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Drucie Snyder, daughter of Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, christens a genuine covered
wagon, symbol of the big 1949 Savings Bonds Opportunity drive, on the steps of the Treasury
building in Washington. Thirty similar wagons will tour the cities of the pation to dramatize
the billion-dollar bond-selling campaign.
Athens Regional Library
Displaying Chinese Art
An exhibit of Chinese art from
the collection of Mrs. Rollin
Chambliss has recently been
placed in the Regional Library and
will remain on display until the
end of May. Miss Laura Black
shear chairman of the Library Ex
hibit Committee of the Athens Art
Association generally arranges for
the work of local artists to be
shown, but since the Chinese
pieces were available the commit
tee decided a deviation from usual
custom might be welcomed by the
patrons of the library.
The “iron flower” pictures over
the mantel opposite the circulation
desk illustrate in a conventional
set of patterns the four seasons of
the year. Legend has it that long
ago a blacksmith in interior China
envied the delicate blossoms that
other men painted on porcelain and
embroidered on silk. So he decid
ed that he too would make beaut
iful flowers. ‘But the only medi
um with which he knew how to
work was iron. Undaunted, he
stuck to his task and finally cre
ated “iron flowers.” His work has
been copied in all the years sinece.
The hanging over the mantel in
the lounge is a lady’s skirt, while
that in the reference room is made
from a gentleman’s coat. The lat
ter shows abundant use of the
JPeking, or seed, stitch, most fav
ored of all Chinese embroidery
stitches.
Woven Silk Pictures
Woven silk pictures are illus
Hal Boyle
The Poor Man’s Philosopher
THE POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
~ ON THE CRUEL, CRUEL WORLD
NEW YORK. — (AP) — The
Poor Man's Philosopher asks:
Is mankind getting more cruel?
© This is a question in many
minds today. And many have de
cided in their own hearts that
the answer is: |
“¥Yes"
Such a conclusion is bad in~
deed for the world. For if a ma
jority of people really believed
mankind were getting more
eruel, then mankind would .soon
actually be more cruel. For what
men believe they are, they tend
in time to become.
But most people just wonder
about whether cruelty is dying
or growing. Here is what a few
have said to me:
A Negro Steward—‘“People are
more cruel, because they aren’t
as polite as they were even 20
years agqe. And how about these
stories in the papers of children
killing other children? Isn’t that
a ‘terrible sign of what's wrong?”
A Combat Veteran — “I don’t
know. But I do know we had
more fellow feeling between
men fighting overseas than we
do now at home in peace.”
‘A Businessman — “People
aren't getting more cruel.
They’re just being crowded
harder—that’s all.”
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trated by the Nanking tapestry in
the hall, and the Hangchow black
and white pieces in the lounge.
The etching over the catalog
lfiles, by Ella Ely, shows an out
door restaurant, a typical Shang
hai scene. The colorful business
enterprises of the streets of Pe
king are shown in the two books
of water colors displayed in one
of the cases at the entrance to the
library.
Also in these cases is a group of
old bronze pieces, including two
libation cups and a mirror. Three
| varieties of lacquer are to be seen,
as well as carvings from Canton
in several materials. g
Canton Ware
’ Porecelain is represented by Can
ton ware and a group of green
lined bowls. The latter are as
beautifully finished on the bottom
outside as they are in the linings.
The smallest size are old Chinese
wine cups. One of these has been
c¢leverly mended in the Chinese
fashion. The broken-line pat
tern, shown on bowls of three
sizes, is a favorite pattern with the
Chinese. In these eight ways of
breaking three lines they see the
beginning of all writing, and con
sequently. the beginning of all
thinking, or philosophy.
The oldest piece in ~“;he display
is probably the miniature white
jade screen, with carved wood
stand.
in the morning, I don't think
people are getting any more
cruel. But by 5 o'clotk in the
afternoon I'm not so sure. I
guess how you feel about that
depends on what's happened to
you.”
It is a mixed up question at
best. Perhaps in no other gener
ation in history have the devil
and the angel in man’s dual na
ture contended harder for the
mastery of his soul.
in what other 35-year period
have more weople been starved
to death, destroyed in warfare,
executed in mass murders, or
killed by accidents?
Yet in what other similar per
iod have more people won or
sustained political independence?
In what other period has man
kind made more social progress,
achieved greater economic free
dom, or made such startling con
quests over disease?
The optimist says, “Man is
living longer.”
And the cynic replies, “Yes,
but only to be miserable lon
ger.”
1t .is hard to decide whether
many of mankind’s steps are for
ward or backward. Life grinds
people differently than it did a
century ago. The wears and tears
are different. &
Are the elderly better off now
with old age pensions and the
feeling they aren't wanted? Or
were they better ' off in earlier
generations when they had less
money but a more secure place
in the family household?
The dropping of the atom
bombs can be regarded by most
Japanese only as acts of cruelty.
But the American soldier wait
ing to attack Japan is likely to
feel it was insurance against his
own death. And to him it was a
kindness.
Who is more significant in our
time and the history of our race
—Adolf Hitler, who plunged the
world into war and gassed six
million captives, or Dr. Selman
Waksman of Rutgers University,
who discovered life-saving strep
tomycin?
It ‘'does appear that man lis
giving an odd answer to Cain’s
timeless query: “Am I my bro
ther's keeper?” .He is both his
brother’s keeper — and his bro
ther’s destroyer.
