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The Houston Home Journal, Perry, Ga., Thurs., June 23, 1960
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LAST FEBRUARY the House
Appropriations Subcommittee
headed by Congressman John J.
Rooney of New York called Dep
uty Assistant Secretary of State
Aaron S. Brown to testify about
assignments of language special
ists trained by the Foreign Serv
ice Institute.
The following excerpts from
that testimony should afford some
insight to those who have been
wondering what is wrong with
American foreign policy:
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ROONEY. I find a gentlemen
here, an FSO-6. He got an A in
Chinese and you assigned him to
London.
BROWN. Yes, sir. That officer
will have opportunities in London
—not as many as he would have
in Hong Kong, for example
ROONEY. What will he do?
Spend his time in Chinatown ?
BROWN. No, sir. There will be
opportunities in dealing with of
ficers in the British Foreign Office
who are concerned with Far East
ern affairs. The British have
foreign language specialists as
well as we do.
ROONEY. So instead of speak
ing English to one another, they
will sit in the London Office and
talk Chinese?
BROWN. Yes, sir.
ROONEY. Is that not fantas
tic?
BROWN. No, sir. They are anx
ious to keep up their practice.
* * *
ROONEY. Here is a gentleman
on page 9, an FSO-6. He took a
(not prepared or printed at government expense)
14 Perryans Going
To Mercer Session
The first session of summer
school at Mercer University, Ma
con, began Monday, with 14 Per
ryans attending.
They are Mrs. Seabie Hickson,
Mrs. Walter Gray, Mrs. Alton Har
dy, Mrs. Angela Silcox, Miss Fran
ces Couey, Mrs. Hubert Aultman,
Mrs. Redding Talton, Mrs. Elmo
Wright, Mrs. W. B. Martin, Sherry
Staples, Hugh Lawson, Charlie
Etheridge, Hershel Thompson and
John Wortham.
All of these students are com
muting to this 3-week session ex-
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course in German and you assign
ed him to Dublin, Ireland. Is that
right?
BROWN. Yes, sir, that is cor
rect.
ROONEY. And another gradu
ate of the school in Frankfurt, the
German school, an FSO-7, you
assigned to Ankara, Turkey. And
you assigned another FSO-4 to
London; and another to Cardiff,
Wales. Con-ect?
BROWN. That is correct, sir.
ROONEY. What will these
gentlemen do to keep up their
German ? This one you assigned
to London after taking German,
will he seek some gentleman in
the British Foreign Service who
speaks German so that they can
sit together and do their business
in German?
BROWN. I would hope he
would, sir, in order to keep up his
proficiency the best he could.
ROONEY. Are you serious
about that, an Englishman and
an American and they should sit
down and talk in German on
British-American Government bu
siness ?
BROWN, Possibly, yes, sir.
ROONEY. This is fantastic.
• • •
THAT IS THE understatement
of the century. It is proof that
the indictment of American dip
lomacy in the best-seller, “The
Ugly American,” is more fact
than fiction.
cept Sherry Staples, Hugh Law
son and Charlie Etheridge, who
are residing on the Mercer cam
pus.
Muses Book Club
Conducts Meeting
The Muses Book Club met on
Thursday at the home of Mrs. Al
ton Hardy. Mrs. Earle Smith, pre
sident, presided over the meeting.
During the business session,
plans were discussed for the sum
mer picnic.
Mrs. Frank Holland reviewed
the book, The Status Seekers by
Packard. An informal discussion
followed.
Hostesses for the meeting were
Mrs. Alton Hardy and Mrs. Earle
Smith.
The annual picnic of the Muses
Book Club was held on Tuesday
evening at the Perry Country
Club, at which time the members
honored their husbands. A picnic
supper was served.
YEAR ROUND SCHOOLS?
People are asking oftener and of
tener “Why should we stop school
for three months in the summer
just because children were once
needed to help with farm work?
Why should we leave those expen
sive buildings idle, especially
when modern youngsters are in a
hurry to get their 12 years of
education and get on to college
or to work?” What do you think
about this?
FIRST GRADER, FISHING
WITHOUT RESULTS IN THE
HOT SUN “l’m going home. I
can’t get waited on!”
ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW CHURCH LIBRARY
AT FIRST BAPTIST IS GREETED WARMLY
Personal Mention
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Todd and Mr.
and Mrs. T. M. Beall attended a
square dance in Dublin Saturday
night.
* * ♦
Miss Kay Richards, student
nurse at the Georgia Baptist Hos
pital in Atlanta, is spending this
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Hobart Richards.
♦ * *
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lee of Gads
den, Ala. were the weekend guests
of Mr. and Mrs. John Satterfield.
