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DAILY MEDITATIONS
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there any thing teo hard for me.—Jeremiah 32:37.
Siill Red From "48 Poll
Faces Siill Red From "48 Poll,
Writers Pick lke, Stevenson
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) --To know how good
Newsweek Magazine’s poll of 50 Washington polit
jcal writers is on picking the most likely presiden
tial tickets, the 1952 results must be judged along
with predictions made by a similar group in 1948.
Polled on June 7, 1948, all 50 of the correspond
ents—including this writer—predicted that the Re
publicans had the best chance to win the election,
The late Senator Arthur Vandenberg was picked
by 28 of the 50 writers as the most likely to get the
GOP nomination. Governor Dewey of New York
was second with 15 votes. Stassen was favorite for
Republican vice president with 15 votes.
The Democratic ticket was predicted as Truman
and ex-Governor Mon C. Walgren of Washington.
On October 11, 1948, the same 50 correspondents
guessed Dewey would get 376 electoral votes, Tru
man 116, Actually Truman got 303 votes, Dewey
189,
With that background in mind, the vote of the 50
gorrespondents this year is 25 votes for Eisenhower,
1 for Taft as GOP presidential candidate; 16 for
Warren, 8 for Dirksen as vice president.
Democratic preferences are 20 for Stevenson, 17
for Kefauver for President, 13 for Russell, 9 for
Refauver as vice president,
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Political leaders of the old South are still counting
on the possibility of a third presidential candidate
this fall if the northern Democrats insist on a strong
civil rights plank in the platforny, calling for com
pulsory FEPC, federal poll tax ban and federal
anti-lynch law. -
This sentiment is partizularly strong among con
gressional delegates from the deep South.
This time the Southerners would try to keep the
name of the Democratic Party and its ballot em
blem, the rooster, for themselves. They would try
to make it appear that the northern or “jackass”
wing of the party was the real “third” party for
having desefted the principles of true democracy.
When it is pointed out that this split would only
insure the election of a Republican president,
southern leaders merely shrug their shoulders. They
feel that would be preferable to another four years
of northern Democratic rule.
But privately there is some lingering belief and
hope that the election might be thrown into the
House of Representatives, where the southerners
would hold balance-of-power control. It's an old
dream that fades hard.
Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia is the man
whom southerners would like to see at the head of
a conservative Democratic party movement, if ‘he
¢ /4% get the regular nomination at Chicago. Four
years ago the Georgia senator refused to join the
Dixiecrats and stayed regular,
There is a belief now that Russell would not bolt
the Chicago convention but that he might be per
suaded to head up an independent Democratic
movement, if the regular nominee were not to his
liking,
The transcript of Senator Russell’s debate with
Senator Estes Kefauver at Mianri, May 5, would
seem to refute this belief. Asked by Senator Ke
fauver if he would pick up his marbles and go home
if he didn‘t like the Chicago platform and nominee,
Senator Russell replied, “No, I am not going to
leave the party.”
Reporters covering the Russell-Kefauver cam=
paign in Florida later cornered the Georgia senator
to pin him down on just how far he would go in a
revolt from the Democratic Party.
“If you mean to imply that I'm going to walk
out,” Senator Russell said, “I will not walk out of
a Chicago convention on an FEPC fight. I intend
to stay right there and fight it out.”
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Nearly 100 of the toughest questions inraginable
on every conceivable domestic and foreign political
issue have been sent over to General Dwight Eisen
hower to help him get ready for his return to the
U. S, a 8 a candidate for the presidency.
" The questions range from, “Will you repudiate
Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin?” and “Why
did you endorse Dr. Philip Jessup?” to “Will you
support Senator Taft if he's the nominee?” and
“Would you accept a Democratic draft if you don’t
get the Republican nomination?”
General Eisenhower will hold his first catch-as
catch-can political press conference at Abilene,
Kansas, at 8 a. m.,, Central time, Thursday, June 5.
This press conference will not be broadcast, or
telecast. But after it is over there will be a repeat
performance, upstairs in the Abilene Elks club, for
newsreel and television cameras., Excerpts from &
master tape recording will also be made available
for radio.
If the performrance now works out as planned, i
will be the first time in American political history
that a presidential candidate has revealed his full
platform in a press conference, rather than in a
prepared political speech before a mass-meeting
rally.
Mass suffering has been used by every dictator
ship of our times as a stepping stone to power, To=
day it is the weapon of Soviet imperialism.—Presi«
dent Truman.
The hope of faith is a light for the path into to
morrow, and the assurance of faith is the dynanric
;tu%soul for the tasks of today.—Senator Richard
) (D.-Georgia).
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Foreign Aid Economizers Fail
To Provide Margin Of Safety
Since the Marshall Plan was born in 1947, it and
its successor programs have been an annual target
for alleged congressional “economizers.” It is there
fore nothing new that this has happened again in
1952.
