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My Grandmother
“(Miss Roberta iiodgson, now residing in Santa
Barbara, California, has wriiten this intimate
sketch of her childhood recollections of her grand
mother, Mrs. Edward R. Hodgson, sr.,, which
will be of interest to some of the older residents
of Athens.
(The home occupied by the founder of the
Hodgson family in Athens is now an annex of the
Georgian Hotel, having been moved from a posi
tion on College Avenue, facing City Hall, down
te the corner of the block at Hancock Avenue and
Jackson Street.
(For a period of less than a year, Mrs. Edward
R. Hodgson, sr., lived in the old Ben Hill home,
now the home of the President of the University
of Georgia. It was here that Miss Roberta Hodg
son lived with her grandmother when she was a
little girl, perhaps six or seven years of age.—
Editor’'s Note.)
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BY ROBERTA HODGSON
The late Chancellor of the University of Georgia,
David Crenshaw Barrow, was a scholar, a poet and
a Saint. I heard him read a sketch of his grand
mother: “Her coat of arms was a cookie and her
crest a key basket.”
1 said: “That is a picture of my grandmother.”
He said: “It is a type” (of the old Southery lady).
1 lost my grandrfiother when 1 was very young
but her memory stands out in sunny cutline, brave
and clear: ’
My father’s death at the age of 27 years left my
mother a widow with an only child. We lived with
the two grandmothers. My grandmother Anne
Bishop, as a small girl, came from Ireland with her
two brothers. These two men trained in the Kew
Gardens were botanical gardeners, hired by the
University of Georgia for its famous Botanical Gar
den. Among the i.rst passengers on one of the first
steamboats from England to the United States were
Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Hodgson with their four
children. They came by ship from New York to
Charleston, S. C. They were passengers on the first
train to Athens, Georgia, from Augusta, Georgia.
Their son Edward, my grandfather, afterwards
married Anne Bishop. These were my grandparents,
and their son, Robert, married my mother,
& The old home on Prince avenue, Athens, was
built by John W, Grant, a railroad contractor and
builder. It was later purchased by IJ. S. Senator
Beniamin Harvey Hill, It was in the Colonial or
_ Greek style, with Acanthus pillars and Corinthian
columms, very beautiful. The lovely garden of fif
teen acres was my grandmother’s chief occupation.
Grandma sold this lovely house for five thousand
dollars, as her staff was too small to keep it, but
she bought an excellent smaller house opposite the
Athens City Hall.
The old Ben Hill mansion was recently given to
~the University of Georgia for the President’s house
by the W. C. Bradley Foundation of Columbus,
Georgia.
: Going off to school to Europe dimmed my recol=
lections but I was the only one of her grandchildren
that lived in her home and I was my grandmother’'s
shadow. I can see her now sitting in the hot sun on
a little stool with a great shade hat; her garden is
still one of the tourist sights in Athens. Grandma
would inquire in a bewildered way, “Has anyone
seen my flower shears, or my thimble, or my key
basket? That “anyone” could only be the little girl
that dogged her footsteps and that knew the routine
well and would rush off to find the missing wanted
tool in the familiar, accustomed place. Gardening
was one of her chief delights and her vegetables and
flowers took prizes in fairs, as did her pickles and
preserves.
Grandma’s food partakes of the Heavenly Manna
of the Gardens of the Gods and was always praised
and eaten with gusto. Her skill was proficient. She
was Cordon Bleu. I was the errand boy: “Take a
pan of l{ot rolls to the pastor’s house or down to
some poor sick lady.” Grocers would come around
and insist on her cooking bread to advertise their
flour and grandma's cooks graduated into famous
caterers, supplying food for great receptions and
even cakes and biscuits to the White House. To this
day, proving that good cooking is immortal.
.She had one daughter, and ten sons. These great
big men would come in and shamelessly beg, “Ma,
got any cake?” Grandrmra automatically turned to
her pantry. This was a large room stocked with
pickles and preserves and a delicious smell. There
would be great hunks of cake cut for the sons and
handfuls of cookies for the little girl who was at
hand with the key basket.
