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The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 5, 1959
HERMAN TALMADGE
B eP ° rfS F '° m
WASHINGTON
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THERE IS NOTHING in the
Constitution or laws of the United
States to prevent the President
from appointing a plumber, a
ditchdigger or anyone else he
might arbitrarily choose to serve
on the Supreme Court.
I The Constitu
tion sets forth
specific qualifi
cations which
must be pos
sessed by those
serving as Pres
. ident or mem-
I bers of Con-
I gress, but it is
completely silent about the pre
requisites for appointment to the
Supreme Court. Its only references
to members of the High Court are
that they shall be appointed by the
President with the approval of the
Senate, shall hold office during
good behavior and shall not have
their salaries reduced during their
tenure on the bench.
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THE RATIFICATION OF the
Constitution was jeopardized by
the failure of its framers to pro
vide specific qualifications for fed
eral judges until Alexander Hamil
ton assured the people that their
fears were “a phantom.” He main
tained that so few men have the
legal skills required by the job that
the public could be certain that
^only those possessing “qualifica
tions which fit men for the stations
of judges” would be appointed.
Hamilton’s assurances held true
for almost a century and a half,
but for the past 25 years we have
seen the worst fears of the early
citizens realized. Appointments
have been made on the basis of
political persuasion rather than the
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These are
the facts...
—about Senate Bill No. 30, to “redefine
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rural areas”, in the General Assembly ...
The bill simply gives Georgia’s Rural Electrics the
right to continue serving their own customers who hap
pen to live in areas which are annexed to cities, and to
serve such new customers who build on the lines in
these annexed areas and request service, and provides
that Rural Electric service within such city limits shall
be only in annexed areas, where lines presently exist. •
The bill does not authorize the Rural Electrics to take
customers from any city or power utility. It does not
seek to penalize or interfere with existing power supply
of cities and towns.
. . . and the reasons we
urge its passage.
We now have 38,904 “idle services”, representing almost
$8,000,000 in services built to serve customers no longer
there . ... We must preserve our existing investment,
and we seek only to keep what we have bought and paid
for (with money borrowed from REA, which we are
paying back with interest). We built our lines under a
law offering the same opportunity to any qualified bor
rower. No one else would undertake the job. We were
asked to bring service to the areas near the cities, and
by so doing furthered their growth and progress, making
them attractive for city limits expansion.
The Rural Electrics of Georgia stand ready to meet the
same franchise tax payment arrangements covering the cus
tomers it serves who become city residents as those in effect
between the cities and other power suppliers.
NOW, OUR POSITION IS CLEAR ... WE MERELY
WISH TO BE ALLOWED TO KEEP WHAT WE HAVE
WORKED LONG AND HARD TO BUILD
The
RURAL ELECTRIC SYSTEMS
of Georgia
qualifications of the individuals
named and Justices have been in
stalled who were totally de-oid of
judicial restraint and the other at
tributes which Hamilton considered
essential in judges.
Os the nine present Justices,
only five have had any prior ju
dicial experience and one of those
received his training as a police
court judge. With the exception of
Justice Brennan, none has had
prior judicial service of more than
five years and more than half did
not devote their major efforts to
the practice of law.
CONGRESS HAS AMPLE au
thority under the “necessary and
proper” clause of the First Article
of the Constitution to prescribe
minimum qualifications for ap
pointment to the Supreme Court
and there is considerable feeling
that it should exercise it now to
guarantee that future Justices are
chosen from among the country’s
best available legal talent.
It is essential to the future of
constitutional government in the
United States that members of the
nation’s highest tribunal be pos
sessed of the tempering influence
of detached consideration of legal
problems which can be attained
only through the highest type of
judicial experience. To accomplish
that objective I have this week
introduced in the Senate a bill to
require that future members of
the Court have at least five years
judicial service on a lower federal
court or the highest court of a
state.
World Day of
Prayer Brings
2-Way Results
From the American College for
Girls in Cairo, Egypt, comes a
graphic picture of the two-way
flow of results stemming from
the annual World Day of Prayer
observed around the 'world.
At the moment on February 13,
1959, when 275 Christian students
in that Muslim land bow their
heads for the impressive service,
teachers and students from their
own school will be studying on
funds provided through World
Day of Prayer offerings. One of
them, a junior college graduate,
will return to do rural work
through the churches.
Books have been bought for the
library and the film “King of
Kings” obtained for showing to
the Christian students. They
form a minority in the 1100-
student school just as Christians
are a tiny segment in the great
Muslim sea that is Egypt.
“It is especially fitting that
these Cairo college girls, who
meet every morning for Christ
ian worship, will sing a special
anthem and take part in the
World Day of Prayer service
next February,” notes Miss Elsie
Sweeney of Columbus, Indiana,
World Day of Prayer chairman
for the United States.
“For the 1959 service was writ
ten by Christian women of Egypt,
a country now playing such a
pivotal role in world affairs,”
continued Miss Sweeney. “Their
committee included women from
Anglican and Evangelical church
es, but the majority were from
the Coptic church, an ancient in
stitution that has undergone many
hardships in its struggle to keep
its faith alive in the midst of
hostile forces.”
