Newspaper Page Text
~ ATHENS BANNER HERALD
| ) l-" PR .vy ,€‘ 4 ¢ .
VA s T SRR st adi Attty Pess ;
Published Every Evening Except Saturday and Sunday and on Sunday Morning by Athens Publishing
Co. Entered at the Post Office at Alhens, Ga. as second class mail matter,
BT DRI . . . v icav T eass s wes s vie eheess eter wissn TETDR 50 PURLIEEE
B, C. LUMPKIN and DAN MAGILL .... scoo cocv cesrte srvsos scssss osss . ASSOCIATE EDITORS
NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES
Ward-Griffith Company, Inc., New York, 247 Park Avenue; Boston, Statler Office Building; Atlanta,
22 Marietta St.; Chicago, Wrigley Building; Detroit, General Motors Building; Salt Lake City, Hotel
Newhouse; San Francisco, 681 Market Si.
B MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed
in this newspaper, as well as all AP News dispatches.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES "
Daily and Sunday by carrier and to Post Uffice boxes in the cif ¢ cmme
lwee. SAT S REEE s KPR sere BB A BEER L s BER SR FRES SPR ‘
lMoflth SRR BRER BRR A s BERE Ss e BRAR S P PR La s REES SN REER S e RN s l-“
3 blfifl‘h' e P BAR BEES S PN SN S SRS SRR SRR SRR RERE s aes BRS s '-I‘
6 M“n‘h‘ FAEE SR AR BB AR BERT A BN SRR BN RERE e SRR B r e Seer Saan .o”
12 Monlh‘ SEN e BENE SEEP Gass Bees ST GAN SEED BAES SEEF ees BEES Sase FNEE seed 13...
SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL
Subscription on R. F. D. Routes and in I'owns within 50 miles of Athens, eight dellars per year. Sub.
scriptions beyond 50 miles from Athens must be paid at City rate.
e — —————————————— e et L Se—————— e ——————————,
All subscriptions are payable in advance. Payments inrxcess of one month should be paid through ear
olfice since we assume no responsibility for payments made to carriers or dealers.
DAILY MEDITATIONS
Confess your faults one to
o 5 G another, and pray one for an
t other, that ye may be healed,
\ . ) the effectual fervent prayer
of a righteous man availeth
much.—James 5:16,
Have you a favorite Bible verse? Malil to
A. F. Pledger, Holly Heights Chapel.
President’s Defense Program
Requires Some Clarification
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
VW ASHINGTON.—(NEA)—Everyone in Washing
t is today running around somewhat frantically
1 1g to figure out in specific terms just what
F ident Truman’s new defense program means to
1. 1 or his business.
Operating heads of government agencies supposed
to nave a part in the job are still vague on the de
tails. They haven’t been told who is to do what, ex~
ceot in a most general way, Clarification apparently
¢ raits testimony by top policy officials before con
& ssional committees,
mgress may of course drastically amend the
p woosed “defense production act of 1950,” sent to
¢ »nitol Hill by the White House, so the effect of
1 defense curbs and controls on business and
( sumers can’'t be measured until Congress com
¥ 23 action.
few general deductions are possible. A $lO,-
¢ 000,000 increase in defense spending means
ro. o hly a 25 to 80 percent increase in taxes, since
the President specified this Korean war should be
conducted on a pay-as-we-go basis. But where or
how the administration proposes to levy the extra
taxes will have to await the President's promised
soecial message and testimony by Treasury Secre
t 2 'y John W. Snyder.
Congress may of course throw out all their rec=
o mendations and write its own tax bill, One other
gceral deduction from the President’s message to
¢ ongress is that no new government agency — like
1 > War Production Board of the last war—is to be
¢ rted to handle mobilization.
I . FIELDS OF CONTROL OUTLINED
v the time being at least, all defense programs
* .be handled by existing departments and inde
-1 lent offices.
ive main fields of control are outlined by the
P. >sident’s message: Allocation and priorities over
s -arce materials will be handled by the Department
o Commerce, Commodities exchange control over
s»eculators will be handled b;s)epartment of Ag
riculture, Credit controls will be handled by Fed
¢-al Reserve Board. Production loan guarantees and
¢ ockpiling will be handled by Reconstruction Fi--
rance Corporation or its subsidiaries, Housing credit
¢~trol will be handled by Federal Housing Admin
i. -ation and its dependent agencies.
onsumer rationing and price controls are ruled
v by the President’s message and by the draft of
1 - new defense production act, for the time being
i ZBt
oluntary allocation of materials is apparently
©. . The Taft Act, which set up voluntary alloca
tions over steel, was allowed to expire in August,
1949, Industry didn't like it and now prefers rigid
government controls.
