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" DAILY MEDITATIONS
{ g In my Fathers house are
A 6 LIRS many mansions, if it were
;i >« .1 . not so, T would have told
’ ) you. I go to prepare a
ke : place for you. And if I go
and prepare a place for you, I ‘will come again,
and receive you unte my self, that where I am,
there ye may be also.
Gospel of St. John. 14, 2:3.
‘' Mrs. J. B. Birdsong, Gordon, Ga., Route 1
~=¥iavs you a Tavorite Blble verse? Mall o
A. F. Pledy >r, Holly Heights Chapel,
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Slow Train Through Arabia
' BY PETER EDSON '
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON-—When President Roosevelt und]
6-foot-6, 300-pound King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud of
Saudi Arabia made big talk on an Oriental rug
spread under a tent stretched over the deck of a
U. 8. cruiser at anchor in Great Bitter Lake, Suez
Canal, back in February 1945, it started things.
Roosevelt gave the king a jeep, a walkie-talkie
radio, a wheelchair, and an airplane, There have
been reports that Roosevelt also blandly promised
{o give Ibn Saud a railroad, on which promise the
king is now trying to collect.
That doesn’t seem to be quite the way it is, but
it's a good story, nonetheless. According to the
accounts of Col. William A. Eddy, who was then
U. S. minister to Saudi Arabia and who acted as
interpreter between Roosevelt and Ibn Saud, the
President—llargely to make conversation—asked
the king how many miles of railroad he had. Sadly,
the king had to admit that since Co. T. E. Law
tence of World War I fame had blown up the old
Hejaz railroad from Damascus to Medina, there
hadn’t been a single mile of track in the country.
Roosevelt allowed that was very interesting, but
that some “times railroads could be ‘very useful.
Authority for what happened next is Richard H.
Sanger, now on the Arabian desk in the State De
partment. He had been all over the peninsula.
A few months later the king went to Cairo to
visit King Farouk of Egypt. On that trip Ibn Saud
had his first ride on a railroad. He liked it and
decided he ought to have one to connect his capital
at Riyad, in the center of the country, with the
seacoast, giving him “windows on the Persian Guif
and the Red Sea.”
HIS GREATEST ENEMY—THE TRUCK ¥
There was a little feeling around at first, to see if
the U. S. Export Import Bank wouldn't loan Saudi
Arabia the money to build its railroad, but the
answer was no. Saudi Arabia was getting plenty of
money from oil royalties. Eight million dollars this
year, sl4 million next, an average of S2O million
a year for the next five years. If they wanted a
railroad, why not buy it? . |
,:The original transportation was, of course, camels.
Thousands of them, taking 11 days and more to
reach the coast. They hauled dates out irom the
two-million-tree oasis at Hufuf, hauled textiles and
si¢ch manufactured goods in.
“Then the king shifted to trucks. He bought sev
eral thousand six-wheelers from - Army surplus.
They have balloon tires for sand travel. There are
no roads, but every half-mile are stakes. Drivers
get to the top of a sand dune, sight the next marker,
then take off in that general direction. Lickety
split down hill so as to get enough momentum to
make the grade to the top of the next dune. Need
less to say, up-keep is terrific. Half the trucks are
broken all the time, and they keep Ibn Saud half
broke all the time. He says, “The truck is my
greatest enemy.”
“So last fall Bechtel-McCone, one of the six com
panies that built Boulder Dam, was hired to survey
for a railroad line to run from Riyad to the Persian
Gulf, 300 miles east.
HIS GREAT IDEA—“ONE-WAY DOOR™
" The road will hit the coast at Dammam. Though
Saudi Arabia has 2000 miles of coast line, it has
no-harbors. Reefs run out for miles. So, to get the
railroad out to. where it can load and unload from
ocean-going vessels, Bechtel-McCone figure they
will have to build a six-mile jetty. This will cost
$5 million. The railroad itself will cost S2O million.
But with three trains run by seven-man érews, the
king figures it will be cheaper than trucking.
' Ibn Saud is said to like the idea of the railroad
because it's a “one-way door.” He has seen all the
war movies and been impressed by the fact that
Hitler’s trucks roamed France at will even after
the: railroads were blown up. Also, he remembers
what Lawrence did to the Hejaz railroad. So the
kifig‘ woin't build roads and will blow up his “one-
Wayafloof -railroad if he is.-invaded.f‘ iy
AN OPEN STRUGGLE
Opposition to the spread of world com
munism is shaping up on three major
fronts, France and Brazil are meeting
attacks from within, whiie the U. 8. is
preparnig an economic and ideological
counterattack on foreign soil. But the
issue is in doubt, and a feeling of uneasi
ness is probably shared by both sides.
The American loan to Greece and Tur
key is not vet approved. If and when it is,
there may be more argument and delay in
approving the persons who will adminis
ter that aid. Complete confidence in Pres
‘ident Truman’s strategy, sound and nec
essary as it may seem, must wait upon
the selection of his staff afficers and the
tacticz! plan of his campaign.
