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The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Sept. 4 1958
Living in a Changing World
By MRS. DEWITT MOODY
Living in this “push button”
age is not simple. It calls for
techinal knowledge and a wise
use of the leisure time it affords.
How will the energies be spent
that were once used for wood
chopping and carrying water?
Schools are in the spotlight
today as never before. Possibly
at no time in our history has
the traditional school curriculum
been under more intense and
wide-spread criticism than now.
The race to get satellites into
orbit has focused public attention
more sharply than ever on science
— and on the schools. The gene
ral public is panicky because
schools are not turning out scien
tists by the dozens. Perhaps the
public fails to realize that the
objectives of education in Ameri
ca as a democracy differ from
those of the totalitarian form of
government found in Russia.
In view of the alarm, Dr. Wil
liam Early, Supt. of the Savan
nah Schools, speaking to Beta
Club sponsors in Atlanta last
spring stated that “the United
States needed only to produce
one hundred scientists yearly to
keep pace with scientific world
developments.” Our schools
should build up science back
ground that all future citizens
need in our rapidly changing
world. In view of this, science
education is being reexamined on
all levels including the elemen
tary schools.
Let it be said with emphasis
that schools should not feel cal
led upon to upset the total cur
science, but schools can and
see if they are giving children
a substantial foundation in
science, one which is basic for
living in a technical world, a
world that becomes more tech
nical daily. One educator remar
ked that “there has been as much
change in our world in the last
25 years, as there had been in all
the previous years since Colum
bus discovered America.”
With this rapid change there
is an ever-increasing need for a
better and more informed citizen
ry from a technical standpoint
in that it will understand, ap
preciate and adjust by applying
knowledge gained, and by so do
ing live fully and happily in this
complex society. Since American
culture is in a state of rapid
and profound change, the old
must give way to the new. It is
true that some form of change
has always characterized society,
however imperceptible the modi
fications might at times have
seemed to be; but never in the
history of man has this change
been so swift or so revolution
ary.
One writer expressed this rapid
change thus, ‘‘Because of the un
precedented rapidity of change
characteristic of our age, we are
living in the first period of hu
man history in .which it is not
possible for one generation to as
sume that the conditions under
which it lives can be transmitted
substantially unchanged to the
next generation.”
Another aspect of our chang
ing society is the art of living
at peace with other nations. Na
tions are much closer today in
one sense, because of modern
travel, therefore nations are inter
dependent as never before. Edu
cation has been defined as the
science of learning how to live
successfully with one’s neighbors.
To live successfully then, does
not include as it’s standard of
measurement of success the dol
lar sign. However it does guaran
tee: (1) A respectable standard
of living; (2) time for good
wholesome recreation; (3) a
wholesome respect for the rights
and privileges of others.
Certain elements are absolute
ly essential to this development.
First, knowledge is basic to all
learning and to all living. Know
ledge has long been considered
as synomymous with education,
and even now .many people do
not see the distinction between
the two, but to relate knowledge
alone to this buisiness of living
one would have to stop and think
for the real and vital connection.
An individual may have an im
mense stock of facts and infor
mation and still be a perfect fool.
For example, all the facts in the
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world would not build a bridge,
compose a symphony, paint .a pic
ture, or write a poem. Knowledge
is useless unless capitalized. All
the knowledge in the world as to
how a good citizen acts and be
naves, does not necessarily mean
that the person possessing such
information will act as a good
citizen should. Knowledge is only
the basis which intelligent act
' ing may and must be built. There
is nothing in the nature of the
ideas about honesty or purity or
morality or kindness, which auto
matically transmits such ideas in
to good character or good citi
zens; they must be cherished and
practiced.
Ideals is another element need
ed in the world of today, for
they not only supply motavation
but they determine the stand
ard of achievement. One usually
speaks loosly of ideals, for in
all probability it is just as easy
for one to learn to be a successful
crook as it is for him to learn
to be a respected citizen. The
same elements as courage, orgin
ality, initiative, energy, alertness,
and efficiency are used to denote
good citizens. These same traits
are just as essential to ill-doing
as to well-doing. Direction then
is the main difference in Public
Enemy Number One and Public
Benefactor Number One. Bolton
says “Criminals are foolish, but
not fools.”
Habit is another essential ele
ment. What an individual does is
as important as what he knows.
We live according to what we
learn. One must learn to act ha
bitually in certain desirable ways
if he ever does things well. To
establish habits an individual
must practice over again and
again in light of his ideals.
The use of all three elements,
knowledge, ideals, and habits, are
essential to the development of
a doer. Not one can be omitted
If one has knowledge and ideals
but not habits to make them
function, he is as incomplete as
a wagon without the horse to pull
it. Knowledge and habits without
ideals implies automation, acting
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speak.
The school of today still stress
es as in yester-years the impor
tance of facts, knowledge, and in
formation, but it increasingly
emphasis that these are of no val
ufe in themselves; that they are
of value only if, by and through
them, one can think, understand,
apply, and generalize; and so en
rich his own living. Otherwise
they represent merely “cluttering
up” of the mind.
