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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 194,
Hal Boyle
The Poor Man’s Philosopher
THE POOR MAN’S PHILOSOPHER
ON THE SHOCK OF OLD AGE
NEW YORK — (AP)—Old peo
ple are growing more important.
Every year there -are more of
them. Every year. from now on
there will be still, mgre, - -
For despite its long foolishness
the human race is living longer.
The population 18 growing up —
chronologically it not morally and
intellectually.:t WES SRR N
And that fact in itself make
elderly people more important —
in many ways. ¥ g
It makes them more important
economically. The day is about
gone -when poor old work-worn
grandpappy must observe to him
self mournfully: “The only real
friendly smile I get anymore is
from the undertaken.”
Other business men are going
to have smiles for grandpa and
grandma from now on. Because
the old folks, more and more, are
financially ~ independent. Fewer
pank failures, the growth of social
security, the enlargement of in
dustrial pension plans — these
things are enabling millions of
men and women 1o retire with
some semblance of a nest egg.
So old people are in themselves
a tremendous market for people
with things to sell.
Pressure Group
And the old folks are going to
have more influence with politici
ans. They will become a tremen
dous pressure group for them
selves. They will probably ask and
get from the government more of
what they want. And, in a demo
cracy, that seems fair enough.
Does anyone doubt that, if school
children could vote, there would be
more and better school buildings?
old people also are getting more
important in the medical profes
sion. Having cut the birth mor
tality pretty much to a minimum,
the doctors now find that diphthe
ria and the whooping' cough are
taking less of their time than
hardening of the arteries and that
ancient misery—“my rhematiz.”
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Many physicians are specializing
in the new science of gerontology—
the study of old age.
And they have found that it isn’t
enough for old people merely to
be of some economic importance to
others. They have to be made to
feel still important to themselves.
And that’s a problem. Their
pride and self-confidence suffers a
terrific blow when their realize
they have passed the peak of their
powers. As Dr. Martin Gumpert
told the gerontological society
here last week, the self-realiza
tion of aging is “perhaps the most
profound shock of our lifespan —
next to dying.”
Beauty Fades
For when a woman looks into
the mirror and sees her beauty
fading, when a man no longer can
g 0 up the stairs two at a time —
each knows in his secret heart
that he has begun to die. And he
begins to be afraid. For all heal
thy life distrusts death.
This fear begins earlier than
most people realize. And it af
fects them in ways they would be
reluctant to admit.
The fear often sets in during
middle age, which is only a corri
dor of uncertain !ength between
youth and old age. It explains
why many men make the accumu
lation of money an unreasonable
passion. They try to replace the
security of dwindling health and
physical strength with financial
security—an impossibility.
This fear of being old, whether it
starts at 35 or 60, causes many
people to go through a kind of
troubled second adolescence. Both
men and women do foolish things
they afterward regret.
They take what they call “a last
fling” at life. A friends of mine,
who handles financial affairs for
many people, has a name for this
period.
“I call it forty-yehr fever,” he
said. “And it’s the devil of a thing
to go through. It destroys a lot of
people.”
It is then that the man or wo
man, fearful of the common fate
of mankind, most needs the props
of home, friendship and religion.
For once the threshold of old age
is crossed, most people don’t find
it too bad. Sociaological surveys
show that old people often com
plain of loneliness. But if asked
whether they are happy, the ma
jority say—‘“Yes!”
Since there are going to be more
and more old people in the world,
why not prepare them for it? They
can be educated in a way to lessen
the shock and to emphasize the
serene pleasures in store.
Universities ought to offer a
post-graduate course in how -te
grow old gracefully.
‘4B Fire Loss In City
Is Placed At SIOI,OOO
BY:GEORGE ABNEY, JR.
Fire claimed $101,006.70 worth of damage from Ath
ens property during 1948.
This loss, together with the breakdown of the types of
fires during the past year, highlighted the Fire Depart
ment’s annual report, submitted By Chief W, C. Thomp
son.
The value of the property at
risk amounted to $11,164,931 with
$7,470,390 being insured.: The in
sured loss amounted to $99,731.70
and the uninsured loss amounted
to $1,275.
Approximately $82,000 of to
tal fire loss in the city during the
past year-resulted from one fire,
Hulme Fertilizer and Wadrehouse
Company.
During the year the Department
answered 333 alarms with the
breakdown into classifications be
ing as follows: residences, 95;
grass fires, 72; motor cars, 55;
business houses, 50; false alarms,
20; cotton, 1; and miscellaneous
alarms, 40.
Nominations For Man, Woman
Of Year Close January 15
BY HUBERT CALLAWAY
Nominations for Athens’ Man
and Woman of the Year 1948 will
be closed January 15, Tyus But
ler, chairman of the Inter-Club
Council, said today. Persons wish
ing to place nominations for eith
er of the honors should get their
entries in to Athens Chamber of
Commerce on or before that date.
