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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1951,
Coming
Events
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lic with facts concerning or
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ings, times, places and events
only. Contributors to this
column are requested to limit
their coming events to these
facts to insure the brevity and
clarity of t':e various items in
the column
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Qil paintings by Jack Parr are
b~ ne shown in the library.
Jolls from the collection of
Mrs. Franklin Butler are being
sk~-yn in the library.
thildren’s Story Hour each
Shturday in children’s room
frem 10 until 11 a, m.
“ibrary story time over
VW AU each Friday, 5 p. m.
Opening hours: Monday
through Friday, 9 a. m. to 9 p.
m.; Saturday, 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.;
Sundays, 3 p. m. to 6 p. m.
W.C. T. U. HOUR
WRFC
Over WREC the following will
bhe heard on the Weman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union hour
each Monda: morning during
the month of December from
10:45 to 11.
Dee. 31, Rev. Gene R. Renkel.
Clarke County Women Votiers
will meet Tuesday, January 8, 12
noon at the Holman Hotel. Re
presentatives Chappelle Mat
thews and Grady Pittard, jr., are
to be the guest speakers, they
will talk on 1952 Legislative
slate. Members are urged to be
present. :
Mount Vernon Lodge No. 22,
F. & A. M. will celebrate St.
John the Evangelist night on
Thursday, December 27, at 8 p.
m. in the lodge hall on Meigs
Street. The public is invited.
Main speaker will be George
Starr Peck, president of Fulton
Masonic Club, Past Master of
Palestine Lodée and chairman
of the Code Committee of the
Grand Lodge of Georgia.
Report To Parents
Dr. MARTHA M. ELIOT
Chief Children’s Bureau
Do the schools in your com
munity admit children who have
epilepsy?
There are many misconceptions
abroad today that a child who has
“fits” is tainted, that he is sub
ject to mental deterioration, that
he should not be allowed to associ
ate with other children, that he
is not a good risk as an employee
in later life.
Yet some of the world’s greatest
geniuses have epileptics: Lord
Byron, Paganini, Van Gogh, Alfred
the Great were subject to epileptic
seizures.
Epilepsy is an illness which
handicaps an estimated one in
every 200 persons in the United
States. The word epilipsy is Greek
for “seizure.” A seizure is a tem
porary loss or impairment of con
sciousness.
Until practically the past de
vade, a diagnosis of epilepsy meant
» life wasted, from childhood
un.‘l death. Even now, an estimat
ed \,OOO persons with epilepsy are
in p\\\lic institutions, being main
taina) at an annual cost approach
ing $29,000,000.
But medical advances within
recent years have given us the
\\'ea;;‘ons to fight this illness. Now
we have a machine to measure
brain waves accurately and help
in diagnosing wvarious types of
epilepsy. New drugs have been de
veloped which are usually effect
ive in controlling seizures.
So that now, we believe at least
80 percent of epileptic children
could lead normal, useful lives if
they are given proper care.
Last November, when the As
sociation of State and Territorial
Health Officers met in Washing
ton, they passed a resolution point
ing out that early diagnosis and
co.itinuous medieal supervision for
epileptic ean be extended to pati
ents in both rural and urban com
munities and urging that every
effort be made to increase “special
facilities for case-finding, diagno
sis and medical supervision.”
Some states already are moving
ahead to help epileptic children
live like other youngsters. :
The State of Maryland, for in
stance, has enlisted the aid of two
Universities in a plan to help
¢pileptic o‘ildren. Under this plan,
childresn wan be referred by the
covaty health department for di
agnosiy in one of two clinics in
Baltithore, and medical treatment
tan be begun. ]
At the University of Illinois,
bhysicians, public health nurses
aud members of other professions
o work with epileptics are get
ling training in the latest methods
of treatment. The Children’s Hos
pital of Boston is another pioneer
In_work for epilepties. ;
‘ln an increasing number of
states, such as Illinois, lowa,
Oklahoma, Utah, programs are
developing to help treat children
with epilepsy. But in far too many
Instances, an epileptic child under
reatment may not attend school.
Some school authorities fear the
child might injure hemself on the
school premises and so they re
fuse to accept responsibility for
this hazard, gthers want to shield
other pupils from the risk of seeing
& child in an epileptic seizure.