To keep pace with the modern
world, one must have technical
knowledge. Equally as important
one .must learn to live peaceably
with others by acquiring ideals,
habits, .and understanding accor
ding to the Master of mankind.
Duck Season to
Begin Nov. 17th
Season on ducks, geese, coot
and brant gets underway Nov.
17 and closes Jan. 15, according
to Director Fulton Lovell of the
Georgia Game and Fish Commis
sion.
Announcement of the duck sea
son completes the lineup of sea
sons on migatory birds.
The Commission previously
announced that dove season will
be split again this year with the
first period opening Sept. 15 and
extending through Oct. 4. Second
period begins Dec. 2 and ends
Jan. 15.
Only half day shooting, from
noon until sunset will be per
mitted during dove season. Bag
limit is 10 daily.
Here are the seasons on other
migratory birds:
WOODCOCK - Dec. 12
through Jan 20, bag limit eight
daily and eight in possession.
Shooting hours one-half hour be
fore sunrise to sunset.
MARSH HEN — Sept. 10
through Nov. 18, daily bag limit
15, possession limit 30. Shooting
hours one-half hour before sun
rise to sunset.
WILSON’S SNIPE — Dec. 5
through Jan. 1, bag limit eight
and possession limit eight. Shoot
ing hours one-half hour before
sunrise to sunset.
Bag limit on ducks will be
four and possession limit eight.
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And Puerto Rico
The Long Lines Department of
the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company announced
today that West Palm Beach,
Florida, had been selected as the
northern terminal site for a pro
posed undersea telephone cable
linking the states with Puerto
Rico.
The twin cables that make up
the system will be landed at
Palm Beach. They will go under
ground across Palm Beach, slip
beneath the waters of the intra
coastal waterway and go under
ground again to a Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany building at 326 Fern Street,
West Palm Beach.
An additional floor has been
added to the five - story South
ern Bell building to accomodate
the terminal equipment for the
cable system.
In Puerto Rico, the cables are
to terminate in San Juan, where
the Radio Corporation of Puerto
Rico — Subsidiary International
Telephone and Telegraph Corpo
ration — which is participating
jointly and equally in the pro
ject, will build a new structure
to house the necessary equipment.
Laying of the cables is sche
duled to begin late in 1959, with
service due to start in 1960, sup
plementing the present radio cir
cuits.
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Georgia’s
Next Governor
Wh at qualities sbouid Georgia's next Governor bave>
of strength, not of weakness.
The next Governor
tions and the good of his S . of his friends, and of
“4 " wh ° urMW w
merely use him for there own gam.
He should realize that if Gemg^^
is to win the right to re b e a b O ve question and
ereignty, its ’^^ofscandal. He must know that States
without even a hint of sea of States t 0 govern
of politicians, their stooges, and
fSs to loot the public treasury.
The man who becomes K
alize the seriousness of: the> rights to determine such
be prepared “J ^without outside illegal dictation
matters for themselves * t t h e same time, he must
from the federal Supre®« * important, too. Race
"d^d d^ of government earned
on honestly and efficiently.
Georgia’s next Governor most be t he person-
XXJ He mus ‘' in a word '
be a practical politician.
He mustbe a family
Sd'tSX^ children » even better State
than we were given.
VANDIVER FOR GOVERNOR
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HOUSE FOR SALE OR RENT
Located on Knox St. in Nahun
ta. Three bedrooms, bath and
electricity. Connections for hot
water heater. Kitchen sink and
cabinet. See Mr. or Mrs. Bobby
Harris or Phone 2-3338 or 2-3555,
Nahunta, Ga. 9-18
FORD CONVERTIBLE
FOR SALE
1953 Fird Convertible for sale,
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PLUMBING WORK
OF ALL KINLS
See me for all your plumbing
work. Appliances and fixtures on
display at shop located in High
smith Building- in Nahunta near
traffic light. Clifton Strickland,
Phone 2-3337, Nahunta, Ga. 10-30
FISHERMEN
Get your crickets and African
Giant and Georgia Brown worms
at Spell’s Service Station, Ho
boken, Ga. 9-11
HOUSE AND LAND FOR SALE
House and four acres of land
for sale, on Route 301, one mile
north of Nahunta city limits. See
Gladys Herrin, Route 2, Nahunta,
Ga. 9-4.
He must be an educated man.
He should be . businessman because the government of
th^Stateof Georgi, is a big busmess.
These .re some of the qualification, our next Governor
should possess.
one such whom we have
most 20 years, spoke in Grlf “ enant Govern or Ernest
Vandiver. B Wes enthusiastically endorse his candidacy for
the highest office in the State.
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of a
Governor
SEPTEMBER 10, 1958
ERNEST VANDIVER,
Candidate for Governor,
offers the people of Georgia
experience, integrity and
proven leadership ability—
qualities necessary to give
Georgia a business-like
administration of courage
and statesmanship in the
crucial four years ahead.
Lieutenant
Governor
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