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A SPOT OF TEA FOR MOUNTIE ON DUTY IN FLOOD
Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman B.
M. Anderson, on duty in the Wildwood
area of flooded Winnipeg, gets a cup of
tea from a Red Cross relief worker cruis
Big Three To Name Civilian
Occupational Commissioners
5 New Officials Are Replacements
i For Present Military Governors
LONDON, May 19. — (AP) — The Big Three Foreign
#linisters announced today they will appoint civilian high
commissioners “at an early date” to replace military gov
ernors in the Western occupation zones of Austria. They
also promised to lighten Austria’s occupation burdens.
By The Associated Press
Former Governor M. E. Thomp
son_and Governor Herman Tal
made were both active today.
Thompson scheduled speeches at
Kingston, Adairsville and Carters
ville, all in Bartow county. The
governor said yesterday he had
abandoned any idea of a referen
dum on new taxes to pay for his
expansion program. He speaks in
Greensboro today.
In the state’s U. S. senatorial
race, Alex McLennan assailed‘
statesments of Senator Walter
George as “contradictory, inco
herent and senile.” In a radio ad
dress, the Atlanta attorney and
former Talmadge political leader
charged that the 72-year-old Sen
ator voted for the Marshall Plan
and then said in an interview that
foreign aid is bankrupting Amer
-Ica.
“You can imagine the delight
and comfort that Joe Stalin re
ceived when he learned that the
chairman of our Senate Finance
committee told the newspapers
that the U, S. was going bank
rupt,” McLennan said.
The attorney ‘repeated his
charge that George has not spon
sored laws for the benefit of
Georgians but has placed “one tax
evasion loophole after another into
the revenue laws for the benefit
of a limited number of Wall Street
corporations.”
Candidate Thompson has charg
ied that governor Talmadge was
literally pouring the state’s money
down the drain. -
Thompson told an audience in
Rome last night that the present
administration has wasted $150,000
in a White county dam that won’t
hold water. He charged that $142,-
112.19 was spent on the project
last year before it was called of
as a failure on the advice of the
highway department. And, now,
he said, “they are starting all over
again.”
Earlier, in Chattooga county,
Thompson told older voters if they
did not vote for him they might
not be allowed to vote again., He
said “the machine has passed a
voter re-registration act which
will knock half of the older vo
ters off the list.” He pledged he
would repeal the act.
The Macon Telegraph entered
the political arena today in an ed
itorial in which it announced its
support of Thompson for govern
or. The Telegraph said:
“When campaign speeches and
records in offli)ce are stripped of
their wordy camouflage and
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= T 10 BEAUTIES ARE ENTERED———————
“Miss Athens” Contest Set Tomorrow Night
“Miss Athens” beauty pageant will begin tomorrow at 12:30 p.
m. with a parade through the city, a luncheon and highlighted by
the beauty contest that night.
All contestants will be in the parade along with a number of
others. Attending the luncheon will be the judges, contestants,
merchants sponsoring the contestants, escorts from the fraternities
presenting the girls, and Jaycees.
The contest will take place that night in Fine Arts Auditorium
at 8 o’clock. It is being sponsored by Athens Junior Chamber of
Commerce with Bob Maupin as chairman.
.::‘m of the “Miss Athens” title will go to the state contest
an t winner will en “Miss rica’” eontest. " -
" ntries In the content sos Pesey Benihepey alid Mabia Brov,”
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Associated Press Service
ing in a rowboat. Overflow from the Red
river surrounds the homes in the back
ground.— (AP Wirephoto.)
A brief communique issued as
a result of American-British-
French talks on Austria said the
“unwillingness of the Soviet gov
ernment to settle all outstanding
issues” prevents the conclusion of
an Austrian treaty of independ
ence.
U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, British Foreign Secreta
ry Ernest Bevin and French For
eign Minister Robert Schuman
reaffirmed in the statement that
their policy is directed gyard the
earliest possible’ completion of a
treaty and the withdrawal *of
"western occupation forces.
It also is intended to strength
en the authority of the Austrian
government, they said.
The western decision will pro
duce in Austria a situation similar
to that in Germany, where civilian
high commissioners replaced mili
tary governors about a year ago
in the western zones.