But as long as he keeps grop
ing for something he hopes will
be better than he has known, it
is impossible to say man is get
ting any crueler.
Upholstery Added,
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Company Announces '
Announcement of the opening
of a department to upholster fur
niture was announced yesterday
by John W. Thurmond of Norris
Hardware Company. The new de
partment will be managed by Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Tompson, both ex-~
perienced upholsters, Mr. Thomn
son has been engaged in that bus
iness in Athens for seventeen
years.
Mr. Thurmond said the uphol
stery department was opened in
connection with the department
opened some time ago featuring
reproductions of fine furniture lo
cated on the second floor. The up
holstery department is located
on the first floor with an entrance
from Clayton street and Washing
ton street.
Norris Hardware Company also
handles a fine line of fabrics for
draperies and upholstering, in
cluding ithe Schumacher and Her
shell lines, Mr. Thurmond said.
“We are very glad to have Mr.
and Mrs. Thompson in charge of
our new department,” Mr. Thur
mond said. “We will pick up fur
niture for upholstering and deliv
er to the customer as well as make
free estimates. Qur work is guar
anteed. Both Mr. and Mrs. Thomp
son do excellent work.”
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PUSH-BUTTON
50 CENSUS
WASHINGTON — {(NEA) —
They’'ve cooked up a real push
button nose count for the big de
cennial census next year.
When Congress ordered the first
one in 1790 and then decreed that
it should be made every 10 years
thereafter, nobody dreamed it
would come to this. In 1950, it’'ll
all be done with eleetrical brains,
airplanes, card machines, auto
matic counters, calculators with
memories and magnetic error
catchers. And the farmers are go
ing to count themselves.
The only time it will be touched
by human hands is when the cen
sus taker knocks on your door
and writes down your answers.
After that it’s practically all elec
tric.
Airplanes are already in on the
show. They're being used to pho
tograph every city in the U. S,
plus a big share of the farmland.
As many as possible of the census
takers will be handed aerial pho
tographs of their territory. This is
to prevent mooching on a fellow
taker’s clients and to insure that
none of the small post-war homes,
or farm houses off the road, are
missed in the count.
They will also be given a brand
new detailed map of their district.
This has the Bureau up to its
ears in map-making. New roads,
new local boundaries, changed
courses of rivers and new cities
have to be shown so there will be
a minimum chance of overlap
ping counts or of skipping any
body. / : e
Preparing the maps and photo
graphs is the biggest and costli
est pre-census job. Next to that
is the task of hiring and training |
150,000 enumerators—the number |
of districts into which the coun
try will be divided. Even part of
the raining will be push-button.
Special films are being prepared
lpyb Census Bureau to speed that
job.
The census of cities of over
2500 population will start April 1,
1950 and is supposed to take only
two weeks. The farm head-count
will start the same day but a
month is being alloted for it. It
will be Bureau policy to hire as
many school teachers as possible.
There will be no fixed rate of
pay for, the enumerators. Differ
‘ent scales will be used in various
parts of the country. The average
‘census taker will make about $lO
‘a day, .and it is hoped the unit
cost can be kept down to about
10 cents per person counted. The
'whole jeb lis expected to cost
“about $70,000,000.
A half-dozen test censuses try
ing out new wrinkles have been
run in various counties around
the U. S. recently. One of the best
ideas these trials have produced
is the self-enumeration by farm
ers. Instead of the census taker
catehing the farmers in the field
some afternoon and getting his
information on the spot, a form is
first mailed to the farmer. He is
given a few days to fill it out and
then the enumerator calls for the
form. i S _
If it’s all filled out when he
calls it saves a lot of time. If it
isn’t, no time has been lost. It has
been found that this method
gives the farmer’s wives a chance
to help answer the questions and
they probably know more about
eggs and butter sales and such
thing than the farmer himself
daoes. s
Census Bureau officials will di
vide the nation into 14 regions
with between 800 and 900 field
offices for administration purpo
ses. A capacity of 90 mail cars
will be needed to move the paper
and supplies to these offices. The
completed forms will be returned
to Washington by registered mail
in an estimated 60,000 boxes.
Then the button is pushed and
electricity begins its work. Ap
proximately 1500 electric key
punch machines will go into ac
tion with each operator turning
ottt 1000 cards a day. The cards
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Robert LeMaster of Madison, Ga., will make a parachute jump
on Sunday afternoon, five o’clock, at the Polo Air Field on the
Atlanta highway. A free air show is to be presented also. Mr.
LeMaster was with the 504th Paratroop Regiment of the 82nd
Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N. C, and has 47 jumps to his
credit. He took his jump training at Fort Benning, Ga., and was
recently discharged from the Army, When he jumps on Sunday
he will do a delayed opening at 3,000 feet. This is a free show
and everyone is invited to attend. Mr. LeMaster is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. S. LeMaster of Madison. If it is too windy the jump
will be postponed until laier.
next go to sorters, which put|chine combines card sorting and
them in proper piles at the rate tabulation at the same time so
of 450 a minute. that as soon as on e tabulation 1s
After that there’s a counter for |finished the cards are already
tabulating, which can handle 60 |sorted for the next operation.
different classifications of inform- In spite of all the machines, the
ation at one time. This machine] job of getting final results takes
has a running speed of 400 cards |two years. The machines will
per minute and at the same time make approximately 14 billion
reads the cards for any incon-|card passes. A card pass means
sistencies, rejecting those incor- |running a card through a machine
rectly punched. Still another ma- !once.
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