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DAILY MEDITATIONS
Behold happy is the man
GG S whom God correcteth,
! therefore despise not thou
the chastening of the Al
mizhty,
For he maketh sore, and Dindetk up he
woundeth, and his hand make whole,
He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea in
seven there shall no evil touch thee.—Book of
Job B:17-18-19, .
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Military Assistance Is Nothing
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New To U. . Foreign Policy
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent.
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —Efforts to oppose
new Military Assist: ce Program as a radical
departure in U. 8. foreign policy won't stand up.
Anyone who would take the trouble to look at the
record since the end of the war will find half a
dozen precedents for doing what it is now pro
posed to do under the MAP legislation which
President Truman and the State Department have
just sent to Congress.
When the House Foreign Affairs Committee was
considering Marshall Plan legislation last fall, the
idea of backing up the European Recovery Pro
gram with sonre military assistance was presented
by Rep. John M. Vorys, Ohio Republican, The
State Department was then asked to draw up
legislation to carry out such a program. A draft
bill was submitted and considered. But it never
saw the light of day,
Ever since the end of the war, the U, S. armed
services through the State Department have been
sponsoring three bills to facilitate military assist
auce to foreign countries.
PROPOSED TRANSFER OF SURPLUS ARMS
The first was a request that Congress grant au
thority te transfer surpius U. S. arms to Latin-
American countries, Another version of this same
idea would have provided for standardization ot
arms in Western Hemisphere countries. This would
have been achieved by permitting the U. S. to give
its surplus equipment to Latin-American coun
tries in exchange for similar *equipment that
might have been furnished by another foreign
government, For instance, a German-built ce
stroyer might be traded in for a surplus U, S. de
stroyer, The German-built snip would then have
been scrapped. ‘
The second bill proposed was to authorize the
detailing of U. S. military advisory missions to
foreign eouniries. The third bill was te authorize
the training of ‘oreign military missions in the
U. s
All these things were done during the war. They
are still carried on to a limited extent—particular
ly in Latin America—under hemisphere detense
and the 1948 Rio de Janeiro Reciprocal Assist
ance Pact plans. The newly-proposed Military As
sistance Program would merely extend this au
thority for peacetime operations and wrap the
wnoie business up in one biil '
‘lhe same principle would be applied to con~
tinung postwar military assistance to Greece,
lursey, Iran, Korea and the Philippine Islands.
Aid to Greece and Turkey Las of course been
suppiied under the special “Truman Doctrine”
legislation since May, 1947, To date about $500,-
0uu,600 worth of such aid has been lurpished, 'Lhe
new Military Assistance Program bill would add
another $60,000,000 or more——previously requesied
—to that endeavor. Including the new aid for the
Phuippines, Korea nd Iran, the total of new
money under the Military Assistance Program lor
these countries would be $300,000,000.
Military surpluses having an original cost of
$b5U,000,000 were transieired to the Pnilippines
uncer the Rehabilitation Act of 1946, The new
Mulitary Assistance Program would continue tnis
"eifort to set up the now independent islanu on a
firm basis.
The United States assumed a responsibility in
Korea when its Army of Occupation moved into
the peninsula to help establish an independent
government. Now that U. S. troops have been
withdrawn, there is an obligation to conunue mil=-
itary assistance to the Koreans to hold their own
against Communist pressure irom the north,
*There has been less publicity about U, 8. aid to
Iran. But beginning witk the sale of U. S, sur
pluses in the Middle East 1o lran, there has been
continuing aid through police and military train
ing missions. This aid would be formalized under
the Military Assistance Program. -
What the Military Assistance Program legisla
tion would do, in summary, is put into one law a
‘number of relited activities which have been pro
posed or which the Unitéd States has actually
been carrying on in one form or another ever
since the days of World War 1L
The legislation would eover assistance to other
countries than those mentioned above, if that
should be found necessary., In effect, passage of
the Military Assistance Program would exiend the
Truman Doctrine—originally propounded for the
benefit of Greece and Turkey—to the whole non-
Communist world, The advantage to the govern
~ ment ia having ail these loose ends wrapped up in
one omnibus bill, with a clear statement of policy
Beeia aithiocier sy obvicug
Keep An Eye On Germany
In all our attention to Russia’s aggressive strat
egy, we're inclined to overlook the still very real
menace of a possible resurgent Germany.