G. W. Lee returned home with
them for a visit with his sons.
* ♦ ♦
Frank Holland Jr., who is at
home from Ga. Tech for the sum
mer, spent the weekend with
friends in Atlanta.
♦ ♦ *
Mrs. Louie Lee Conner of Haw
kinsville, Mrs. W. J. Boone and
Mrs. S. W. Hickson spent last
week at Jekyll Island.
♦ * *
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blizzard
of Macon were the guests of her
sister, Mrs. C. J. Barrett, and fam
ily last Monday.
* * ♦
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Stefanini
and children have returned from
a three week’s visit with relatives
and friends in Chicago, 111.
♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. Alton Hardy was honored
by several of her friends with a
surprise house-warming at her
lovely new home on Forest Hill
Road last Wednesday afternoon.
* * •
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Clarke spent
last Sunday in Macon with their
daughter, Mrs. Jack Suffridge,
and Mr. Suffridge.
• * *
Harvey Clarke, Georgia Tech
senior, left Saturday for ROTC
summer camp at Ft. Gordon in
Augusta. Before leaving, he spent
a week with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Clarke.
♦ * ♦
Georgia Dairy Princess Beverly
Jacobs attended the annual meet
ing of the Middle Georgia Dairy
Association in Macon Frdiay. Ac
companying her were her parents,
Mr, and Mrs. Lewis Jacobs and
Brice Moore of the American
Dairy Association.
♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. A. M. Anderson Jr. and
Mrs. H. T. Gilbert spent Monday
in Atlanta.
• ♦ •
Billy O’Dell of Prattville was
the weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Jacobs and Beverly Jacobs.
♦ ♦ *
Mrs. A. M. Anderson Sr. had as
her guest Sunday her sister, Mrs.
lone Prewett of Macon.
♦ * *
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fesmire
and son, Chris, spent the weekend
in Atlanta as guests of their
daughter, Mrs. Charles Scarbrough
and family.
* * *
Mrs. R. A. Holtzclaw had as her
guest last week her brother, Bob
by Ward of Mobile, Ala.
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
BY BERNICE McCULLAR
TALKING ABOUT TEACHERS
—We sat in the little room over in
the Capitol this week and listened
to the talk about how teachers
are educated and whether they
have to study too much methods
and too little content. The legis
lative committee was there, head
ed by Senator Wallace Jernigan of
Horaervi lie, Representatives J.
Battle Hall of Rome, and Chappell
Matthews of Athens. They heard
that the average age of Georgia
teachers is 43, that 4,000 take their
funds out of retirement and leave
every year, that 2,009 took the Na
tional Teacher Examination this
year, and that the state is finan
cing summer grants to help teach
ers do their graduate study. The
public is interested in more incen
tive pay for teachers. They want
to pick out the incandescent tea
chers, separate them from the
ones who do duller jobs, and pay
them better. Asked a top educator
at the meeting; “How are you go
ing to decide?” Answered a legis
lator, “Don’t tell me you can’t do
it. Industry does it. Education can
find away to do it, too.”
THAT SMART FIVE THOU
SAND—Did you know that of our
33,000 Georgia teachers, 5,219
have had five years of college?
Mrs. S. C. Patterson who has re
cruited 8,000 young Georgians in
the future teaching profession
says you’d be amazed at how many
of them now plan to go straight
through five years instead of four.
ONLY TWO AHEAD OF US
Georgia raised its teacher salaries
93.6 per cent in the past decade.
Only Maine and Mississippi did
more for their teachers in those
ten years.
DOES YOUR COUNTY GET
THIS GOOD OLD MONEY?
Some folks have a notion that fed
eral funds under Public Laws 815
One of the new ministries of
the First Baptist Church the
church library—has been warmly
received by the members.
The library, located in the new
educational building of the
church, opened in March, 1959,
and now has 705 books. Since it
was opened, 1,387 books have been
given to the library in memory of
deceased members and friends.
The library hours are between
Sunday School and church service,
Sunday afternoon before Training
Union hour and after the church
service, and Wednesday night af
ter prayer meeting. For the sum
mer, the library also is open from
9 to 9:30 and 11 to 11:30 a. m. on
Thursday.
Among books recently added
are Apples of Gold, by Grace Noll
Crowell; Historic Churches of
America, by Broderick; Wide Mea
dows, by Mosley; The Small Wo
man, by Burgess; Three Churches
and a Model T, by Cleveland; The
Secret of Happiness, by Billy Gra
ham, and many others.
Mrs. Hugh Lawson is librarian
and members of the library com
mittee are Mrs. J. M. Teresi, Mrs.
