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Volume 48.
NEWS REPORT FROM WASHINGTON
U. S. Underestimates USSR—
A Need For Speed—
-1 ax Revenues To Fall—
No Tax Cut Possible—
WASHINGTON. Dec., 4 The
considered opinion of many ex
perts is that the present Admin
istration is continuing to underesti
mate the capacity o fthe Soviet
Union in the defense and missiles
fields while not making the effort
for speed, central direction and
prosecution of an all-out program
which recent revelations indicate
desirable.
There are grumblings on Capitol
Hill that the Administration still
has no missiles czar. Dr. James
Killian has no real overriding pow
er. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy
is new. The three services are still
at loggerheads on certain points
in the defense and missiles pro
gram.
Meanwhile, with the need for
speed urgent if Russians is far
ahead of us as many famous auth
orities believe, we are not even
evaluating the Russian progress in
various scientific fields thoroughly.
One report states that thousands
of USSR scientific reports are col
lecting dust on the shelves of the
Library of Congress.
The reason is that we do not
have the translators nor the pro
gram to keep informed and up-to
date on the latest advances of Rus
sian scientists. Yet the Government
and industry are currently spend
ing money to discover the answers
which have already been found by
the Russians—and reported on in
their many technical publications.
The Russians, on the other hand,
maintain a centralized clearing
house were a large staff evaluates
and translates American scientific
papers and it is said that Russian
scientists are often better informed
on the latest achievements of U. S.
scientists than the majority of
American scientists.
In short, we are underestimating
the Russian program in both its
scope, efficiency and scientific pro
gress. And time will not work for
the United States until we begin
to catch up. This, many believe,
will require an urgent centrally
controlled program and a better
monitoring of scientific achieve
ments in the USSR.
Foreingers who have recently vis
ited the U. S., such as Aneurin
Bevan, say the attitude of America
is “feverish’ but that direction is
lacking. This is, perhaps, more
than idle talk.
Several states have already notic
ed that their tax revenue has be
gun to fall. In Connecticut a ten
per cent cut in expenses has been
ordered by the Governor, in an ef
fort to keep the state budget out
of the red. Other states have also
noticed the trend.
It is almost certain that federal
taxes will reveal the same trend
and that collections are likely to
be lower than were at first antici
pated. One source says the Feder
al Government will really feel the
current business recession in April,
when first and final payments
come in from many businesses.
With the farmer having been in
a recession for years now, the Ad
ministration must keep industry
humming to maintain a stable eco
nomy. Any recession in the indus
trial sphere leaves only higher de
fense spending to prop the eco
nomy at it threatens to adjust af
ter a long inflationary spiral.
In the face of this bleak pros
pect just about all hope ol a tax
cut is now out of the window.
Those who felt early this year that
if they did not vote a tax cut then
it would be many years in coming
were right. But these Senators and
Congressmen migh now be glad
they didn’t push through a decrease
unless they feel (and some do)
that a tax cut would stimulate
business and eventually bring in
more revenue.
Important Notice
There will be a Chamber of Com
merce meeting Friday night Dec
ember 6, at the Community House
for the election of Officers for the
ensuing year.
MACK ROPER, President
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY 4> CITY OF CUM MING
OUTVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Waiting List Grows
For Crippled Children
Clinic Services
Higher treatment costs in Geor
gia’s state-operated crippled child
ren’s clinics, combined with more
types of treatment being offered,
are causing more children to join
the waiting list for services each
year.
With treatment costs outrunning
a budget that was once considered
sufficient, crippled children by the
hundreds are being turned down
annually.
This announcement comes from
the Georgia Department of Public
Health, whose crippled children’s
clinics are located in Atlanta, Al
bany, Augusta, Cordele, Waycross,
Savannah, Columbus, Thomasville
and Macon. The clinics serve child
ren whose parents are unable to
pay the expense of treatment some
times requiring several years and
thousands of dollars. The clinics
attempt to create future useful
citizens out of partially or totally
helpless children. Children are re
ferred to them by physicians thru
local health departments.
In 10 years, said Dr. Thomas F.
Sellers, state health director, the
number of children served has in
creased nearly sevenfold— from
about 1000 in 1946 to nearly 7000
in 1956. Yearly expenditures mean
while have increased only slightly
more than three fold —from $300.-
000 to $1,000,000. This means less
spent per child for more expensive
treatment.
The need is so acute and so far
beyond current resources, said Dr.
Sellers, that to take care of the
most urgent cases additional funds
jwill be needed. For instance, there
| are children with rheumatic heart
i disease whose lives could be saved
and brought to normal if treatment
can get to them soon enough.
