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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, OCTOBER 30, 1952.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS
THROUGHOUT GEORGIA
Seven were injured in a head-on
auto crash Monday near Woodland.
Cordele will hold its first Fat
Calf Show and Sale tomorrow. i
Kline Weatherford, special
agent in charge of the FBI’s At
lanta office, has announced that
a FBI law enforsement conference
on auto theft problems is schedul
ed for Gainesville, Nov. 6, sponsor
ed by Sheriff C. W. Wilson, Hall
county and Chief of Police Hoyt
Henry of Gainesville. Similar con
ferences are planned for Newnan
and Albany.
The 28th highway fatality in
Bibb county for the year was re
corded Monday.
Week-end highway accidents
killed five persons in Georgia and
six in Alabama.
Three Clayton county farmers
were jailed after mass family
shooting ^Monday.
The highways of Georgia it is
said will cost the tax payers of the
State $49,175,261 for the year.
William M. Amos, 69, life-long
resident of Columbus and retired
Columbus florist, died Monday.
The semi-annual session, Marion
superior court is being held this
week at Buena Vista, Judge T. H.
Fort presiding. I
Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Eubanks,
greatly beloved Ellaville couple
celebrated their 52nd wedding an
niversary Sunday.
Mrs. Anna V. Pease, one of Co
lumbus best known and most be
loved women, celebrated her 89th
birthday Tuesday.
Mrs. E. P. Sappington, member
of a well-known Upson county
family, died Monday in the Grif
fin hospital after a brief illness.
A county-wide search is on in
Upson county for a fugitive with
arsenal, and, who it is said, de
clared he would never be taken
alive.
James Newsome, retired vice-
president of Callaway Mills at La-
Grange, died Sunday. He had
been in ill health for more than a
year.
The 166th annual session of the
Grand Lodge of Masons of Georgia
met in Macon Tuesday and Wed
nesday with between 2,000 and 3,-
000 member-Masons present.
Jesse LaFayette Free of Baldwin,
Ga., who celebrated the past week
end his 108th birthday expressed
only scorn for those who worry, es
pecially about living a long time.
It was said yesterday that the
Chaettahoochee Valley Homemakers
would join 325,000 other youngsters
in the resl of the nation in observ
ing Nation FHA Week next week.
21-year-old Mrs. Mary Ann Truitt
employee of the International Asso
ciation of Machinists, of Decatur,
faces charges of forging more than
S2,000 in checks against her em
ployees.
1 Funeral for J. B. McCarty, who
died at his home at Cedartown
Monday following a long illness,
was conducted yesterday at the
grave side in Beaver church ceme
tery, Crawford County.
Butler school youngsters, number
ing several hundred, helped to
6well the 100,000 persons said to
have passed through the gates of
the Georgia State Fair at Macon
last week. The session concluded
Saturday.
It is said that plans for Colum
bus’ annual Armistice Day parade
at 10 am. Nov. 11, were formulated
this week at a meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce, civilian or
ganizations, and military person
nel.
Schools and other groups in Geor
gia who want help in selecting a
plan for production orwho need ad
vice on nailing a set together or
sewing up a costume can get that
help now free for the asking from
the University of Georgia.
It is said that hope for an early’
settlement of the dispute that has
interrupted Columbus bus service
for the past four weeks, received a
serious jolt the first of the week
when the union rejected a new of
fer from the Columbus Transporta
tion Co.
The Cordray’s Mill Hotel at Cairo
landmark for scores of years, was
destroyed by fire one night last
week. Firemen from Edison and the
Calhoun County Forestry’ Depart
ment fought in vain to save the
historic two-story hotel which was
being used as an apartment house.
Maj. Thurlo Tollefson, head of the
science department at Georgia Mili
tary College, Milledgeville has an
nounced that the Visual Education
Program for the military school is
in full operation this fall. The
Georgia State Department of Edu
cation maintains a film lending
library. These films are furnished
free of charge to the schools of
Georgia.