Denartment of Commerce now runs the export
co ol program and determines synthetic rubber
production rates. Its import controls have all ex
pired, with the lifting of allocations of tin. Commmod
ities exchange authority in Department of Agricul
ture now has limited control over brokers, futures,
and customers’ funds in trading on the principal U,
£.-grown crops.
TRUMAN ASKS STOCK MARKET CONTROL
Two years ago the President proposed that CEA
be given control over margins and speculation, but
Congress refused to grant it, Now the President is
asking for it again, Resumption of credit controls
will probably mean a return to something like Fed
eral Reserve Board's regulation of wartime credit.
Federal housing administration credit controls will
be aimed not only at limiting mortgages, but also in
channeling scarce building materials into defense
production.
Just what a “production loan guarantee” will be,
as called for by the President, remains to be seen.
During the last war, Federal Reserve Board had a
V-loan prograny, in which it guaranteed loans on
contracts made by Army, Navy and Air Force. The
new idea seems to be to channel all these loans into
private banking institutions, with guarantees made
by Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
The wey in which the new “defense production
act” wag put together is not without interest. Nat
ional Security Resources Board now headed by
g(uart W. Symington, has been drafting mobiliza
on legislation ever since it was created. It has had
recommendations from all government agencies, to
1 eet all possible situations.
When the White House staff, under Presidential
« sunsel Charleg V. Murphy, was called on to draft
a new mobilization law to meet the Korean limited
enrergency, it was possible to pick various proposals
and put them together in relatively short time. This
sxplains why the new composite sent to Congress
by the White House came as such a complete sur
prise to many of the agencies,
This was not the all-out mobilization bill they had
been looking for.
Totalitarianism has mrade a mockery of the forms
~2 justice, In countries under the sway of tyranny
the judges are prosecutors; prosecutors are hang
=ien; defense attorneys are puppets. — President
Zuman,
. "
U. 5. Needs Quality so Win;
Quantity No Longer Enough
American troops in Korea are not battle-hardened
veterans. They're green soldiers struggling against
great numerical odds with insufficient and ineffec
tive weapons,
These men were garrison troops in occupied Ja
‘pan, not even thoroughly trained for combat, De
spite these extreme handicaps, they are inflicting
heavy losses on the enemy in an often valiant rear
guard action. :
The hard truth is, however, that the Korean wgr
imposed such disadvantages upon them because the
U. S. Army is almost totally lacking in combat ef
fectives fit for 1950 warfare. Taking assurances
from comfortable prophecies that Russia couldn’t |
fight a war until at least 1952, we at home shrugged
off the task of building a real defense. |
There's another unpleasant fact we must digest:
even if we had equal numbers and equal equipment,
that would be no guarantee of victory.
Writing in the Saturday Evening Post, Hanson
Baldwin, New York Times military expert, declares
we won World War II not because we had the best
soldiers in the world but because, with our allies‘
and our huge industrial output, we mounted the ‘
biggest military machine, Baldwin says:
“Given equal armament and equal numbers, the '
enemy usually won, Our victories were fashioned
out of overwhelming superiority in weight of metal !
and in numbers.”
To be sure, he adds, we had some crack fighting |
units, some good leaders and some fine equipment,
On the sea and in the air, we- gained a few key tri
umphs over stronger enemy forces. But generally,
says Baldwin, our land forces didn’'t measure up in
basic fighting quality,
“Captured enemy intelligence documents repeat
edly mention the lack of aggressiveness of the Am
erican infantry,” he writes. “Our training program
constantly tried to step up the battlefield initiative i
of our troops. |
Baldwin also asserts that our generalship, though
usually good, seldom merited the label “best.”
And he runs through a long catalogue of weapons
to show we frequently fell short of the enemy and
our allies in the quality of our arms, Moreover, he
insists, we still lag in such vital categories as tanks,
tactical aircraft, artillery rockets, anti-aircraft and
self-propelled guns, and new aircraft carriers,
But against all the deficiencies of men and equip~
ment, Baldwin balances these military virtues: “In
telligence and initiative were American strong
points. , , . In general education, mechanical apti
tude, technical skills and factory output, we were
greatly superior.”
Too, he says, we had SOME of the best equip
ment in every field, generally where commercial
use aided technical advances. And in construction,
engineering and supply, “our services wrought
minor miracles.”
