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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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GOOD. BUT BAD
Motor vehicle fatalities
dropped again iu 1948. The de
crease, even though it was less
than one percent, is all to the
good.
Motor vehicle injuries, how
ever, rose again in 1948. The
increase, amounting to almost
eight percent, is a bad sign.
Much emphasis is placed on
the death rate in accident
prevention work. This is na
tural because death always
makes the headlines. But it j
is dangerous, too. because it
is so easy to become compla
cent.
In their 1949 booklet of
street and highway accident
data, just released. The Trav
el er s Insurance Companies
urge that states, cities and
communities look to the in
jury rate as a true measure of
success or failure i n their
safety campaign. The hun
dreds of persons saved from
death are living tributes to
the safety job that has been
done, it is pointed out, but the ;
injured millions should be
const.vit reminders that the
job is far from completed.
Goodness and benevolence j
never tire. They maintain them
selves and others and never stop
from exhaustion.
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There is no self expenditure
without self enrichment; no self !
enrichment without self expen
diture.
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Moses advanced a nation to
the worship of God in Spirit in
stead of matter, and illustrated
the grand human capacities of
being bestowed by immortal
Mind.—Mary Baker Eddy
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jgp Duke Gets His Tractor
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YOUR CONGRESSMAN REPORTS Ip
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By Henderson Lanham
Veterans’ Pensions Killed
Vote 208-207
The bill to provide pensions
■ for all veterans who reach the
j age of sixty-five, known as the
Rankin Bill, ®as killed after
j two days of floundering and
! flip-flopping by the members of
the House. The vote on the mo
i tion to send the bill back to the
! committee on Veterans’ Affairs
was 208 to 207, the closest vote
on a major measure since the
draft act was extended by one
vote shortly before Pearl Har
bor. The House on the proceed
ing day had refused to send the
| bill back to committee, and pro
ceeded to work on amendments
i which changed it greatly, but
: which nevertheless left it a very
good bill in my opinion.
Tried to Save Bill
Because by amendments we
had gotten the bill so worded
that it would have provided for
needy veterans when they reach
sixty-five years,. $72.00 per
month, I joined 206 other mem
bers of the House in voting
against killing the bill by send
ing it back to the committee.
1 This amount is the sum a total
j ly disabled veteran can receive
under present disability com
i pensation laws, if he can con
j vince the Veterans’ Adminstra
j tion that he is so disabled. In
my efforts to help disabled vet
i erans secure this help, I have
found that very often the Vet
terans Adminstration refused
|to find the veteran totally dis
; abied, in cases >n which I know
from personal experience he is
totally and permanently dis
abled. For this reason, and be
cause it has the settled
policy of this ration to pay a
pension to veterans of all pre
vious wars, I voted to keep the
bill alive until we could perfect
and pass it. However, the ad
minstration put all if its weight
against the bill, with the result
that it was kihed, or at least
sent back to the committee. It
;may be brought back, but us-
From where I sit, it’s that spirit
of understanding that helps make
our democracy so great. Under
standing for the other fellow’s
problems and respect for the other
fellow’s rights whether it’s his
right to earn a living, his right to
cast his vote against your candi
date, or even his right to enjoy a
moderate, friendly glass of beer or
ale—if and when he chooses. Let’s
always keep it that way!
j ually a vote recommit means
' the death of the measure for
I the session.
Flood Control
3 The House has passed and
; sent to the Senate, a bill ap
' propriating funds for flood con
: trol in a lump sum, instead of a
l series of stated sums for each
f project. Due to the decrease in
-; construction costs, the sum is
? | less than asked for by the Army
3 1 Engineers and the Bureau of
: the Budget, but ample funds
> for the continuation of all such
; projects will ge furnished, either
-; by the regular appropriations
• bill or by supplemental ap
; i propriations. In the budget es
- timate the Allatoona project is
; i down for something over seven
; million dollars . This amount
r j should complete the daw and
| power house, but a small sup
plemental appropriation may be
■: necessary to complete all
bridges, and roads in the area,
■ | which had to be moved because
of the flooding of many of
■ | them.
Federal Aid to Education
Federal Aid for our state
; schools came one step nearer
when the Senate Committee on
Labor reported S. 246 favorably.
It will no doubt pass the Sen
ate; but its road does not seem
so smooth in the House. It is my
hope that it will finally be en
acted into law I think it is es
pecially vital now, since, in my
opinion, the final settlement of
our race prob lp m and the so- j
called Civil Rights question de
pends upon education and the
improvement o f the economic
; condition of our people. The
race problem is fundamentally;
an economic and social one. And 1
its solution depends upon an
educated, tolerant and secure
people.
The adminstration of the j
Federal Aid fund would be by
the States,' with little if any j
; supervision from Washington, j
The question n f aiding other
. 1 than public schools would be j
left up to the States. The U. S.
i would retain the right to ex-;
-! amine the boot- of the units i
j spending the money, but little !
other control is provided for. j
North Atlantic Pact j
The text of the North Atlantic j
Pact has been released. It pro-j
poses a mutal agreement by,
which the countries signing
would come to the aid of any j
member of the pact who was at- j
tacked. It has not yet been rati- ,
fied by the Senate, but the |
chances are that it will be so j
ratified, and that not only the
countries orginally included in
the proposal, but some of the
Scandinavian countries will also
adopt it.