It is said that thousands of copies
of a letter Judge T. Hicks Fort of
Columbus wrote, taking the nation
al Democratic Party to" task are be
ing distributed over Georgia by
the Georgia Committee of Citizens
for Eisenhower. The letter, written
by Judge Fort to National Demo
cratic Chairman Steve A. Mitchell,
was printed in its entirety by the
Atlanta committee and is being
«ent to clubs over the state.
i Out-of-state: After a week-long!
strike, soft coal miners went back |
to work Monday. A six-inch fain \
hit Miami, Fla. area Monday. Thir-1
.ty minutes after she married Jack!
Franklin, 36, Mrs. Ruth Merrell j
I Franklin, 33, of Knoxville, Tenn., j
Monday sought anullment of the!
marriage. An Indiana farmer pro- i
fers staying in jail rather than
pay $8.00 per week to support his
minor son. Worst forest fire in j
( years reported in Tennessee thei
past week. Warnings of storm and
lower temperature are issued at Mi
ami.
FOR SALE
115-Acre farm known as the JOHN ALLEN CARTER
FARM, located 18 miles north-west of Butler on U. S.
Highway No. 80. Price $10,000.00. Home could not be
replaced for $15,000.00. Two wells, three barns. Two
tenant houses in bad need of repair. All land under fence,
pastures now keeping- up fifty head of cattle.
Contact:
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' ROY HARRIS HAS
CHANGE OF MIND
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Augusta, Ga., Oct. 26—Roy Har
ris,, Augusta politician, is going to
vote for the Democrats in the Nov.
4 presidential election and ‘‘hope
for the best.”
C. B. KING
Americus, Ga.
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on Super Quality
LAYING MASH
ABSOLUTELY
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E. F. PARR ESTATE
Reynolds, Ga.
IN THE COUNTY UNIT AMENDMENT
TO BE VOTED ON IN THE
GENERAL ELECTION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1952
WHY ALL THE HULLABALOO TO
DESTROY THE COUNTY UNIT PLAN?
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Here Are The FACTS!
Tuesday, November 4, 1952, is the date of the most im
portant General Election ever held in Georgia history.
On this date Georgians will vote on a president and 46
proposed amendments to the State Constitution. All of them
, are good, arc needed and carry the sponsorship of Gov.
Herman Talmadge and his administration.
By far the most vital of these amendments to the future
welfare of the State is the County Unit Amendment which
will appear as No. 1 on the General Election ballot. You
can vote for this and other amendments by placing an (X)
in the parenthesis marked “FOR” by the side of each
amendment.
WHAT IS THE
COUNTY UNIT AMENDMENT?
It simply writes the county unit system for primary elec
tions only, exactly as now contained in the statute law of
the State, into the Constitution as a part of our basic law.
OUR GENERAL ELECTION REMAINS ON A PURE
LY POPULAR VOTE BASIS AS IT HAS IN THE PAST.
Amendment No. 1 further provides that all political par
ties desiring to nominate candidates which are elected state
wide must select them in a state primary held on a county
unit basis. This procedure is identical to that being fol
lowed by the Democratic Party of Georgia today.
This provision applies only to those officials who arc nomi
nated in a state-wide primary election. It absolutely docs
not affect Congressmen, Judges of Superior Courts, Judges
■) of County Courts, Solicitors-Gencral, County or any other
local officials.
This requirement prevents the hand-picking of party nomi
nees for state-wide offices. It guarantees the people all over
the State an effective voice in their selection. It removes
the temptation which bloc vote candidates now have, who
arc defeated in the primary, to dodge its results by offering
in the General Election where the county unit system does
not prevail.
Applying equally and uniformly to all political parties—
Democratic, Republican, Independent and otherwise, this
rule discriminates against no group or faction. It docs not
bar any candidate from running*in the General Election
provided he is nominated by the [leople in a state-wide pri
mary, conducted under the unit p|an. It docs not deter the
formation of political parties. On the other hand, it en
courages them. Political power and initiative is kept at the
grass roots where it belongs.