Austria has been pressing for
full withdrawal of occupation
troops and much broader powers
for her own government. Russia
has rejected her appeal in full,
but the western powers have
agreed to give it consideration.
The nation, which was absorb
ed by Hitler’s Reich before World
War 11, has been occupied by the
four big powers since the war’s
‘end. Vienna, like Berlin, is divid
ed into four sectors.
Efforts to write a treaty of in
‘dependence for Austria have come
to nothing in four years of four
power conferences — 253 ses
sions, all gold. Soviet demands
upon the Austrian economy re
main the outstanding obstacles in
the way of such a treaty.
In recent months the United
States has been pressing beth
Britain and France to relieve the
occupation burden on the Austri
ans, by having western armed
forces pay their own way in the
same manner as U. S. forces have
lbeen doing.
.
DeMolay Spring
.
Dance Tonight
The Frank Hardeman Chapter,
Order of DeMolay, will hold its
annual Spring dance, one of the
social highlights of the Chapter’s
activities, tonight at the Athens
Country Club from 8 until 12
o’clock.
The Georgia Bulldogs Orches
tra, with Ed Murdock as vocalist,
will furnish the music at the
dance. Members of the Chapter
will be entertained at a break
fast at Dad Bridges’' cabin fol
lowing the dance.
Admission to the dance is $2.00
with invitation.
Reports of the Spring dance
committee today indicated that
some 100 couples will attend the
dance. Jule Spears, senior coun
cillor of the Frank Hardeman
Chapter, is chairman of the dance
committee. Alva Mayes, jr., is
master councillor,
Nash Chosen
Top Georgia
F .
50 Graduate
Hoke Nash, Athens, has been
elected outstanding senior of the
class of 1950 at the University
of Georgia.
Chosen for the honor in a spe
cial election, Nash will be pre
sented a cup by “X” Club on
Honors Day.
He is a pre-med student, treas
urer of Omicron Delta Kappa,
past president of Seabbard and
Blade, was viee president of his
junior class, and listed in Whe'’s
Who In_American College and
Universities, He is also a mem
ber of Sigma Chi fraternity and
the International Relations
Club.
COMMUNIST PRISONERS
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Released U. S. Airmen
Hint Spy Confessions
JPEARL HARBFOR, May 19.— (AP)—Two U. S. airmen
indicated yesterday they had admitted a Red charge of
spying in order to escape from 18 months of captivity in
Communist North China.
Marine Sergeant Elmer C. Bender, 27, Cincinnati, and
Navy Chief Electrician’s Mate William C. Smith, 32, Long
Beach, Calif., said they were treated better “than we could
possibly have expected.” = £
But they wouldn’'t say yes or
no at a press conference when
asked if they had signed confes
sions that they were American
spies. The Communists in an
nouncing their release May 3 said
they confessed.
“As far as statements we made
while we were up there,” said
Bender, “we were cut off entirely
and the best way to get out was
through our own efforts.”
Asked what was meant by that,
Smith said it was a long story and
“f will explain it all later.” When
a reporter asked them, however,
what means were used to get “con
fessions,” Bender replied:
“There were Nno means, so-call
ed. But it was that they gave us
‘the idea that we were to be there
from now on. We were shut off
from home. We had no news from
home. The longer we stayed, the
longer it looked as if we were go
ing to stay.”
The two were captured Oct. 1,
19, 1948, when their light plane
was forced down by engine trou
ble near the North China port of
Tsingtao. The city then was a
U. S. Navy anchorage and they
vere on a training flight.
They left Tsingtao May 3 on the
British steamer Hunan, - reached
Hong Kong Monday, and were
flown to Peearn Harbor, arriving
Tuesday night.
How were they captured?
“They just surrounded us,”
both of Athens; Lou Davis, Albany; Carolyn Dunning, Blakely;
Sue Edge, Canton; Bettie Foster, Bluffton; Pat Hunter, Colquitt;
Jan Martin, Tifton; Jean O'Neal, Waycross; and Peggy Wilson,
Nashville.
Uly Gunn will be master of ceremonies for the occasion. Three
gpecial acts will be presented by Al Jacobson, Rev, Charles Middle
brooks, jr., and Jean Ferguson,
Judges will be Dr. J. C. Rogers, University president; Paul W.
Chapman, assoclate dean of the College of Agriculture; James E.