It is the belief of those most
intimately acquainted with the j
world situation that the pact is!
entirely in accord with the pur
poses of the United Nations, and
that it will be a powerful in
fluence for Peace. It could lead
to war, but war seems remote
at the present time. As a mat
ter of fact, General Bradley says
there are now too many men in
the Army, and that some will be
released. Hence it is not prob
able that more men will be
drafted at any time soon.
The Pact is intended for the j
i “Collective Defense and the j
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LETTERS!
WBSPm*. t<r-thc~ I
Wedmorl
Editor The News:
The voters of Georgia in Tues- j
day’s referendum spoke in no j
uncertain terms their disapprov- j
ai of a gales tax or any other
form of new taxes. This over- j
whelming vote of disapproval
sounds the warning to our state j
! representatives what will follow j
j in the event they try to put a j
sales tax on us when the legis- j
lature meets next January. This;
vote shows that no new taxes j
I are wanted, and above all a sales !
I tax is out of the question. If
the- present administration is
wise it will not try to cram such
law down our throats by a
| “sneak” law such as the ciga- ]
rette price-fixing law they slip- j
ped over on the people of the j
! state last January.
It is generally known that
j some additional money is need
! ed by the state to meet increas
; ed services, but there are many
ways to raise the money without
: taxing the people of the state
unmercifully. Cut out so much
political waste of the present
tax money, tax luxuries and if
necessary tax the soft drinks,
but don’t tax our food, clothing,
medicine and necessities of life.
Georgia people are not as
easliy fooled or hooked as some
of our lawmakers thought, and
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
In The News Office
We were pleased to receive a
nice letter from Mrs. Dovard
Watwood and family, of Bailey
ton, Ala., last week.
Mrs. Watwood tells us that
she enjoys reading the paper
“so much,” and that she hasn’t
missed a copy since moving out
there on Brainlee Mountain,
two years ago.
“Reading the Summerville
News is like a visit home,” she
says. “We read about so many
friends back home. I missed
Mrs. Sentell’s news one week
but the next week you made up
for it, for there were two col
ums of New Moon News. We
know Mrs. Sentell.”
It’s always a pleasure to re
ceive letters from our readers
and so it was when we heard
| from Mrs. Watwood.
Preservation of Peace, Security
and Freedom in the North At
lantic Community.”
Labor Legislation
In both House and Senate the
i bill proposing to repeal the
Taft-Hartley Act has been fa
vorably reported by the respec
tive committees. As reported,
the identical bills provide for
repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act,
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and the restoration of the Wag
ner Act, with certain amend
ments proposed by the Presi
dent. It is the consensus of
opinion that the bill will be
amended to give the President
the right to control crippling
nation wide strikes, and in cer- j
tain other respects to preserve j
some of the good features of j
the Taft-Hartley Act.
Minimum Wage
Likewise a bill raising the;
minimum wage to 75c per hour j
has been favorably reported in
the House. This bill is likewise
due for considerable amend
ment it is believed. Both will be
acted upon within the next few
weeks in the House.
Visitors
It was good to see Mr. Doug
| las Mcßae of Marietta, and Mr.
James Manning of Smyrna,
Georgia, who came by my of
fice while they were here in
Washington. It was also a
pleasure to have Mr. J. C.
; Steinmetz and Mr. Matt L. Mc-
Whorter of Atlanta as my guests i
j this week.
if the people are allowed to
j speak in the making of our fu- j
ture laws we will not have so
I many frivilous laws. A wise rep
! resen tative, senator or governor j
I will in the future profit by con
j suiting the people about a law
| before it is passed.
L. C. Smith, Sr.
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I than the time you’ll save by
speeding.
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Gems of Thought
Man’s capacities have never
been measured;- nor are we to
judge of what he can do by any
precedents, so little has been
tried.—Henry David Thoreau 1
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We cannot afford to be half
way in anything. The whole
hearted man is the one who i
succeeds in this world. —Mary <
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The expectations of life de
pend upon diligence; and the
mechanic that would perfect
his work, must first sharpen hi§
tools.—Confucius
Everywhere you endeavor to
be useful, everywhere you will
be at home. •
—Goethe
Goodness consists not in the
outward things we do, but in
the inward things we are.—
Chapin
Give what you have. To some
one it may be better than you
dare to think.
—Longfellow
Thursday, April 7, 1949
HELPFULNESS
i
Lend a hand! Do not think that
because yours is small,
Or because from its fingers no
riches may fall,
i It was meant you should render
no succor at all.
—J. Walcott
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They who scatter with one
hand, gather with two, not al
ways in coin, but in kind. No
thing multiplies so much as
kindness.
—John Wray
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The reward of one duty is
the power to fulfill another.—
George Eliot