Neal McPhaul, Mrs. Dan Nelson
and Mrs. Julian Cawthon.
BY COOPER ETHERIDGE
SCHOOL AID: Nine out of the
10 Georgia congressmen voted
against Federal aid to education.
At about the time they were vo
ting against the bill, scores of
Georgia counties were requesting
and receiving Federal aid to edu
cation. We are opposed to receiv
ing Federal aid for schools if the
Federal government dictates the
way it is used and controls the
schools. But we favor getting all
the aid we can for our schools
when there are no objectionable
strings attached. It is difficult
sometimes to decide when there
are “strings” and when there are
not. But a lot of counties are ac
cepting Federal aid, including
Houston county.
SIGN: Recently seen in Hous
ton county this sign: “10 achers
for sale.” The sign disappeared,
so the owner must have gotten re
sults.
WORDS: Harvey Walters, man
ager of the Ga. Press Association,
tells this one. A man put an ad in
the want ad section like this:
“Wanted, man to drive me to Cal
ifornia in new car.” The advertiser
got only four calls. The next day,
he changed the ad to read: “Want
ed, man to drive me to California
in my new CADILLAC.” He got
129 replies. Which proves that
one little word can be mighty im
portant.
and 874 “for federally impacted
areas” go only to those school sys
tems that actually have federal
works in their boundaries. Tisn’t
so. Counties forty miles away can
get it—or more—if enough of the
federal workers live there and
commute. It’s based on children
whose folks either work or live (or
both) on the federal project. Just
this week, these seven school sys
tems got this much federal money:
Chattahoochee county, $9,304;
Henry county, $21,056; Gordon
county, $6,365; Marion county,
$4,652; Dawson county, $3,509; Pu
laski county, $11,589; Clarke coun
ty, $21,627; and Warren county,
$4,162.
KEEPING THE RECORDS
Jack Nix, our supervisor of certi
fication, keeps a record in his of
fice of every visitor and every
telephone call. The other day, he
had 108 people who came by, and
over 200 phone calls mostly
about certificates. There are 125,-
000 folders in these office files,
and about 79 of them belong to
teachers named Mary Smith. One
also belongs to a teacher named
5/8 Smith. First time we got that
one through the mail, we sent it
back. Thought it was a typewriter
error.
OFF TO THE DRAMA OF THE
WEST COAST Led by their
state NEA director, Dr. Claude
Purcell, who is also state superin
tendent of schools, Georgia’s dele
gation to the National Education
Association will head for the west
coast on June 24, to attend the
colorful NEA national convention
in Los Angeles. Some will stay
through the Democratic conven
tion.
MOVING DAY FOR THE BOSS
—State Supt. Claude Purcell will
move his office about three doors
down the hall soon to the office
recently vacated by the director!
Medical College of Georgia Scientist
1 Gets Cancer Society Research Grant
k.u.
111
Dr. Virendra B, Mahesh (right), a mtive of India, receives a
$19,496 grant from the American Cancer Society for a cancer
research project at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.
Presenting the check is Dr. Hoke Wammock, director of the Col
lege’s Department of Oncology and a member of the board of
directors of the Georgia Division, A.C.S. Dr. Mahesh is seeking a
better understanding of the relationships of harmones and the
cancer process by studying the role of the kidney in steroid
metabolism. The American Cancer Society has more than $125,000
invested in research in medical schools in Georgia.
of the Department of Health. The
Health Department got a new
building, and we are spreading
out in the old one. Your old
friend, Dr. M. D. Collins, will go
back into the office he occupied
for 25 years. The State Board of
Education will move from its
cramped quarters into a larger
board meeting room in the Health
Department. (Chairman Jim Pe
ters and Board member, Orville
(Mrs. Bruce) Schaefer will leave
soon for the Democratic National
Convention. Mrs. Schaefer is the
new national Democratic commit
tee woman from Georgia. She re
presents the 9th Congressional
District on the State Board of Ed
ucation.)
FAREWELL—A teacher said to
me, “It was hard to leave him. I
love him very much. He put his
arm around me and said, ‘You’re
beautiful! I don’t know what I
will do without you this summer.’
“Just as I was thinking what a
nice new shiny romance she had
going in her life, she said wist
fully, “Os course, he’s only six
years old, but it’s wonderful to
have a handsome male of any age
love you that much!’’
