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why not read some of these short-shorts
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Modern children have a terrible time
trying to bring their parents up-to-date.
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If you haven’t made any money in the
last ten years, we suggest that you either
switch jobs or retire.
It is strange how tired a man can be on
Sunday morning about church time. It is
even more strange how fast he can recuper
ate if something turns up on Sunday af
ternoon.
Any speaker can make his case sound
pretty good if his audience doesn’t know
the facts involved, or does not ask the
right questions, or any questions.
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Buy what you need at home and your
dollars will come back to you. Send them
away from home and they are gone forever!
If you are in a strong enough position
not to care what people think about you,
speak the truth frankly, without fear or
favor.
It is sometimes hard to realize it but
the current crop of high school and college
graduates doesn’t know anything at all
about the depression of the Thirties.
Now is the time of the year when many
young ladies come out in attire for which
a man would be arrested.
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If you drive on Highway 27 over Tay
lor’s Ridge, you are flirting with danger!
Don’t say you were not warned.
* * *
Work has been going on to stockpile
West Berlin with food. There is now enough
to last nearly a year. Quietly started last
November, this action gives the Western
powers a trump card. It is also a tribute to
the West Berliners, and their desire to re
main free.
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Children should be taught to think for
themselves and resist some of the social
pressures and propaganda of the day.
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It takes about five years for a coffee
tree to start bearing. On two coffee breaks
a day, it takes about 20 minutes for many
Americans to consume millions of gallons.
Kicking at the loss of the Democratic
convention in 1960, a Chicago newspaper
has said that Los Angeles got the nod for
the convention because of its smog-filled
rooms.
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If anyone in Summerville is interested,
the Republican party was organized in
Jackson, Mich., on July 6, 1854.
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In this season of commencement ora
tory, when the young people of the nation
are being given tons and tons of advice,
which most of them promptly forget, we
would like to add our few words of wisdom,
for what they are worth. If you are a high
school graduate, go to college if you can.
If you cannot go to college, get a job.
Summerville Graduates
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A Prize Winning
Weekly Newspaper
The person who seriously sets his own
value upon all things can expect to live his
life on the basis of his own honest ap
praisal.
Being truthful with yourself is the first
basis of honesty.
Defense spending is not likely to di
minish next year. That would seem to Ur
a real obstacle to a recession.
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According to Bob Hope, “Have Gun,
Will Travel” is a national policy in Russia.
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The best things in life can be bought
with a little down and a little each week.
The little ole’ payments can go on and on
and on until you wonder if you needed the
best things in life to begin with.
* * *
You can work yourself into a lather
from soft soaping. If you live in a hard
water area the soft soap doesn’t work so
good.
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Charles Lamb said that newspapers al
ways excite curiosity and that no one ever
lays one down without a feeling of dis
appointment.
Beating around the bush will never do
anything but bush you.
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Some government agencies art already
operating on the no-day work week.
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For some reason the upcoming Red
Book Singing at Trion reminds us of a
spelling match of yore’ when the words
were taken from the blue back speller.
There’s really no connection unless you
can find one.
* * *
This newspaper would give a pretty
penny for a telephone book that is correct.
* * *
Balanced judgment is a rare commodity
which enriches the man who possesses it.
It may be a good thing that all of the
159 courthouse clocks in Georgia do not
run. If they all chimed the noon hour at
the same time our neighbors above the
Mason Dixon line might think that the
South was rising again.
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The man who said that two could live
cheaper than one was not talking about
two women.
* * *
Is the United States purchasing peace
on the installment plan?
* * *
It is a sad commentary on the reading
public when we take a look at the best
seller lists these days.
* * *
You may not agree with it but everyone
in life has some sort of racket.
* * *
If you do not want to argue with your
friend, tell him how smart he is.
* * *
The petroleum industry must love those
women who burn up a buck’s worth of gas
oline while driving around looking for bar
gains.
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The fisherman was a liar and so was
the golfer. The trouble was that no one
knew which was the biggest.
Tucker,. Delaine Tucker, An
nette Van Pelt, Morene Waters,
Jerry White. Joan Wilson, Billy
Williams, Harold Williams, Joe
Williams, Jerry Willingham, Jer
ry Worsham, Reta Nell Wooten,
Leon Youngblood.
Truman approves Macmillan
visit to Moscow.
Macmillan will warn Khrush
chev on risks.
Bulgaria to adopt some com
munal aspects.
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A SECOND LOOK at the Cul
tural Exchanges Agreement sign
ed last year between the United
States and the Soviet Union raises
a serious question as to whether
this country has thereby fallen
into a Russian propaganda trap.
