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DAILY M§Dvirtufins (v?nCYns is a
(8 TR TR crown to her husband, but
she that maketh ashamed
% = is as rottenness in his bones.
The thoughts of the
righteous are right, but the counsels of the
wicked are deceit.
Book of Proverbs 12:4-5.
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A. F. Piedger, Holly Heights Chapel.
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Election Upset Should Be
Lesson to All Politicians
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—If all the red faces of all the
political prophets could be brought together in one
place today, it would rival the gaudiest sunset ever
seen, and burn up the landscape. There is no use
trying to decide whose face is the reddest, but the
political poll-takers could easily be picked out of
the mob scene,
All the prophets—including this one—based their
predietions on the results of the polls. And the polls
were wrong., Well, there's another good racket
ruined.
Apparently the only three people in the country
who believed that the Democrats had any chance
to dovwhat. they did were President Truman, his
vice-presidential candidate, Sen. Alben W. Barkley,
and their campaign manager, Sen. J. Howard Mc-
Grath. Never were so many people so wrong.
CO!jRAGE AND CAMPAIGNING DID IT
As for whether Truman won or Dewey lost, it's
a little of both. Truman and Barkley produced the
upset by courage, tireless campaigning, speaking
frankly on every issue. When President Truman
boldly faced up to his civil rights program in his
speech in New York at the close of the campaign,
his batting average went to 1000. Dewey apparently
- lost his “sure thing” victory by pussy-footing, pro
crastinating and never letting the voters know
precisely where he stood on any issue.
~ Here should be a lesson for politicians of all time.
The American people don’t like and won't stand
for that kind of talk. In other words, the American
"people are more intelligent than the Republican
politicians. You can’t hand the public hooey and
vague generalities and expect them to like it or
take it.
The Democratic Party comes out of the election
in an amazing position. It won a victory over it
self. It defeated the Dixiecrats and it defeated the
Wallaceites. In other words, the Democratic Party
is purged of its two extremist factions—the States’
Righters and extreme left-wingers, and it doesn’t
have to take either one of them back.
Under a sweeping GOP victory, the third and
fourth parties might have claimed a share of the
corpse of the Democratic donkey. They can't do
%}rat now. And if the Democratic Party leadership
wants to finish the job, it can completely liquidate
these minority groups which stabbed it in the back.
If the Dixiecrats and the Wallaceites had not
broken away from the Democratic Party, Truman’s
victory would have been overwhelming,
“LOOK FOR RASF. CHARGES /
In the rash of political post-mortems that will
now break out, there will probably be many far
“fetched claims -and appraisals. There will probably
be many reactionary charges that it was “the New
Deal radicals and Communists” that put the Dem
ocrats in power again. That's one the average
citizen will want to eye rather carefully.
There is no question but that the labor organiza
tions with their political action committees and
their drives to get out the vote helped the Dem
ocratic totals. But it must be remembered that the
leadership ofthe AFL, the CIO and the railway
brotherhoods all repudiated their Communist ele
ments, and the Commies themselves supported Wal
lace. J £
There are a couple of states where this pattern
does not fit perfectly. In lilinois the Wallaceites
had no chance to vote for their candidates because
they couldn’t get the Progressive Party on the
ballot. It must be assumed that they voted Democra
tic and were responsible for the Republican upset
in that state. But in Michigan, where there is a
well-organized labor movement, it was politically
impotent, and Dewey carried the state as a native
son.
- What gave Truman his strength was apparently
his effective chastisement of the 80th Congress.
That was something the voters could understand.
As for the Democrats having a “mandate” ta
carry out any extreme program, that is pure popy
p‘ock, as such talk always is. The result of the race
was too close for that. The majority and minority
barties are too near the same size, as shown by the
Popular vote totals, for any sweeping reforms.
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Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury
F mint three-cent pieces during the war, but none
as minted.
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This Is How We Do Things
In Democratic America
“The ball game isn’t over,” radio sport
casters say a million times each year, “un
til the last man is out—or the final gun x:;‘
sounded.” Americans had occasion to
think of this old cliche when they woke
up (or got up from their radics) on the}
morning after election, ano realized that'
the expected landslide election of Thomas
E. Dewey to the presidency had somehow
failed to materialize.
