office of the
Department of Agriculture.
mates were reported in strikes
against the telegraph and farm
manufacturing industries.
Adding to the headaches was
an announcement by Assistant
Labor Secretary William J.
Usery Jr., Friday that he has
called union representatives
and the new postal service
together for round-the-clock
talks on a contract.
The semi-private U.S. Postal
Service took over the mails
July 1 and Congress wrote all
labor agreements for the
nation’s mailmen. But the
750,000 workers want job
security and wages remain an
issue. The Postal Service said it
considers the deadline for the
lot of talk about it but no ac
tion.”
Johnson said he was stopped
by the trooper late Wednesday
night on the way to Thomson
from Warrenton and was told he
was going 69 miles per hour. He
said the trooper wanted to take
him to Sheriff Roger Dye, a
long-time political enemy of the
In declaring a state of
emergency, Hardin said a
regional emergency headquar
ters will be set up in Houston to
coordinate control efforts.
“Teaching a child how to
forgive is like teaching him the
sweetness of sugar — just let
him taste if.”'
Vol. 99 No. 168
Some denounce
Nixon trip
WASHINGTON (UPI) -More
than two decades of American
hostility to Peking’s Communist
regime has inspired a round of
negative reaction to President
Nixon’s announcement he will
visit China.
While the response to Nixon’s
trip from both Republicans and
Democratic congressional lead
ers was strongly favorable, a
number of rank-and-filers took
the opposite tack Friday.
Among them was the GOP
congressman from the Orange
County, Calif., district where
Nixon maintains his San
Clemente home. Rep. John G.
Schmitz accused Nixon of
“surrendering to international
communism.” Schmitz, a John
Birch Sodty member, said he
had informed the Western
White House he was rejecting
an invitation to cruise with
Nixon on the presidential yacht
Sequoia Friday night.
“And I won’t accept any
new contract to be midnight
Sunday. If an agreement is not
reached the issues are to go to
final arbitration.
The nation’s labor disputes
have become further complicat
ed by sabotage, vandalism,
violence and arrests in the
telephone strike. The railroad
strike has halted the shipments
of hundreds of cars of wheat
from Kansas and Nebraska and
ttie shipping strike has cost
thousands of dollars a day in
lost port fees.
In the telephone strike, talks
were continuing on a local basis
at various points across the
nation, but with little progress.
legislator, but he refused.
He said he was willing to be
taken to the ordinary but not to
Dye’s jail where he might be
“handcuffed, beaten and probab
ly shot.”
Johnson said, “We have Ne
groes being beaten, crosses be
ing burned in my front yard. I
am just sick and tired of this
political fight.”
The legislator, who was re
cently acquitted on charges of
conspiracy to commit illegal sex
acts in the Thomson city jail,
said he thought the speed limit
where he was stopped was 50
or 55 miles per hour.
Dump permit
rescinded
I
ATLANTA (UPI)—A tempor
ary permit granted to a Bruns
wick firm last month for dump
ing waste dirt in Glynn County
marshes has been rescinded by
the State Coastal Marshlands
Protection Agency.
R. S. “Rock” Howard, head
of the Water Quality Control
Board, said the agency decided
to withdraw its approval for the
work to prevent “encroachment
of the marshes.” Howard was
the only member of the board
voting against the request when
it was originally made.
more invitations from the
White House,” Schmitz said.
“You might say I’ve disesta
blished diplomatic relations
with the White House as long as
this policy continues.”
Sens. Peter H. Dominick, R-
Colo., warned that admission of
Communist China to the United
Nations would “open the doors
to' a new headquarters for
espionage and subversion.”
Rep. John H. Rousselot,' R-
Calif., claimed Nixon’s an
nouncement had “dealt a
staggering blow to those who
believe in genuine freedom in
its fullest sense and the true
cause of peace.”
But Nixon’s critics were in
turn criticized by Sen. Thomas
J. Mclntyre, D-N.H., who said
Nixon had betrayed no prin
ciple.
“That kind of talk is 20 years
out of date,” Mclntyre said.
Peace
Nixon
top topic
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.
(UPl)—President Nixon will
discuss peace in Vietnam as
one of the “foremost, imme
diate” topics he will take up
with Red Chinese leaders in
Peking, White House officials
confirm.
Communist China is the main
war arsenal for North Vietnam
and the recent moves toward
better Sino-American relations
obviously open new diplomatic
avenues for ending the war.
A ranking White House aide,
talking to newsmen Friday,
refused to speculate on what
impact Nixon’s visit would have
on the Vietnam War. But he
said tiie main purpose of the
visit is to seek a more peaceful
world, and added:
“In a quest for peace in the
world, peace in Southeast Asia
has to be a foremost, imme
diate objective.” The Peking
visit is expected to take place
some time early next year, well
before the May 1 date
mentioned by Nixon in his
announcement, the White House
said.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. — Georgia’s senior Senator, Herman
Talmadge, voiced approval of President Nixon’s proposed
visit to Red China, but warned, “China is sworn to destroy us.
Because a few Americans played ping pong there a few
months ago, doesn’t mean they have changed their mirvi”
Talmadge made these remarks during an address to a state
wide convention of the American Legion of Georgia in
Columbus. (UPI)
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Rusk says
trip could
ease tension
ATLANTA (UPI) - Former
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
believes President Nixon’s visit
to Peking could open up a new
ear of eased world tensions.
“We may be moving into a
period where things can be
talked out a little more
dearly,” Rusk, once a staunch
opponent of U.S. recognition of
Red China, said in an interview
in Saturday’s Atlanta Constitu
tion.
“In a nuclear world, two big
countires like mainland China
and the United States ought to
have regular channels of con
tact with each other, even
though there may be some im
portant points on which they
disagree. I don’t see much point
in not having those relations,”
said Rusk, who served as sec
retary of state for eight years
during the administrations of
Presidents Kennedy and John
son.
He said those administrations
foiled in establishing relations
with China “partly because” of
internal troubles in China.
Rusk said he thinks Nixon’s
announcement may be a step
toward admission of China to
the United Nations, but he de
dined to speculate on what ef
fect it could have on a possible
peace settlement in Vietnam or
the fate of the Nationalist
Chinese government on Taiwan.
“That’s one of the big ques
tions that is on people’s minds.
But I just don’t have the
answer to it,” Rusk said. “I
have not been in touch with
anybody at all in Washington.
I don’t know what has been go
ing on behind the scenes.”
Rusk said he hopes “it opens
up a new chapter in world af
fairs. We just don’t know yet.
So many things depend on what
happens next and how the talks
go. I thought it was a good
idea.”
Rusk, a native of Cherokee
County, Ga., and now a profes
sor of international law at the
University of Georgia, recalled
the bitterness that existed be
tween the U.S. and Red China
after the Communist takeover
22 years ago.