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DAILY MEDITATIONS
What? know ye not that
your body is the temple of
| the Holy Ghost which is in
! you, which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?
¥or ve are bought with a price, therefore glorify
God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God's—llst Corintihans 6:19-20.
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Miave you a favorite Bible verse? Mail to
A, F. Pledger, Holly Heights Chapel,
. . .
American Archaeologists Find
gl .
Treasures At Mt. Sinai
BY OLOF HADDAD
CAIRO.— (AP) —The earliest known record of
the four gospels, the Syriac Sinaiticus, is among
some 8,000 priceless Christian mranuscripts now be
ing photographed by American archaeologists in
Egypt
Thig manuscript is the most cherished possession
of the Greek orthodox monks of colorful St. Cath
erine’s monastery.
For 14 centuries the monastery has remained a
lonely Christian outpost in a waste of mountains in
L ypt's desolate Sinai peninsula,
The Syriac Sinaiticus is a Fifth Century copy of
tl & gospels, It is based on lost Greek originals be
lic ‘ed to go back to the Second Century. It is kept
in a glass case in the monastery’s great library
w! ere the archaeologists are working.
The monastery first came to world attention in
1644 when a visiting German scholar discovered
there one of the two oldest existing manuscripts of
the Bible—the famous Codex Sinaiticus, now in the
British Museum.
Most of the library’s Christian manuscripts, num
bering over 1,500,000 leaves, are in Greek. Others
are in Syriac, Coptic, Ethioptic, Arabic, Armenian
and Slavic,
The pages are hand-illuminated with mriniatures
done in brilliant blue, green and red against a gold
leal background. These miniatures are expected to
throw new light on the development of Christian
art,
Scribes wrote the manuscripts mainly on goatskin
parchment, although there are examples of cow
and pig skin, They used jetblack soot and vegetable
inks, Initials were illuminated, some in letters of
pure gold leaf,
The oldest known Arabic translation of the gos
pels is another literary treasure being studied by
the archaeologists in the monastery. It dates from
the early Ninth Century.
The manuscripts are being systematically studied
for the first time by the present American expedi
tion, mcrofilming the entire contents of the mon
astery’s library. International experts are under
the direction of a Californian, William Terry, vice
president of the American Foundation for the
Study of Man,
Working on the Greek manuscripts is a specialist
from North Carolina, Dr. Kenneth Clark, proféssor
of the New Testament at Duke University, The
Farouk I University of Alexandria is cooperating
with the American Foundation and the Library of
Congress at Washington in sponsoring the expedi
tion.
Christian pilgrims have flocked to St. Cather
ine’s monastery, to pray in its fine Byzantine
church, since earliest times. When the Crusaders
carved their names upon its walls, it was already
venerated throughout Europe.
St. Catherine’s owes its lonely survival to a cov=
enant given by the Prophet Mohanmed himself
nearly 14 centuries ago, This covenant guaranteed
the security of the monastery:.'
Archaeologists point out that before the rise of
Islam, Egypt was one of the great centers of early
Christianity. It is here that the great monastic
movement first began in the Third and Fourth
Centuries. St. Anthony of Egypt is traditionally re-~
garded as the father of Christian monasticism.
The desert wastes of Sinai were soon peopled by
whole communities of Greek orthodox monks and
miles of trackless mountain became honeycombed
with their cavds and cells, Cities grew along the
trade route across the peninsula, :
Then, through this strategic gateway between
Asia and Egypt poured invading Moslenr armies
from Arabia. The monks of Sinai were repeatedly
massacred. Those who survived sought refuge in
the walled monastery of St. Catherine which had
been fortified by the Emperor Justinian, The mon=-
astery gets its name from the martyred virgin saint
of Alexandria whose bones it preserves,
The monastery stands on the biblical site of the
‘mm bush where the Lord spoke to Moses whom
i lems revere as a prophet. And close by, another
thapel and mosque stand side by side atop Mount
| Shad where Moses is supposed to have received the
" >n Comnrandments.
| The man who seeks so gain political advantage
{rom personal attack on a secretary of state is &
r who sseks political advantage from danmage to
eountry.—~Henry L. Stimson, former secretary
of gtate and secretary of war.