Any person of Athens or Clarke
County who has been outstanding
in civic achievement either with
in this area or the state or nation
at large will be eligible for nom
inations. Letters of nomination
will be welcomed from any indi
vidual or club.
The annual selection is made to
give honors and suitable award to
the man and woman of Athens or
Clarke County who have been
outstanding in civie achievement
during the previous year. The
Man and Woman of the Year 1948
will be honored at a civic dinner
to be held later in the month. All
civic clubs will be represented at
this dinner. \
Judges will be selected by the
Man and Woman of the Year
Committee, which is composed of
one member from each participat
ing club on the council, and head
ed by Floyd C. Adams. Effort will
be made to have the Committee of
Judges consist of a minister, an
educator, a business' executive, a
professional person and a news
paper person. :
The 1949-1950 Inter - Club
Council is composed of the repre
sentatives = from the following
clubs and organizations: Clarke
THE BANNER-AFRALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
1897 Inspections
“The bureau of fire prevention
made 1897 inspections for fire pre
vention and had 181 flues inspect
ed during the year. Chief Thomp
son stated in the report, “No doubt
this is a big factor in our losses
being as low as they are.”
Also the Chief stated in this re
port. “I want to thank every man
under my supervision and want
to report to vou, to the last man,
from the highest to the lowest in
rank, have performed their du
ties untiringly for the year 1948.
They have done their work most
cheerfully and are an organiza
tion that I am proud of and the
citizens of Athens should appre
ciate.”
County Women Voters, pilot Club
of Athens, Kiwanis Club, Rotary
Club, Lions Club, Civitan Club,
Exchange Club, Athens League of
Women Voters, Entre Nous Club,
Business Girls’ Club, and Athens
Woman’s Club.
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AIR - WAVES
Vic Damone, silver-voiced sing
ing find who got his start on an
Arthur Godfrey program, will be
Hoosier humorist Herb Shriner’s
guest on “Herb Shriner Time”
over WGAP-CBSS at 5:45.
Tonight after you finish read
ing the paper tune in to 1340 on
your dial and listen as “Mr.
Chameleon,” of Central Head
quarters probes “The Case of the
Dance of Death” at 8:00. Karl
Swenson plays “Mr. Chameleon.”
Dr. Christian and Scrapper
Molloy, his newsboy pal, hook the
“big fish” a myth among River’s
End Anglers, but it slips off to
freedom in ‘“The Big One That
Got Away” on WGAU-CBS’ “Dr.
Christian” tonight at 8:30. From
Hollywood. Their claims sound
like a whopping fish story until
Ralph Van Rockingham lands the
piscatorial prize and wins the An
glers’ Club Award. Then the doc
tor’s prior claim is substantiated.
- For the first time in the history
of aviation, a ponderous pachy
derm, will fly through the air
with the greatest of ease. Tonight
a contestant on WGAU-CBS’
“County Fair” will be handed an
adult elephant with instructions
to fly him to Chicago. L
This will be a considerable
chore, because it'll be (it says
here the first time an elephant
was ever shipped by air in the
United States. Emcee Win Elliott,
master of the program’s zany cer
emonies, has his own reasons for
shipping the beastie.
Also, listeners will hear a re
port from a subway-riding sar
dine who’ll tell how it feels to be
packed in like people.
Be sure to listen to “County
Fair” at 9:00 p. m.
James Melton, Metropolitan
Opera tenor, sings a curren hit,
“So In Love” from the Porter mu
sical “Kiss Me Kate, in a varied
musical program on WGAU-I
CBSS’ “Harvest of Stars” at 9:30 !
p. m. .Frank Black conducts the
orchestra and chorus. Melton’s
other solos are the popular “Shad
rack.”” the Cugat rumba “La
Players” and “Two Hearts in
Three-Quarter Time” by Stolz.
The dramatic vignette is the |
story of how a wily North Dakota
farm wife provideds for her
youngest son’s medical education,
against the opposition of his older
brother. The story is titled “Por
trait of Salmon.”
WGAU-CBS’ “Capitol Cloak
Room” will introduce five United |
States Senators for the first time
tonight at 10:30. They will be ask
ed questions about taxes, prices,
labor, civil rights, social security,
health, welfare, communism and
foreign affairs. Interviewed by
WGAU-CBSS Washington news
'men Griffing Bancroft and Bill
‘Shadel. each guest will make a
statement on his main political in
i terest.
For the latest news from all
over the world, listen to WGEU
CBS’ “World News Roundup”
every morning at 8:00. Monday
trough Saturday.
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Sunday School Lesson
By ROY L. SMITH
It is a rather surprising fact that
we know almost nothing about the
childhood and young manhood of
Jesus of Nazareth. No more than
a very few incidents—the visit of
|the Magi, of the Shepherds, the
visit to the Temple at the age of
eight days, the flight into Egypt—
are told concerning his earliest
years, and only one-—his visit to
the Temple at the age of twelve—
out of his boyhood.
