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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, December 26, 1972
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Harry S Truman:
Topnotcher
It was just over a quarter-century ago
that the heavy mantle of the presidency
fell unexpectedly upon the shoulders of a
little-known vice-president. A nation al
leady mourning the deaths of thousands of
its young men on battlefields around the
world now grieved for the commander-in
chief and wondered what the future held.
There were few on April 15, 1945, the day
Franklin D. Roosevelt died, who thought
that Harry S Truman, one-time captain
of artillery, ex-haberdasher, former county
judge and U.S. senator, would be little
more than a caretaker president.
The fighting in Europe was almost over;
the collapse of Japan could only be a mat
ter of months. Truman would merely pre
side over the conclusion of a war already
won and fill out the remainder of FDR’s
fourth term while Americans went back,
once more, to “normalcy.”
Surely there was no one that day who
could foresee that the crises that were to
come in the next few years would be as
grave and as challenging as any in our his
tory, that Harry S Truman would be faced
with some of the most difficult and far
reaching decisions any president ever had
to make, that he would win a surprising
election to the presidency in his own right
and would again find himself leading the
nation in war.
Within four months after fate thrust
him into world leadership, Harry Truman
addressed the first meeting of the United
Nations in San Francisco, met with Stalin
at Potsdam and made the historic deci
sion to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
Within a year, a new kind of war—the
Cold War—was a reality. In 1947, Truman
announced his Truman Doctrine and sent
aid to Greece and Turkey to fight and
“contain” communism, which had already
swallowed Eastern Europe.
The sl2-billion Marshall Plan to rebuild
Western Europe was but the beginning of
the nation's vast, worldwide foreign aid
program.
At h o m e, inflation, strikes, influence
peddling scandals and a Republican Con
gress gave Harry Truman little rest in of
fice.
Had he been retired in 1948, as everyone
expected, Truman would still have left an
indelible mark on American history. But
against all the odds, he won another term
almost singlehandedly, with his own pat
ented brand of gutty, give-’em-hell cam
paigning.
Then, in 1949, came the Berlin blockade,
Russia’s explosion of its first atomic bomb,
the Communist take-over in China. NATO,
the Allied military alliance, was born.
In 1950: Communist North Korea’s in
vasion of South Korea and Truman’s deci
sion to commit American troops. Then,
the Chinese intrusion into the war, the
clash with MacArthur, the military stale
mate that cast a shadow over his last
years in office.
Looking back now from our position
of economic prosperity at home and a fair-
Iv stabilized East-West power balance
abroad, we can judge the decisions that
were made and the actions that were taken
and not taken between 1945 and 1953.
We can see mistakes, but we can also
see triumphs.
Not the least triumph was the fact that
Harry Truman, the most ordinary of
Americans, had the capacity to rise, first,
above the machine politics of Missouri to
become an able senator serving the entire
nation with his War Profits Committee
and, later, to meet the challenge of the
presidency in a manner that strengthened
the entire free world.
Harry S Truman—whistle-stopping, Re
publican-baiting, letter-writing, piano-play
ing, helling-and-damning, peppery Harry
S Truman There was always a little o's
the pugnacious ward politician in him. But
where it counted, behind that lonely desk
in the White House where the sign said,
"The buck stops here,” he ranked with the
best of them.
griffin
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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 26,
the 361st day of 1972 with five
to follow.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus and Mars.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Capricorn.
Adm. George Dewey, the
American naval hero of Manila,
was born Dec. 26, 1837.
On this day in history:
In 1865, James Nason of
Franklin, Mass., was awarded
a patent for the invention of a
coffee percolator.
In 1917, the federal govern
ment took over operation of the
nation’s railroads for the
duration of World War I.
In 1941, Winston Churchill
became the first British prime
minister to address a joint
session of the U.S. Congress.
A thought for the day: British
novelist George Eliot said,
“Blessed is the man who, with
nothing to say, abstains from
giving in words evidence of that
fact.”
BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
Even the most fleet of foot
can’t run away from them
selves.
