Newspaper Page Text
PAGE FOUR
ATHENS BANNER-HERAILD
Ever, Evenirg Except Saturday and
' 1m" orning by Athens Pub
; n . Entered at the Post Office a
Bens, Ga., as second class mail matter,
K. t@ §LL ........ Editor and Publisher
B.OE mAmwwm
N@Wfi, ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES
Nard-Griffith Company, Inc., New York, 247
Park Avenue; Boston, Stattler Office Building;
Akk-i’ 22 Marietta Street; Chicago, Wrigley
Buil ; Detroit, General Motors Building; Salt
Lake (:‘gty. Hotel Newhouse; San Francisce, 681
Market Street.
. MEMBERLS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Asscociated Press is entitied.exclusively to the
use for republication of all ihe local news printed
in this newspaper, as well as All AP news dis
patches.
TR GER Have you a favorite Bible
LR “{“‘ verse? Mail to—
B A\ Holly Heights Chapel.
iR a A. F. Pledger,
The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon
hice, to all that call upon him in truth,
Fe will fulfill the desire of them that fear him,
he also will hear their ery, and will save them.—
Psalm 145:18-19.
Negro Vote Has Power Punch
In Northern U. §., California
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
CHICAGO. — (NEA) — The importance of the
Negro vote in November elections is one of the big
riddles which leaders of both political parties are
trying to solve,
To the Democrats it is a question which may de=
termine what kind of a civil rights plank they put
in their platfornr.
To the Republicang it is a question of whether
they contimue their treditional role as champion of
the Negro since the days of Abrabham Lincoln, or
whether they tack In & new direction to make an
appeal to the anti-Truman, conservative whites of
the South.
It is ¥he elaim of some Negro political leaders
that the ‘elficd vote is now so strategically placed
. in 10 or 8 domen Northern states that Negroes could
| hold a balenee of power to elect or defeat any
presidentdal candidate.
Walter White's National Association for the Ad
/vancement of Colored People offers very little
proof that this power exists. NAACP estimates
there were about 2,450,000 Négroes in the North
elizible to vote in 1948, but only 750,000 wvoted.
COP headquarters estimates that at least 1,500,000
l.orthern Negroes voted in 1948.
Tor 1952, UAACP estimates 2,700,000 Northern
Mo roes will be eligible to vote, but only 1,000,000
have been registered. Since the total U. S. vote this
_ November is expected to be between 50,000,000 and
$0.000,000, the Northern Negro vote won’t be over
2 {o 3 percent,
This is & pretty slim nrargin for any balance of
povcer. It is the strategic location of the Negro vote,
however, that is said to be the determining factor.
ELEVEN SETATES HAVE 740
ELECTORAL VOTES
Val Washington, of Republican National Com=
" mi ee staff, has done considerable research on this
. 3o ect,
Counting only Negro adults of voting age, Geor
‘gia and North Carolina have more than 1,000,000
av.ece, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Car=
ol.na and Tennessee figures aren’t in yet. Texas
" hes 886,000, Virginia 737,000, Florida 605,000, Ar
kinsas 428,000, XKentucky 203,000, Oklahoma
201,000.
Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina,
Tcnnessee, Texas and Virginia have poll tax re
guirements for voting and in the others Negroes
just don’t vote in large numbers.
It is in 10 Northern states and in California, to
which there have been large war-time and post=«
war migrations of Negroes fronr the South, that the
co'ored vote can really have an impact on elece
tions.
" lese gtates have 240 electoral votes, or nearly
er-ugh to elect a President, all by themselves,
N GRO VOTE IS BIG FACTOR TO GOP
"o elect a President, 266 electoral votes are re
quired. For the Republicans, this means they must
carry every one of the 16 states they won in 1948
for 189 €lectoral votes. These states have only 186
eloctoral votes this year, So the Republicans need
80 more to win.
rom the above list, carrying.lllinois, California
ar . Ohio would do it with four to spare.
Of the states in the above list which the Republi
cans carried in 1948, most were won by narrow
margins &nd largely because the Progressive Party
of Henry Wallace weakened the Democratie
strength. That factor won't be present in 1952,
So the Republicans must win New York, Penne
sylvania, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey and In
diana in the above list, just to hold their own.
New York went Republican by 60,000 in 1948,
with 555,000 votes cast for American Labor and
other minor parties. The Negro vote is estimated at
154,000 Democratic, 56,000 Republican. Assuming
the minor party vote will go Democratie this time,
the GOP could not carry the state this year if all
the Negroes voted Republican.