Gates, dean of School of Business Administration; Lamar Dodd,
head of Art Department; Barrett Howell, of The Atlanta Constitu=
tion; Cook Barwick, prominent Atlanta attorney; Mrs. Bunnie
PO e, ety DA U Thie eidec rerany, - -
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1950.
Senate Refuses
Southern FEPC
Appeals Court
Turns Down Plea
Of " Axis Sally”
Nazi Propagandist
Faces 10-30 Years
For War Broadcasts
WASHINGTON, May 19.—(AP)
—The U, S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals ruled today that Mildred E.
(Axis Sally) Gillars must serve
10 to 30 years in prison for broad
casting Nazi propaganda during
World War 11.
The white-haired 49-year-old
former actress was convicted more
than a year ago in Federal Dis
trict Court here. The verdict was
handed down by a jury which de
liberated 17 hours and 20 minutes.
In addition to the sentence of
from 10 to 30 years, she also was
fined SIO,OOO. She would be eligi
ble for parole after serving 10
years in prison.
Today’s development marked
another scene in one of ' 2 post=
war period’s longest tre._.n dra
mas. Miss Gillars first was ar
rested nearly five years ago when
American troops entered Berlin.
Before the downfall of the
Nazis, her smooth-voiced radios
shows became known to mfllions
of Gl's. She was the supposedly
glamorous radio siren who taught
them the haunting strains of “Lili
Marlene” which became the World
War marching-fighting song of the
American infantry.
Since Federal Judge Edward M.
Curran pronounced sentence on
March 25, 1949, Miss Gillars had
been held in the District of Co
lumbia jail,
There was no immediate state
ment concerning - whether she
would appeal today’s decision to
the United States Supreme Court.
“Axis Sally” was flown from
Germany to the U. S. to face a
ten-count indictment charging her
with treason. However, the jury
found her guilty on only one
gy,
Miss Gillars was convicted of
participating in a broadcast enti
tled “Vision of Invasion,” a melo
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Smith said., “There were. some
fishermen around and they took
us to a village.”
With a Communist army guard,
they were marched to another vil
lage. Several times during their
long captivity they were moved
from one village to another.
1950 Office
The Allen R. Fleming Post No.
20 of the American Legion elected
new officers last night for the
coming year. g
Weaver Bridges was re-elected
Commander. J. H. Hubert was
elected Senior vice-commander;
John Renka, first junior vice
commander.
E. C. Cavett was elected adju
dant; W. L. Prickett, finance of
ficer; R. P. Wilkes, chaplain; Dr.
A. H. Timms, historian, and Ernest
H. Huff was appointe’ service of
ficer.
Elected as Sgts., At Arms were
Col. F. W. Whitney and W. W.
Pinion. Executive committee
members elected were Hugh Peel
er, G. L. OKelly, jr., and M. L.
Gilbert, jr.
Action Virtually Eliminates
Measure For Present Session
WASHINGTON, May 19.—(AP)—The Senate virtually
killed the Fair Employment Practices (FEPC) bill for the
session today by refusing to block filibustering by Southern
opponents.
The test came on an attempt to choke off debate on a
motion to bring before the Senate for consideration this key
measure of President Truman’s civil rights program.
A cloture (debate limiting) pe
tition fell short by 12 votes of get
ting the required 64 for adoption.
A roll call showed 52 “yes” and
32 “no” votes.
It was a victory for Southern
Democrats and dealt a heavy blow
to chances of getting action on any
of the President’s civil rights pro
gram at this session.
The Southern {riumph had
been anticipated, but Democratic
Leader Lucas of Illinois said in
advance that another attempt to
force consideration of the FEPC
Bill would be made, possibly next
week,
His principal hope was to pick
up additional votes from Senators
who were absent. An absent sen
ator, in effect, voted against the
cloture (debate-limitation) move,
The vote was the first tryout
for the Senate’s new rule, adopted
last year, under which debate on
a motion to take up a bill can be
‘gshut off by a two-thirds majority
of the entire Senate.
Previously such a motion was
not subject to cloture, but under
the old rule, once a bill was be
fore the Senate, debate could be
halted by two-thirds of the Sen
tors present and voting.