Dewey was in, they had been assuru.d'
by their newspapers, their radio commen- |
tators, their columnists, their peoll takers!
and their barbers. Never pefore in history |
had so many words been written to sup
port a foregone conclusion. And never
before were so many predictions scrapped
on the morning after an election. Some of
the poll takers quit taking polls some
months ago because the outcome was se |
obvious. (Some of them could have quit’
long before they did, it appears.) l
But somehow the. American voters
didn’t vote the way they told the poll‘
takers they would. As to why they didn's
—the columnists and radiocasters will
spend the next several weeks, months
and mayvbe years knocking out words of
explanation. What will happen to the poll
takers, nebedy can be sure. We know
what happened to the old Literary Digest,
one of the original election forecastingl
agencies, when it missed by almost 100
percent in its calculations. It folded. l
But whatever the majority of writers
and prophets thought, and whatever they |
told the voters, one fact remains. The\
American people, by a democratic mujur-!
ity in a free election, have expressed their,
preference for the Democratic Party and
its standard-bearers. Whether they liked|
the Democratic platform better, whether’
they were opposed to the Taft-Hartley
law, favored the European Recovery Pro
gram, or whatever, nobody can say for
sure. Perhaps the pollsters will be able to
find out. |
Whatever their motives, their particu
lar likes or dislikes, the American people
can feel proud that they—mnot their polti
ical bosses, nor their newspapers, nor even
their poll takers—have rendered a decis
ion. And their decision will stick. Even the
millions of people who campaigned and
voted against the winners will fall in line
and support their duly elected govern
ment.
There are countrics where, if the fate
of the government remained in doubt
overnight as it did, in fact, during this
election, the people wouldn’'t know
whether to go to work the next morning.
Not g 0 in America.
Nopody with guns take over our seats
of government during the night. Even
those officeholders who lost will continue
at their same old stands for a couple more
moenths.
That is the American way, just as it is
the American way for iree voters to name
their men, and for all to support the win
ners once the returns are in. :
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» Salute so a Rare Bird |
Congressmen who admit they are wrong
are about as scarce as the whooping
crane. So we should like teo call special
attention to such a phenomenon, in case
any reader missed it. Rep. Harold Knut
son of Minnesota has owned up that he
was wrong in voting against the Marshall
Plan, which he thought would be another
UNRRA. (He didn't like UNRRA.) He]
says now that in view of the Plan’s record
he would vote to extend it and give it the
money it needs. . !
We are not so optimistic as to think!|
that this modest candor will sweep the
81st Congress. But we still want to salute
one member who is brave enough to shed.
his congressional infallibility as well as
his congressional immmunity once he finds.
himself away from Capitol Hill. l
What frightens me is that . . . at this
time humanity knows what should be:
done in order to be saved. Humanity |
would like to do it. But this tragic destiny
seems to render it incapable of doing it.—
Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian delegate to the
UN. ’
I think that ERP has contributed great-‘
ly to the economic recovery of Westernt
Europe. It has defmritely had the effect of
halting the spread of totalitarian ideas in|
the Western European countries. — Rep..
Kenneth B. Keating KR) of New York. g
YL BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
| ECHOES FROM MEMORYLAND
! Eating llce Cream 6f.f~A Hot Kitchen Stove
] BY T. W. REED
You have often heard of a cold
day in August when such and such
a thing would come to pass. That
is the way one would talk about
things he didn’t expect to come to
' pass. But some day a cold day in
August would come to pass.
Well, this was a cold day in
June and something quite unusual
land not at all looked for did come
to pass in my home.
One University of Georgia Com
mencement session the Board of
Visitors paid the annual visit to
the University. My old school
teacher, William M. Slaton of the
Atlanta Boys High School was
chairman of the Board and while
he was here on his official visit I
thought I ought to show him some
little attention. So I invited him to
come out to my home on Grady
’Avenue and take supper with me.
| My wife prepared a nice supper. |
‘We had a large platter of fried
chicken and everything proper to
accompany it. We thought we
should have some dessert and so}
T T A, ;
State Farm
Improvement
Contest Open
The 1949 North Georgia Farm
Community Improvement Contest
began November 1,-1948, and run
for twelve full months to October
31, 1949. The deadline for receiv
ing entries from farming com
munities in the contest area will
be January 31, 1949.
