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DAILY MEDITATIONS
And Jesus retuarned in the
power of the Spirit into Gal
ilee, and there went out a
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region round about.
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U. S. Acts so Solve German
Problems-Time's Running Out
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASKINGTON.—(NEA)-—Biggest problem be
fore the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in
London this month is, of course, Germany. But it
would be rashly overoptimistic to expect that any
prescription for a panacea will be written by U. S.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson, British Foreign
Minister Bevin, French Foreign Minister Schuman,
their experts and advisers.
Thig may be in the nature of bad Washington
news. Both the U. 8. Senate and House have under
consideration resolutions to investigate American
occupation policy in Germany. A somewhat nega
tive result from London may only aggravate this
demand for a probe. So after Secretary Acheson
gets home from London at the end of May, he may,
be in for another rough going-over in the nrerry
month of June.
The American position on German affairg is
somewhat peculiar, The French are traditionally
suspicious of anything German — any increase in
German power. The British, beset by an austerity
program at home, question anything which may
cost them money abroad. So while the British and
¥rench drag their heels on doing anything to im
prove Germany, the U. S. government pushes for
action.
Anterican planners figure they have from six
months to two years for getting the German house
in order. This is in accord with General Douglas
MacArthur's frequently expressed belief that no
occupation has succeeded for more than five years.
History shows, says General MacArthur, that after
that time the morale of the occupying power is
sapped and its influence over the occupied country
dissipated.
If General MacArthur’s five-year occupation
theory holds good for the Russians too, then it
would be to their interest to get out of Germany as
an occupying ~ power. And as a matter of fact, a
Russian proposition to withdraw its forces from
eastern Germany is expected before the end of 1950.
It might even include a separate peace offer, When
such an offer comes, America, Britain and France
must be prepared to meet it and mratch it. That is
why the decision reached at London by the Foreign
Ministers should be positive and progressive.
* The German problem may now be said to break
down three ways. First is to establish a stable gov
ernment for western Germany. Second is to bring
this government into partnership with the other
western European countries, Third is to establish
some formula for dealing with the east-west Ger
man unification demands.
U. S. High Commissioner John Jay McCloy and
his British and French co-commissioners have been
having their troubles in recent months with the
west German government at Bonn. The High Com
mission announced when the Bonn government was
set up, that on purely local German matters there
would be minimum interference,
Yet when this Bonn government passed income
tax and civil service laws which were not consid
ered sound, the High Comnrission vetoed them. The
Germans complained bitterly that this was inter
ference in their domestic affairs, The High Com
mission made the veto stick, however, and the Ger
man government promptly came up with new laws
more to the western Allies’ liking. There is one
view that this is the right way to deal with the Ger
mans—to be tough with them.
The mratter of bringing western Berlin into the
Bonn government is now snarled by internal Ger
man politics. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
apparently does not favor too close an alliance with
Berlin because its Socialist vote might upset his
government., But closer integration of west Berlin
with western Germany is one subject to which
Allied Foreign Ministers may have to pay atten
tion.
" Admission of west Germany to the Council of
Europe is assured, though the Council does not
have much power. Germany is now represented in
the OEEC — Organization for European Economic
Co-operation ~ which handles Marshall Plan allo
cations,
The Germang have been invited to send consular
olficers to the U. S. and OEEC countries, but have
taken no action for somewhat nxysterious reasons.
They may be holding out for full diplomatic recog
mition, s
The Big Three are agreed on no re-armament for
western Germany, though it is being promoted by
military leaders, It may come eventually, but no
- bew decision on it may be expected in London.
There is now no thought of withdrawing Allied
armies of occupation,
A new policy statement on unification of eastern
and westzin Germany is likewise unlikely. This is
wow iargely a propaganda talking point for the
Communists, The west German proposal for a free
slection on unification will not be accepted by the
#ast Germans because it will not give the Russians
the kind of Gérman unity they want — namely a
Communist-controlled Germany which would be a
santellite.
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Don't Be Frightened, If
Happens Every Year
This is the time of the year when staid business
men mysteriously disappear from their offices,
housewives are missing from their ‘canasta games,
and absences are more numerous in the class
-looms.