These virtues suggest why our soldiers may not
be the world’s best. The qualities they do have are
those exalted and developed by a peace-loving peo
ple. Ours is not a military civilization dedicated to
the soldier, as was the case in Germany and Japan,
Furthermore,. we haven’t learned to dramatize
our democratic freedom as a fighting cause, as Rus
sia dramatizes fanatical Communism. And, very
important, we've never had to defend our own soil
the way Britain and Russia had to do in World
War 11.
A vast continental island far from the scene of
recent wars, we had come to take our liberties and
our safety for granted. It was hard for us to see the
peril in a conflict waged thousands of miles from
American shores, It still is.
If war came to our soil, if our freedom were di
rectly threatened, there’s little doubt how we would
fight. What we must realize is that with Russia
grasping for power everywhere, American soil is
indeed menaced by every Soviet breach of the
peace, For today we are the real enemy—the only
enemy with strength.
Against colossal Russia, numbers and material
substance would not necessarily be on our side. To
be ready for such an adversary, we must have both
quality and quantity in men and arms. The higher
virtues of a peace-loving people are not enough in
this crisis.
Court House Grounds Now
.
Have Magnolia Trees
Three small magnolia trees have been planted on
the court house lawn, next to Jackson street. They
are small but when they grow to larger size should
add much to the beauty of the court house grounds.
There has been considerable improvement to the
appearance of public grounds in Athens in recent
months, We hope it will continue.
Some time ago there was organized a Committee
of Citizens to beautify the streets of Athens. The
city government assisted in this program and Han
cock avenue was the first street to be improved. A
large number of dogwood trees were planted on
Hancock and by next spring they should be in
bloom. The hot, dry weather got a few of them, but
most of thenr are living. We hope the beautification
program will mot subside, because it means much
for Athens.
The Soviet Union openly gave North Korea arms,
and whether Russians or Koreans gave the siznal to
attack South Korea is not a key issue.—~Owen Lat
timore, Johns Hopkins Universily expert on Far
Eastern affai s.
~ Let's Be More Realistic in the Future -
$ . 4 ; Frisqerern TN A ik e
\ ‘ / A CMoN Bovs, C'MON/ m
C: \\ = | Jon e TR/ | 0B P )
RN =
o O .z‘ ":H-"’ ¢WL A, |
s aNy—wo b I
Sy 3 e O
%Zt ~"" 0G1¥,,: @" ‘9 é{&'@' { “5\ : =
O£ S 0
e )
\ l"? ey \; ;‘l'? ::' \‘ L' ' AT, | ' i
' f A-“’_. 3 S 3 ,\" ;‘ M QIMMA flC e E
& .5..( Oy COMMITMENTS —,— 4§
i Gast) s
— e I |
" T WONVER IF %‘: RE R ORI A Y
mewuse (s W | B
ENOLGATO_ .| (G I IO
3 GO 'ROUNVS - i‘“= et R
- - N . .n, b ] . ¥ol |
IR A / - \VL i
ey - X L 2
- 1 | N i g 1 :
‘(,,,,;{._ i i \ \ Y A———— | ‘
L\) & \\ LA \ e ’ ;
a‘ v I xAo B 7 %7——- R
{MA \ iJ ‘N [ o*"'“‘,(;‘ %) [N
Johnson Finds Out About The
Reading Habits Of The Actors
BY ERSKINE JOXINSON
NEA Staff Correspendent ‘
HOLLYWOOD— (NEA) — A
glamor queen who’s been the ser
pent in the garden of love before
the cameras all day can turn into
a bookworm with hornrimmed
glasses come sundown.
I got the lowdown on Holly
wood’s literary tastes at Martin
dale’s book.dispensary in Beverly
Hills, Two clerks there, Constant
B. Sims and Rachel Brand, sell
deathless tomes to glamor folk as
casually as hot dog vendors hand
out the mustard to Sunday bathers
at the beach. |
More than 75 per cent of Mar
tindale’s business comes from the
film industry—actors, writers, di
rectors, producers and art direc
tors. |
“But,” says Sims, “I think they
‘beef about prices more than other
people. Once a day some big mo
vie star screams, ‘What, $3 for this
book!” ”
Betty Grable is one constant
,reader who has Constant Sims all
frustrated.
| “I’'ve tried to wait on her, but
'she seems to have a prejudice
against men,” he protested. “She
likes anything that’s tough, gutty
i or earthly. Things by James Far
rell, for instance, or books like
“The Man With the Golden Arm’.”
PALS
Constant says he does much
‘better with Katharine Hepburn
‘and Joan Fontaine who aren’t
“above getting real chummy with
" a book clerk in trousers.