But if the teacher understands
and accepts the epileptie child, so
Will the pupils.
Parents as well as patients need
0 rid themselves of unfounded
fears, of any sense of shame, and
# desire for secrecy where epilep
lics are gongsrned. And teachers
need a poised sympathetic attitude
n order {o assure the child who
suffers from epilepsy that he will
not be excluded from opportunities
for growing and developing like
other children,
BAT-SAIS ';\nnual
Dance Dec. 28th
The BAT-SAP annual formal
dance will be held Friday evening
at the .Georgian Hotel from nine
to one, J i
The. intermission party will be
held at the Teen-age Center from
10:30 to 11:50. .
All alumni are cordially invited
to attend, R
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PERSONALS
| Mrs. Maud Hart and Miss Car
ll‘9ll Hart are visiting Mrs. Hart's
[sxste-r. Mrs. Dot Hannah in Madi
i son for the holidays.
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| Invitations have been received
| by Athens relatives and friends to
the marriage of Miss Barbara Lu
cile Burpee of Augusta to Mr.
Adolph Bahjet Farage, on Monday
the thirty-first of December at St.
Mary’s Catholic Church in Augus
ta. Miss Burpee is the daughter
of Mrs. Claude McKinley Burpee
and the late Dr. Burpee of Augus
ta, and a granddaughter of Mrs.
R. A. Burpee of Athens,
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Mr. and Mrs. Julian Veatch, jr.
and young son, Lamar, are spend
ing the week in Decatur with Mr.
Veatch’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Julian Veatch.
* * *
Mr. J. P. Carter is at Piedmont
Hospital where he went three
weeks ago for a hip operation.
Mrs, Carter and their daughter,
Miss Mary Frances Carter, g 0 up
every day or two to visit him.
* * *
. Mr. and Mrs. James D. Miller,
jr. and young son, Jimmy of Dal
ton, are guests of Mrs. Miller’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Soar
on Carlton Terrace.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joe Costa had as
guests on Tuesday at their home
on Cobb street, Mr, and Mrs. Rich
ard Whtielock, and children, Bar
bara and Richard, and Miss Teresa
Papa of Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs.
William Conlon of Augusta; Pfc.
Jerome Costa, of Fort Jackson,
Columbia, S. C.; Mrs. Mike Frank
Costa and Mr. Lawrence Costa
and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Morton |
of Athens.
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Mrs. Hamilton McWhorter is
spending the holidays in Chatta
nooga, Tenn., with her son and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mec-
Whorter, }
* * *
Col. and Mrs. J. B. Thompson, |
and daughter, Carol Sue, arrive:
shortly from Alexandria, Va., to
visit Col. and Mrs. Herbert E.
Mann. Col. Thompson is a mem
ber” of the National War College
staff.
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Miss Lois Duffell is spending
this week in Winston-Salem, N. C.
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Mrs. B. H. Postell has returned
to her home in Macon and Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Cook have returned
to Austin, Texas, after spending
the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. H.
D. Joiner and family at their home
on Valley Road.
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Miss Mildred Thompson left on
Christmas night to spend a week
in New York City with friends.
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Judge Arthur S. Oldham is at
St. Mary’s Hospital for treatment.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Shephard,
of Atlanta, have returned home
after a visit with their mother,
Mrs. J. P. Foster on Cloverhurst
Terrace. e
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Mr. and Mrs. Alwyn B. Stiles
announce the birth of a daughter
at General Hospital, Wednesday,
December 26.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. J. O'Kelly had
as their guests Christmas Day Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Osborn, from
Vanna, Ala.
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MEET MR. AVERAGE AMERICAN—Robert Rehm, who fits the
Census Bureau’s description of the “average American,” takes his
average family for an average walk on an average day, through
the streets of Levittown, L. I. Mr. Rehm, an electrical assembler,
is classified as a semi-skilled worker, has an annual salary that
approximates S3OOO, owns a refrigerator, radio, and telephone, and
still pays on his home. His wife, Peggy, leads Jeff, three, by the
hand, and Daddy caries 3-mos.-old Chris. The dog does the average
amouns of barking.
Roles In '52
Polifical Lineup.