Untll wer i 3 eliminated from international rela
tiows, wnpreparedness for it is well nigh as crim
fiad a 8 war iteelf.—General Dwight Eisenhower.
Mo one Lkes $0 be spattered with mud. — Prof,
Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopking University,
I personally believe we are taking chances in the
submarine field—General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Why Do Athenians Continue
.
To Live Dangerously ?
Is it necessary that Athenians continue to live
dangerously?
Two recent traffic surveys taken here by Driver
Education classes—conducted by State Department
of Education officials, State Patrol authorities, and
other safety experts—have shown that many Athens
drivers fail to observe the simple laws and cour
tesies which they should in order to make Athens a
safe city for its citizens and for students from over
this entire state and other states.
The surveys have pointed out the failures of the
drivers and, no doubt, many are correcting their
faults, but why don’t more do this? Driving safely
is as beneficial to the driver as it is to the other
drivers and pedestrians.
Also revealed by the surveys is the fact that few
Athens’ drivers are committing “driving crimes” of
great magnitude—most of them being of a small
and correctable nature; however, the many small
ones add up into a large sum total,
Instances of major importance in regard to traffic
hazards are the motorcades often staged here—it
seems, mostly by University students,
The motorcades are definitely a menace to the
safety of all concerned, whether to persons in the
motorcade or an innocent nearby driver or pedes
trian,
It has been noticed in the past that somre motor
cades continue through “red traffic lights,” which
everyone knows is conducive to accidents. Also,
they come from side streets into main thorough
fares, bucking the traffic which has the “right-of
way.” Even sometimes the motorcades “bust on
into the main streets” and make automobiles with
the “right-of-way” come to complete stops to avoid
accidents, injuries and deaths,
Furthermore, this “reckless driving” type of mo
torcade causes traffic to pile up for some distance,
slowing the movement of traffic and causing con
siderable “interference” for any emergency vehicle
—fire engine, ambulance or police car — which
might be on a “life or death” call.
Also, it must be pointed out that city transpor
tation conveyances could look after the general in
terest of their passengers and other citizens some
what better,
Taxis should take advantage of parking spaces
provided. They should not stop away from the curb
to pick up or let off a passenger, but move over the
few feet to the curb and get out of the flow of traf
fic.
Bus drivers should be cautious at all times in
leaving bus stops. They sometimes pull out without
looking first to see if other vehicles are approach
ing.
Taking everything into consideration Athens has
great possibilities for being an extremely safe city
if only the few thoughtless drivers would consider
the other person.
"Teamed For Defense” Slogan
For Armed Forces Da
Flag-bedecked Main Street, USA, wi}: echo to
the sounds of marching feet and roaring planes as
proud and grateful citizens pay sincere tribute to
their fighting sons and daughters, May 13-May 20,
the nation’s first defense week,
Thousands of representatives of military, veteran
and civic groups will march to the stirring strains
of martial music; the Stars and Stripes will be dis
played in countless homes and business houses;
Service installations will hold “Open House” and,
in general, the slogan—“ Teamed for Defense”—
will become a national byword,
Heretofore, each branch of the Service was hon
ored on its own day. Now, to demonstrate their
strength in unity, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Ma
rine Corps and Coast Guard, and the civilian com
ponents thereof, will show the people of America
that they are, truly, “Teamed for Defense.”
In addition to Armed Forces Day, the Reserve
Officers’ Association of the United States is spon
soring National Defense Week from May 13
through May 20. Athens will observe Armed Forces
Day on May 18.
In a letter to the organization, President Truman
wrote:
“May I take this opportunity to express my ap
preciation tp the Reserve Officers’ Association of
the United States for again observing National De
fense Week,
“The period May 13th through. May 20th seems
very appropriate as the Armred Services will cele
brate Armed Forces Day on May 20th. I am sure
that patriotic citizens will give widespread support
and, naturally, the Armed Services will cooperate
wholeheartedly.”