These lecendants of one of the
oldest Christian sects chose for
the 1959 theme, “Lord, I Believe,”
(John 9:38) as a call to a deep
er experience of Christianity in
their lives.
Each year the service is pre
pared in a different country. Like
the Australian women who plan
ned the 1958 service, incorpora
ting prayers handed down by
the first Christians among the
aborigenes, Egyptian church wo
men this year drew on their own
mature faith in fashioning peti
tions and an order of worship
to unite all Christians in a bond
of prayer. This is the basic pur
pose of World Day of Prayer,
when offerings for missions at
home and abroad will also be
made.
The World Day of Prayer chain
begins on the Tonga Islands, with
Quenn Salote leading her sub
jects as dawn breaks over these
tropic isles. When it sinks be
hind the Artic horizon on ice
locked St. Lawrence Island in the
Aleutians, the last supplication
of the twenty-four-hour unbrok
en cycle are murmured.
One hundred and forty-four
countries on six continent/ will
have been spanned by these
prayers voiced in more than six
ty languages and one thousand
dialects.
In the United States the Day,
which is always on the first Fri
day in Lent, is sponsored by
United Church Women, a gene
ral department of the National
Council of Churches. Local coun
cils of church women direct the
observance in more than twenty
three hundred communities. In
terdenominational committees are
in charge in other places.
So widespread is the participa
tion that governors, .many may
ors, and city councils issue spec
ial proclamations. Whistles and
sirens are blown, church bells
peal out, while in many places
traffic comes to a stop for one
minute of silence. In churches,
factories, stores, and homes heads
are bowed in prayer. The service
is taken, too, to thousands of
shut-ins.
In Nashville, Tennessee, an
Air National Guard plane flies
over the city in a “prayer
raid” to give the signal. All ac
tivities come to a dead stop. Pe
destrians, motorists and traffic
officers join in the minute of
prayer at noon.
Winchester, Massachusetts, has
a window display of a large cross,
candles, and ribbons running from
"the cross to points on a map of
the world where people are help
ed by funds from the Day’s of-
PKESCKimiII
L smici:
Ernest Knight
DRUGGIST
The Rexall Store
Pharmacist Always on Duty
147 West Cherry St
Phone 2254 J«mp, Ga.
sering.
School children from four up
per grades put on a children’s
service at their chapel program
in Deer Creek, Oklahoma. They
follow the special service for
Sunday schools, scout and camp
fire groups, and released time
classes.
According to Mrs. James M.
Evans, national director of World
Day of Prayer for United Church
Women, 7,000 women took part
in 166 services in 161 centers in
Australia last year. Interest was
high because their women were
responsible for the service. In
Victoria some 22,000 women at
tended the observance and a
special message was received
from Queen Mother Elizabeth of
England.
Four Thia-speaking congrega
tions observed the day in Bang
kok. Programs were conducted in
both English and Japanese in
Tokyo and in Seoul, Korea. Sa
moan 'women joined with Euro
peans in Asia.
Even aboard the luxury liner,
the Stateendam, on a round-the
world cruise with nearly 400 pas
sengers, the day was remembered
as it was aboard other ships else
where.
Offerings for World Day of
Prayer are divided between the
Divisions of Home Missions and
of Foreign Missions of the Nat
ional Council of Churches. At
home, funds help in education
al, religious and welfare projects
for the army of agricultural mi
grants who harvest America’s
crops. They go, also, to help In
dian Americans leaving the re
servations for work in big cities.
Abroad, students, nurses and
staff from four colleges in In
dia, Ewha College in Korea, and
two in Japan are aided, as are
women and children through pi
lot projects in Asia and Africa.
Education for Christian leader
ship is carried on, as well as re
habilitation and village improve
ment and Christian broadcasting,
while Christian literature is made
available for new literates.
As the principal of the Ameri
can College for Girls in Cairo
reported, “It has meant much to
us to have been able to help
some of our Egyptian teachers
with their advance study . . . .
It has been wonderful encour
agement to use these funds in
such helpful and beneficial
ways.”
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Governor, Labor Commissioner View '59 Economy
Atlanta, February 3 - Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver and
Georgia Commissioner of Labor Ben T. Huiet are enthusiastic
about Georgia's economic prospects in 1959. Commissioner
Huiet, right, is showing Governor Vandiver the Georgia De
partment of Labor’s 22nd annual report to the Governor and
General Assembly. Covering the year 1958, the report reveals
that Georgia wage earners carried home the same amount as
in 1957 when the non-farm payrolls of the State was $3,750,-
000,000 despite the fact that during 1958 unemployed Georgia
workers were paid a record annual total of job insurance, over
$42,000,000. Total job insured wages paid to Georgia industrial
and business workers during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1958, was $25,000,000 more than the previous fiscal year, 1957,
when insured wages totalled $2,396,000,000.
Feeder Space Needed
Poultrymen at the Agricultural
Extension Service recommend
these requirements for feeder
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