In the current instance, the administration asked
for $7.9 billion for foreign military and economiec
aid in the year starting July 1. House and Senate
committees reduced this total by $1 billion, a not
unreasonable gesture in the light of past experience
with the program.
This was not enough to satisfy foreign aid critics
in the House, however, and they proceeded to hack
another $726 million off the figure, bringing it be
low $6.2 billion.
Among the so-called economy bloc on this issue
are numerous lawmakers who make no pretense of
their distaste for any foreign aid at all. There are
others who feel the same but haven’t the courage
to say so and thus give lip service to the program
while voting to cut it severely, |
A more important group than either of these is
comprised of men who seem sincerely to under
stand the need for foreign aid yet still are con
vinced there is no harm in drastic cuts. |
The late Senator Vandenberg, who labored so
valiantly for the Marshall Plan in its beginnings,
likened this approach to that of tossing a 15-foot
rope to a man drowning 30 feet off shore,
The weakness of these sincere economizers is that
they have little but their own opinions ‘to offer in
support of these sharp reductions. They find it quite
easy to state arbitrarily that the move “will in no
way endanger the security of this country.” That is
pretty confident talk for men who have so slight a
foundation of evidence to back them up.
The testimony of the men on the scene, the men
most deeply concerned with executing foreign aid
programs and observing their effect upon our own
and our allies’ future, almost unanimously falls in
the other direction. They declare there would indeed
be danger in too severe cuts.
Certainly few programs presented to Congress
are immune to reasonable reductions. The foreign
aid bills always have been trimmed, and probably
it was right that they were. But the exercise of pru
dence is a far cry from license to slash a program
to pieces.
The blunt truth is that most of the economizers,
including the sincere ones, are acting fromr ignor
ance, or indifference to uncomfortable facts. They
make up their minds to cut, and that is that..
In their powerful compulsion to reduce this
program—an urge which never seems to seize
them when flood-control outlays and other home
district matters come up—they blind themselves to
the security risks. They dismiss them by stating
flatly that they do not exist. But their saying it
doesn’t make it so.
In most cases, the primary rule of security is to
provide a margin of safety, to buttress your
strength with more than you need, to err on the
“up” side. What strange argument it is that tells us
we can just do the opposite and feel perfectly safe.
What effrontery there is in provincial lawmakers
assuring us we have nothing to fear.
There may indeed be less danger of war than
some of our experts imagine. But the average Am
erican wants assurance of that from people whose
guesses are informed, not from myen who accept
only the facts which suppori their opinions.
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ating” Stonehenge
Once again a date—within range of 550 years,
that is—has been set for the construction of Stone
henge, the most treasured megalithic monument in
Great Britain.
The two concentric circles of stones approxi
mately 20 feet high erected in Salisbury plain
around two lines of stones with what is supposed
by some scientists to have been an altar or sacri
ficial stone in the middle far antedate written
European history. Archaeologists for a century and
a half have wrangled over its origin.
But there were evidences of earlier culture. Now
it is Prof. W. F. Libby of the University of Chicago
who fixes the date as 1848 B. C., or at least within
275 years earlier or later, It isn’'t done by ratioci
nation. It isn’'t done by mirrors. A little piece of
charcoal tells the story, or purports to.
This was found deep down in a hole in which it
is believed one of the huge stones stood. Professor
Libby reaches his conclusion by appraising the rate
of decay of the radioactive carbon content of the
charcoal.
His figure js close enough to give joy to support
ers of Sir Norman Lockyer, who was convinced
that the monument was erectec in the plain by sun
worshipers, and calculated that the sun passed di
rectly over the “sacrificial stone” in 1680 B. C,
Nobody knows, and probably nobody ever will
know, who built Stonehenge and why. But it is a
grand subject of dispute for the learned societies.
It is my view that it is not their (the Russian
leaders) purpose to start the Red Army marching;
but I think they're still extrernely hopeful that con
ditions will develop again which will permit them
to knock off the free nations one by one—Former
ECA Director Paul G. Hoffman,
There would be no civil defense program today
without the whole-hearted support of our media of
information of whickh the newspapers have proven
to be the cornerstone.—Clivil Defense Administrator
Millard Caldwell.
By this (FCC) order (on education TV channels),
we have been given the tools to build bridges of
understanding with all the peoples of this and other
nations, — Dr. Arthur A. Adams, president of the
American Council on Education.
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Lowly Potato Disappears Beneath
Counter In Nationwide Shorfage
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —All
this meat—and no potatoes.
That's a dinner table paradox
U. S. housewives never thought
they’d face in this day of high
meat prices.
But as the result of a weird
jumble of government price con
trols, $500,000,000 potato subsidy
programs, pork-raising incentive
plans and misjudged crop esti
mates, this is the No. 1 dilemnra
of housewives today:
You can get meat, plenty of it—
if you want to pay the price. But
the lowly potato, which the De
partment of Agriculture has been
burying, dyeing and even giving
away since 1946, has suddenly dis
appeared under the counter.