. “They know what they want,”
he says. “Miss Hepburn flies in
and out like greased- lightning.
Doesn’t even bother to sign her
‘charge slip. Miss Fontaine hurries,
too. Maybe they don't want peo
ple to see them and think they're
intellectuals.”
} Farley Granger is a let-me
browse-around custoemer who al
' ways ends up by buying a couple
of yards of Frinted matter.
| Constant isn’t any too sure about
Shelley Winter’s influence on Far
i ’
NOXZEMA
'
| Wonderfui Relief tor
Poison lvy, Poison Oak
~ Scores of people find Nox-Ivy,
| made by the makers of famous
| Noxzema Skin Cream, brings
| quick relief to the amnoying
| itching of poison ivy, helps dry
up blisters fast. Get Nox-Ivy at
any drug store. 39¢ and 73¢.
Railroad Schedules
SEABOARD AIRLINE RY.
Arrival and Departare of Trains
Athens, Georgia
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
| New York and East—
| 11:22 a. m.—Air Conditioned.
| 845 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)
i 4:57 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
! CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
I RAILROAD
j Arrives Athens (Daily) 12:35 p.m
| Leaves Athens (Dailv) 4:15 pm
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
: From Lula and Commerce
| Arrive 9:00 a. m.
| East and West
| Leave Athens 9:00 a. m
i GEORGIA RAILROAD
Weak Day On'y
frain No 50 Departs 7:60 p m
l‘ frain No. 51 Arvives:9°9o a. m.
Mixed Trains.
ley’s literary taste. He recalls that
when Shelley waltzed in with Far
ley, they stayed strictly away from
Santayana and Thomas Wolfe, and
paid for a couple of movie fan
magazines.
“They discovered their pictures
in the magazines and left the place
giggling,” he remembers.
Constant writes up his biggest
orders when Margaret Whiting
drops by. “She’s an indiscriminate
reader,” he says. “You can sell
her anything but comic books. She
a a S e er '. &‘figg ;“‘..V’
l B
??& P ’ -
i, . ~-"'\r'{ g .‘."l-—:'-_ ‘\‘
Just hint to the gas pedal and she steps out like : ‘m 'ss':;§fl:;§§;' ':.: L
no other low-priced car. And that’s true whether e N 3¢§(%% G dgen
you're driving a Ford V-8 or “Six”. But this high- A “\" U W S
stepper is a low spender when it comes to costs. PR @ Y A 7
You can own a V-8, for example, for hundreds less e A lAP
than most “Sixes”—and a Ford “Six” for even less. . . -
:3 ' W
a .%: ':'
. : O
Smr R e
This "50 Ford actually helps you apply the brakes. o o a%;% *,;‘:_»:;-9" ;
They're 359, easier-acting King-Size Brakes that & ;i}»www‘f?&’ R :
use car momentum to help you stop. Like Ford’s o = GT e 4
evira-rugged “Lifeguard” Body, they give you the ST e O O .
kind of protection you'd expect only of costliest S\" /(o oameiln o =
cars. And for added safety and comfort, you ride R e@w b 3B
wow and level in the *Mid Ship” section of the car, ,fi-l o o 3&\“’*?&%* § e
etween the wheels—not over them. You're cradled A, ’h‘ M %2;}%? . i |
in comfort on “Hydra-Coil” front springs and “Para- X ’g)v“”r'“‘ S g % ity inf g 3’;
Flex” rear springs that give a road-hugging smooth- . Tg it iR R B N : . -
ness truly amazing. k. E Tm . ,fi
5 i
e ’n »
w 3 e N
Yes, again in 'SO, Ford received the Fashion Academy —_—
Gold Medal as “Fashion Car of the Year.” And =
Fords stay good looking because their baked-on % A
finish is “made to live eutdoors.” That means high _— .
resale value which, together with Ford’s low run- {%fi
ning costs, puts Ford further out front as America’s N
savingest car. 5 :
. iy .
And what a saver— - e O
- all the way/ 2 e 5T .
. & # Efi( : ¥ > (~’;~§'\
PR "‘h-_‘ i Pon g e
i 1 ’ (L’gfl, a. § A R ‘ —_— e %‘{‘: . N’m m,,.ummm' ¢
& s R B R el B R , 5 R e
| & ilw(’_ Afl s = %%fiv‘} @% g 4 & 6 B
A \ B\ A . -
C A -} rUSS'e" Motor CO.
ee 2.2 5 99 .
Phone 1497 Established 1918” Pulaski at Broad
B™ ™ T i T O e R e RS
buys truckloads.”
