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DAILY MEDITATIONS
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cometh shall find watching,
verily I say unio you, that
he shall gird himself and
make them to sit down to meat, and will come
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A. F. Pledger, Holly Heights Chapel,
Georgia Cavalcade
By GUS BERND, Historical Assistant,
Office of Secretary of State,
During the days of the American Revolution,
Wilkes County was known as the “Hornet's Nest.”
An engagement like the Battle of Kettle Creex,
fought on February 14, 1779, would have been an
important one in any frontier fighting, Its effect
upon the fortunes of war along Georgia's rugged
frontier of Revolutionary Days was most poe
porenal, The Tories were led at Kettle Creek by
Colonel Boyd, a British officer, The Patriots were
commanded by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South
Carolina, one of the heroes of Cowpens or King's
Mountain, Colonel Pickens was notably aided in
his command by Elijah Clarke, one of Georgia’s
most illustrious soldiers, and by John Dooly.
In Revolutionary Georgia the menace of the
Yories was at least as great as that of the Britisn,
Charles C. Jones states on this subject in his His
tory of Georgia: “Merciless was the war waged
between Royalists (Tories) and Republicans (Pat
viots). The former, inflamed with hatred and
eager for rapine, spared neither age nor sex. Ruin
marked their footsteps, and their presence was a
signal for theft, torture, murder, and crimes with
out a name. , . . Revenge and retaliation prompued
the Republicans (Patriots) to many blooay aeeds
which can starcely be excused in a defensive war.”
Savannah had fallen to the British in Decemoer,
1778; Ebenezer in January of '79; and then Au
gusta, Only the northern part of Georgia, and
(Jrincipally the Wilkes area, held out against Brit
sh and Tories in February, 1779. A smail band of
frontiersmen of Georgia and Carolina were des
tined to turn the tide in this secter in favor of in
dependence.
’ Colonel Boyd and his Tories were surprised by
the Americans about breakfast time on February
. 14 on the banks of Kettle Creek a few miles soutn~
- west of the present town of Washington, Georgia.
. The American force numbered about 400; and the
,"- Tories under Boyd were about 700 in number. 'L'ne
battle began on the north side of the stream and
' lasted mbout one hour and forty-five minutes of
fierce fighting. The Americans struck suddenly
_ and got an early advantage which they maintained
. with great skill, Colonel Boyd fell early of wounds
- which proved to be fatal. He remarked before
© death, upon hearing of the defeat of his men, that
- it-would have been different had he not lallen.
" The Patriots advanced in three divisions; the
" center under Pickens; the left under Dooly; and
h the right under Clarke. Boyd's force had to cease
% foraging and breakfasting to meet the attack.
. Pickens flanked a feeble breast-works and rushed
F upon the enemy precipitating a rout in which Boyd
. fell, The Tories retired across the creek and were
viallied by one Major Spurgen on a hill above a
. cane-brake. This might have saved the day for
" them had not the genius of Colonel Elijah Ciarke
“ made it otherwise. Clarke with a small group of
" men forded the Creek, and though his horse was
- shot from under him, he made his way to the rear
~ of Spurgen’s men,
~ More of the Americans eventually found their
~ way into action on this front. Thus out-flanked,
the Tory force was locked in bitter assault from
_ both sides of the hill and soon demoralized. The
~ historical consensus of the casualties of the battle
~ is: for the Tories—7o killed and 75 wounded and
captured; for the Americans or Patrists — nine
killed and 23 wounded. The fleeing Tories dis
persed im many directions. Some fled to Florida;
others to the Creeks or Cherokees. Of the 700,
about 200 under Colonel Moore reached Augusta,
which was still temporarily held by the British.
Colonel Pickens visited Colonel Boyd while the
later lay dying. The brave British officer gave his
watch and other treasured items to Pickens along
with a letter for Boyd's wife. The request was
faithfully carried out. Two Americans tended and
~ buried the Britisher, It is said that Mrs. Boyd be
queathed the watch to the Pickens family upon her
death, Many famous Patriots fought under Pick
eas, Clarke, and Dooly at memorable Kettle Creek.