The same kind of calculation has to be made for
every state. In these 11 states in 1948, it is estimated
that the Negro vote went Democratic by more than
two to one, or 984,000 to 440,000.
The other day it looked as if Uncle Sam wouldn’t
be able to pay all his help. But Deficiency Appro
priation came along and gave a helping hand.
The American bathing suit is better (than the
French) because it is less obvious and more fem
inine.—Movie producer Mack Sennett,
Morals are at an all-time low in this country.—
Rep. J. Edgar Chenoweth (R.-Colorado).
There comes a time when & man can't do the
kiss-and-kug type of movie—and I kind of reckon
I've reached that nge.——!\g[‘ovic star Clark Gable.
Japas is firmly encamped in the free, democratic
world—Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Eikichi
Arakd.
1t the ztmosphers seems stifling, the likelihood
is that it isn’t the heat, it’s politics.
ESTABLISHED 1808
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Daily and Sunday by oarrier and to Post Office
boxes in the city—
lw“k S 0 2008 000 008 S B 'zs ;
1 Month 20 0000 4880 5000 90us 000 108 |
BIIOIEE i i i siie it 3L B
BIEE i.iy i s B
WA . o el
Subscriptions on R. F. D. Routes and in Towns
within the Athens trading territory, eight dollars
per year. Subscriptions beyond the Athens trad
ing territory must be paid at the City rate,
All subscriptions are payable in advance. Pay
ments in excess of one month should be paid
through our office since we assume no responsi
bility for payments made to carriers or dealers.
Britains Labor Leaders Show
Little Understanding Of Reds
There are times when British Labor party leaders
sound like hysterical schoolgirls. This seems to be
one of them. Their emotional tirades over our
large-scale bombing of the Communists’ Yalu River
power plants hardly qualify them as sober world
statesmen.
Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan, remarkably
in agreement for once, scream that war with Red
China has been brought closer by our action. They
declare also that it affects adversely the truce talks
at Panmunjom.
As far as the truce talks go, it is hard to see how
they could be any worse than they are right now,
They have been in progress for nearly a year, and
for the last several months no constructive steps
have been taken. The Reds are using them for a
double purpose: to cloak their buildup behind a
vastly stronger line in North Korea, and to spout
vicious propaganda like the fake charges against
the UN on germ warfare,
Whether war—big war—has been brought nearer
by the power plant bombings is doubtful.
Attlee and Bevan do not appear to have studied
Communist behavior closely., Expert students of the
Reds will tell you that they are not likely to be
provoked by any Allied move unless they want to
be. In other words, we make a mistake if we as
sume they will react in accord with the pattern of
international behavior to which we are accustomed.
Too many people trying to read Red minds see
them as carbon copies of their own. The Commun
ists do not think like we do. Remember when Rus
sia was boycofting the United Nations in 1950? The
reason given was that the UN declined to recognize
Red China. A lot of alleged experts said Russia
would never return to the UN until its conditions
had been nret. The real students of Russia knew
better, and they were not surprised when Jacob
Malik calmly walked in one day and took his seat.
When we agreed last year to undertake truce
talks, we took a calculated risk. The risk was that
the Reds would use the quiet period to cancel out
our then existipg military advantage and re-fortify
their sagging lines. We no longer have that same
advantage.
The bombing of the Yalu power plants was an
other calculated risk, carried out in large part to
restore some of that lost mairgin to our embattled
forces. It was an important decision, and the British
ought to have known about il in advance. But they
ought hardly to complain, about it since they
“readily acquiesced in the truce talks th%t ultimately
worked to the Reds’ advantage, This is merely one
effort to re-balance the scales.
Amid the enrotional torrent.that flooded out from
fearful British hearts, the words “fed up with
Korea” were heard. Do Attlee and Bevan and their
echoing chorus imagine that we in America are any
less fed up than they?
It seems perfectly sensible that we should take
action in Korea intended to keep us from being
thrown out of the peninsula, intended also to enable
us to hold a firm, genuinely defensible line across
that country’s waist. We do not want two years of
hard fighting and bloodshed to be frittered away.
Autos, Then And Now
At about the moment-that James Melton, tenor,
former student at the University of Georgia, was
auctioning off some of his antique automobiles at
his estate in Norwalk, Conn., word camre from De=
troit that in less than the first six months of 1952
the automobile industry had sent its 2,000,000 th
passenger car off the assembly line.
The cars Melton disposed of from his collection
were 23 surplus or duplicate vehicles, leaving him
45 in cherished reserve. The oldest cars sold dated
from 1900, the newest from 1918. There was an ele-~
gance and spacious comfort about earlier cars that
is not duplicated, for some tastes, in modern,
streamlined designs.