It was the first time a civil
rights issue had reached a show
down vote of any kind in the Sen
ate since July, 1946, when the Sen
ate rejected a petition to close de
bate on an anti-poll tax bill.
A similar anti-poll tax bill was
brought up in the Republican 80th
Congress, but died when the Sen
ate failed to reach a vote on a clo~
ture petition in August, 1948. No
action was taken on FEPC in the
80th Congress.
_ln the present session, the
House has voted to set up an
FEPC without authority to en
force its rulings. The Senateé bill
would provide penalties of SSOO
fine or a year's imprisonment. or
both, for violation of the commis
sion’s orders. :
Senator Myers (D-Pa), Assis
tant Democratic leader in the Sen
ate urged FEPC backers to put
out their “finest efforts and great
est influence” into the fight, He
cited these reasons:
1. FEPC would assure every
body a right to work without dis
crimination, and the right to
live.
2, The FEPC bill would work,
even in the South. He said the
same objections to it were raised
Final Rites Fo
Dr. Wheeler
Services for Dr. John T. Whee
ler, who died in a local hospital
Wednesday night, will be con
ducted Saturday morning at 10:30
o'clock from First Methodist
Church with the pastor, Dr. J. W,
O. McKibben, officiating, assisted
by Rev. Claude Singleton.
Interment will follow in Oconee
Hill cemetery, Bridges Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements,
Pallbearers will be O, C. Ader
hold, R. H. Driftmier, J. H. Mitch~
ell, Garland Bryant, Neal Baker,
Allen Wier, Grady Callahan and
Ralph Tolbert.
An honorary escort will include
members of the faculty of the
College of Education of the Uni
versity of Georgia, Chancellor
Harmon Caldwell, President Jona
than Rogers, Dean G. H. Boyd,
Dean Alvin Biscoe, Dean Harry
Brown, J. D. Bolton, Paul Chap
man, Walter Danner and Tom
Askew,
Dr, Wheeler is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Belle Gregson Wheeler,
Athens; three daughters, Mrs.
Horace Williams, Nashville, Ga.;
Mrs., Milton Griffeth, and Miss
Joyce Wheeler, both of Athens;
two sans, M, B. Wheeler, Augusta,
and John T. Wheeler, jr., Roch
ester, N. Y.; sister, Mrs. Lynn
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Reed Memorial
Services Sund
Memorial services sh honor of
Thomas Walter Reed, registrar of
the University for 35 years, will
be held by the Henry C. Tuck
class of 'Athens First Methodist
Church on Sunday, May 21, at
10:00 a. m., W. A. Pledger, presi
dent of the class has announced.
Harry Hodgson, Athens busi
nessman, former trustee of the
University, and a personal friend
of the late Mr. Reed, will make
the address. Other members of
the class will pay tribute to their
former teacher.
.. Mr, Reed taught the Tuck class
for 12 years. '’
against various state and local
FEPC laws and proved to be
groundless.
3. Previous court decisions point
}o the legality of the prompted
aw.
Myers reminded the Senate that
both Republicans and Democratic
platforms pledged support of civil
rights legislation. And he said
that senators of both parties sup
ported the cloture rule to limit de
bate and get a vote in these is
sues.
There was standing room only
in the galleries as the Senate
reached the vote. Many negroes
were among the spectators.
Several House members, espe
cially Southerners, wyatched from
the rear of the chamber.
Radio’'s Role In Alert
Civilization Is Cited
i CBS Director Delivers Opening |
Night Address At Institute Here *
The director of public affairs of the Columbia Broad
casting System told Georgia broadcasters here last night
that “radio must take an active part in public affairs if we
are to have an alert civilization.”
Sig Mickelson, addressing the opening session of the
fifth annual Georgia Radio Institute, called radio the
“greatest single thing affecting American life and
thought” and urged broadcasters to schedule more public
affairs programs.
“An alert, positive job of public
affairs broadcasting can contri
bute much to the betterment of a
community and at the same time
defeat the argument of radio crit
ics who contend that all radio
should be federally controlled,”
Michelson said.
Quoting John Dunn’s famous
statement that “no man is an is
land,” the CBS official pointed
out that radio cannot separate it
self from public welfare and air
only those programs that have
wide mass appear.
“Radio has an obligation to the
public over and above mere en
tertainment.”