Such names as John Clark, then a lad of 13, Ste
phen sad Barnard Heard, Nancy Hart, Captain
McCasll, and George Walton, are listed. The Tories
captured at Kettle Creek were later tried in South
Cavolina for treason and were sentenced to die.
¥ive of the principal offenders were executed and
e others were pardoned.
The victory of Kettle Creek had a profound ef
_ feet wpon the remainder of the war in the Southern
Qolonies. It broke the power of the Tories forever
aad greatly fortified the courage and endurance of
the struggling Patriots. The British soon abandoned
. Augusta and moved nearer the coast. In Winston
' Shurchill language, it was “the end ot the begin
aing® In 1030, through the efforts of the Federal
Goverament and the Daughters of the American
m a monument was erected at the site of
the Baitle of Kettle Creek,
ATHENS BANNER HERALD
New Peace Plans Are Hatched
As War of Nerves Continues
Washington today is like a lost man at midnight
in the dark of the mwon, standing at the bottom of
a deep pit, blindfolded and with his hands tied be
hind his back, looking for something that isn't
there. The “something™ is of course “peace,” or
“the road to peace.”
That does not mean that the American capital is
completely frustrated by the world-shaking events
of the last few weeks, There is no inclination on
the part of public leaders to give up, lie down and
die quietly in the face of insurmountable obsta
cles. But there is a vast groping for new solutions
to old problems.
When President Truman first made public his
orders for the Atomic Energy Comnrission to pro
ceed with research on a hydrogen super-bomb,
there was a {eeling that this would insure peace.
The mere development of a weapon 1,000 times
more powerful than the A-bomb was expected to
check the RussSians from any further aggression.
This feeling of security and confidence gave,way
rapidly to, a feeling that the Russians, too, might
be able to make a super-bomb. And these doubts
were enlarged by disclosures that Dr. Klaus Fuchs,
German-born British scientist, might have given
the Russians many secrets of American know-how
in atomic science, The result has been a new up
surge of demands for greater security and a tough
ening of loyalty investigations for government
employes.
But the bigger and more important reaction has
been a desire to find some new preventive against
the use of super-bombs.
Senator Brien McMahon proposed his five-year,
$50,000,000,000 Marshall Plan for the world in €x
change for atomdc disarmament. Senator Millard
Tydings of Maryland went even further to pro
pose complete disarmament, down to the rifie,
On top of these specific proposals from the
chairman of the Senate Atomic Energy and Nat
ional Defense Committees, there was built up a
new interest in the “Federal Union” idea. This now
takes the form of a resolution before Congress to
explore the possibilities of a stronger world gov
ernment among the seven North Atlantic Pact na
tions, at present united for milita‘ry defense alone.
Hearings on this proposal before a Senate For=-
eign Relations subcommittee had been arranged
some time before, Coming just when they did, at
the peak of interest in the H-bomrb and the Mec-
Mahon and Tydings speeches, the testimony for the
Federal Union of nations by Senator Estes Kafau
ver of Tennessee, former Supreme Court Justice
Owen J. Roberts, Prof. Harold Urey and others
gave new emphasis to this approach to peace.
Senator Kefauver pointed out that exploring the
Federal Union idea would not mean that efforts to
bring peace through the United Nations, the Mar
shall Plan or the North Atlantic Pact need be
stopped. »
Justice Roberts declared that the way out was
through “a federal union of Atlantic democracies,
a common currency, a common defense force, with
free movement of people and goods,” as the
“surest, cheapest, strongest way to stop war and
communism, create prosperity, extend freedom.”
Professor Urey backed up this somewhat opti
nristic prediction to the extent that world govern=-
ment offered the best hope by which catastrophe
might be avoided. Professor Urey expressed the
wish that the super-bomb would not work, or that
it might be too big to deliver. “But if the bomb
could be developed,” and he thought it could, he
said “there would be no place to hide.”