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Why does the gal in front
of us at the bank invariably
turn in her savings—a penny
at a time?
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An optimist is a man
approaching a revolving
door while carrying three
hat boxes.
THOUGHTS
“A new commandment I
give to you, that you love
one another; even as I have
loved you, that you also love
one another. By this all men
will know you are my dis
ciples, if you have love for
one another.”—John 13:34,
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A special thanks this day after Christ
mas to those who worked at essential jobs
on the holiday so the rest of us could enjoy
it safely.
Thank you, officers of the law, firemen,
doctors and nurses and hospital staff.
Thank you, the people who kept the
telephones operating, and the electricity
The establishment
The following editorial appeared last
week, but several words were left out
through mechanical error, so we are
repeating it today:
Several news stories have been in the
paper these past few days before
Christmas about one industry and another
paying Christmas bonuses and employe
benefits.
Dundee Mills which is the largest in
Griffin announced, for example, $117,000 as
a service bonus to employes. One
The day itself has come and gone, and
we are left with the afterglow of Christ
mas.
For most, the actual day was one of love
and tenderness, of gifts freely and lovingly
given. Mostly it was a happy time for
families and for friends. Above all was its
religious implication.
Soon the tinsel will go back on the shelf
where it will remain for another year. The
President Nixon is letting the new
Congress know that he is prepared to use
the full breadth of his executive powers to
pursue a policy of fiscal restraint and to
prevent exaggerated federal deficits from
feeding inflation. His announced freeze on
high-level government salaries may be
more of a psychological tactic than one
with a significant impact on the budget.
Coupled with a temporary halt on hiring
and promotion and a pruning of the White
House staff, it shows that the President
wants to make his own bailiwick a show
case of what the rest of government at all
levels can accomplish.
Every year increasing numbers of little
children participate in the Griffin Daily
News Coloring Contest. This year 485 took
part, and we wish that every one of them
could have won.
The paper’s other Cristmas specialty is
publishing letters to Santa Claus, and this
No limitation
to Christ’s gospel
I am a widow, living on a small Social
Security check, and I get mail from four
different eveangelists. All their literature
asks readers for financial support each
month. Right now, our church is in debt,
and my question is — since the money is
needed so badly here at home, wouldn’t
God be more pleased if I give it here rather
than elsewhere, where it’s not so needed?
R.A.
The Bible statement in Acts 1:8,
established for all time, that the work of
Christ’s Gospel has no geographic limita
tion. When the disciples were there being
given the power to witness, it was to begin
in their own back yard of Jerusalem, and
then radiate out to the “uttermost part of
the earth”.
This means that no one man or organiza
tion has a corner on the spiritual market.
Thank you
Afterglow
Prudence
1,069
flowing, and the water moving through the
pipes. Thank you who worked on am
bulances, and with wreckers and in other
emergency capacities.
And thank you, all you others, who
worked at other tasks which serve your
fellow man.
paragraph in the story said, “This service
bonus, holiday pay, and Dundee Em
ployees’ Christmas Club will be respon
sible for more than $490,000 to the economy
of the area during the holiday season.”
It is noteworthy that Dundee and other
establishments and their managements
are substantial parts of the very
“establishment” which some people try to
run-down, to condemn, and to use as
whipping boys in their efforts to rabble
rouse.
tree will dry and be placed at the curb to be
picked up by the Sanitary Department, or
outside the city it will be thrown into the
woods to rot away.
Still, there is the afterglow to carry with
us throughout the coming year. We will
have the memories and the joys, and we
hope sincerely that this year’s were the
best you ever have had, and that 1973’s will
be even better.
From the start Mr. Nixon’s challenge
was to make his economic program
credible and effective without forming a
heavy-handed bureaucracy to administer
it. He has succeeded in that With a
modification of wage and price controls
hopefully ahead, we can anticipate the
rare experience of seeing the federal
government relinquish powers it has
assumed. With a policy of strict adherence
to budget realities emanating from the
White House, we may yet see the day when
the U. S. government sets an example of
prudence rather than extravagance.
year we printed 584 of them. Together, the
coloring contest entries and the letters to
Santa total 1,069. It was a real privilege to
help these children enjoy the Christmas
season.