America is responding enthusiastically to Armed
Forces Day. Civic, religious, fraternal, veterans and
business organizations are paying tribute to the
Armed Services.
Luncheons, manquets, posters and special pro
grams are being advanced by civilian sponsors.
Special displays will be seen in store windows,
public squares, on post office trucks, and in many
other places to honor the U, S. defense team.
On this day, the American people will remember
the Serviceman’s oath to . , . bear true faith and
allegiance to the United States of America; that I
will serve them honestly and faithfully against all
their enemies , . .” And the American people will
respond as one with a solemn, grateful salute.
I'm laughing becauge I've-got 351 days before I
have to pay my income tax.—Comedian Red Skel
ton. !
Grable's Beaufiful Legs Draw -
Compefifion From "“Petty Girl”
By ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD -— (NEA) — Co
‘lumbia wants to ballyhoo Joan
Caulfield as the doll with Holly
wood’s most beautiful pair of legs
in the newspaper ads for “The
Petty Girl.” Twentieth Century-
Fox claims Betty Grable has a
priority on the title and has pro
ttgted to the Producers Associa
n.
Press agents will fight it out at
yawn.,
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Small wonder movie moguls are
in a jittery state over the fickle
movie public. “The Heiress,”
which won Olivia de Havilland an
Oscar, is expected to lose about
$1,000,000, maybe more, at the box
office. “Francis,” starring a talk
ing mulg, will‘ meke‘sl,ooo,ooo.
The Ty Power - Linda Christian
heir will be born in London if the
stork keeps his promise, Ty opens
on the London stage in “Mr., Rob
erts” in mid-July after wrapping
up “An American Guerrilla in the 1
Philippines” for Fox. |
Hattie McDaniel’s estranged
husband, interior decorator Larry
Williams, wants to patch things up,
but Hattie’s in no mood for another
try . . . Joan Crawford is sizzling
over Warner's sneak release in
New York of her latest, “The
Damned Don't Cry.” It opened
without ballyhoo after a title
change from “‘The Victim.”
% %
Peter Lind Hayes, at New
York’s Strand Theater, is billed as:
“The greatest attraction since pop
corn.” . .. Writers on the UI are
blushing. A portion of the writers’
building there has been designated
as “ideal” by director Henry Kos
ter as the exterior of a lunatic
asylum for a sequence in “Har
vey.”
One Star’s Family
M-G-M is talking a deal with
Robert Young to film his radio
show, “Father Knows Best,” using
his real life family . . . Wendell
Corey and Hal Wallis are in a
hassle, Wallis wanted him to
work at Paramourit on his days off
from a Columbia loanout. Corey
went to his lawyer . . . Republic’s
guarded plot secret on ‘“Personal
Column” is an expose of no-good
ers who scan those lonely hearts
ads and prey on marriage-minded
women. John Eldredge plays the
scoundrel,
Lita Grey Chaplin, looking as
young as any Hollywood glamor
queen, beamed when I asked her
what she thought of the careers of
her sons, Sidney and Charles
Chaplin, jr.
“I think,” she said, “they’re a
combination of Charlie and me.
Charles, jr., has his father's pan
tomimic qualities. Sidney is show
business.”
Lita sees her ex-husband occa
sionally and says there’s no bit
terness between them. She ex
plains that her sons have kept
them friendly.
She’s about to embark on an
other night club tour. “When I
was first submitted as a singer,”
she laughs, “a night club owner
wired back: ‘Lita Grey Chaplin?