Apparently trying to pull together all this some
what confused groping, and bring it into sharp
focus, Secretary of State Dean Acneson at his mia
week press conference somewhat like a minister of
the gospel, preached a sermon that there was no
easy way to peace with the Soviet Union, On the
contrary, he said, this road was long and difficult,
The secretary declared there was no point in
trying to bring out a 1950 model atomic control
plan. Taking the old plan apart and trying to put
it together again to see if it would look different
would serve no useful purpose, he said. He did not
close the door on future negotiations with the Rus
sians, however.
If that is to be the policy, it looks like more of
the same war of nerves, for as long as you can
stand it.
The time is-not ripe for women to aspire to
higher office. It is utterly ridiculous to try to
elect a woman president now. — Mrs, Eleanor
Roosevelt.
mgy of nickel merchandise has vanished in
this e*a of high prices. Our new economy demands
a revision of coin values to meet the chanrged sit
uation.—Rep. Wright Patman (D), Texas.
We have successfully met the challenge of the
first phase of the (European) recovery program,
but, in so doing, we have only opened the opportu
nity for the enduring part of the job.—ECA Ad
ministrator Paul Hoffman,
It is more an application of tribal law than in
ternational law. — W. Walton Butterworth, assist
ant secretary of state, on Chinese Red seizure of
U. S. consulate at Peiping.
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Mark 9:33—35; Ps. 34:5; Isa.
45:22.
THE THIRD ENEMY—ANGER,
RESENTMENTS
We have now looked at two of
the fifteen enemies of the human
personality: laek of a vital faith
in God and consequent self-cen=
teredness. We now come to the
third: Resentment anger and
hate. In taking up these three we
are entering the realm of the emo=-
tions.
This age is afraid of being emo
tional, and yet it is turning out to
be a very emotional age; in fact,
emotionalisn. is rampant. Most of
this emotionalism *is self-disrup
tive. An age that is afraid of emo
tion ends up in following the thing
it fears. It has tried to suppress
the emotions, and the emotions
put out at the door have come back
by the window.
For the emotions are a part of
us and cannot be eliminated. All
attempts at elimination end in
complexes. They are pushed into
the subconscious, and there they
become a festering point. We can
not set aside the emotions; we can
only direct them, sometimes re
direct them to great aims and pur-
poses. . The emotions are the driv
ing forces of the pérsonality. They
can drive toward the rocks or to-
‘ward the open seas of expanding
accomplishment.
Take anger, for instance. It is an
| instinct of self-protection, and
for- the protection of others. It
‘causes us to stand up and fight
' against harmfu! enemies of the hu
man personality. We are angry
with evil, and therefore we stiffen
ourselves against it and oppose it.
| Otherwise we would allow it to
{invade us and others. Nietzsche is
i right when he says that “virture
| is of no use unless it can be lashed
|into a rage.” Otherwise we would
be “moral cows in our plump
Icomfortablenas." Our capacity ‘to
' love the good, determines our ca
! pacity to hate the evil. But note
| that it is our virtue that is to be
i lashed into rage—not our pride,
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SEABOARD AIRLINE RY.
Arrival and Duparture of Traine
Athens, Geeorgia
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
New York and East—
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CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILROAD
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
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East and West
Leave Athens 9:00 a. m.
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Mixed Trains.
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our hurt egoism, our fears. There
is all the difference in the world
between the two: one is harnessed
to higher ends, he:"ce constructive;
the other is harnessed to the ends
of a wounded self, and hence de
structive. The one is a righteous
anger ,and the other is unright
eous. O God, Ido not sail seas.
I am driven by tempests of emo
tion. Help me to harness these to
the purposes of the Kingdom, for
unharnessed they drive me to the
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man is press the button and the
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ually dims. The music plays four
minutes, and when it ends, the
light is completely extinguished,
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hope.
Forward Leon Vlevins’ 28 points
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ketball team’s single game high
for 1948-49.
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