Many Tools
Educational broadcasts do not
have to be dull, he explained.
There are many tools available on
the local broadcasting levels that
will take the boredom out of pub
lic affairs programs.
Michelson spoke at a dinner
meeting. He was introduced by
Ray Ringson, Station WRDW,
Augusta.
“TV and Radio, in the years
ahead, will be nip-and-tuck num
ber one medium.” That was the
opinion expressed by Sol Taishoff,
editor and publisher of Broadcast
ing-Telecasting Magazine in his
address today.
“TV will be number one during
certain hours of the day and in
certain markets,” the publisher
continued. “Sound radio will be
number one in those other hours,
and it will be an assured firse place
in those areas which are not
destined to get TV service for the
foreseeable future.”
Final sessions of the Institute
will be held tomorrow morning
in the auditorium of the Com
merce-Journalism building.
A session on radio news and an
other on televisign have been
scheduled.
Newsmen Talks
Two radio newsmen from New
York headquarters of Internation~
al News Service will make ad
dresses on radio news at 10 a. m.
They are John M. Cooper, director
of radio for ' INS and Malcolm
Johnson, Pulitzer prize-winning
reporter.
A panel on “Radio News” will
be held tomorrow morning at the
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WEATHER
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and continued
warm tonight and Saturday.
Widely scattered thundershow
ers late this afternoon and to
night. Outlook for Sunday fair
and cooler. Low tonight 65 and
high Saturday 88. Sun sets 7:30
and rises 5:28.
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy,
little change in temperature this
afternoon, tonight and Satur
day. Widely scattered afternoon
and evening thundershowers,
mostly over north portion.
TEMPERATURE
Highest .. cves dobe L v BT
Towest = waay i el
MOBIL .ivs snve sosn sosn 00l
Normal- .- s vty
. RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since May 1 .. .. .. 2558
Excess since May 1 .. .... .40
Average May rainfall .. .. 3.54
Total since January 1 ....13.30
Deficit since January 1 /.. 7.85
Read Daily by 35.000 Pecple In Athens Trade Ares
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Filibuster
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CROSS BURNED
IN FRONT OF
BAKER’S HOME
A large cross was burned here
shortly after 1 a. m. today in the
front yard of the home owned
by Rep. C. 0. “Fat” Baker.
City firemen answered the
call to 489 Milledge and ex
tinguished the blaze. One fire
man estimated the cross to be
12 feet high. No one was seen
near the cross when the fire
men arrived.
Police Chief Clareénce Roberts
said his department was making
an investigation at the request
of Fire Chief W. €. Thompson.
Chief Roberts said he knew of
no Klan activity in this area and
the act could possibly have been
a prank by students.
Rep. Baker, a gubernatorial
candidate is making a tour of
South Georgia and could not be
reached for ecomment.
¥ oX X 4
University, Dean
Of Journalism
Get Radio Honor
The University of Georgia and
Dean John E. Drewry, of the Hen~
ry W. Grady School of Journalism,
were commended in a resolution
unanimously passed at the open
ing dinner of the Georgia Radio
Institute here last night.
Stating the University has made
a major contribution to the con
tinued success and growth of the
Institute, the resolution also rec
ognized the untiring efforts and
leadership of Dean Drewry in the
Institute work.
Presenting the resolution was
Ray Ringson, Station WRDW,
Augusta.
The Resolution: _
“WHEREAS, the Fifth Annual
Georgia Radio Institute being held
at the University of Georgia in
Athens, May 18-20, 150, is now
in session, and
“WHEREAS, the University of
Georgia and the Georgia Associa
tion of Broadcasters have jointly
sponsored the Georgia Radio In
stitute since its inception, and
“WHEREAS, the Georgia Radio
Institute was established to further
the interests of radio; to educate
and enlighten students interested
in the radio industry; to broaden
the knowledge of the staff mem
bers of Georgia Radio Stations and
to further the ideals of this great
industry by a more complete un
derstanding of its rapid growth
and far reaching activities, and
“Whereas, the TUniversity of
Georgia, through the Dean of its
School of Journalism, John E.
Drewry, has made a major contri
bution to the continued success
and growth of the Georgia Radio
Institute, and
“WHEREAS, John E. Drewry
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STILL LIKES SNUFF
MODERN WORLD NOT
FOR MOUNTAIN GIRL
ATLANTA, May 19—(AP)—
The big town is not for Maybelle
Voyles.