“We are happy,” said Dr. Sellers,
“that Governor Griffin has express
ed great interest in the matter and
has indicated that he hopes it will
be possible to provide additional
funds."
Costs have skyrocketed for sev
eral reasons.
The desire to take medical care
nearer the patient has meant the
opening of new clinic centers at
an increased cost* of equipment,
personnel and travel.
More comprehensive treatment
requires payment of fees to pedi
atricians, psychologists, physical
therapists and speech therapists.
Rehabilitation now extends be
yond medical correction to include
help in adjustment to environment.
Costs of braces and other appli
ances are affected by changes in
steel costs and hourly wages.
The better care now offered
means good publicity, with more
parents naturally interested in
bringing children to the clinics.
The waiting list for surgery is
600, and over 200 for plastic sur
gery. Other children are awaiting
care for rheumatic fever, severe
crippling burns, apilepsy, hearing
defects, and brain or nerve defects.
Organizations helping the Health
Department share the burden in
caring for crippled children are
the National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis, the Elks’ Aidmore
Hospital, the Scottish Rite Hospital
the Muscular Dystrophy Associa
tion, the United Cerebral Palsy of
Georgia, Inc., and the Georgia So
ciety for Crippled Children and
Adults.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
TAX PAYERS
All Tax Payers who believe in
everyone paying some tax not
just some of us pay all the taxes
Contact we at once.
Howard M. Holland
The Administration is proposing
to open a campaign to educate the
American people to the need for
scientific education and research.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Dec., sth, 1957.
DECEMBER 7TH
On Saturday, December 7th, it
will have been sixteen years to the
day since the Japanese naval air
| force assaulted Pearl Harbor. At
|this very moment, the sunken hulk
of the Arizona, some of it still pro
jecting above the water, flies the
jU. S. flag and the lapping of the
i waves on the rusting metal and the
tinkle of the metal on the flagpole
rope are the only sounds to be
heard on the spot.
Ironically, with World War II
only twelve years distant, the Unit
ed States is again faced with a
[critical international situation. It
seems that international wars are
occuring more frequently.
When World War I erupted in
Europe, in August 1914, the world
had experienced several scores of
years without worldwide conflict.
Twenty-one years elapsed between
[world War I and World War 11.
j Now, with twelve years having
elapsed since the end of World
War 11, there are those who won
der if another nine years will pass
without war.
The question may be answered
by what the United States accom
plishes in the missiles, rockets and
general defense fields between now
nd then.
It is interesting to note, incident
ally, that the anniversary of the
adoption of our Federal Constitu
tion by Delaware - the first state
to approve the document falls
on December 7th and the day was
observed for years by the Sons of
the Delaware and the D. A. R.
Thus, December 7th has a double
historical significance for all Ameri
cans.
It is well to remember that Dec
ember has been a tough month in
the history of this country and
that ordeals and trials have been
successfully borne by Americans.
Washington encamped at Valley
■Forge on December 19, 1777 (he
was to die on another December
day, Decembebr 12, 1799) and after
what was perhaps the most peri
lous winter of our country’s exist
ence, the Army, Washington and
the United States survived.
Americans in 1957 (and this in
cludes officials in Washington)
must not fail to demonstrate the
same determination, will power and
perseverance shown by another
generation of Americans at Valley
Forge in 1777 and at Pearl Harbor,
in 1941 to meet the Communists
threat facing us so squarely today.
4,C00,000 Unemployed
The recession, which is being
arggued back and forth by so
many economists, is already upon
us. The very fact that the Govern
ment has reduced interest rates,
in a move to loosen up money,
shows that Washington knows it.
Industrial production dropped to
a point in October which is the
lowest it has reached since June
of 1956 Partly because of this,
unemployment is expected to top
the 4,000,000 mark in the next few
months.
Compared to this prospect, it is
interesting to note that the peak
in unemployment totaled 3,200,000
last winter. Despite these and other
signs, chances are very good that
a major recession is no' in the
making.
Were it not for the fact that
Government spending is expected
to increase and for other encour
aging signs, such as a increased
rate of housing starts, the reces
sion might become severe. This is
true because nothing is being done
to solve the farm problem, which
must be settled eventually if gen
uine prosperity is to return to the
country.
Nevertheless, increased Govern
ment spending, lower interest rates
and widespread building activity,
plus other factors, indicate that the
recession now underway will not
be a prolonged one. In fact, many
economists look for its end latte
in 1958.
Judging from the past, the event
usually occurs ahead of the fore
cast. In other words, if the gener
al prediction is for an end to the
recession late in 1958, there is a
good chance that the recession will
come to an end a little earlier.
United Air Lines orders twenty
one jets.