Book of humor, cartoon collec
tions, biographies of stage and film
stars and books explaining how to
lick nervous tension and ulcers are
best sellers at Martindale’s, Rachel
Brand said.
Cook books, too.
“Take Judy Canova, she always
buys cook books,” Rachel said.
“No, she doesn’t cook. Judy just
likes to read cook books. Lots of
stars do. Maybe it's relaxing. I
don’t know.”
Mrs. Cary Grant—Betsy Drake
-—is a prize customer. “Her mind
is so open,” rhapsodizes Rachel—
“and helps out starving peets by
buying slim volumes of verse.”
Rachel has yet to see Cary trot
ting after, Betsy with a literary
light in his eyes. =
Whenever Lana Turner gets
ready to say it with boeks for her
I{;:u, Rad\e}'gnw exactly what
wrap, §p.,She w 3y
O e Roves “The Prophet’ f
"pro!ounl book of East Indian phi
[losophy by Kahil Gibran. She.
buys copies by the dozen.” |
| FICTION FAN |
Peter Lawford, Rachel reports,
'is a fiction and current events
reader. Van Johnson likes novels
‘with supernatural themes and
’Barbara Stanwyck has lately tak
en to reading travel volumes about
Tltaly. ‘
Rachel’s favorite is Ethel Barry
‘more. “She buys almost every
novel and mystery story published
—at least 50 a month. Her chauf—‘
feur, I understand, is starting a
lending library.” (
Right now, John Hershey's “The
Wall,” Lenora Hornblow’s “Mem-(
ory and Desire,” T. S. Eliot‘s play,
“The Cocktail Party,” and “The
Naked Eye,’ a thriller-diller by a
couple of ladies named Martin and
Lewis, are the books that have
Hollywood agog. Kathleen Win
sor’s “Star Money” isn't big box
office yet.
“Kathleen’s book is hardly the
type of novel we would recom
mend to Oona O’Neill, Ann Baxter
or Jeanne Crain,” says Constant,
echoed by Rachel. “They - would
freeze up on us, but in a very nice
way, of course.”
Constant almost forgot.
Ray Milland is a bug about who-"
dunits, preferably the type with a’
crisp British accent who can smell
a body floating in th e Thames.
Ray sounds off right in front of
Extra-Fast
HEADACHE RELIEF
® Extra-fast relief is what you want
when a headache is pounding away,
and that’s exactly what you get when
you use "BC” Powders or Tablets,
The famous “"BC” formula contains
not just one, but severa! of the
world's most popular pain-relieving
ingredients. In combination these
quick-dissolving, fast-acting ingredi
ents are remarkably effective—far
more so than either would be alone.
( Bothered with BUGS ... Call CRKIN!
s e 4
| Ak W
’ (’Q ‘ Rats Roocheso Mice = Ants
i " Flies » Carpet Beetles "
e '
> APA‘“ o CONPANY OPEQAI,‘;’
234 E Washingtos = PHONE 1126
TR PV e )
everybody when the gun. ...
2ad cadavers It him down
++ “He lets you know when he | .
a lousy book,® Constant shud.,.
“So does Marie McDonald »
* 0 »
Music lover: A man, who |
a beautiful blonde singing in ;..
bath and puts his EAR to the L,
holer
PICTURE WINDOWS
FOR PIGS
TOLEDO, 0. — (AP) — (o
chickens and pigs soon will be ¢,
ing out of big picture-windoy <
just like city folks do, if farrc;¢
take the-advice of agricultural cy.
gineers.
They may not enjoy the vic,
any more than if they were pee;-
ing through small, dirty panes bt
the,animals will be healthier, ac.
cording to Everett Eakin, Libbey-
Owens-Ford Glass Company i
rector of farm reseearch. Studies
on experimental farms during the
last year show livestock fares bei
ter in buildings that have windo s
big enough to admit germ-killing
sunshine,
FALLING FOR A BEE
CHICAGO —(AP)— Mrs. Rose
Hart heard the buzz of a bee iy
her apartment, She shooed it o
a window and removed the scree,
to let it get out. But she lost her
balance and fell 18 feet to a side
walk. She suffered slight back in
juries.
When you buy “BC” you may have
it in either powder or tablet form,
Same famous "BC” formula es mecdi
cally tested ingredients in both. You
geta preparation that is trustworthy,
effective and fast-acting, one you can
use with complete confidence for
simple headaches, meuralgic pains
and minor muscular aches, Buy "B(”
today and use as directed. Two tab
lets equal one powder, 10c & 25c.