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DAILY MEDIIT ATIONS
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I
lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried
stone a precious corner stone, a suré foundation,
he that believeth shall not make haste.
Prophet Isaiah 28:16.
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Chisel on Streamilining
BY PETER EDSON
~ .. NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—It may be too early yet to make
a fair appraisal on how congressional reorganiza
tion is working out. But in the first six weeks of
the session, all has not been hunky-dory.
Congressmdn Mike Monroney oi Oklahoma, co
sponsor }vith' ex-Sen. Bob LaFollette on the Reor
ganizatigfi bill, says there has been less open op
position than anticipated. Undercover, it's some
thing else. -
There is no qugrrel with the congressional lead
ers. They have supported streamling to perfec
tion. The Bepublican leadership in the House has
given the lower chamber a strong Rules Commit
tee under Leo Allen of Illinois. It is no longer the
legislative bottleneck it formerly was. The all
powerful Rules Committee was one of the sacred
things the LaFollette-Monroney Committee was
forbidden to reform.
But since the Republican themselves hafe vol
untarily taken the lead in changing the *policy for
this traditionally dictatorial group, there is that
much unexpecied net gain on top of other reforms,
On the other hand, from 50 to 75 per cent of the
old-timers in Congress there has been an under
cover mnibbling-away at the foundations of con
gressional modernizing. In spite of the fact that the
Reorganization bill gave them higher pay, better
paid help and more of it, the old boys seem to think
they have been robbed of power and prestige.
Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees
in the House have gone back to secret hearings as
a regular thing, though the Reorganization bill says
all hearings shall be open.
" The ban against special committees has been
bi'oken twice in the Senate and will probably be
broken twice in the House with the setting up of
.gn probes on newsprint shortages and small
business. \
There has been excessive use of sub-committees
in some instances. The new Public Lands Commit
tees—created by the merger of a number of minor
efinfitgeés—have been broken down into as many
sub-committees as there were full committees be
fore. These new sub-commijttee chairmen don’t get
any staff or special offices and they're beefing
about that.
NOSES OUT OF JC\}N‘l‘ {
‘Monroney says there are perhaps 100 complaints
from old committee members about loss of juris-‘
(fiflon. For instance, Banking and Currency Com
mittees are sore because their jurisdiction over‘
foreign loans was transferred to the Committee on‘
Foreign Affairs. Also because their jurisdiction!
over Commodity Credit Corporation was transferr-,
ed to the Committee on Agriculture. These are|
things the voters may not give a hang about, but!
congressmen fight over them. ‘
Appropriations Committee members are sore,
about the budget limitations now being put on their!
spending. Also, congressthen who made rash pro- |
mises about tax reductions are having to show(
where savings will come from before they can
make the cuts.- l
The hiring of more efficient congressional help
is still pretty ragged. Some of the experts put on!
committee staffs are good. Others are old clerks andl
secretaries hired through political pull. The Re
organization bill ended the hiring of committee
“Janitors” who never cleaned a spittoon or emptied
ti-h'ash basket. Patronage grabbers are sore about
not being able to keep old retainers on soft jobs. l
« Registration of lobbyists has been good, but Mon
roney says he doesn’t think all the fish have been
caught in the first throw of the net. Reports for
the first quarter of 1947, ending March 31, should
show a lot more registrations than were turned up
in the last half of 1946 when Congress was not in
session. The real test of this will come when con
gressmien start asking the special interest pleaders,
“Have you registered yet?” before listening to
‘them. &obbyists themselves are doing some off-the
_ record lobbying against the Reorganization act.
THE “DEMOCRATIC PARTY” OF
GEORGIA IS ORGANIZED
In'the sense that it is a new organiza
tion, with new officers and a new State
Executive Committee, to be elected later,
the “Democratic Party” which began its
existence in Atlanta Wednesday is a
“new” political Party. But in the sense
that it is a vehicle for the expression of
certain tried and established political
principles which its adherents contend
are responsible for survival of the Demo
cratic Party as the oldest in the nation it
is an “old” political Party.