People Confused By
liOP National
F’olicies Herman
ATLANTA (GPS) Since coming
home to spend the Congressional
recess at his Lovejoy farm, U. S.
Senator Herman E. Talmadge has
seized on every opportunity to tell
i his fellow Georgians what he
thinks is wrong in official Wash
ington. In speech after speech, he
has given a firsthand report on (he
national scene as he has viewed it
as a member of the Senate.
For example, in a recent speech
at the Athens Kiwanis Club's
"Farm and City Week” observance
he declared "present national poli
cies have led to confusion... .and
have failed the American people.”
Then he said:
“What the American people are -
getting today is a far cry from
what they were promised in 1952.
We were promised a ‘new look' in
Washington. Instead, we have been
given more and more of the same
old failures and more and more
of the same old shrotcomings.
"We were promised economy and
an end to useless boondoggling in
the federal establishment. Instead,
we have witnessed unparalleled
waste and a continuation of extra
vagent spending policies. Essential
governmental programs have suf
fered as a result.
"A solemn pledge was made to
the people in the 1952 campaign
that the cost of living would be
‘stabilized’ and that we would have
a ‘sound’ dollar. Yet, year-by-year,
those who must live on fixed in
comes have seen this wasteful
spending in Washington eat away
at their savings and reduce the pur
chasing power of their anticipated
retirement income.”
Talmadge said “the simple truth,’
which we must recognize, is that
<*:ur., present h 'idget itself is in
flationary. It is unwieldy, unrealis
tic and much of the money expend
ed thereby is unproductive of good
for our own people or for our
national defense.”
Soil Conservation
District News
JAMES T COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
A group of businessmen and
farmers from the Tobesofkee Wat
ershed near Macon, Georgia were
visitors in the Settingdown Creek
Watershed recently. The group was
particularly interested in how soil
and water conservation was being
carried on by landowners in the
local watershed. Observations were
made of land treatment on the
farms of E. P. Riley and G. W.
Bragg in the Silver City and Oak
Grove areas. Critical area treat
ment, a part of land treatment,
was observed on the farms of Mar
vin Wallis, Willard Chastain and
Aaron Bartenfeld in the Hopewell
Church area. The flood-retarding
dam on the Aaron Bartenfield,
channel excavation and stabiliza
tion on the farms of Beela Munda
and Landrum Tallant were observ
ed. The tour ended at the Matt
Bridge where observations were
made of brushing and snagging on
Settingdown Creek as it passed
through the Joel Heard farm.
Plans are being made by the
District for two more flood-retard
ing dams in the Settingdown Creek
Watershed. One will be located on
the west fork of Yellow Creek and
the other one will be located on
the east fork of Yellow Creek.
A. R. Housley, near Gumming
has planted two acres of pine seed
lings.
Rena Martin and Emory Martin,
norteast of Coal Mt. have complet
ed a small farm pond.
Miss Nelle Thrash, food preser
vationist, Agricultural Extension
Service, says foods must be in the
best condition else they are not
worth freezing.
County Population 15,000.
CAPITAL IS SPECULATING ON
NEW MAN AT THE HELM
By Edward 11. Sims
Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 Presi
dent Eisenhower’s illness is by far
the most disquieting news since
Russia announced it was firing
earth satellites into outer space
and the mood in Washington is a
pessimistic one.
Perhaps the reason for possi
mism is that this is the third seri
ous illness the President has en
countered in approximately two
years. And being a blood clot, it
stems from the causes that pro
are those who think this is the
duce heart attacks. Therefore, there
gravest indication of failing health
yet evident in the President.
Speculation swirling around Cap
itol Hill includes the beliel that
the President is heading into a
period such as that experienced
when Woodrow Wilson went into
declining health in his second term
as President. Naturally, if this is
the case, the question of Vice Presi
dent Nixon's role arises.
Needless to say, there are both
Nixon boosters and detractors in
Washington, but most Democrats
prefer Mr. Eisenhower to the Vice
President. Nixon at one time was
considered a sort of progressive
conservative but now he is con
sidered by conservative Democrats
as a radical and by leftwing De
mocrats as an opportunist politi
cian.
As this is written, criticism is
being leveled at the White House
news staff for its tardy and in
complete reports on the Presidents*
health. In the case of Mr. Eisen
hower’s heart attack in 1955, first
reports indicated that the trouble
was something else entirely and
only slowly, with each new com
munique hours apart, did the pub
lic get the full storyy.
This time history repeated itself.
The President was said to have
j suffered a chill. Then a strange
j announcement said his illness was
| being re-evaluated. Then it was
| said he had suffered a blood clot
[in a blood carrier going into the
j brain
Only slowly did the seriousness
of the event reach the public.