Then the automobile became a means of mass
transportation, which changed the social mores, as
well as the aspect of cities and the face of the Am
erican landscape. As cars became cheaper, demand
and production rose. Production in the first half of
1951 reached almost 3,100,000 passenger cars.
The goal for the first half of 1952 was set some
what lower, at 2,250,000, because of defense needs
and other circumstances, The steel strike is halting
some automobile factories and slowing down others,
But in spite of all adverse factors, American auto
mobile production remains cne of the industrial
wonders of the world and cne of the basic factors
in the strength of the American economy, in war or
peace.
More Red Propaganda
There is no letup in Communist propaganda. A
broadcast by the Red Peiping radio, picked up in
San Francisco, purported to be an interview with
Frank Noel, U. 8. news photographer, now a pris
oner of war in North Korea, Life in the camp, ac
cording to alleged statements by Noel, is just one
happy day after another,
Food is plentiful and in great variety. Quarters
are clean and comfortable, medical attention is
available every day, all national holidays are ob
served by prisoners fronr various countries, with
extra food rations for such occasions.
Noel won world-wide recognition for his exclu
sive first pictures taken inside a Communist prison
camp, and which the Reds permitted to be sent out
side. He has been featured in later broadcasts, all
purported to prove American prisoners are given
the best of treatment, apparently in contrast with
Allied camps, such as Koje,
Those who know Frank Noel will want to hear
these words directly from him before believing
what they purport to say. Communists just do not
operate that way.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, QIORGIA
ai . 5 1 I P ry 1 AR ¥
& s P ! S R B oy BSOS e
ALI ¥\‘ i : i .“{”’ «s‘l Fise St A '3E
i s B 4 b A 7 > R L Pe #
& GE W M BM E “? 2 g
By JOHN GUNTHER
Written for NEA Service
Why, I asked a weightily prom
inent Democratic politician, does
the Democratic eonvention al
ways come later than the Repub
lican? Answer: “Because we're
smarter.” ’
As a matter of blunt fact the Re
publican convention has followed
the Democratic only twice in his
tory, and the last time was back
in the ’Bos. But the reason is not
that the Democrats are “smarter”
or planned it that way, but the
natural course of events and the
fact that the Republicans, for
prestige purposes, like to come
first.
This year, however, Guy Gab
rielson, the chairman of the
Republican mnational committee,
cautiously sounded out the Dem
ocrats as to what they would
think if the Republicans broke
precedent and held their conven
tion in August instead of July,
i.e., later than the Demoerats. The
cagey reply he got was, “Then
we’ll hold ours in September.”
The Democrats, in other words,
think that there is a psychological
advantage to coming second, par
ticularly in the wunprecedently
crucial year. So they will meet
in Chicago on July 21, a fort
night after the Republicans, and
1230 shouting, steaming delegates
will be there. Since the total is
1230, the number necesary to
nominate is 616.
* »* *
To analyze what will probably
happen we have to start with the
fact that Estes Kefaiuver is the
strongest candidate, if Adlai
Stevenson, between mow and that
convention, cannot be prevailed
upon to run.
It may seem totally inconceiv
able that the coon-hatted Kefauv
er can be called *“strongest” or
even “strong” in that three dif
ferent powerful groups oppose
him so far —the Truman admin
istration, the northern city ma
chines, and the southern regu
lars—any one of which would
normally be crushing enough to
kill any candidate deader than
the Duke of Wellington.
But — Kefauver has impressive
voting power, he is growing in
popularity all the time, and he
will probably come into Chicago
with around 300 delegates—more
than any other Democratic candi
date.
Why, then, if he is strongest,
should the machine regulars want
to stop him? The answer derives
from one of the most piquant and
cross-grained oddities in Amer
ican political life, namely that
mostprofessional politicians
would rather lose with somebody
they like than win with some
hedy they hate.
* * *
Kefauver still has a long way to
go to reach 616. The problem for
the bosseg will be (a) to keep
him from gettin}i there, which
means (b) that they will have to
unite on a powerful enough op
ponent. Kefauver, they agree, is
the man to beat. But you can’t
beat somebody with nobody. Beat
Kefauver with whom?
The first, obvious answer would
be Stevenson, If Stevenson will
not accept a draft, some would
like Sen. Paul Douglas. But this
presents a pungent difficulty in
that, first, Douglas himself says
that he does not want to be presi«
dent, and, second, he is one of the
few prominent Democrats to have
come out for — Kefauver! (An=
other, oddly enough, is Jimmy
Roosevelt of California, who was
for Eisenhower in 1948.)