I thought she was dead.” You think
I look young? You should see me
on the nightclub floor with make-~
up on.” :
Imaginative ‘
Hollywood's out - of-this-world
epidemic continues. Now Ida Lup
ino and Collier Young have taken
an option on “Professor Hagge's
Private Planet,” one of those
science-fiction yarns. It's about
an atomic scientist who creates his
own planet and through it con
trols the earth . . . Dick Foran is
selling his North Hollywood home
and moving the family to New
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BUYING HABIT OF MILLIONS
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Railroad Schedules
SEABOARD AIRLINE RY,
Arrival and Departure of Trains
Athens, Georgia
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
New York and East—
-11:22 a. mr—Air Conditioned.
8:45 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
East—
-12:15 a. m.—(Local).
Leave for Atlanta, South and
West—
-5:50 a. m.—Air Conditioned.
4:25 a. m.—(Local).
4:57 p. m—Air Conditioned,
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILROAD
Arrives Athens (Daily) 12:35 p.m.
Leaves Athens (Daily) 4:15 pm.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
From Lula and Commerce
Arrive 9:00 a. m.
East and West
Leave Athens 9:00 a. m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD
Week Day Only
Train No. 50 Departs 7:00 p. m.
Train No, 51 Arrives 9:00 a. nr.
Mixed Trains.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORG!
York to get in deep into television.
{Don Ameche is about to do the
same,
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Hollywood’s latest yak concerns
the producer who was asked by
his story department to buy one
of those yarns about an expedition
to the moon.
“Call the accounting depart
ment,” he instructed his secretary.
“Find out if we've got any frozen
funds up there.” :
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Bill Gargan’s son, Bill, jr., will
make his film debut in papa’s indie
production of “Martin Kane, Pri
vate Eye.” . . . Newcomer Hugh
Sarders, who impressed Warner
Brothers with his acting, failed to
go back east to mama.
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Probably just as well if you
didn’t hear it on Bob Hope’s big
TV show. He and Dinah Shore
were doing an Eskimo version of
“Baby, It's Cold Outside,” when
Bob cracked:
“If I had known you were com=
ing I would have baked a kyak.”
THOMPSON
AND AVERY IN
N. GEORGIA </
By The Associated Press
The hills of North Georgia will
be resounding with political ora
tory today as both gubernatorial
candidates M. E. Thompson and
l:::;s Avery speak at four different
sites.
Governor Herman Talmadge was
also in the northern part of the
state, but he wasn’t speaking poli
tically. The chief executive spoke
yesterday at the ceremonies in
Winder honoring Mrs. Richard B.
Russell, sr., as Georgia’s mother of
the year for 1950, and then spoke
to a graduating class in Gillsville,
In the race for one of Georgia’s
seats in the U, 8. Senate, Attorney
Alex McLennan of Atlanta said in
a radio (WSB) address Thursday
night that he did not think much
of statements that Senator Walter
F. George should not be forced in
to a campaign for re-election be-
President Roosevelt's Board said- N fi!
President Truman’s Board said-’i N
Still the leaders of the Railroad
‘Firemen's “STRI KE ’ll
‘Union say— “ i | = .
{ This ridiculous strike is an affront to every
citizen of the nation. It's not for more money. it's
not because of hours. It's only for soft m
hgdding spots for additional unnocouury.
firemen to go along in diesel locomotives just for
the ride. A leading liberalnewspaper calls the de
mands of the union leaders 'horse-feathers”!
o The reckless leaders of the firemen’s
union want to foree down the throats
of the railroads and the public a ridic
ulous “‘make-work” proposal which has
been twice ruled out by Presidential
Fact Finding Boards duly appointed
under the provisions of the Railway
Labor Act.
This demand of union leaders for
additional and unnecessary firemen to
ride in diesel locomotives was rejected
—after months of hearings—by a Board
appointed by President Roosevelt in
1943.
i It was again rejected in 1949 by a
Board appointed by President Truman.
Recent meegga with the National
Mediation Board have brought no
cfiang n the attitude of the union
dictators,
Union Leaders Defy Intent of Law
The ®ion leaders helped write the
Railway Laber Act. Yet in an attempt
to jam through this scheme of pure
cause of his l&nGm. is 73.