Two of her sons locked very much like her. When
these big portly men would seize her and whirl her
in a dancing hug, grandma would reach for her
lttle black slipper, like a sign in Masonry, or a
family joke (of the teasing tales of having spanked
her sons, oft told by them to her dismay).
‘ Her hospitality was constant. There was always
some old lady pensioner, Bethodist preachers were
constant guest, she was & Methodict worker. Her
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Public Alarmed Over
.
Federal Spending
Evidence of nation-wide diseatisfaction among
the rank and file of the American public with lav
ish federal spending continues to come to light; in
deed the hue and cry that is being raised against
useless and extravagant expenditure is gradually
approaching the point where the lawmakers are
likely to take cognizance of it.
To be sure, there is no complaint about spending
for defense and preparedness, but the average
taxpayer is coming to the conclusion that economies
in domestic expenditures would go a long way te
ward offsetting the necessary expense of the de
fense program. Even in the defense program, many
feel that due regard is not being given to the pos
gibility of getting a dollar’s worth of defense for a
dollar’s expenditure.
In this connection, Roscoe Drummond, chief of
the Washington News Bureau of the ‘' Christian
Science Monitor, and a level-headed analyst who
approaches a subject with an unprejudiced mind,
tells of conclusions he is arriving at during a swing
around the country during the congressional retess.
We reproduce Mr. Drummond’s most recent article
on the subject as follows: |
“When you get away from Washington—which is
what every Washington correspondent ought tc do
periodically—you don’t need a public-opinion poll
to show that the American people are gravely anx
ious, even alarmed, at the rate of federal spending.
“This haunting fear that, if we don’t look out,
we’ll spend and tax ourselves into bankruptcy, is
not limited to any part of the country or to any par
ticular group of voters. It is everywhere—in labor,
in business, among Democrats, among Republicans,
among independents.
“Fromr the kind of questions which come from
Town Hall and forum audiences, which are mani
festly well informed, it is evident that majority
opinion sharply and instinctively feels that the gov
ernment is overspending, that neither the President
nor the Congress is doing anywhere nearly enough
to cut non-defense expenses, and that the mounting
federal budget is risking the nation’s financial se
curity. The latest Gallup survey, by way of corrob
oration, indicates that from 50 to §7 percent of the
country shares this view.
“This is all to the good. The pressure for more
saving is urgently needed to offset the pressures for
more spending which play upon Congress. It is true
that the mounting federal budget is mostly account
ed for by ‘the needs of defense in the kind of world
» are living in today. It is true that the dangers
we face would be greater than they now are if we
were not, at last, putting meat and muscle upon our
military strength.
“But it isn’t necessary to assume that the military
is omniscient and that everything the military
wants is automatically the wisest of all possible al
ternatives. The- Defense Department needs strong
pressure brought on it to use the imagination to
manage itself more efficiently and ingeniously. We
need to keep our total defense programs in balance
with our total resources. Defense spending can be
accompanied by more non-defense economy. More
money isn’t always the only answer — or the best
answer.
“The thoughtful judgment of many in Washing
ton and elsewhere is that a central need in the fed
eral goevrnment today is more effective civilian
contral of the nation’s total security program at the
level as the President and Congress. If an aroused
public opinion, alarmed at the rate of federal spend
ing, can focus itself on the steps necessary to bring
about such a reform, it would begin to accomplish
something affirmative and constructive.
“Some steps which would lead this end are these:
“1. The National Security Council — a top-level
Cabinet committee including the President, Vice-
President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense,
and Chairman of the National Security Resources
Board—heeds to be developed further as the prin
cipal agency for formulating and reviewing bal
anced security policies.
“2, It needs to be strengthened for this purpose
by the addition of at least three full-time civilian
members who are not burdened by other govern
nrental responsibilities.