Creation at this time of another “Dem
ocratic Party” organization to espouse
the principles which actuate those who
launched. it and who will join it is no
mushroom affair. It has been ¢oming 2
long, long time, for there are two factions
in the Georgia Democracy of about equal
strength normally, tnat are as far apart
as the poles. The events which led to the
Atlanta meeting last Wednesday were
fashioned by those who bolted the Party
last Novembér in the election for Gover
nor, thus spectacularly destroying the
tradition of Party regularity,
The Importance of Party regularity was
recognized by the bolters themselves
whep they adopted a rule to ban from
Party membership all who voted against
the Party ticket and it is ironical that the
originators of the rule were the first to
come under the ban.
} 1t is maintained, and with apparent
reason, therefore, that the Harris group
cannot in good faith appeal to the tradi
tion of Party regularity to protect their
domination over Party members when
theirs is the most dramatic disavowal of
Party regularity in modern political his
tory. They certainly cannot deny their
scheme, dating from last November, was
conceived in secret and executed in se
cret, or that its design was withheld from
the great body of Georgia Democrats
who had every right to know what was on
foot and that it consequently has all the
earmarks of a conspiracy. It is ridiculous
for them to claim that rejection of the
peoples’ choice of a Governor because he
died after his election and prior to his in
auguration was necessary to insure con
tinuity of the government because under
the Constitutionthe people beforehand
had prvoided for such .contingency by
making the Lieutenant Governor the Act
ing Governor until the people themselves
could elect. £ 4
There is little evidence either to bolster
a claim that the White Primary itself was
in jeopardy unless the scheme was carried
through and one of the schemers was
elected Governor because the legislators
all, except two or three, were elected on
the Democratic Platform calling for a
White Primary. And of course there was
no excuse for them to repeal the laws
safeguarding the ballot as a pre-requisite
to the. White Primary. The late Eugene
Talmadge did not go that far; indeed,
from every stump he assured the people
they could have a White Primary and
keep_their election laws. The major can
didate opposing him accused him of at
tempting to do that which the Harris fac
tion has now done, set up a political dic
tatorship beyond reach of the law and he
denied it, citing the decision of Judge
Samuel H. Sibley of the U. 8. Coutt in
substantiation of his contention that “we
can have a White Primary and keep our
election laws.” And in fact the Sibley de
cision did point to a divorcement of the
State ‘from the Party and not a divorce
ment of the election (primary) from the
law, thus making the primary a question
able political procedure, until the laws
are restored.
In the past, differences among Demo
crats have been fought out and settled
within the Party in Democratic Primaries.
The Harris bill repealing all laws govern
ing political primaries places within the
’power of his faction in control of the
Party organigation as it existed until now
‘the determination of all contests and
{claims of irregularities in future primar
ies. All appeals must be decided by them,
beyond reach of the State law and in
many instances they might become both
litigant and judge. Unchallenged they
might, in the future conceivably establish,
in a one-party state, a political dominance
over the people as tyrannical as the Huey
Long dictatorship over Louisiana and the
Cracker Party dictatorship over Richmond
County.
In order that they can exercise the
privilege of the ballot under protection of
the law, in order that their political rights
will be preserved, in order that they may
act in concert toward safeguarding prin
ciples of government which they believe
are fundamental and necessary to Dem
ocracy, those Georgians who have set up
the “Democratic Party® organization and
who will undertake to bring into its fold
others who agree with them have taken,
we believe, a historical step. If the organ
ization of the sentiment which they rep
resent ‘proceeds successfully the vehicle
will have provided for a formidable, per
haps an overwhelming, political force in
Georgia. w 8 Rl §
~ Political promises of 1946 are in moth
balls now. The politicians have decided to
protect themselves in 1948 instead of the
people in 1947.—Robert R. Wason, chair
man National Association of Manufac
turers. i : i
It stands to reason that the people
themselves do not want another war. Thus
for the time being the possibility of actual
armed conflict involving the great powers
can be discarded as a mad-man’s dream.
—Tryvge Lie, UN secretary general,
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA.