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countries can be productive of
international understanding and
good will and should be en
couraged. Such desired results
cannot be achieved, however,
when one of the participating na
tions approaches such exchanges
with a view toward obtaining par
tisan advantage from them and,
from the record of the past, there
is no reason to believe that the
Russians look upon them as any
thing but a one-way street.
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AT ITS RECENT winter meet
ing the American Bar Associa
tion, in adopting the report of its
Special Committee on Communist
Tactics, Strategy and Objectives,
called attention to the fact that
Soviet Premier Khrushchev in
1956 listed cultural and business
exchanges as “one of those de
velopments which will bring about
the growing weakness of the
United States and advance world
socialism.” The lawyers concluded
from the evidence presented that
“the primary activity of every one
of Moscow’s cultural delegates
while in thit country is to pro
mote the Communist world revo
lution.”
Therefore, it is quite obvious
that the Russians see the Cultural I
Exchanges Agreement as an op- |
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Attention AH Parents
Student Guidance: What Does It Really Mean?
EDITOR'S NOTE—This is ihe first
Os a scries of articles dealing with
vocational guidance released by the
National Foundation for Student
Guidance io weekly newspapers
throughout this state. The purpose of
this series is to acquaint the parents
of the youth of this nation with the
pressing need for understanding and
providing adequate vocational guid
ance to the students of American
schools.
The author of the series, Dr. Ed
ward C. Roeber, is widely known in
this field. He is Professor of Educa
tion at the University of Michigan.
He has written numerous articles
and books dealing with this problem
for various publications.
The National Foundation for Stu
dent Guidance is a non-profit orga
nization dedicated io creating a
better understanding of the need for
vocational guidance throughout the
United States.
By Dr. Edward C. Roeber
Just exactly what is vocation
al guidance? Don’t be embar
rassed if you don’t know the
answer. The truth of the matter
is that probably the majority of
the parents of school age chil
dren in this country are in the
same boat as you.
; Frankly, insofar as the over
whelming majority of American
educators is concerned, this is
not a good situation. You need
to know about vocational guid
ance and what it means because
you owe it to your children to
know.
Basically, vocational guidance
is simply this; a service provid
ed through our school systems
to assist pupils in making intel
ligent decisions regarding sub
jects which will prepare them
for their life’s work. You’ve
heard the saying about a “square
peg in a round hole’’ and it is
unfortunately true that too
many human beings find them
selves in this predicament when
it is too late to do anything
about it, or when it means giv
ing up seniority or financial
security in order to shift oc
cupations.
As a result, it is undoubtedly
true that fine talents are wasted
because young men and young
women aren’t doing that for
which they are best fitted or in
which they are most interested.
At the risk of oversimplifying
the problem, let’s say that the
primary function of vocational
guidance is to prevent any
square pegs from getting in
round holes.
When grammar school young
sters are asked, “What do you
want to be when you grow up?’’
The most popular answers arc
always locomotive engineers,
policemen, nurses, movie stars,
doctors, forest rangers, firemen,
and maybe bus drivers; but
these answers are dream an
swers. In just a few short years
some of these same youngsters
may be thinking seriously about
engineering, education, journal
ism, banking, law, medicine, or
business administration.
In every high school of Amer
ica there are young men and
young women who are per
plexed about their future, their
educational and vocational plans.
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portunity to send their espionage
agents into this country posing as
artists, dancers, scientists, farm
ers and the like and to open the
doors of America’s theaters and
homes to Communist propaganda
movies and television and radio
programs. Furthermore, they ex
pect to reap a bountiful harvest
of publicity through* the United
States’ free news media while, at
the same time, using their tight
control over all avenues of infor
mation within the Soviet Union
to suppress or distort news about
the American counterparts in the
program of exchanges.
A case in point is the manner
in which Radio Moscow and the
official Soviet newspaper, Pravda,
already are denouncing and be
littling the American Cultural Ex
hibit to be shown this summer in
Moscow’s Sokolniki Park at a cost
of $3,600,000 to the American tax
payers.
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CULTURE TO US in the United
States means “enlightenment and
refinement,” but to the dictators
of the Kremlin it means only “pro
duction and propaganda.” Thus,
from the standpoint of definition
alone, it is impossible to have a
meaningful agreement on cultural
exchanges with the Soviet Union.
The term of the present two
year agreement expires next Jan
uary and it is to be hoped that
the President, after serious second
thought, will heed the admonition
of Robert B. Pitkin, Managing
Editor of the American Legion
Magazine, that “no true exchange
of culture is possible in the rela
tions of the Soviet Union with any
country” and refuse to jeopardize
further the security of this coun
try through any extension of this
“Trojan-Horse” Agreement.