“3. The Department of Defense needs a stronger
civilian element, with the ability to make independ
ent recommendations, fn order to evaluate defense
policies and to help the Joint Chiefs of Staff lift
their thinking beyond the traditions—and preju
dices—of the services.
“4, Congress needs a coordinated Committee on
National Security which would have an area of
review coterminous with the National Security
Council in order to make sure that Congress gets
contin: ously a balanced picture of the nation's se
curity policies.
“The decision which is before the United States
today is not whether we are going to develop and
maintain a strong position of defense for as long as
is needed. The decision is how are we going to do
it without risking the financial structure of the
nation.”
We should thank God for a lift in an emergency,
but God doesn’t try to win souls by manufacturing
crises.—Msgr. Maurice S. Sheeby, of Catholic Uni
versity of America.
I want to learn a trade and I figure tnhe Navy is
the best place.~—John J. Pershing, cousin of General
John J. Pershing 9f World War I fame,
The sacred human rights of men, women and
children (are being used by the Southern Demo
cratic-Republican coalition) to jockey for political
position. — James B. Cavey, secretary-treasuver,
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61 Joe Has Tougher Life Getfing
Indoctrinated On Army's Weapons
By RELMAN MORIN
(For Hal Boyle)
NEW YORK—(AP)—There has
been a good deal of criticism re
cently of that phase of military
training known as Troop Informa
tion and Education.
“I. and E.” as they call it in the
camps, is a discussion hour, held
once a week for the trainees. It
is conducted by an officer, or
sometimes a non-com, and it em
braces a wide range of subjects,
mainly in the field of international
events,
The basic purpose is to explain
to a drafted man why it was ne
cessary to put him in uniform, why
he may have to fight, what the
dangers are that confront his
country.
Presumably, everybody knows
the answers to these why’s.
Presumably, anyone old enough
to read knows that there is such
a thing as Communism in the
world, that it represents the sup
pression of human liberties, and
that, therefore, the United States
must be its major target, thc one
nation it must destroy.
' “l and E”
i Actually, the Army knows that
of the thousends of men who have
been drafted, very few are aware
of that basic, brutal fact. “I. and
E.” is designed to explain it.
The program has been criticized
on the ground hat it is inadequate,
that one hour a week is not
enough, that the topics are poorly
chosen, and that many of the in
structors—since they are not pro
lfessional teachers — are ineffec
tual.
l I heard a lot of the pros and
{ cons about “I. and E.” on a long
| tour of the army camps.
l The professional soldiers have
an interesting answer to the fun
damental difficulty, that is, the
fact that very iew draftees know
“why” they were drafted.
They say, “a young man should
have learned, long before he was
drafted, the reason for all this. If
he has not learned at home, in
school, or in church, that his
country is threatened by the Com
munists—then it is almost too late
to start learning when he is ac
tually in uniform..”
Weapons and Taectics
They point out that an infan
tryman, these days, has an awful
lot to cram into his head about
weapons and tactics during the
relatively short period of basic
l training. He is a busy man. They
get him up early in the morning
and they keep him working until
late in the afternoon and some
times longer.
They can not afford to take
more than one hour a week, they
say, for the purposes of “indcctri
l nation.”
My own observations certainly
ltended to confirm the assertion
|that it is a rare man who under
]stands why he had to be brought
linto the Army. Many of them,
when I asked the question, looked
Ia little startled and said, simply:
“Why? Because I was drafted.
That's the law, that's all.”
Ten years ago, no soldier was in
doubt. The issue was bitterly
clear. This country had been at
tacked, There had been a Pearl
Harbor, and that was all the “I.
and E.” any American needed.
But today the issues are by no
means so clear.
There are many thoughtfu! and
responsible men who say that we
never should have gone into Ko
rea at all. There are others who
believe that, tactically, the war
i has been bungled. The average
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“big brass” for guidance and lead
ership, is pretty well confused by
the conflicting statements of high
ranking officers.