We plan to repeat both the contest and
the letters to Santa next year.
MY
ANSWER ,J!
Goa uses people as and when He pleases. 1
believe every Christian has a respon
sibility in the local church, and then
beyond that, the wider ministry of
evangelism and missions. It would seem
wrong to single out one or the other for
exclusive support, when our Lord said
“the field is the world”.
I don’t doubt that with today’s rising
costs and inflationary pressures, most
Christian enterprises do need more
money. In addition, if they have an
aggressive vision, they ought to be ever
expanding and enlarging their program.
Os course, with all this, should go
adequate accounting procedures, and the
utmost integrity in the handling of money.
Know something? If every Christian
were to practice Bible principles of
stewardship, that is giving 10 percent of
income, we’d have more than enough for
everyone.
BEfIRV’S WORLD l[
© 1972 by NEA.
"Golly, that's WONDERFUL! You mean, we have moved
from an age of anxiety to an age of fear, and I didn't
even know it?"
L. M. BOYD
About Women
In Pantsuits
Only one woman in 100 looks attractive from the back in
pants. That’s the claim of Antonio Canova del Castillo, a fashion
designer of some prestige. It’s his claim that history’s most fam
ous women, the ladies who ruined men, all wore bulky enormous
gowns that concealed their figures.
WHEN the United Nations’ charter was signed in 1945,
just about half of the member countries were democracies. To
day, fewer than a third are. Most of the world is run by dictators,
sir.
AMONG his several observations about married men, the
great Balzac said, “The majority of husbands remind me of an
orangutan trying to play the violin.”
IN every 100 persons aged 18 or over, 72 are married, 12 are
widowed or divorced, and 16 are single.
PERSONAL NOTE
Where 1 live in the country the coffee tastes a lot better. This
water well runs deep. Took a half hour walk yesterday afternoon
down the old lake road. With Molly, the pup. No car passed. A
kid could ride a Christmas bike here. Now that winter feeding is
on, the black cows, insolent and imperious, come up to the fence
to bellow. All right, ladies, pretty soon. The goats bleat. The
wind picks up. Think it’s the wind that makes the funny feeling
on the back of the neck, but maybe it’s the faraway ripping noise,
a chain saw somewhere. Names around here are like trite old
truths. Across the way, the Williams’ place. Down the road the
Johnson's place. Fresh egg signs and stocker calves. Hay for
sale. Exhultation is mine own shotgun blast from the porch at
sundown, no law against that. I like it here.
GIRLS WITH GLASSES
Q. “In his claim that glasses tend to change a girl’s person
ality completely, your Love and War man was all wet!”
A. He meant martini glasses. Eyeglasses only tend to change
a girl’s personality slightly.
Q. “WHEN did the U. S. Navy stop flogging sailors?”
A. About a dozen years before the Civil War.
Q. “OF ALL the new babies, what proportion are born to
unwed mothers?"
A. About seven out of every 100.
IT WAS IN 1819 that some imaginative fellow attributed
that widely known allergy to new mown hay, so termed it "hay
fever." And it was in 1866 that the English physician Dr. Charles
H. Blakeley proved pollen, not hay, to be its cause. Still, more
than 100 years later, the hay fever misnomer sticks.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd, P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth, TX 76102.
Copyright 1972 L. M. Boyd
TIMELY QUOTES
We've made progress. But
it’s only a battle and the war
continues ... As long as
there are hundreds of thou
sands of people in the United
States willing to buy drugs
with millions of dollars, no
police in the world can end
the traffic.
—Marcel Morin, chief of the
Marseilles, France, nar
cotics squad, on efforts to
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“I DID stick to my diet, and all I lost was sleep!”
end the “French connec
tion” in international drug
traffic.
Not even in the days when
Nikita Khrushchev was talk
ing about coexistence would
anyone have guessed that
U.S.-Soviet relations would
ever be so good.
—Alvin J. Cottrell, Soviet
affairs specialist at
Georgetown University.