If Stevenson and Douglas are
unavailable, if Harriman doesn’t
turn out to be strong enough, if
Bob Kerr and. Dick Russell are
clearly out of the question, if
Barkley (who would love to be
president if he did not have to
campaign) is too old, if favorite
sons like Humphrey and Mec-
Mahon remain mere favorite sons
out in the provinces, if Chief
Justice Vinson refuses to be
tempted, if Speaker Sam Rayburn
(who is 70) feels that he ought
not run, who else ii there? Who?
» L
That is Kefauver's chief
strength ~— not his voting power,
but the grim absence of anybody
else.
Tuman? No. He is out, really
out, and I am convinced that
nothing in the world — not even
the spectre of Bob Taft becoming
president — will bring him in.
In conclusion we should per
haps mention three enormous
pools of voters, aside from Ne
groes, who will get particular at
tention from the Democratic
candidate no matter who he is.
First, Women. Second, Labor,
Third, the farmers.
There is no such thing as a
rigid women’s votes in this coun
try. American women over 21
outnumber men by roughly 51
million to 49 million, but in 1948
many more men voted than wo
men, roughly 27 million as against
Railroad Schedules
SEABOARD AIRLINE RY.
Arrival and Departure of Trains
Athens, Georgla
Leave for Eiberton, Hamlet and
New York and East— -
3:30 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
8:48 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and
East—
-12:15 a. m.—(Local).
Ceave for Atlanta, South and
West—
-5:45 a. m.—Air Conditioned
4:30 a, m.—(Local).
2:57 p. m.—Air Conditioned.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILROAD
Arrives Athens (Daily, Except
Sunday) 12:35 p. m.
Leaves Athens (Ddf;. Except
Sunday) 4:15 p. m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD
Mixed Traina
Week Day Only
{rain No. 51 Arrives 900 a. =
fraln No. 50 Departs 7:00 p. m
22,
. & %
A higher proportion of women
will, the prophets say, vote this
year. Among the Democratic
candidates, Kefauver will prob
ably be the chief beneficiary of
the women’'s vote, because of his
crusade — however ineffectual it
may have been — against crime
and gambling.
Labor is ag hard to predict as
the weather. There are about 15
million Americans in organized
labor, but not all of them are
voters by any means. In recent
elections roughly two-thirds of
the labor vote has gone Demo
cratic; some Democratic labor
leaders would claim more.
A great deal depends on who
the Republican candidate is, as is
only too obvious; labor (though
it has criticized Eisenhower on
occasion) would certainly prefer
him to Taft.
Among the Democrats, labor
would probably turn thumbs
down brutually on Kerr and Rus
sell, be on the fence in regard
to Harriman and Kefauver, and
actively, earnestly favor Steven
son or Barkley.
* > *®
As to the Farm voge, there has
been a natural tendency for
years to think of it as always
predominantly Republican; this
is not necessarily true today.
Truman, be it remembered, won
in 1948 partially at least by rea
son of the farm vote; he lost the
tremendous industrial states of
New York, New Jersey, Mich
igan and Pennsylvania, but he
won Ohio, California, most of the
G
i p‘fi,‘s‘/’:\ 'i‘.\\
a 0 E//:( )y
o X\ Ny
."DID YOU KNOW.., tl
Tri;k,s‘apaf 35% -0‘- {T |// \‘
T oot L
and bettelb- highways ,’ *l‘/ :
el BT
& Dros ou e know how mmw o ik remsprt?
TR o s
7/ / |
/ ™ . : 5
L i b>3 ; : : I £
1,5‘ k. {‘% B : f "
& 5
. A 3 T—— i 2 : ;
\v‘v i _— S—— 'J'- = == p 4 : ;
Al r%@_b- SELLY | ‘
il i e el e
%\ e N . "] s
1&\ s amae “g““ffl; ol '
i) \ g o ¢ :;!:;:’i il *’ .