In short, the Army’s problem to
day is a thousand times more dif
ficult than it was in 1941 when it
was suddenly called upon to
transform thousands of plain citi
zens into soldiers. From what I
saw, I would say that, relatively
;ggak'mg, it is deing a very fine
job.
And sometimes, during the ar
guments about “indoctrination,”
my mind would wander over tow
ard the Communists, remembering
how they meet the problem.
They meet it with wonderful
Communist directness—by putting
a political officer with every unit.
He doesn’t fight. He never goes
into the line. His main job is to
spy and eavesdrop on the soldiers,
to listen .for any expressions of
disloyalty or doubt that “our great
leader” is really a great leader.
If he hears anything along that
line, the end is quick and certain
for that scldier.
Maybe that is more effective
than “I. and E.” probably is.
But as long as this is America,
we will prefer to meet the prob
lems of “indoctrination” the hard
way. It’s a lot better in the long
run.,
HEADS UP
CHICAGO — (AP) — The most
dangerous time of year for pedes
trians is here, said W. Dean Keefer,
director of safety engineering for
the Kemper insurance group. He
warned drivers tc icduce speed at
dusk and asked pedestrians to be
cautious at intersections.
Pedestrains deaths are usually
40 per cent higher during the last
three months of the year than the
average of the first nine months,
he says. A
Reasons for the startling in
crease in pedestrian fatalities are:
1. The shift to dark winter
clothing makes it hard to see the
pedestrian.
2. More traffic in hours of dark
ness.
3. Incerased holiday travel,
shopping and drinking.
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Railroad Schedules
SEABOARD AIRLINE RY.
Arrival and Departure of Trains
Athens, Georgia
l.eave for Eiberton. Hamlet and
New York and East—
-3:30 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
8:48 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
t.eave for Elberton Hamlet ang
East—
-1215 a. m.—(Locat)
Leave for Atlanta. South ano
West—
. 5:45 a. m.—Air Conditioned.
4:30 a. m.—(Local).
2:57 p. m.—Air Ccnditioned
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILROAD
Arrives Athens (Daily Except
Sunday) 12:35 p. m.
Leaves Athens (Daily. Except
Sunday) 4:15 p m.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM
From Lula and Corimerce
Arrive 9:00 a. in
. East and West
Leave Athens 9:00 a. m
GEORGIA RAILRDAD
Mixed Trains
Week Day Only
lrain No. 81 Arrives 900 & m
Train No. 50 Departs 7:00 p m
MORE DEPORTATIONS
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya -—
(AP) — The federal government
of Malaya is deporting 390 aliens
and 21 British subjects under re
gulations prevailing during the
present state of emergency. This
makes a total deportation of 2,799
aliens and 90 British subjects since
the first of this year.
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gt o F e players? What teams? Anybody I know? What games
Sl e B did they threw? Who bribed them? How much money?
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Leopard Escapes from Zoo. You
asked: What zoo? How did he get out?
An: "'y hurt? Will they catch him?
AYBE YOU HEARD a flash report on
M TV or radio. But the minute you got
achance, yougrabbed for yournewspaper.
You knew it was the only place to get
the whole story —fast. There in the paper
was everything . . . facts you couldn’t get
in a hurried broadcast . . . or couldn’t wait
for till they appeared in magazines.
Every day dozens of stocies are only
half-told — or not told at all — until you
read your newspaper. Miss an issue and
vou feel like a hermit. For it always turns
out that something has happened that
everybody knows about but you.
And everybody clse feels the same way.
Everybody reads the newspaper every
day—for the news on Tito . . . or for prices
on Hopalong Cassidy shirts for boys.
That’s why, when you have something
to sell, the newspaper is the place to reach
all the people ail the time.
In advertising, why deal in fractions?
Magazines reach only fractions of your
market. Each one appeals to some people
The newspaper is always “first. with the most”
Grandmother
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Editorial Page.)
sons helped build a parsonage, a
roomy and pleasant frame resi
dence, for the Methodist parson’s
family. This parsonage was a me
morial in her nanve, called Anne
Hodgson Parish House. It was
later torn down and replaced by a
Sunday School and Educational
building.