WELCOME HOME One of
Georgia’s brightest young newspa
permen, Reg Murphy of the Macon
Telegraph, whose mother and sis
ter teach in Hall county schools,
has just come back to Georgia af
ter a year at Harvard. He was one
of the able young newsmen picked
for the Nieman Fellowships there
this year, and one of the youngest
who ever got one of them. He cov
ers the education beat—as well as
the other news on Capitol Hill—
for the Telegraph, which is lucky
to have an incandescent mind like
this.
CAN YOUR CHILD WRITE?—
I don’t mean whether he can shape
his ABC’s. I mean can he express
his thoughts with literacy and
clearness? Unless he can, there
are at least 100 colleges that won’t
let him in. The College Entrance
Boards have reinstated the essay
type of question for 100 of their
287 member colleges. Students
must write for one hour on a se
lected topic to get into these col
leges. What is more, there are
many, many colleges that are not
going to give any remedial courses
in English in the future. If your
child can’t handle the English
language when he goes to college,
he had belter stay at home. That’s
why you’d better dig up the money
to pay a first class teacher there
in that classroom. A second rate
teacher can’t help your child de
velop a first class mind.
HAPPINESS IS A SOLEMN
THING Maybe you could use
these lovely lines in the next
speech you make about education.
Mark Van Doren, the retired Eng
lish prfoessor at Columbia whose
gentle words I used to listen to as
if they were music, writes this:
“Education’s purpose is to make
people happier than they would
have been without it. Happiness
doesn’t mean having a good time.
Happiness is the most solemn
thing, almost, that can happen to
anybody. Very few people are
happy. The best chance to be hap
py is to be educated. The happi
ness of a student consists in his
achieving, to whatever extent is
possible, the freedom to use his
mind. Nothing is more fun than
using one’s mind.’’
TEACHER, WANT TO STUDY
“FREE” THIS SUMMER?—Your
teacher can still get S3OO or $450
just handed out on a silver platter
to her, “free gratis for nothing”
as the old saying goes, if she wants
it to go back to college this sum
mer to study. (First, she had to
take the National Teacher Exam
and make a high enough score.)
She must be a teacher of elemen
tary science or a high school tea-
cher in one of these seven fields:
math, foreign languages including
Latin, social studies, business edu
cation, library science, English, or
science. We had 636 applications,
had to turn down 100, have ap
proved 536, and still have some
money left to allot to more tea
chers. Os our $300,000 set up for
these grants (to strengthen the
teaching and learning in your
school), we have only allotted
$193,000 thus far. Surely there are
more teachers who would fairly
jump at the chance to get gradu
ate study paid for, especially when
it means a higher salary. As a
matter of fact, 44 of these smart
teachers who are getting grants
this summer are doing their 6th
year of college work. When they
finish it and take the exam and
score high enough, they will get
the new sixth year certificate that
means a thousand dollar raise. It
is hard for me to think of any
thing except duty to a family that
would keep a Georgia teacher
from taking—and appreciating the
chance to take—free money held
out on a silver platter, her’s for
the asking! We’ve extended the
time to apply. How many teachers
from your school did?
WE WANT SOME MORE, TOO
—Don’t miss Dr. Henry Hill’s ar
ticle in the current Atlantic
Monthly, titled “Wanted: Profes
sional Teachers”.
WHAT IF HE DID? Any
Georgia principal could sit down
with his teachers and students,
come September, and say quietly,
“We can have our school known
all over this state not just as the
school with the winning team, but
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Os Nike Missiles
Twiggs County New Era,
Jeffersonville, Ga.
Lt. Col. Thorpe C. Grice, a gra
duate of West Point, has assumed
command of the Fourth Missle
Battalion, with headquarters at
Robins Air Force Base. The bat
talion will be the operating group
for the Nike Hercules missle
bases at Byron and Jeffersonville.
Col. Grice has recently received
special training in the Nike Her
cules missile. This being the third
assignment in Georgia for him, he
previously did tours at Ft. Screven
and Ft. McPherson. He has a re
cord of 17 years of active service.
The commanding officer stated
that he expects by the end of the
week to have his full compliment
of misslemen at their respective
bases. The battery at Jefferson
ville is A and B Battery is located
at Byron. Col. Grice said his du
ties at the bases will be two-fold:
1. To oversee all activity in the
two batteries and through a sys
tem of inspection to be sure that
they stay in a constant state of
readiness;
2. In case of actual hostilities
and attack, to direct the tactical
operation of the two batteries
should an air battle develop.
Col Grice’s wife and 5 children
will join him at Warner Robins
at an early date following a vaca
tion with relatives in Florida.
Col. Grice’s mother was the late
Mrs. Ruth Solomon Grice and his
father is' General L. 0. Grice of
Atlanta. His grandmother was
Miss Margaret Tharpe of Houston
county.
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