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The Sunday School Lesson for
January 16: “The Boyhood and
Youth of Jesus,” Matthew 2:13-
15,i5-23; Mark 6:3; Luke 2:39-52.
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Traces of His Mother
There are, however, certain very
plain traces of his mother’s life
and influence. We know from
Mary’s songs which are recorded
in the book of Luke that she was
a woman with a passionate sym
‘pathy for the poor, and it is easy
4o believe that her conversations
in the home during those early
This Sunday School Lesson
is sponsored by the Athens
Banner-Herald, The Interna
tional Council of Religious
Education, and the Athens
Ministerial Association. Dr.
Roy Smith is the brilliant
editor of a Methodist na
tional paper and the opinions
herein expressed are his own.
We hope these lessons may
be a real service to the
community.
years may have had great effect
in arousing in her son the love for
the helpless which was so much a
part of his later life.
In several of his parables Jesus
shows that he had watched his
mother closely-—the story of the
woman who swept her house with
great care,.of that other woman
who put leaven in the meal, of the
third who patched up an old gar
ment; these and others show traces
of Mary’s influence.
The Orphaned Boy
' There is an old tradition, now
pretty generally accepted, that
sometime after the historic visit of
‘the family to the Temple in Jeru
salem Joseph, the head of the
+house, died and left the manage
ment of the carpenter shop in the
+hands of Jesus, the oldest son of
the family. We know from other
references in the New Testament
that there were several other sons
;in the family, and the business
must have been carried on by these
boys under the general guidance of
their mother.
| The First Major Decision
! At the age of twelve, when he
first wvisited the Temple, Jesus
,dropped a remark which shows
ithat he had arrived at an advanced
state of character development. He
was no longer a child. He had
achieved wisdom far beyond that
of an average boy of that age.
| In response to his mother’s anx
ious rebuke, in which she had
.reprimanded him for giving his
, parents so much cause for anxiety,
‘he said: “Didn’t you know that I
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‘would be somewhere about in my
father’s house?”
By the age of twelve he had
begun to build his life around a
great fixed purpose!
The Home Furnishes the Soil
From this simple remark it is
very evident that Jesus had been
fortunate in having the privilege
of growing up in a great home,
Boys and girls seldom get great
purposes out of a family life that
is rent with discord and which
feeds on the superficial.
A thirteen year old boy who was
living with one parent, his father
and mother being divorced, made
'a rather caustic comment one Sun
day morning to his church school
Heacher. “You can’t blame the chil
’dren," he said, “for the juvenile
delinquency of their parents.” And
the teacher knew that the lad’s
’mother came home drunk at least
three nights out of each week.
} When all consideration has been
given to the fact that Jesus was
no ordinary lad, and when we re
mind ourselves that even from his
infancy the stamp of divinity was
upon him, it still remains true that
rthe rich soil of a beautiful home
life must have contributed very
'largely to the great soul he be
‘came.
The generation of adults has
made life a pretty difficult affair
for growing youngsters. It has
allowed so many of the great well
springs of inspiration to dry up.
Where, for instance, is the truly
great and inspiring fiction upon
which growing minds and hearts
ought to be able to feed? When has
anyone seen a moving picture that
FUNERAL NOTICE
(COLORED)
MOON, MRS. MARY FRANCES.
—The relatives and friends of
Mrs. Mary Frances Moon, Mr.
and Mrs. Dave Moon, Colbert,
Ga.; Mrs. Nomie Johnson, Ra
venna, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Gant, Mrs. Lizzie Timmes,
Chattanooga, Tenn.; Messrs.
Whelchel and Jeff Long, Mr.
William L. Hopson, Athens, Ga.;
Mr. Albert Long, Atlanta, Ga.;
Mrs. Elsie Lytle, Mr. and Mrs.
Johnnie Williams, High Point,
N. C.; and a host of other rela
tives and friends, are invited to
attend the funeral of Mrs. Mary
Frances Moon, Thursday, Janu
ary 13, 1949, at 2:00 p. m. from
the Holly Creek Baptist Church,
Comer, Ga. Rev. E. D. Thomas
and other ministers will offici
ate. Interment Holly Creek cem
etery. Mack and Payne Funeral
Home.
JEWELL, MR. BERRY—qf Steph
ens, Ga., passed away at the
residence Tuesday, January 11,
1949. Funeral arrangements
will be announced later. Mack
and Payne Funeral Home.
HILL, MR. GEORGE — of 1468
Oconee Street, Athens, Ga.,
passed away at the residence,
Tuesday, January 11, 1949, Fun
eral arrangements will be an
nounced later. Mack and Payne
Funeral Home.
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'challenged young people to be-
Jcome noble and :splendid? What
have we done when we have sur
rounded our young with taverns,
night-clubs, and the like?
Even college chapels have gone
out of date. That which produced
some of the greatest of the great
of a generation ago is now obso
|lete.
It is impossible to grow a great
people if we compel them*to drink
|out of shallow wells of inspiration.
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