WHO IS SPONSORING IT?
Amendment No. 1 is a firm mandate of long standing of
the Democratic Party of Georgia. It springs directly from
the platforms of the winning candidates for governor in
1946, ’48, and ’50. It carries out the mandate of the party
as expressed in the platforms, unanimously adopted, by the
Conventions of 1946 and 1950.
WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF
THE COUNTY UNIT SYSTEM?
Our first governor of Georgia was elected by a council
composed of representatives from each county. The counties
each had one vote. That marked the beginning of our
present-day county unit system. Throughout the entire his-
-tory of the State, political power has been exerted exclu
sively through the counties as voting units just as our presi
dent has been elected by the states as voting units.
The president is elected by an electoral college identical
in principle to the county unit system. Three presidents have
been ejected who lost the popular vote yet only one gover
nor of Georgia has ever been nominated in the primary who
did not also win the popular vote.
Atlanta has nine wards varying in population from 20,000.
to 65,000 but each ward -has three representatives on the
City Council. Every State has two United States Senators
even in spite of the fact that New York has 100 times more
people than the little State of Nevada. The disparity, of
numerical influence here and in the examples above cited
is M great or greater than the so-called “arithmetic argu
ments” continually spouted out in a rhythmic sing-song by
opponents of the county unit amendment as between Fulton
county and some of Georgia’s other counties.
A Vote FOR Amendment No. 1 • Mixed Schools and Colleges 9 " Boss Rule
Vote A&A1 ' . w* County Consolidation • Organized Grime
This od sponsored by Democratic-Party-of Georgia and paid for fay friend* of Constitutional Government.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN GEORGIA
IF THIS CROWD IS SUCCESSFUL?
UIVEIb CfUAAl C The county unit system and Gov.
*"***"* **nwWJ Herman Talmadge arc the only
bulwarks protecting us against federal court enforced mix-
ing of the races in our grade schools and colleges in Georgia.
LawsuVs have recently been filed in Atlanta to destroy
segregation in the public schools there, while another suit
has been filed against the University Law School in Athens.
Notwithstanding this handwriting on the wall, the Atlanta
newspaper monopoly has not written one editorial word
against this effort to destroy our institutions.
Mayor Hartsfield, who is beholden to the bloc vote, has
not uttered a single word against them, even though his city
is the first to be directly affected. On the contrary, the
Atlanta mayor even invited and welcomed National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored People convention to
Atlanta last year, even though this is the organization which
is financing and bringing the lawsuits to force mixed schools
and colleges in Georgia.
The truth of the matter is, no one in Georgia was opposed
to the county unit system until the Federal Courts outlawed
our Democratic White Primary in 1946. Now, the whole
fight against the unit plan is led by a handful of pro-“civil
rights”, anti-segregation agitators wh.o want to further their
ends by concentrating all political power in the State in the
hands of 100,000 bloc voters in the Atlanta Metropolitan
area.
Those behind this movement are: The National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored People, the Communist
Party, the race-mixing Southern Regional Council, the CIO-
Political Action Committee and other inter-racial organiza
tions, aided and abetted by the Atlanta newspaper monopoly.
Without the unit system, the bloc vote in Atlanta, con
trolled by the above group, would dec.io'e all state-wide elec
tions, as well as keep the City of Atl.x.nu and Fulton County
in the iron vise of a death-like grip.
Under such a situation, a candidate for governor, United
States’ Senator or other Statehousc office could come into
Atlanta 75,000 votes ahead only to see this lead melted by
a withering avalanche of 100,000 bloc votes, even though
he may have carried every other county in the State, includ
ing Richmond, Bibb, Chatham, Muscogee, Troup and Floyd.
The bloc vote in the Atlanta area would reduce every other
county in the State from their present status of active and
effective representation to that of mere vassalage.