It is the time of the year when one hears people
talking about something called a “Hula-Popper,”
“Royal Coachman,” “Sixty-Six,” etc.
But there is no cause for alarm. No wave of kid
naping has broken out and the phrases listed im
mediately above make perfect sense to those ban
dying them around.
The answer is perfectly simple — ‘and perfectly
logical.
The fishing season ig on in full force.
If you can’t find your business man, the house
wife, or the family where they customarily are, just
try the various lakes and streams in the vicinity
and chances are seventy-five out of a hundred,
you'll locate them,
It's the time of the year for the family to bundle
into the car with a picnic lunch and hit for the out
doors, and that's good, even though they catch no
fish,
But there are fish around Athens — plenty of
them. All a scoffer has to do is to ride out to the
waterworks pond just off Barber street and take a
stand at the lakeside. He'll see schools of large
mouth bass, bream, yellow perch, yes, and even
huge goldfish swimming along within four feet of
the shoreline, They are so nearly tamed that they
don't easily frighten, They'll swim right up to your
lure, or minnow, spring-lizard or just plain bait,
look it over, and swim lazily away. Ike Walton
once said, “In order to catch fish, you've got to
have more sense than the fish.”
But folks do catch ’em sometimes, and when they
do, they're usually from two pounds up for bass
and as big as your hand for bream and perch,
One fellow we know has worked out the best
philosophy. He says, “I always take a book or mag
azine and my portable radio along when I go fish
ing. If the fish don’t bite, I read the book or mag
azine, or turn on the radio and tune in a baseball
game., And anyway, I'm away from the telephone
and business worries and breathing fresh air.”
An Appropriate Move
The recently announced plan to erect a $15,000
gymnasium at the Y. M. C. A. Pine Tops camp near
Mitchell’s Bridge as a memorial to W, T. Forbes is
a splendid idea and one that will inrmediately win
public favor,
The structure, badly needed at this local camp of
the “Y,” is to be built by public subscription and
there is little doubt that the necessary money will
be quickly raised. That is true because both the
need for the gymnasium and the fact that it will
memorialize one of Athens’ most valued citizens
will strike warm public approval. .
Before his death several years ago “W. T.” served
the local Y. M. C. A. as general secretary for more
than forty years. He was serving as a clerk in an
Atlanta bank when he felt the call to devote his
life to the development of youth.
The Athens Y, M. C. A, third oldest in the na
tion, was his “child” and he raised it to maturity.
The big plant and recreation field on Lumpkin
street, the famed “Y” Camp for Boys near Tallulah
Falls and the Pine Tops camp, of course, stand as
memorials to Mr, Forbes. But it is good to know
that he is now going to be officially memorialized
by having the Pine Tops gymnasium bear his name
and that it will be the gift to his “boys” from the
people he knew and loved and who knew and loved
him,
Travel Is Expensive
If you have a map of the United States handy,
come along on a little trip with a B-36 auxiliary
jet engine from its first assembly to final installa
tion in the big bomber.
Part of the engine is built by an aircraft firnr in
San Diego, Calif, Then it’s shipped to another man
ufacturer at Niagara Falls, N. Y. A pretty complete
unit by this time, it's dispatched down to Fort
Worth, Texas, where it goes into the B-36.
That’s a 4,000-mile tour for the auxiliary jet, It
any of the rest of the plane travels about the zoun
try like that before final assembly, it’s no wonder
the B-36 price tag comes to $4,000,000.
Good Underdog
Presidert Truman is off on his first big whistle
stop tour of the country since his famous campaign
swings of 1948,
So that he might feel right at home, the public
opinion pollsters ought to come out now with a
hatful of gloomy forecasts about his and his party’s
political future.
Indeed, Mr. Truman seenrs to respond so well to
adversity that his party leaders couldn't be blamed
if they tried to arrange for a few dire predictions.