The pretty, brown-eyed moun
tain girl gazed at this pity’s proud
skyline from a window at her
room in the Georgia Baptist Hos
pital.
“I wisht,” she said, “that I was
back in the mountains.”
Three weeks ago Maybelle, who
is 17, had never seen a train, an
airplane, an elevator or a bathtub.
After looking over all these won
ders—more besides — she figured
she hadn’t missed much.
Especially was she unimpressed
with the efforts of her nurses to
have her chew gum instead of her‘
accustomed snuff.
“They’d ruther I chewed dxew-J
ing gum,” said she, “but .that’s.
near ’bout as bad as sweet snuff,
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President Cites
Proposal As A New
Outlook For Europe
WASHINGTON, May 19—(AP)
—President Truman’s enthusiastié
‘endorsement gave powerful new
‘emphasis today to a French gro
posal for pooling French and Ger
man steel and coal produetion.
The President welcomed the plan
in a news eonferencce statement
yesterday, calling it the beginning
of “a new outlook for Europe.” }
Dilomatic officials said that the
project is in line with American;
policies for encouraging the eloses
possible ties between German
and France and for increasing the '
total production of Western Eu=
rope. i
’ They see this specific proposal,
as countributing eventually to both‘
the ecoromic strength and military,!
security of the Western world. i
The President said “there will be
many difficult problems to solve i
developing this far reaching plan™
but he was certain “that the kin
of imaginative thinking that went
into the proposal can work out'
the details.”
Until Mr. Truman spoke the of=-
ficial American attitude was sym-?»
pathetic but overwise publicly un~ {
declared. The plan was tor-‘
ward by French Foreign
Robert Schuman 10 days ago. I
evidently took American officials
largely by surprise and they want
ed to give it careful consideration i
before committing t?xemseivel. i
U. S. Attitude i
The American attitude is of
great importance because of this
government’s power over German’
actions—since it is one of the na
tions, along with Britain and’
France, in occupation of Western
Germany. {
Schuman’s proposition calls for‘
pooling French &d German Coal |
and Steel industries under & joint
international authority, for havinu;‘
that authority modernize and in-|
crease production and for making |
the benefits of these steps availa- '
' ble to other cooperating nations.
| The official French statement of
the plan as it come out last week !
declared that production under the |
international authority would be |
offered to the entire world. How
ever, there is no precedent in re-!
cent European history for thinking
the Russians would cooperate.
The President said in his state
ment that “we are gratified atrtide
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Peale Speaks To
Manufacturers
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., May
19—(AP)— Georgia Cotton Man
ufacturers end their annual con
vention here today. The tlroup
played golf yesterday after hear
ing a talk by the Rev. Dr. Norman '
Vincent Peale, New York City
minister,
Dr. Peale told the eGorgia Cot«
ton Manufacturers Association
that America is faced with the
danger of losing its freedom.
“The major problem today is
how to save freedonm,” he said.
“It has not yet been decided
whether it will be saved. I think |
it will be, But it will réquire great
sacrifices.
“T{xe ]:hougget of {}ae_ American
people hag n sliding down,
down, down, in totalitarianism
People are thinking differently.
They are taught to think the gov
ernment will take care of them,
that society owes them & living.
The only way to save that free
dom is by looking where we got
it, and going back and getting it
again.
“Our forefathers, being religious
people, had a great faith in man.
When you have a low view of
man he becomes a servant of the
state, When you have a lofty view,
man is ruler of the state, not its
servant.”
I like strong snuff.”
Especiall was she unimpressed
when her mother, who came down
from the mountains with her, call
’ed her on the telephone.
“Wouldn’t need any such thing
at home,” said she. “Ma’d be right
’there where I could hear her bet
ter.”
Magybelle lives on a 90-acre hill
farm near Hemp, in North Geor
gia, with her parents and six other
children. Her father, Everett
Voyles, tends the land with an ox.
She ecame to the hospital for an
operation. Her father and some
of the other children came today
to. visit her and she said he hoped
tge doctors will let her return with
them. - o o L
. “This,” shey.said, “is. not the .
place for me.” . .:H