‘i e — nt‘ ‘] 2 »
W-Bs,e | T b 5
il = — = t‘ ) :
. | =" N
s | s va /
ke LI N \{
e o ‘ :i{ / N A h
4 | - e . g
i \ !n | 4 X
el | e — | ! D W‘&, . :
i ] % ————— L'i Il'fivfi‘*w, fi\we;'@gekv PR N
B x | b ol e
3 \%\- i S e S
= | ”M | b 57 % e\
‘\ A i e 2 ?wi,‘. ¥ & W ;é’.-tei:‘
DN R
A °4 t{ . m’ Y 8
~.4 G B - &y
Come Model ECA-74 — b
tothe | \ lewssyes
T \ ‘ 0 Ko e(U
FAIR b | § )
Mew osins oa . | e new sl
at our stores, \ ~,,¢
See the new .‘ . ;‘ ./
Westinghouse 2 Yol
Electric Ranges (4{
- find out how >
easily you cam 1 .‘
enjoy freedom W AT
from cooking N
cares. i)
F 2 i COMMODORE SPEED-ELECTRIC RANGE
A 1‘ F%nd out today how easily YOU can enjoy wonderful freedom from cooking cis¢s
74 |\ with this de luxe Westinghouse Electric Range that gives you: ® Completely
i \ automatic cooking of entire meals while you're away from home ® The Super
3 ; j v Corox Unit that gets red hot in 30 seconds ® Tel-A-Glance Controls show at a
. f;‘ - glance which unit is on, and at what heat ® Exclusive Miracle Sealed Oven
s .Yj-' 2 that bakes perfectly on any shelf.
4 ’ «7‘ D R Don’t wait .. . get a Westinghouse Speed-Electric Range and assure yourself
,;"‘ 2 B & / of freedom from cooking cares!
3 ¥ %)
il AT our Nearest store .. . GEORGIA POWER
West, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and
even Jlowa. Farmers, by and
large, have prospered mightly
under the New Deal and Fair
Deal, and many of them will vote
for continued price support. The
ideal candidate, so far as the rural
and other vote is concerned,
would be one who could some
how keep prices up, and at the
same time get taxes down.
In any case it is the individual
voter, you and me, who is sover
eign in this country, and who will
finally decide. Many voters hope
above all that they will get a
clear choice between two good
candidates, one conservative, one
liberal.
To morrow: Inside the Repub
lican Party. |
BROADCASTING SYSTEM
FOR SARAWAK
SINGAPORE (AP) —Sarawak,
land of the former White Rajahs,
is soon to have a broadcasting
system of its own, and the British
Broadcasting Corp, has promised
to send two of its London staff to
organize it.
Sarawak’s council has approved
the expenditure of $330,000 and
the British government has made
a substantial financial contribut
tion towards the capital cost, It
is proposed initially to start broad
casting on a single network on two
transmitters of four and 7% Kkil
owatts. Broadcasts are to be made
in English, Malay, Chinese and
local languages at the start.
e s T
92 YEARS IN SAME HOUSE
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, (AP)—
A century-old house, built of logs
hand-hewn by her father, has
always been “home, sweet home”
to Mrs. Laura Cornwell.
For all of her 92 years, Mrs.
NOTICE
Regular meeting of Classic City Post No. 185
American Legion will be held tonight, July 15t
1952 at 8 P. M.
All Members Are Urged To Attend.
B ANY. w 2 TR ' \ iLo "“aé”'“l, .
eb& e -
SN Yy i
S o \ B . b
Ay e |y 4 B
E"? s \\ A
n"“ \“ bv . % '..‘»,": #
¥\ ¥ Y \‘ R
] \‘ 5 ¥ 'fl\ T{‘z
g\! \I , 0 ; ¢ “‘
| ) l PR
e‘| 19 i 1 d?f‘l~ FOR L
4 A ittt 40P gl S T o
, B TR @AI SR
: o B e G e : e
N & AR AN A B
>|el 0B T ’ e : E s
SR 2e ;0 f Y b 2! 2 )\. A Ay 5 ¢
VIS S S e o
1} 2 4 o
T TSV ¢:: P : B e |
B R e R g 4
$Y 0 eok g & : 5 o |
R foiy sy g PRy Py
R )] “ > »ob ¢ /}"fi' £ ,;._,,:;
o '{;o ,/T ‘;7‘, .Q ~.'3,’/;".'7‘//'/';‘;,";’0 . , & w
&y %'u“'"/’-""/é“‘./"’:" R g B L
o sV e e eSR
Buv 3 L ER ste{méd m"
ceT B PoST|
ANOTHER B
i
|
rree! ML 23
3 . e
And .. . extra savings if you need only one or two
tires, Come in today — this offer is for a limited
time only.
SPECIAL TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE ‘IH B'-[RLI:N:R )
~ AND CONVENIENT TERMS bty
E. & 5. TIRE SERVICE
146 West Clayton
TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1952,
Cornwell has lived in the hoy:a
She was born, reared and mo,
there. And ‘there she'll pen. .
she says, until she dies, i
“I always felt home was :
place for me. I had rather be 1,
than anywhere.”