Meanwhile, France and -Brazil face an
even more difficult and uneertain set-to
with their domestic Communists. Brazil’s
Supreme Electoral Tribunal has outlawed
the party, and President Dutra has sus
pended the Communist-supported federa
‘tion of unions, This ig a considergbly more
risky undertaking than a similar move in
the U. S. would be. sl
Brazil has the biggest Communist or:
ganization in this hemisphere. Ilg has
grown from 3,000 underground support
ers two years ago to a present m%ben
ship of 180,000. The party polled 586,000
votes in the 1945 presidential election,
and 800,000 ip the provincial elections
last January. It-elected the governoy and
two senators of the country’s largest gtate,
and has a majority in the Rio de Janeiro
city council.
No dictatorial suppression was evident
in Brazil’s Communist ban. The charge
against the party was familiar and be
lievable. Its members were found to be
taking orders from a foreign government
and provoking unrest and disorder
among the workers to the detriment of j
production and civil order. ‘
In France the government was &lso
faced with considerable popular Commu
nist strength. The Communists hold a ma
jority in the Chamber of Deputies and
filled five places in the cabinet. There
was the further complication that the
Socialist government had not been willing
previously to run the country’s affairs
without an alliance with the Communists.
Communist tactics, however, forced the
break. Its members were a part of the
government, yet opposed to it. Communist
deputies failed to give Premier Ramadier
a vote of confidence on his wage-price
program, but the Communist cabinet
members refused to resign. Faced with
this typical obstructionism, there was
nothing for the Ramadier government to
do except go it alone or quit.
- It remains to be seen how well the
lCommunists keep their present pledges of
‘mildness and good order in both countries.
They might go underground again in
Brazil, and create more trouble than at
present. The French are faced with a
grave economic crisis and labor unrest
which, unless controlled, could be ex
ploited by the Communists with dire re
sults. : |
~ But at least Communist opposition is
active, and the struggle is now in the
open. Great difficulties lie ahead, but @he
tide of democracy seems to ;be running
stronger. v
NEW MILLENNIUM
l The Veterans' Administration Tigures
it will probably have World War II pen-
Isione_rs on its books until the year 2030.
And suddenly we realize that the 1900 s
‘are almost half over, and that soon much
lof the world will start loeking toward the
| 21st Century. ' : el
This looking ahead has been going on,
of course, ever since man began dividing
time arbitrarily into Rundreds and frae
| tiong thereof. The view is challenging and
'promising to those who will see the turn
{ing point, and a bit sad for us actual or
{ potential old duffers who won't. Those
| emotions are heightened when man begins
la new millennium,
‘ Early Christians were confident that
the world would come to an end in 1000
|A. D. They probably decided that man
| would have gone about as far as he could.
We can sympathize with-their feeling. A
new thousand years may only be a trick
of arithmetic, but they’re an incompréhen
sible responsibility to those who start
them, and a disappointment to those who
will miss the start. . pEss Lo
The Allies were “cut: off from the
sources of almost 95 percent of their rub
ber supply when Singapore fell in 1942.
When the United States was cut off
from its rubber sources in 1942, it had on
hand more than 100 million good tires on
cars and trucks. e > :
During World War 11, non-military uses
of rubber in the United States were cut
from 600,000 tons to less than one-quarter
of that total. e :
Indonesian praus, with their high poop
decks, are modeled after :qutuggse,shipsj
that first visited the East Indies four cen-:
turies ago. ; i
l A bottle dropped by the Coast and
{ Geodetic Survey was carried more than
‘15,000 miles by ocean currents in Bix
‘years before it was found and returned.
Scientists, during the rubbér-short war
,years, attempted to find a substitute in
‘such things as golden rog and the so-call
ed Russian dandelion, . oo L ai o
HR BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Cenfral Announces
Stash In Round
Trip Coach Fares
An unprecedented reduction in
railroad round trip coach fares, ef
fective May 15, lis announced by
the Central of Georgia Railway.
These greatly reduced individual
coach fares apply between all
%oinx on the Central of Georgia
ailWway in Georgia. They are
made on the basis of 60 percent of
double -the regular one-way fare.
For example, one-way fare from
Athens to lgacon is '52.35. The
new rounß t¥ip coach fare will be
$2.85 or 40 percent less than double
Lhe one-wja; fare. This reduction
{f 40 percent under double the
one-way / save is confined to the
Central "of Georgia, and applies
between all points on the railroad
in Georgia.
Tickets at the new fares will be
on sale daily, with limit of 5 days
in addition to, date of sale.
1t is expected that these drastic
reductions in passeénger fdres over
the Central' of Georgia, coming at
the beginning of the vacation sea
sony wildl "prove very attractive to
the traveling public, |
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Seven Presented
Sigma Delfa Chi
Scholarship Awards
" Superior scholarship in jour
nalism was recognized Tuesday,
May 13, by the University of
Georgia Henry W. Grady School
of Journalism and its chapter of
Sigma Delta Chi, professional
journalistic fraternity, when se
ven' persons werc presented with
Sigma Delta Chi Scholarship
Awards, .
So honored were Catherine T.
Woodman, Ruth Estes, and Jack
Levy, .all of Atlanta; James J.
Sirmans, Waycross; Francis Cun
ningham McCaysville; Melvyvn
Rifkind, Jersey City, N, J.; and
Chloe Anne Dixon, Macon.
The award, which takes the
form of a certificate of merit
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