We owe it to our youth and
to our country to do everything
we can to see that the native
talents of American youth are
steered in the direction which
will best serve mankind as well
as the individual.
Let’s take a look, for example,
at Bill. He could be in any high
school in America. What’s on
Bill’s mind? For one thing, he
is wondering whether he will
dver amount to anything. Like
everyone else he wants to be
somebody — nothing extra spe
cial but a regular guy with a
regular job living a respectable
life. Bill wants his share of the
future. He wants a chance io de
velop some special skills and to
get those things which we in
America take for granted.
It all sounds quite simple to
those of us who have already
made a place for ourselves in
the world of work. To Bill, how
ever, it is not quite so simple.
Bill is wondering about a lot
of things. Should he go to col
lege? He’ll need help. Perhaps
his family would have to give
up all its savings. And what
about his brother and sister?
They will need help, too. Or,
after high school, should he take
some special training? Should
he follow his Dad’s trade or
strike out on his own?
Dad could help him get start
ed, sure, but maybe Bill isn’t
sure he wants to do what Dad
has done all his life.
There’s nothing wrong with
Dad’s job, but Bill wants to do
something with electronics — at
least he thinks he does.
What about chances for find
ing a job in that field?
And how about the armed
services? He might be able to
get some special training if he
enlists. How much choice would
he have?
And so it goes. Lots of ques
tions. Where are the answers?
Professional guidance is the
answer.
If Bill were the only one with
such questions, there would be
no need for vocational guidance.
But the case of Bill can be mul
tiplied -many times, and in ad
dition there are all the Marys
and other young women who
also have special problems in
career planning.
Bill and Mary need special
help in planning for and gaining
a foothold in a career.
Actually, there are many rea
sons why Bill and Mary find to
day's decisions rather difficult
—perhaps even more confusing
than the choices which faced
their parents only twenty years
ago. A few more examples of
the challenges and obstacles
which confront the Bills and the
Marys might help all of us un
derstand more clearly the in
creasing need for vocational
guidance not only in the large
schools but also in every one of
the small schools.
Letter to
the Editor
D. T. Espy
John Harris
Summerville News
Summerville, Georgia
Dear Mr. Espy:
I should like to thank you and
your staff for the wonderful
publicity which the Summerville
News has so graciously seen fit
to give the Summerville High
School Band this school year.
I hope that we have never, and
will never, become a nuisance,
but that we will be able to con
tinue our good relations.
Sincerely,
J. G. POOLOS, Director
Summerville High School
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Press Convention
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Clement.
Vandiver is scheduled to speak
on Saturday morning, June 13.
The convention begins at the
General Oglethorpe Hotel on
Thursday, June 11.
A highlight of the meeting
w’ill be the annual banquet and
awards event in which outstand
ing Georgia newspapers receive
recognition^ in various journal
istic fields.
Farmers Warned
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“farmers buying this seed should
investigate prices carefully.
Seed ordered from the South
west may cost farmers as much
as $1.30 per pound when the
same seed may be purchased
from seed dealers here in Geor
gia for around 30 cents per
pound.”
FOOD FREEZING
HINTS GIVEN BY
COUNTY HD AGENT
By OMIE IL WILEY
If you have a home freezer
and haven’t taken advantage of
the convenience of freezing I
cooked foods, you’re missing one [
sure way of saving time and es- I
fort in meal preparation. Now
that hot weather is here you’ll I
want to be out of the kitchen as I
much as possible. In the morn- '
Jack will soon leave high
school, having earned top honors
in his class. He would like to
try for a medical degree some
day, but he realizes it will take
at least eight years of college
work. Jack is wondering wheth
er he has what it takes to get
good marks in college. What
would he do if he found, after a
couple of years in college, that
he couldn't do the work well?
He would also like to know
whether to go to a small college
or a big university. Because his
scholarship will not cover all
his expenses, he would like to
know how to earn part of his
way. Or would that affect his
marks and thus stop him from
being accepted at a medical
school? What would he do if he
were not accepted?
■ Jack also knows that there are
many who would like to get into
these schools and that there are
not enough places for all of
them. What else could he do for
a living? Maybe something in bi
ology, chemistry, or pharmacy?
Jill is a tenth grade student
in a large school. She has made
average marks but has had
special difficulties with Eng
lish, Currently she is undecided
about whether to drop school as
soon as she is sixteen. She is
wondering what kinds of work
she can find if she leaves school.
How does one go about finding a
job? Does a high school diploma
make any difference in finding
jobs? If she decided to stay in
school, which ones of the many
courses should she take? For a
change, she would like some
thing which interests her. Os
course, if she “sticks it out,”
how can she do better work in
English?