Senator Dulles of New York gave us one re
minder the other day when he told his colieagues
the North Atlantic Treaty should be viewed as @8
safeguard against both nations,
Another memory jog came from the U. S, zone
of Germany, where a new poll of German citizens
showed a majority believing yet—or again—that
Hitler’s nazism is a good idea which failed only
because it was badly carried out,
That attitude is pretty close to the frequently
expressed reaction of most Germans to Hitler's
conduct of the war, They were not sorry he started
World War 11, despite its terrifying train of ruin.
Their only compiaint was that he lost it. ;
We must remember these hard realities when
ever we want to whoop ecstatically over western
Germany’s new democratic constitution, its com--1
age in the face of the Berlin blockade, its appar
ent espousal of the western powers’ general ap
proach to Europe’s problems,
The Germans are brave, no doubt. But politi
cally they are too often either indifferent or sonre
what naive. Few of them have any great love of
liberty, as this new poll has stressed once more.
They care more for security; they like to be led.
Many of them question their ability to govern
themselves democratically, but it doesn’t seem to
worry them.
There is no foundation for democracy in these
notions. No constitution, no public statements of
German officialdom can change them in a short
space of time,
The genuine democracies of the world are not
very far along the path of making Germany over
into a country that can take a part, politically as
well as economically, in an ordered fanrily ol
peace-loving nations.
Until we of the West can break the crust of cus
tom that holds German thinking in narrow, un
democratic bounds, we should welcome the At
lantic Pact as a protection against this country
that twice tried to rule the world, has no regrets at
the ruinous consequences, and might try again,
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Talked - Up’ Depression
“AS @ HALON We Cacaul @iid o vecuu.e eco
nomic hypoehondriacs because a country, like an
individual, can worry itself sick.”
This and a lot more talk like it came recently
from Charles Luckman, president of Lever Broth
ers Company, the big soap and food products
maker, ‘
Always a dynamo, Luckman was whirring at his
highest pitch as he outlined for Americans the
key reasons they should stop quaking with fear
over prospects of a depression.
He cited 59,000,000 workers on the job, $200,-
000,000,000 in liquid savings and an estimated
$215,000,000,000 total personal inconre for 1949,
“It would seem prepesterous that anyone could
manipulate these figures and come up with an
answer that equals disaster,” he sid. “Yet that is
precisely what Americans are doing.”
it’s true. And sad and a bit ironic, 00, Not many
months ago the big cry was: “Let us halt this dan
gerous rise in prices.” Now we've done it and the
resulting downturn has us gcared stiff,
For a long time we'd been breaking more bus
ness records than we had any right to expect we
could. Now, just because we've slacked off from
that smashing pace, the attitude of many is that
we're heading for ruin, Businessmen, politicians,
commentators, citizens of every walk nervously
await each august announcement from high places
on where we stand.
Luckman will have done us a service if his talk
at Los Angeles helps to shake us out of this silly
frame of nrind.
His advice, naturally, was directed most point
edly at businessmen who had grown accustomed
to a plush state of affairs and were shocked when
¢onditions vanished,
“Sales managers, vice presidents and presidents
have shiny pants from hatching profits on cush
joned chairs,” he said. “Let's go out and sell
goods.”
A lot of us who aren’'t executives have had
things pretty fat since the war ended and maybe
we, too, have shiny pants.
Certainly it's foolish for us to sit around expect
ing the private enterprise system to prove itself
to us through thick and thin, It can only work if
we make it work. So if we can just stop trembling
long enough, maybe we can get the jobs done that
will keep the economy going smoothly.