To support the (Chinese Nationalists) seems fu
tile, but I do not think anyone can make the final
decision except the UN General Assembly.—Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt,
It seems clear that the effect of one of the un
published agreements arrived at in Moscow last
winter was to award the USSR preeminent right
in China’s strategic western province (Sinkiang).—
Secretary of State Dean Acheson,
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BOYLE PROPOSES METHOD
10 STOP GAMBLING RINGS
BY HAL BOYLE
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is a way to break up the nation
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THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
A Low Form of Animal Lif~
|pin money for herself in doing it,
too.
How? Well, my theory is simple.
It is based on taking the gamb
ling out of gambling. You can'’t
beat the horses, girls, but there
is a possible way to beat the
| bookies. And if you can beat the
bookies — you can break up or
ganized illegal gambling.
A suburban housewife here has
shown the way to do it. Under the
law you can sue to recovery
money paid to settle gambling
debts. And that’s just what Mrs.
Hannah S. Kartiganer did. She
sued Jules H. Bender for sll,-
195 she claimed her husband lost
to him in horse race bets three
years ago. And a gentlemanly
jury of eleven men and one wo
man returned a verdict in her fa
vor.
Not A Bookie
Although Bencer insisted he
IIGHTER DOES
'DARK’ CLOSET
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 14
~(AP)—Three-year old Craig
Thompson knew better than to
play with a cigarette lighter.
But the closet—privacy and
darkness! He quietly stepped in
and shut the door. The flame
showed up fine.
So does the smoke from the
clothes.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. W,
E. Thompson, jr., suffered burns
on their feet when they stamped
out flames of what they said had
been S9O worth of clothing.
Craig was uninjured, unless it
was bv a hairbrush. The Thomp
sons didn’t say.
himself was no bookmaker but a
businessman, the decision dis
closed a fascinating way in which
determined ladies might put the
knuckle on men who, beyond
cavil, are professional bookies.
Here, for example, is one pos
sibiliary:
A group of 100 housewives, out
raged because their husbands keep
bringing home paychecks full of
gambling holes, hold a rummage
sale and an ice cream social. They
raise SI,OOO.
Three of the girls take the
SI,OOO to the biggest bookie in
town and lay it on the nose for
Plug Ugly, a 100-to-. shot, to win
in the fifth. 'lf lightning should
stride Plug Ugly and he comes in
ahead, each of the 100 gals col
lects SI,OOO — enough for a fur
coat. And the bookie has a brok
en heart.
The next day the girls put $5,-
000 on Sadfoot, another 100-to-1
hoofer, to breeze through in the
fourth. If he loses, the girls
promptly file suit against the
bookie. And if all 100 of the wo
men show up in court with their
275 children, in rags, won’'t the
jury make the bookie hand back
the $5,000?
Collect Half-Million
So the next day the girls, may
be working through a couple of
male stooges this time, bet the
$5,000 on still anotter 100-to-1
shot, If he leads the field to the
wire, they collect a half million
bucks — or the bookie eommits
suicide. If their horse loses, they
haul the bookie right back into
court.
This “break the bookies™ pro
gram could sweep the ladies clubs
of the nation like wildfire. It was
two things women love: (1) a
moral purpose, and (2) a chance t
make ~some money. .
It ?flh M 7 _shows
‘lll hollow, mu Sponsor ean
dish out rflm equal to the mil.
ions hidden by wealthy bookics
in their safe deposit boxes,
If American wives eooperate in
this you-can't-lose from winning.
venture, most bookies in six
months would be back pitching
fienniea against each other for a
ving. g
The only flaw I can see in the
whole scheme is that woman, as
ter all, are human beings, too—in
their way. When they start play.
ing the horses they act just like
men. They brag about their win
nings and hide their losses. Ang
before long they'd be secretly
betting against each other, and it
would be the bookies” wives who'd
be buying the fur coats,
Gambling is like any other dise
ease. If you don’t emese yourself
to the germ, you don't get in
fected.
But it is a wonderful plan,
isn't it?
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for re-election as Clarke
County Representative subject to
the rules and regulations of the
June 28th Democratic Primary,
Your support and influence will
be greatly appreciated.
CHAPPELLE MATTHEWS,
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