Whatever is said, or denied, the
President's illness is certain to !
have an effect on business, and on I
all branches of the government.
And despite what some may hope,
the trend of opinion seems to be
that the President should not go
on filling the toughest job in the
world. (There were many who said
he should not have run.)
Just what will develop is a ques
tion but both Democrats and Re
publicans are speculating widely
about the serious effects this new
illness of the President's will have
on the lives of every American.
Mr. John D. Gunter
Age 41, Dies In Atlanta
Saturday, Nov. 30
Funeral services were held Mon
day December 2, at Sugar Hill
Baptist Church, with Rev. Clyde
Raines and Rev. Jesse Hayes offi
ciating.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
T. W. Gunter of Cumming.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. '
Iva Lee Gunter, Atlanta; three
daughters, Mrs. Hugh Hudgins of
Buford, Mrs. James Robinson of
Jonesboro, Miss Wilma Gunter of
Atlanta; four sons, William, Alvin,
Walter and Gerald Gunter, all of
Atlanta; parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. W. Gunter, Cumming, one sister
Mrs. Nellie Sudderth, Cumming,
three brothers, Sgt. Blake Gunter
U. S. Army; Early and Gene Gun
ter both of Cumming; two grand
children.
HOBO SUPPER
There will be a HOBO SUPPER
and CAKE SALE at Ducktown
School December 7 from 5:30 Til?
Adults 75c; Children 50c. Proceeds
to go for the Heating System. The
supper is being sponsored by the
P. T. A. Come and enjoy yourself.
Mantle is voted the most valu
, able player for second time in a
i row.
Number 49.
THE BIBLE: GOD
REVEALING HIM
SELF TO MAN
I)r. John It. Sampoy, Professor
of Old Testament, at The Southern
Seminary use to say that the
Bible is an inclined plane, slop
ing upward through the eentur.es
until the Coming of Christ. Jesus
Christ was the complete and final
revelation of God to man. lust as
you start teaching a child with
pictures and objects in the home
and then in the school and church,
he learns bit by bit until he has
knowledge and wisdom, so God
began to teach the Nation of Isreal
and, through the Prophets of Is
rael, fhe whole world. Hebrews 1 :
1 2. Moffott's translation. "Many'
were the forms and fashions in
which God spoke of old to our
fathers by the Prophets, but in
these days at the end he has spok
en to us by a son a son whom he
appointed heir of the universe, as
it was by him that he created the
world.
The sacrifices of animals and
many other types and symbols
were used speaking through the
Prophets God began tot reveal
himself to man. Mankind was slow
in learning, but through the pal
ience of God he continued to reveal
himself to man by men like Abra
ham. Man made many blunders,
they had many false ideas of God.
The writters of the Old Tetament
used many anthropomorphic ex
pressions (speaking of God as a
man). People of that time had
many false ideas that had to be
corrected. Through the centuries
God continued to reveal himself
until Christ came to earth in the
form of flesh to reveal God to
man fully. Jesus said, “He that
both seen me both seen the Fath
er".
Yes the people in Old Testament
times had incomplete knowledge
and made many errors, but all
through those centuries the Pro
phices were pointing to Christ. In
the fullness of time Christ came.
The false conceptions and low
standards of living among many
peoples of the Old Testament times
were revealed by Christ as he set
higher standards and perfected the
plan of redemption that God had
made before the world was creat
ed. The supreme revelation of God
to man is in Jesus Christ, God's
only begotten son.
W. R. CALLAWAY
Cluttered Highways
One notices, especially in travel
ing in areas where modern and
beautiful highways are enjoyed,
that too many of our highways
in this country are cluttered and
congested with billboard signs, and
so on, hugging the roadside and
distracting the beauty of nature
land constituting an eyesore.
Visitors to the United States
have long pointed to this over
commercialization along our high
ways. Partly as a result of this
and partly as a result of efforts
begun in the United State, many
of our new highways are being
allowed to ruin the scenery along
the roadside.
In addition, access roads are
clearly marked by signs, which
tell the motorist where he can
stop for gas, or lodging or dining.
These signs are uniform and do
not mention brand or trade names,
but merely point to the access
road which leads from the high
way to the commercial establish
ment or establishments.
We are in favor of this trend
in highway construction. Nature
provides many beauties, not the
least of which is a panorama of
the countryside. Motorists who can
get out on the highway and enjoy
the countryside and the unmatched
views of the rolling hills and
| streams and vegetation absorb
some of the benefits they would
get in a walk through the woods,
i When the view is constantly ob-.
structed by commercialization and
advertising, this is lost.
The United States is seen to be
lagging in nuclear physics.