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@By Irene Lonnen Emhart 0 stmvice. me. Y 4
| THE STORY: Cassie Fletcher is
lthe main support of her family
and feels such a burden of respon
sibility toward them that she
turns down Mike Cargill’s pro
posal of marriage, even though
‘she is in love with him. When
iLeni, her spoiled 17-year-old
sister, and weathly Lon Cavendish
try to elope, they are headed off
by Cassie and Parker Hamilton, a
friend of Lon’s. Leni vows she’ll
get even. Some months later, Cas
sie meets Parker Hamilton acci
dentally and he asks her for a
date. She has an unexpected good
time. Leiii is openly jealous, “Lon
was too good for me, but I notice
vou sure grabbed the chance to go
out with Parker Hamilton,” she
accuses Cassie.
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Cassie hadn’t meant to go out
with Parker any more, even
though the evening had been
pleasant. For one thing the re-~
mark Leni had made, “I suppose
you think he’ll marry you!” ran
kled and stung.
But Parker, for all the gentle
spaniel look in his eyes, had per
sistence. He coaxed her to go to
lunch with him. They went for
drives once or twice on Sunday
aiternoons, and finaily she re
lented and they started having
dates rather regularly.
Leni got a blue velveteen dress
for Christmas, Cassie saw to that,
and tiny black suede sandals to
go with it. She wore it to'sing in
the Christmas cantata at the
school. She sang the lead. They
all went—even Papa. Parker took
them in his father’s big limousine.
Leni sang surprisingly well. Her
voice was thin and untrained, but
it somehow had an eerie clear
quality that made chills go.down
one’s back. |
But Lon Cavendish didn’t phone
Leni at all until the week after
Christmas, and then itswas just
sort of a duty call. He didn’t ask
for a date. Leni knew that eve
ning why he hadn’t. There was a
half-page spread in the society
column of the Mortonville Herald.
“Martin-Cavendish rites set for
Easter.”. There was a long blurb
about Marian Martin, the New
York girl «visiting the Cavendish
family over the holidays.* And;
there was another long blurb
about Lon Cavendish, Jr., the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Cavendish of‘
the Cavendish Chemical family. |
It was incredible, but there it
was in black and white. ‘
So that was the end of Lon
Cavendish. Leni started going out
with a fellow she met somewhere.‘
Cassie didn’t like his coarse face’
and his slicked-down hair and
cheap clothes, and Leni wouldn’t
tell where she'd met him. After
him there was a sailor,; home on
leave. He’d been in Leni's class
and quit school to join the Navy.
Pretty soon there was somearml
else. x B
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Cassie was heartsick, Leni had
nothing to say to any of the
family. She ignored any conver
sation directed her way, and she
refused to stay home. She even
sneaked out the bedroom window
one night after Cassie had made
her .go to bed for .being insolent
to Mama,
Cassie was not only heartsick,
she was frightened. She talked to
Parker, because there was no one
else to whom she could turn.
“What shall I do about her?”
she asked him, the night after
Leni’s latest escapade. “We had a
note from the school principal that
unless Leni buckled down, she
wouldn’t graduate.”
Parker looked genuinely con
cerned. “Did you ever think about
giving her voice lessons? If she
had something to pin her hopes to,
something to work toward, she
might straighten out.”
“I never thought of that.”
“She has got a nice voice, and
she could study at the Jerlin con
servatory here in town. It’s .a
pretty good school.”
“Well,” Cassie parried, “it might
be a good idea, but—" Lessons at
the conservatory cost an awful lot.
“But what, Cassie?” They werel
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W % One up on Broadway
Qur Main Street isn't Broadway.
But for cleanliness and neatness, it
has Broadway lashed to the mast!
(I'm sticking my neck out, so far
as those cify people go, but it sure
is the truth.)
Our sidewalks all along Main
Street are swept clean each morn
ing; the store fronts are kept
neatly painted; the windows are
shiny bright; and there’s grass
and flowers every place that grass
and flowers ean be made to grow!
