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THE FOREST PARK NEWS, THURSDAY , JANUARY 23,19*4
The Forest Park News
1172 Mom St Forest Pork, Go. 366*3080
Post Office Box 25, Forest Park, Ga.
Guy Butler, Editor
Subscp’or Rate S2OO Yeot ■ Published Each Thursday
Entered As Second Class Matter ot Forest Pork, Go.
CITIZENS MUST RELY LESS
ON FEDERAL AID OR
FREEDOM WILL BE GONE
Americans must face up to greater responsibility as Indivldul citizens--and depend less on
federal aid and subsidies--or lose their freedom in personal and business matters, a Georgia
executive said in Jonesboro last week.
The warning caine from Ed W. Hiles of Atlanta, executive vice president of the Georgia Savings
and Loan Leaque. He suggested that one starting point should be,"elimination of the inconsis
tency between our true political philosophy and our traditions of blind loyalty to political parties."
Mr. Hiles addressed a luncheon meeting of the Exchange Club of Jonesboro. Although he refer
red directly to politics only briefly, he declared: "I believe our freedom is being sacrificed
away bit by bit at the altar of political expediency, and therefore we might well prepare our
selves to utilize all of the political forces at our command in order to recapture it."
The Savings and Loan executive referred to "federal aid" as a misnomer, and said that money
for such programs can be obtained in only two ways.
"The first way," he said, "is for the government to take something from us in order to have
it to give back to us. That is rediculous, and to me is like a person giving himself a blood trans
fusion by taking the blood from tiie right arm and inserting it in the left arm--meanwhile running
it through a tube that leaks.”
"The second way...is for the government to take it from someone else in order to give it to us."
Too many Americans are asking tor, or accepting without resistance, the spending by Washing
ton with the feeling that they’re gaining security, Mr. Hiles said.
"We have seen the tentecles of the octopus of federal aid and federal subsidy extended into
vertually every phase of our economic, social and cultural life,” he continued, "and we have
been swallowing the sugar-coated propaganda that we can have all this and freedom too.
"Sacrifice of freedom is too high a price to pay for the type of security promised. History
records that throughout all time, whenever a people have decided they eanted security more than
they wanted freedon they have ended up by losing both.”
The "paternalistic binge” encompassing the growing federal aid and subsidy programs began
some 30 years ago and has continued ever since, regardless of which political party has been
in power in Washington, the speaker told the members of the Exchange Club.
"We failed to recognize," he continued, "that if we granted to the government the power to give
us everything we wanted, we had to also give to it the power to take all from us everything we
have.”
Mr. Hiles said that a breakdown of bonds linking Christian morality and individual responsi
bility has been occurring for years, endangering the "Spirit of America.” Threatened by such a
breakdown, he declared, are, "our freedom as Individuals, the sanctity of our homes, the sol
vency of our businesses, the stability of our economy, the integrity of our Nation, and the peace
of the world.”
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Mr. Butler: JONESBORO, GA.
I am enclosing herewith a copy of a letter which I believe should be published so all of Clayton
County may see that the Mayor of Atlanta wants then to spend their money in Atlanta, but evi
dently considers them as outsiders with no Civil Rights or other rights while In that City except
to buy from its merchants.
Wlu>n and if I receive a reply from the Mayor, I will forward it to you. Yours very truly,
Wesley G. Bailey, n
Tlie Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor of the City of Atlanta D Par Rt r .
It is my understanding that you have advised the United Klans Knights Ku Klux Klan of America,
Inc. that it must furnish you with a list of all members, show that all members are from Atlanta,
and prove that it is not a subversive organization before the City of Atlanta will allow it to use
the facilities of a public park for a public gathering.
For my information, and the information of other residents and citizens of Clayton County
whom I represent, 1 would like to know why you so violently discriminate against an organization
whose Charter appears of file and record in the office of the Secretary of the Satate of Georgia?
Did you require such information from the N.A.A.C.P. (which has had members known to be
members of the Communist Party)? Do you know how many negroes appearing at this park were
residents of Atlanta? By what authority do you take away rights given by the Constitution of
the United States, and of the State of Georgia, and demand that a person or organization prove
that he or it is not a criminal - without even due process of law? And, finally, does the City
of Atlanta want only residents thereof within the limits of this City??
I do expect answers to all these questions. 1 shall advise all of the Citizens of my County
that they are not welcome in Atlanta, and therefore not to trespass and spend their money in
a City where their rights are taken from them, but to trade outside of this City until we have
proof that you wil discriminate against no one, and will offer due process to all.
Yours very truly, 167 Dixie Drive
Wesley G. Bailey, Il Jonesboro, Ga.
COLUMBUS BUILDERS JASPER TILLY AND CARTER COWART REPORT:
1. “We saved several thousand
dollars during construction of
our l(i-unit apartment building,
the Dauphine. A major saving
was in the elimination of costly
chimneys and Hues."
2. e figure people really want
to live in total-electric apart
ments. We had most of the units
rented before the Dauphine was
completed and have not had a
vacancy yet."
3. "The way we see it. a total
electric apartment building
makes the best investment prop-
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“We built one total-electric
apartment building. It has
been so successful that
we already have another
one under construction.”
erty. And it has better resale
value because it will still be mod
ern tomorrow."
4. "It’s nice to have satisfied
tenants. In addition to the pleas
ure of electric heating, cooking
and water heating, budget bill
ing has made a big hit with our
tenants. They like to know in
advance what their monthly elec
tric bill will be."
Almost everybody likes total
electric living—there’s so much
about it to like! Try it. You’ll
surely agree.
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VEHICLE DEATHS DROP AS
PEDESTRIAN TOLL GOES UP
Renewed and strengthened enforcement against pedestrian deaths and speeding are the outlook
for 1964 in Atlanta.