After a busy day’s work in the
garden or kitchen, she would re
tire to a day bed for an afternoon
siesta. That would be the time for
the little grandchild’s ministra
tions. I would comb her hair,
which was black, not a white hair
in it, and bather her feet, put on
fresh white stockings and then
out would come the rustling silk
dress and the fresh white cap. She
would sit down to knitting or
sewing, a quiet and dignified fig
ure. She had a sort of welcome
and attentive manner that confer
red importance. Her old servants
were constantly consulting and
visiting her. I remember two,
whom we called Tom and Jke, but
grandma called them by their full
name, Thomas and Isaac. It seem~
ed to confer dignity and they con
ferred affectionate and efficient
loyal service. Her old slaves rose
to high positions of leadership
among their own race, as preach
ers, post office employees, and
some as musicians and administra
tors, a testimony to her tutelage
and training.
As a small sinner, sometimes 1
paid the penalty for my misdeeds
and would hear my mother say:
“Go to bed and rest till you can
behave better.” Mother would
come in sometimes with bread and
water and I would question her
anxiously, “Did you bring me
jam? Did you bring me butter?
Did you bring me milk?” “No,
child, only bread and water.”
“Well, come and kiss me. I'll for
give you.” This forgiveness was
‘due to another event, a secret vis
itor rustling in, in a silk dress and
‘a white apron. This would be
grandma. There would be a de
lightful bulge under the white
apron and out would be furkvely
drawn a large hunk of sponge
cake which was laid beside me.
“Say nothing,” said grandma. I
said nothing, but the hunk of cake
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Record Snow Buries City. You asked: How
deep is it? Traffic stopped? How will I get
to work? Who's snowed in? Aayone frozen?
- not to others. No magazine is read by
everyone in town who can possibly buy.
Radio and TV programs reach only frac
tions, too. Each one appeals to & limited
audience—sport fans, homemakers, kids,
etc. And how many of these can listen at
the time yon broadcast?
The mewspaper talks to everybody ia
town. It's created fresh every day for
everybody. Just as you read the paper
now, all of your customers and prospects
read the paper, too —at the time they
choose, for as long as they choose.
Only the newspaper is first with the
most news . . . first with the most people,
first with the most advertisers.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER; 4, 1081,
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Hotel Y.obero, 5
Santa Barbara, Californfa,
October 23, 1951,
Trailside Museum
Boasts Two New
Mysterious Birds
Have the swallows come baclk
from Capistrano? The Recreation
and Parks Department asks this
question due to the acquisition of
two new birds whose name and or
igin are unknown and whose pre<
sence in this part of the country
is quite mysterious. The deparf
ment is very anxious to discover
the correect name for these hirds
and asks the people who visit the
Trailside Museum to call 797 if
they can impart any information
on these newest and strangest
additions to the park.
Department officials announce
that one of t&\’ese birds flew into a
service station at Lexington, Geor
gia, was caught by tlie station at
tendent "and turned over to the
game warden for delivery to the
Athens Museum. The Recreation
Department is very grateful for
the interest shown by the service
station attendant and, the game
warden of Lexington, Georgia,
The Trailside Museum at Athens
Memorial Park will continue to
remain open for those who would
like to visit and see e animals,
and any information leading to ihe
identity of the two new birds will
be greatly appreciated by Reecrea
tion Department. Please egll 797
or drop by the Recreation office
at 293 Hoyt Street.
OPEN HOUSE AT
JOHN THURSTON °
The John Thurston 4-K elub in
Upson County, winner of the top
award in the community improve
ment program sponsored by The
Atlanta Journal, has announced
that it will hold open house on
November 18 in order that other
clubs can see the 56 improvements
that won the prize. Word is that
the Upson County Farm Bureau
will provide lunch for the guests
and that up to 75 persons who have
to travel a good way for the open
2ouse will be accommodated in
homes in the community on the
night of November 15.