By SIGRID ARNE
AP Newsfeatures Writer -
WASHINGTON — Women -will
be more than “helpers” in the 1952
presidential campaign.
For one thing, more women than
men can vote in this country now,
In 1950 there were 49,419,000 wo
men eligible to vote and only 47,-
499,000 men.
So both the Republican and
Democratic National Committees
have thumping programs to edu
cate women voters. Both women'’s
divisions report that more women
are taking active parts in local
politics. The report larger num
bers of younger women are active.
And Republican headquarters
finds that they are enlisting more
women in business and the pro
fessions.
Both Republican and Democra
tic women leaders have been busy
through 1951. For several years
the Democratic women have
worked on the slogan “Campaigns
are won between elections.” On
that slogan they have kept party
workers together fighting for local
issues right through the four years
that intervene between presiden
that intervene between . presi
dential campaigns.
Now the Republican women are
hard at work on a campaign they
call “Work and Win.”
Both women’s divisions have
emphasized educational programs
to help the voters understand is
sues and their effect on individual
homes. The women have turned
out - such readable Iletters and
pamphlets that now the major part
of their output goes to both men
and women county leaders for dis
tribution to voters.
The Democratic women have
turned out a “Guide Book.” The
Republican women are mailing out
a Workers’ Manual.” Both detail
how to get acquainted with voters
in the precinct, how to explain the
issues, what to do In the last month
of the campaign and on election
day. I
The Republican manual is more
detailed. For example, it shows
the precinct worker just how to
make out cards on every voter in
the area, whether Republican,
Democrat or “Fair Deal Demo-
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crat.”
The card asks that the precinct
captain find out whether the voter
is- registered, whether he needs
transportation on election day,
whether the family will need a
baby sitter and whether members
of the family will need absentee
ballots mailed to them.
This coming year women pre
cinct workers will be calling from
door-to-door. Both parties are
polishing up whirlwind campaigns
for next October.
Women wiul man the motor
pools on election day, do the baby
sitting, man the telephones to
check which of the registered vo
ters have failed to show up at the
polls. 3 ;
Both parties have handsome,
lforceful women as the directors of
their women’s divisions.
India Edwards, a former Chica
go newspaper woman, is the Dem
ocrat’s firebrand. She has never
let down since the 1948 elections.
)Just recently she flew back and
| forth, Washington to California,
twice in one week just to make
speeches.
Through 1951 she has had top
ranking Democrat women on the
road making speeches, including
the wives of the secretaries of
Agriculture and Interior — Mrs.
Charles F. Brannan and Mrs. Os
car Chapman-—and two govern
ent office holders, Nellie Taylor
Ross, director of the mint, and
Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, the U.
S. treasurer.
| During the campaign the Demo
{crats expect to call on one-time
| Secretary of Labor Frances Per
kins and on two diplomats, Mrs.
Perle Mesta, minister to Luxem
bourg, and Mrs. Eugenie Anderson,
ambassador to Denmark. |
Mrs. Edwards right now is par- ‘
ticularly happy over the numbers
of women who have signed up as‘
Democratic party workers who
were once workers in non-partisan
organizations such as the League
of Women Voters. |
Republican women are led by
Mrs. Gilford Mayes of Idaho. She
came pu the hard way in the
party, with 20 years of work be
hind her, starting with ringing
door bells in the precincts. Her so l
small headquarters crew in Wash
ington is tied in with 5,000 local
women’s Republican clubs.
Her staff started “political |
schools” two years ago to educate
precinet voters on the issues and
on how to approach vofers. Those
schools will be held all over the
country this next year. Eight teams |
of Republican party experts have
been set up to run the schools,
which meet for one to three days.
Mrs. Mayes says “The job in
’52 is to do our party job. Every
worker must line up for strenuous
campaigning. Every potential
voter must be registered. Every
one registered must vote. Let's
not repeat the ‘lost vote’ situations
in previous presidential elections,
Let's put the stay-at-homers to
shame.”
Women gained responsible jobs
in the Republican party a little
more slowly than they did in the
Democratic party, but now they
are surging forward.
Republican headquarters re
ports that 23 women are now serv=
ing as county chairmen of Repub
lican party organizations, Women
are acting as chairmen of city
organizations—five in Connecticut
and 18 in Massachusetts. The party
has women vice-chairmen in 2,012
counties out of the total, 3,069
counties in the nation.