McLennan accused the
state’s senior senator of inadvert
ently boosting the cause of social
ized medicine by sponsoring fed
eral legislation to continue “starv
ation wages.” This, McLennan
claimed, is a powerful incentive
for socialized medicine.
He repeated charges that George
has represented Wall Street cor
porations, particularly big oil
companies, and not the people of
his state.
Thompson, who speaks at Cler
mont, Gillsville, Maysville and
Commerce today, is drawing larger
crowds in North Georgia than he
did in a swing through the south
west portion of the state last week.
One of the largest crowds ever to
attend a political rally in White
county — about 2,000 — heard the
former governor in Cleveland last
night. He also had good crowds
at Clarkesville, Cornelia and Dem
orest.
Thompson attacked the Tal
madge administration’s Veterans
Service Department. He said it
was a political set-up whose em
ployes are being forced to con
tribute and campaign for Tal
madge.
He also ealled upon Talmadge
to make public the names of the
additional persons employed re
cently by the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation, He said they were
added to provide Talmadge with
political campaigners.
Avery will follow his calliope
to Dallas, Douglasville, Bremen
and Cedartown today.
Most American coal is produc~
ed in eight states.
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“feather-bedding” by leading the mems
bers of their union out on strike and
threatening paralysis to large areas of
the nation, they are defying the spirit
and intent of the very law which they
belped to create.
This strike is not for higher wages:
It is a strike to force the railroads to
employ many more thousands of fire
men who are not needed! I¢ would be
indefensible waste. The railroads have
refused to place this additional and
unnecessary burden on the publie.
But more important than any other
consideration, i 8 the action of these
few irresponsible union leaders in seek
ing to force a crippling strike upon the
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Local Training
School Planned
A training school for Christian
workers will be held at Oconee
Street Methodist Church, begin
ning Monday and continuing
through Wednesday.
Sessions for children's workers,
young people and young people
workers, and adults will be held
: J From where I sit...iy Joe Maish
N, Our “Mayor” is Only
, '{?\l’9. 16 Years Old!
Poked my head inte Mayor
Howard’s door the other day at
Town Hall and took a second look
in a hurry. Sitting at the Mayor’s
desk was “Butch® Carter —presi-.
dentoftthmiorGasswuntthe
High School.
“Hello, Mr. Marsh,” says Butch,
*Can I help you?” The high sehool
pupils took over for the day! They
elected their own officers, “ran the
town,” and learned a little some
thing about the responsibility of
Jocal government.
We grownups, too, might some
times take a little lesson in accept
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“Minute Men” of today are
members of the U, 8§ Marin,
Corps Reserve, known as “Citize,
Marines.” In 1949, 708 men from
the southeast enlisted ag Reserye
Leathernecks,
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ducing state,
ing responsibility, Ir you look 4
the Brewers’ Self-Regulation pro.
gram, you see what I mean, Tavery
owners cooperate by accepting the
Tresponsibility to keep their Places
clean and orderly—right up o the
letter of the law—beyond any
possible reproach,
From where I sit, knowing and
aceepting our responsibilities
whether in Bovernment or 1,;.
ness—is one sure way $o build 5
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This strike is one of the
silliest strikes in history!
What are these reckless union leaders
trying to do? They seek to cause thou
sands of thelr members to strike, and
throw hundreds of ‘thousands of other
employes on and off the raiiroads out of
::Tloymt. with loss of pay to them
thelr families, Eunnwon blow to
industry and the of the nation.
What's the strike all about? If the
union has its way—what happens? The
present members of the unf:n won't
::t one cent more pal'. They will merely
ve been assessed for a costly and in
defensible drive in an attempt to provide
more duu-pgy'mg members for the union
by creating * fnthu’-boddlnfi:i:bs for
additional and unnecessary en.
This is certainly one of the silliest
strikes in history!
nation for their own selfish purposes.
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!nlim they have the whole
support of the people in whose interest,
thoymwfllingtofightthkout.doeg
spite the loss and inconvenience the
all will suffer. \
It is time to put an end to such wys
American demands. :