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A large part of mankind, which has not yet
been enlightened by Christian truth . . . shows in
the moral and religious field clear symptoms of
peinicious amasss, . . . There is no other way of
curing disease except with a great spiritual blood
transfusion.—Pope Pius XIL
There is no guestion but that we are drifting
toward socialism. And if we don’t stop spending,
that's where we are going to wind up.—Rep. Jos~
eph R. Martin (R) of Massachusetis.
The atom bomb could never destroy commun
ism, but I think that freedom eventually will.—
Eric Johnston, president, Motion Picture Associa
ticn of America.
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Broad and Lumpkin 143 Spring Street 2
Athens, Ga. : Monroe, Ca.
BY T. W. REED
fought through the shot and
shell there, for I nad not been
born then. But I did know well
one of the private soldiers in that
company, who for years was as
sociated with me on the old Ath-
Follow-Up
ens Banner.
Sock Pruitt remains a unique
figure in my memory. There never
was another like him. In momory
now I can see old “Sock” sitting
in his split-bottom chair down on
Jackson street out In front of the
Banner office and hear his voice
as he spoke in his mountain ver
nacular of his experiences as he
followed the peerless Lee through
his campaigns in the hills and val
leys of the Old Dominion.
He had many unique featers in
his imake-up. Probably the best
'remembered was his fondness of
going barefooted at times, and
even when he wo"e shoes his
geuthnthwhyiwuddbcsq
own as Wwilliam B. Pruiti he
was always knowu to me and his
other firends at “Sock.” When he
went to the front in Virgmnia he
‘had a pair of shoes, but towards
the end of the conflict and espec
ially in the latter days from Pe
tersburg to Appomattox he went
on his bare feet and on the march
left his blood on the rough roads
as he did his share of the fightirg
in those last tragic d ys.
He was a private soldier in the
famous Banks County Guards, a
company made up of volunteers
from up in Banks county, the
greater number of its members
teken off the farms, just plain or
dinary citizens who had had ,ery
little educational training, but
who were co imanded by a cap
tain who was devoted to the ob
servance of -1l the customs of re
fined society and who in spite of
the rough experiences of warfare
always insisted on his men ob-‘
serving in proper way thea cocial
amenities of life. ;
- The Banks County Guards
came through Athens on their \ -y
to Virginia and were given a
hearty reception on their arrival
here. They were clad in gray
jeans and armed with squirrel
rifles. When the captain drew
them up in regular military for
mation he always addressed them
is “Gentlemen of the Banks Coun
ty Guards.” He never referred to
them in any other form of ad
dress. So ‘“Sock” was always
referred to as a gentleman of that
Round-Up Those Bottles!
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famous company, Ang he
part bravely and well mmm
the entire war.
1 do not know just Whep
came to Athens after the wap
make this city his Permy
home. He took up journalig,
kis profession.. . ..Ie hag ang:
intellect of high order alth
‘untrained. He was ruij of tun
enjoyed a good joke. He never
cupied any high Dosition gy
Banner but he was always ,
of the establishment. His ;"
the paper while [ knew i
was of a varied natyre He
ted advertisements, Wlote oo
sional news items, kept jn (o
with many a detail on the par
was alway: on the job ang ne
forgot the lessons i., Ccourtesy
had been tiught him by his
tain.
I have the mcst pleasant Meny
ries of old “Sock” I spent man
a happy hour m his company g,
enjoyed seeing him in his seguls
attire, often barefooteq and
ways with his socks hanging dow
over hic anklac ana €Xposing i
bare legs even when wear
shoes. When he did write ay ooty
sional article for the paper, ‘it i
a unique sparkle about it
Among my most treag
memories are those that clin
‘around the face and form of &
old soldier who was always
ferred to as one of the gentle
of the Banks County Guar- -
e
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years ago.