There is no way of knowing how
important the women’s vote will
be to either party in 1952 because
the national vote has never been
counted for men and women vo
ters,
But in 1948 the Democratic wo
men’s division took a spot sam
pling at voting booths. It found
that women voters made up the
following percentages: lowa 52
per cent, Cook county (Chicago)
55 per cent, Wayne county (De
troit) 63 per cent, Ohio 65 per
cent. In Minnesota women voted
two to one.
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AP Newsfeatures
Is it true that most American
men have two left feet? If it isn't,
why don’t more of the male popu~
lation learn to dance, ask the girls.
1t used to be that Jennie worried
about being a wallflower, a fact
that Mom, Pop and certain ads im
pressed upon her. But what no
one seemed to realize was that
Jennie was a wa¥flower, not be
cause she was too, too unpopular,
but because too few swains could
move one foot successfully in front
of the other to music.
This strange state of affairs
even today puts the entire social
world out of kilter. On one hand‘
you have a majority of women‘
who love to dance, and who know
how, and on the other hand you‘
have a male population who do
not dance and detest the idea—-—a]l'
too late they realize dancing is
fairly important to social success.
Even a male who is persuadedl
finally to get up on his two feet
and make a stab at a waltz or a
fox-trot often finds it a bitter ex
perience. Yet he must risk in
sulting his dinner partner rather
than admit he can’t dance. It is
then that he regrets that he
laughed as a youth when other
boys braved the dance floor. i
As men grow older, it is the
| average nice guy, usually some=
‘| body’s homeloving husband, who
doesn’'t dance or doesn't dance
well. The sharpie types cultivate
the dance as part of normal wolf
practice, the, traveling salesman
| finds that a dance course Is neces
sary with a fat expense account
and the case-society nightlelub
circuit set learns the dance rage
| of the moment—whether it is the
| Lambeth walk or the currently
‘| popular Mamba,
| The boys who sit around the
| wall watching the dancing in the
| school auditorium are not as belli
| gerent about the dance as teachers
'|and parents might think—most of
‘lthem are just shy, or think
‘| dancing is for sissies. It is up to
1 all the women—from their dates
| to their mothers—to encourage
| these young men to move their
| carcasses in rhythmic cadence. Im
‘| press on your man that he is not
| expected to rival Fred Astaire or
Gene Kelley to please his dancing
lady. She wants him to learn the
basic requirements. As in every
thing else, practice will make per
| sect.
Most college heroes grow up to
be tanglefooted on the dance floor,
As popular athletes they didn’t
have to depend on an orchestia to
keep the girls swarming around
them. So it isn’t until the diploma
is framed, and they meet strangers
who didn’t know them when, that
they become conscious of their so
cial inadequacies.
Any boy who doesn’'t take the
iopportunity to dance now is miss
ing a big bet. Any girl who is en
PAGE THREE
-| gaged to a boy who doesn’t dance
)| might as well count on some very -
» | frustrating minvtes after marriage.
| It might not seem important while
{ | romance ig in full bloom to 5
\ gou‘r ‘man out of the ‘moonkl It,
.| But after marriage, there will be
. | many instances when you'll wish
)| he had a yen to dance.
*| Holiday time is the ideal time
| to observe how the non-dancing
" boys can put a hitch in a party. A
girl cah be dressed to the teéth,
| full of vim and vigor, and become
| deflated in a very short time beé
.| cause her partner is a dance sitter,
1 If you want to have fun at win
' | ter parties, teach your beau how
| to dance. You don’t have to drag
y | him out on a crowded dance floor
;| to show him his right foot; invite
| him to your house and make a
-1 habit of getting him to dance. It
.| is better to be subtle about it.
|lf he protests that he cant’ dance
| say “neither can I” or something
| of the sort. The main idea is to
| get him up on his feet. Once he
| gets accustomed to keeping time
| and learning his way around, your
job is over,
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: Fruit cakes were the earliest
| cakes used. Sixteenth century
|| England made them with dried
| fruits and they were popular.
| Since that time they have been
| improved and refined, and the
| popularity has increased.
| In some states, rate cause an
.| approximate loss of S2OO per year
! per farm.