The Department of Agricul
ture’s efforts to get farmers to
‘raise more pigs boosted the U. S.
‘meat supply during the first part
of the year to a near record high,
Sales hit 5,537 million pounds.
The amount of beef on the market
is going to increase, too, from now
until the end of the year.
But while the pigs were getting
fat, the potatoes were shriveling.
It looks now as if they’ll stay that
way until July, when the present
shortage should be over. Some
experts, however, warn it nray be
worse again next year.
Housewives have to get up at
the crack of dawn and rush down
to the corner market before the
‘meager supply of spuds is gone.
What they're likely to wind up
‘with, if they're on time, is a few
tired-looking second-graders.
Marketmen, doing their morning
produce shopping, find themselves
‘in a similar spot.
A potato black market is flour
ishing. There are under-the-coun
ter sales, over-charging, and tie
in sales. Grocers who want pota
toes for their customers have to
buy extra lots of non-scarce items.
Potato prices are controlled. But
those on produce in plentiful sup~
ply are not
One tie-in ratio is three sacks of
onions for each sack of potatoes.
Another requires the purchase of
coconuts left over from last
Christmas.
In some places restaurants,
which had been absorbing the
black nrarket prices without rais
ing menu prices, have stopped
serving potatoes. Others have put
them on the a la carte list.
The Office of Price Stabilization
has put potato detectives to work
to fight the black market, and so
far has taken legal action against
50 of the country’s big wholesale
produce outfits. But it hasn’t
stopped the potato profiteers.
The government and the potato
growers are bushels apart in their
explanations as to the cause of the
shortage and the future of the
. TAX NOTICE
City Taxes for the year 1952 are now due and
if paid in full by June Ist a discount of 2% will
be allowed.
Or, the First Instaliment (1-3) must be paid
by June Ist to avoid the penalties. ;
Please pay early and avoid the rush.
CITY OF ATHENS
A.C.SMITH, Treasurer.
The Large Uneconomical Size
spud supply.
A Department of Agriculture
potato expert blames Congress
for the suksidy program which
cost taxpayers half a billion dol
lars and created the fabulous
surpluses of potatoes from 1946
through 1950.
Last year, the first without a
subsidy, the USDA estimated the
crop would be 335 million bush
els, part of which would normally
be stored for sale in 1952. Bad
weather—and bad guessing—lleft
the crop 10 million bushels less
than the estimate.
The currant shortage, the USDA
expert says, is due to a comrbina
tion of two things: The 10 million
bushel shortage carried over from
51, and bad weather this winter
in the southern states and Cali
‘fornia, which normally would
have had their winter crops on
'the country’s markets by May 1.
. He says the present shortage
\wiu be licked by the first of July
at the very latest and that there
)will not be one next year.
The potato growers blame the
'whole thing on UPS price controls
iwhich were slapped on potatoes
early in January.
A Potato Council spokesman
claims that this discouraged
‘southem growers from planting
enough to relieve the approaching
‘shortage.
The council is urging Congress
and OPS to take controls off the
‘potatoes. This is the only thing
which will inspire the northern
growers to plant enough now to
prevent a shortage next year, the
spokesman claims,
. He agrees with the USDA ex
pert that the current shortage
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Should be ended in July, and
thereafter until next spring. But
unless price restrictions are re
moved, he predicts, the U, §. in
1953 will have the smallest po
tato crop since 1867 and a real
potato famine the next year.
Dunn Graduates
From Kentucky
School June 9
M. Eugene Dunn of Athens will
be one of four men from Georgia
who will graduate from Kentucky
Wesleyan College, Owensboro,
Kentucky, on June 9.
Dunn is the son of the Rev. and
Mrs. R. M. Dunn of 140 Englewood
Avenue. He graduated from
Athens High School in 1948. In
high school he was first lieutenant
in the R. O. T. C. and was active
in church programs. Like the other
three Georgians graduating from
Wesleyan, he spent two years at
Young Harris College, then tran
sferred to the Kentucky school.
At Young Harris he was presi
dent of the International Relations
Club, chaplain of the debating
society, and a member of the stu
dent council. At Wesleyan he has
been a member of the ministerial
association and the Kentucky
Singers. This year he has been the
student announcer for a series of
weekly radio programs broadcast
by the college over station WOMI
in Owensboro.
Dunn plans to enter the Candler
School of Theology at Emory Uni
versity this fall. After finishing
his Bachelor of Divinity degree
there, he intends to enter the
North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Church.
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severity of the disease. Marriage
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seizures either better or worse in
most cases,
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person with epilepsy will have an
epileptic child? Some time ago the
family histories of nearly 2000
vietims of epilepsy were studied in
an attempt to answer this ques
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ters, and children. Of the 12,000
only about one in 40 had a history
of more than one seizure.
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pect one child out of 40 to have
the disease. In other words, any
given child of an epileptie parent
has 39 chances out of 40 of being
'normal so far as epilepsy is con
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having epilepsy is about five times
that which would be expected in
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