JUST WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
This Happened in Atlanta
And to cap the climax while the convention was in prog
ress the N.A.A.C.P. held a mixed dance in the Atlanta City
Auditorium witfc Hartsfield's approval and the full sanction
of the city administration.
DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN IN GEORGIA:
0 WILLIAM B. HARTSFIELD, Atlanta mayor, who
was not choice of white voters in last election, but who
owes his office to the bloc vote.
• AUSTIN T. WALDEN, Atlanta negro lawyer and S. E.
counsel for NAACP, which is conducting a South-wide fight
to breakdown segregation in schools and colleges.
• JAMES M. COX, Ohio owner of the Atlanta news
paper, radio and TV monopoly whose first order to his com
bine was to “get rid of the county unit system!”
• BAXTER JONES, JR., Atlanta lawyer and professor
of business law at Atlanta University, a negro cqUegc. Jones
teaches under Dr. Rufus Clement, who has been cited by
Cong. Committee for his “affiliations with communist-front
and subversive groups.”
• MORRIS B. ABRAM, Atl. Att’y, bosom pal of Jones.
Nat’l leader in World gov’t movement. (Atl. J’nl., Mar. 28,
’49), which, according to Cong. Record, “was created and
is dominated by Reds and fellow-travelers”.
• PHILIP G. HAMMER, Dir., Hartsfield’s Planning
Com. and author of much-touted “Plan of Improvement”;
bom in Phil., Pa. He came to Atl. from Wash., D.C. and is
listed as “Pres., Wash. Comm, of So. Conf. for Human Wel
fare; member Washington Bookshop”, both of which have
been exposed "ap Communist-fronts and cesspools of sub
version” by Comm, on Un-American Activities and Office
of the Att’y Gen.
• MRS. PHILIP G. HAMMER, Editor, GEORGIA
VOTER, official organ, League of Women Voters. Teaches
Philosophy at Spellman, a negro college.
• DAN POWELL, S.E. Dir. of CIO Political Action
Committee, which furnishes money for candidates and causes
that support jail sentence FEPC, abolition of segregation
and other anti-southern measures.
• MRS. M. E. TILLY, member of Pres. Truman’s civil
rights committee whose ’48 report forms basis for campaign
now underway to destroy our cherished institutions in the
South.
The scheming and planning of this handful of reformers (
constitutes a menace, not only to the people of Atlanta, but i
to all of the rest of the State as well. Many people in At-!
lanta are now waking up to the threats which confront!
COUNTY CONSOLIDATION
A handful of social planners in Atlanta have plans already
drawn up to strip our county courthouses in Georgia of their
powers “until only hollow shells remain.” They would en
croach on such obligations of the counties as road building,
public works’ camps, property tax assessments, school ad
ministration, pensions and other county responsibilities, mak
ing them the exclusive province of the State. Stripped of
their powers our bounties would collapse with no justifica
tion for their continued existence.
The Atlanta Constitution-Journal monopoly press has fre
quently demanded county consolidation and elimination of
our county officials in vicious editorials.
Candidates for State offices would be forced to center all
of their campaign activity in Atlanta. No person would dare
offer for Governor unless he had the backing of Walden,
Cox and Hartsfield, the machine boss. People over the State
would never get a chanc« to see their governor, much less
get any consideration from him. Such a chief executive,
owing his election to the bloc vote wielded by the city ma
chine would be its captive, to the exclusion of other citizens
of the State.
PROTECT yWX COUNTY UNIT SYSTEM
You can help preserve and protect bur traditional county
unit system by voting early on Election Day, Tuesday, No
vember 4th. After you have voted, make sure that all of
your family and friends, young and old, get to the polls to
strike a blow for continuation of Constitutional and con
servative government in Georgia.
The white people of this State must repel by their votes
these threats to our homes, our children, our institutions,
our daily lives and our fortune*. —