On the first working day of the New Year, Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., and other city officials con
cerned with traffic safety announced the new program and explained it.
During 1963 Atlanta traffic accidents killed 67 persons. Os these 67, 34 were pedestrians and
33 died In vehicles. The number killed In vehicles was seven fewer than during 1962, a sub
stantial decrease, while the pedestrian toll was 11 more than during 1962.
Because of the obvious problem In the area of pedestrian deaths, Chief Herbert Jenkins of the
Atlanta Police Department announced that an educational campaign would get underway Immedi
ately to get both pedestrians and drivers to observe crosswalks.
Following a reasonable warning period, police will start issuing tickets to pedestrian law vlo
laters. At the same time they will be cracking down on speeders, particularly drunken speeders.
In keeping with the new campaign, local traffic court judges announced that they will continue
and expand their practice of suspending driver licenses of flagrant speeders, drunk drivers,
and accident repeaters.
The need for increased enforcement in these areas was pointed out to the Mayor in a report
from the Atlanta Traffic and Safety Council. This report was a result of detailed study and care
ful analysis of 1963’s traffic deaths and their causes.
The report, presented by Council president Alvin M. Ferst, Jr., pointed out that Atlanta’s
traffic death rate during the last four months of 1963 was double that of the first eight months
of the year.
Mr. Ferst said that the increase in pedestrian fatalities and a major portionof the problem
is, “. . . the result of years of neglect - to the extent that neither pedestrians nor drivers give
much thought to, or compliance with, the laws concerning pedestrians or vehicles encountering
pedestrians."
He said pedestrian deaths can be substantially reduced "only through an intensive effort, util
izing enforcement, education and enjineering.”
Included in the Safety Council report were specific recommendations for improvement along
four major lines, pedestrians, speeding, selective enforcement and drunk driving.
Unanimous endorsement of the report and its recommendations was voted by the group, in
cluding the Mayor and representatives of the traffic courts, police department and traffic en
gineering department.
Adaptation of the specific recommendations will be the basis for the new traffic safety campaign.
Telephone Service Back
Normal In Six 6 Days
Telephone crews working a
round the clock, some of them
from other states, restored
service to ice-hit South Geor
gia in six days.
According to John S. Seigle,
Southern Bell vice president
and general manager, 27,842
telephones were put out of ser
vice by the breaking of wires
and poles under the weight of
a heavy accumulation of ice.
Service is now back to normal.
"In spite of the heavy damage,
Pensioner Must
File a Return
A pensioner’s failure to re
turn his income questionnaire
to the Veterans Administration
could result in his having to
pay back VA payments he re
ceived in 1963.
And, the pension will definite
ly be suspended by the VA,
unless the income questionnaire
is returned by January 31, 1964,
according to Pete Wheeler, Dir
ector, Georgia Department of
Veterans Service.
Approximately 40,00 Geor
gians — disabled veterans,
widows, and children of vet
erans, and other dependents —
receive these pensions.
Eligibility for pension payment
is based on amount of income,
as well as wartime service.
The income report is required
by Federal law.
nearly 96 per cent of the tele
phones in the affected area re
mained in service and restor
ation work started immediately
after the storm and every means
of transportation was used to
rush materials to the various
locations,” Mr. Seigle said.
"Western Electric, supplier
of the Bell System, established
special crews in their cable
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manufacturing plant to provide
;the needed cable. This Southern
'Bell and Western Electric team
work enabled us to complete
the job,” Mr. Seigle said.
Some 399'additional telephone
men were sent into the South
Georgia area the day of the
storm. These men came from
parts of Georgia not affected
by the storm as well as from
Alabama and South Carolina.
The cost of the storm dam
age will run in the neighbor
hood of $2 million
El TALMADGE
>orfs From
HINGTON j J
THE PRESIDENT appears to
be doing his best to manage the
huge national budget and hold
down federal spending without
drastically curtailing any of the
programs necessary to the prog
ress and defense of the country.
Admittedly, this is almost as
difficult as try
ing to pin a
diaper on an
elephant. But
President
Johnson has
pledged to work
for muc h
needed econo
mies in the
government, and we all hope
that this can be achieved.
The outlook already is encour
aging. The President has prom
ised to cut federal spending for
the next fiscal year to $97.9
billion, the lowest figure in more
than a decade in terms of na
tional output.
This is expected to reduce the
national deficit from $lO billion
to $4.9 billion, and this certainly
is a positive step forward. We
hope that eventually there will
be a balanced budget.
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THE NEW BUDGET, which
is a half a billion dollars less
than the current one, was made
possible by savings realized by
cutting back on programs that
can wait, closing down obsolete
facilities, and substantially re
ducing federal employment.
At the same time, President /
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> Johnson envisions a sweeping
“ expansion of federal support for
I education, health and welfare in
what he calls an attack on
■ poverty.
He wants the government to
help provide for more schools,
i hospitals, libraries and homes
than ever before, and to greatly
increase programs for assisting
those who cannot find work and
the economically and physically
handicapped.
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THIS IS A big order indeed,
and only time will tell whether
or not it can be accomplished. If
by any stretch of the proposed
budget it can be done, there al
most surely would be guaranteed
a better life for everyone every
where. and this of course is
something we all wish for.
But 1 wonder if it wouldn’t at
; the same time take the federal
government further and further
into matters which should ad
dress themselves principally to
State and local governments? 1
wonder if it isn’t an unhealthy
situation for the principles of
local self-government to be un
dermined and for Washington
to be looked upon as the all
powerful “great provider.”
I wonder if the American
people aren’t allowing them
selves to be deluded into think
ing they can get something for
nothing?
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