John A. Wayt, President of the
Farmers Club, Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce, sponsors of this an
nual contest, said that the reason
for making a change in the con
test year was to give the partici
pating communities an opportuni
ty to actually report on a full
year's activities. Previously the
contest has run for ten months,
January Ist to November Ist, each
year.
The 1948 Contest, which closes
today, has seen 113 farming com
munities from 30 North Georgia
rounties camrofive Lovthp w4IOO
in cash prizes that will be awarded
W Nle v adi sl Cksaktisiaiivia GG
viously designated as winners in
their respective counties. Judging
in each .of the counties, to deter
'mine the county-winner, begins
| tomorrow, November 1, and lasts
luntil November 15th. Immediately
following the county judging, the
final judges, appointed by the
i Farmers Club, will begin their
'visits to the winning community
|in each county and place these
‘farm communities according to
| their accomplishments for the
i year, The winners will be an
inounced and prizes awarded at the
»annual banquet for the Farmers
Club, which will be held January
| 19th, 1949,
Another feature of the 1949
Contest, whic his a change from
the past two years’ contests, will
be the addition of a “Sweepstakes
Contest.” This new division will in
reality be a tournament of cham
piens, because it will consist of
only those communities which
have won the contest’s first prize
‘of SI,OOO. These communities will
inot be eligible for the regular con
test for a period of three years,
after which they will go back into
the regular competition. An ap
inropriate award will be made to
the winner of the Sweepstakes
each year. Judging and scoring in
,this class will be on the same basis
as the regular contest and by the
i final judges.
| -
lSIbleY Speaks At
.
’ Presbyterian
'Church Today
Wiltinm A, T. Siblev, treas
urer, Monarch Mills, Union; 8. C.,
will make an address on “Stew
ardslip of Money” at the morn
ing service of the First Presby
teri~n Church today.
His address is one in the sceries
of the church’s “Program of Pro
gress.”
’ On Tuesday night there will be
a Church Family Night Dinner,
i;znd a mvoing picture, “And Now
!I See,” will be shown.
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we prepared a big freezer of de
llicious ice cream and set it down
on the back porch. ‘
] During the day the thermome-l
ter took a notion to cut up some
‘monkey shines and by nightfall it
was anything but warm weather.
But we decided to go on and serve
that ice creamn even if it was a
cold day in June. '
| We managed to get away with
'a fair amount of that ice cream in
I spite of the reading of the ther
imometer and we had a most en
joyable time such as I always had
when I was in company with Bill
Slaton. . [
At the proper time we put our
little boy and girl, both tiny tots,
to bed.
The next morning we had our
usual breakfast. If anything, it was
colder that morning than it had
been the night before, but the
kids wanted some of that ice
cream in spite of the cold weather.
Out on the back porch there was!
plenty of ice cream in the freezer]
as we had made away with only a
Ismall portion of it the night be
| fore. None of it had melted down.
It was too cold for that.
' So we gave them a full dish of
the cream according to their
‘wishes.
| Presently we missed them and
couldn’t imagine where they had
lgone when they left the dining
room. ‘
In the kitchen our cook had a
roaring hot fire in the wood s%ve.
Just then it was the warmest réom
in the house.
On one side of the kitchen stove
was the little boy and on the other
side was the little girl. They had
placed their dishes on the hot
stove lids. It was not exactly fro
zen ice cream they were ladling
out with their spoons, but it was
somewhat similar thereto and they
were enjoying it.
I Oh that I had had at that time
a good Eastman kodak so that I
could have taken their picture.
Such a picture would have been
kept in my memory book across
more than forty years, but in spite
of the lack of an actual picture, I
see it all in memory as I pen these
Ilines.
| And that is what happened on
ta cold day in June.
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| (AP)—Two axe murderers, Jewel
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Garrett was pronounced dead at
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five minutes before in the grim
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His companion in crime, Eller,
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stay out of bad'gompany because
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in this chair toda e
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