Once when “Butch” Snyder let
‘the awning of his store get torn
State And County Tax Notice
Tax Books open January 1 for 1947 State and
County returns and close Aprii 1, 1947. The law
requires the filing of returns for automobiles, and
all personalty and real property.
MRS. MARY N. BRYANT SMITH,
Tax Receiver, Clarke County, Georgia.
sitting in one of these small coun
try night clubs, floor show, danc
ing, drinks, an obscure place, but
clean and cozy. Parker ‘leaned
toward her across the table. “You
haven't got the money to pay for
the lessons. Is that it?”
Cassie was glad the lights were
dim, for she could feel the flush
creeping up her throat and across
her face. :
Parker put a long brown hand
over one of hers. “Cassie!” There
was something new and urgent in
the way he said her name. “Look,
Cassie, you've got to let me help
you.” ; ’
“I :den’t need help.”?
“I've watched the way you try
to keep things going, the way you
worry over how to make ends
meet, and it breaKs my heart. It’s
too much for you to carry all
alone.”
. ®
“Look, Cassie, darling—" He
stopped, a bit embarrassed.
The “darling” had evidently
slipped out. He was quiet a mo
ment, staring at her, as though
suminoning courage from the sight
of her face.
“T love you, Cassie,” he said in
a rush. .
“Parker!” she whispered. She
glanced about tc see whether any
one had heard;
| “Heck, what do T care if people
{ know it. I do, and I'm_glad I fi
"nally got up the nerve to tell you.
Cassie,” he whispered urgently.
| “Marry me.”
| “But I don’t think T love you.
| I mean—l just couldn’t.”
| “You've still got Mike on your
| mind, haven’'t you?” Parker said.
|~ She wished she had neyer told
him about Mike. His dark, thin
face twisted and he looked away
from her. : z
‘ “I haven’t Mike on my mind,
| exactly.” True she hadn’t thought
| nearly so much about him lately.
“It’s all over, you know. But 1
| just couldn’t ever feel like that
| about anyone again.” o
’ “I wouldn’t want you to,” Park
er said eagerly. “I want you to
feel differently about me than you
ever felt about anyone else. 1
want you to learn to love me,
| Cassie, and I think I could make
| you happy.'! . .”
| (To Be Continued)
(larke County 4-H
Clarke County 4-H:€lub mem
bers will observe National 4-H
Cluby*Week March - 1-9, Assistant,
County Agent Frank ¢«E. Stancil
and - Home Demonstration Agent
Mrs. ‘Marwy M. ‘Smith. have an-
NoOunCel! sni Han: CLITAROTA
Théme of the observanee, they
pointed out, will-be . Working To~
gethér "for .a Better Home and
World: Community. During the
week' 4-H members in Clarke
County will “get set” far their
1947 ‘activities and, will make an
effort to enroll. additional rural
boys and girls in -the 4-H club
program.
Four-H members -in Clarke
County will hold community meet
ings during the special week, the
agents said. 4-H Club Sunday will
be observed in Clarke County
with special Club Programs at
Tuckston Church on March 18
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and dirty, folks up and down the
street just gently nudged him till
he went out and got it repaired
and cleaned. That’s how it works
around this town of ours. ~
From where I sit, it’s a little like
the Brewers’ program of Self-
Regulation. They want all taverns
selling beer to be a credit to the
city .., neat and orderiy and up to
scratch. And when any tavern
lags behind, they nudge it back to
standard. Works too!
,and Princeton Church on March
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!' Major objectives of National 4-
H Week, Mr. Stancil and Mrs.
Smith said, will be: * {
1. To make it possible for all
4-H members to become farailiar
with the 1947 Four-H theme and
| to see that it emphasized in their
4-H programs.
| 2. To provide 4-H members an
| opportunity to check up on their
own efforts to date in carrying out
| grixy 4-H activities already start
3. To give 4-H members an
opportunity to reaffirm their in
tentions of carrying their club'
lgoals to completion. |
, 4, To acquaint parents in
| every community with what 4-H’
i members are already doing.
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decpite shortages!
In Georgia during 1946, the
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miles of long distance cir
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