Jim is not interested in a col
lege degree. But he wants a
trade of-some kind, some work
where he can build or repair
things. He is not sure as yet
what trade to enter.. In or near
his home town are three kinds
of schools, a trade school, a tech
nical school, and a college offer
ing a two-year course. There are
also several industries with ap
prenticeship "programs. He is
wondering whether to go to one
of these schools, to start an ap
prenticeship as soon as he grad
uates, or to begin learning a
trade in one of the armed serv
ices.’ What is best for him?
Bon dropped school when he
was sixteen. Since that time, he
has held several “dead end”
jobs. Each one paid enough to
live on, but none of them of
fered him a chance for promo
tion or learning any special
skill. Whichever way he turns
he learns that the “good” jobs
require at least a high schqol
education. At the present time
lie is waiting to be drafted and
feels sorry for himself, not sure
what to do while he waits. Ron
needs guidance desperately.
Industrialization in America
John's Corner
Down in Fulton County they save money by trying
people in their courts three at a time. I know because I
saw it with my own eyes and I could hardly believe what
I witnessed.
Last Thursday, two Negro men
were in court on bastardy
j charges. Another was in court
on the same charge, by proxy so
to speak. His lawyer was there.
The defendant was in jail. How
they could try him on charges
of being the father of an ille
gitimate child without him being
present is beyond me. But they,
did.
One of the lawyers got up to
plead his case before the bar of!
justice.
There was no jury and that
can also be taken into considera
tion in figuring the low cost of
the trial.
The judge was spitting tobacco
juice into a can which had held
beans previously fed to prisoners
in Fulton Tower and that
brought the cost down even
more. Fulton had not furnished
hizzoner with a very costly
cuspidor.
In the middle of his case, the
lawyer was interrupted by the
judge. He spoke to one of the
other lawyers and asked him if
he was in court for the same
I reason as the one who had been
speaking. The lawyer told hiz
zoner that he was on the same
type of case. The judge then ad
dressed the court at large and
said: “let’s bring all of ’em up
here and save some time.”
At the judge’s words, there
ing while it is cool, why not pre
pare and freeze enough of some
cooked food to last several
weeks?
One point to bear in mind if|
you freeze cooked foods is, that:
the storage period is relatively j
short—from two weeks to four
to six months. Most cooked.
fruits, vegetables and meats do I
not hold quality for as long as
when frozen raw.
In most instances, no special
recipes are necessary in prepar
ing cooked foods for freezing.
Just use a standard recipe or
your favorite one. The actual
cooking process should be as
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“The Square Peg in the Round Hole' 9
has brought about an increasing
number of occupations—proba
bly more than 40,000 at the pres
ent time. Technological changes
have been taking place at such a
rapid pace that forecasting occu
pational trends has become a
hazardous occupation. Twenty
years ago there was no such
person as a space doctor. Today
we cannot predict how many
will be needed, in the next
twenty years.
Farming has become so high
ly mechanized and scientific
that fewer farmers can feed
more people.
Refrigeration has changed the
transportation of foods, such as
oranges from crates to cans.
The influences of American
inventiveness upon jobs is end
less. Young people today must
aim at a “moving target" for the
world of work does not stand
stiM. They have to learn to aim
at and adjust to as many for
seeable changes as possible —
quite a task for even an expert
on the subject.
As America becomes involved
in a struggle for survival it is
essential that every nerson de
velop his talents as much as pos
sible. As a nation it is impossi
ble to depend upon sheer num
bers in the population for sur
vival but rather upon ingenuity
and an ability to outproduce
unfriendly nations. Our young
people are the hope of the
future. They will be “pressured"
to do this or to do that. Re
cruitment for various occupa-
THURSDAY. JUNE 4, 1959
By John S. Harris
was laughter in the courtroom.
Seven or eight other attor
neys laughed. The prosecutor
laughed. Court officials, includ
ing bailiffs laughed. Several
spectators laughed. The court
reporter laughed. They all
thought it very funny.
The general merriment re
minded me of the Army when
the Second Lieutenants laugh at
the unfunny jokes of the First
Lieutenants and when the
Colonels roll in the aisles at the
equally unfunny gibes of the
General Officers.
I didn’t laugh. It wasn’t funny.
The defendants didn’t laugh.
They were on trial and it cer
tainly wasn’t funny to them. I
do not know whether they were
guilty or not and I don’t believe
the judge gave a hoot.
The defendant in jail didn’t
laugh. He didn’t know anything
about the way things were going
against him. His lawyer tried.
I’ll say one thing for him. He
tried!
The other two lawyers did
their best. All three spoke at
length. The prosecutor spoke
with a sneer. The judge spit to
bacco juice.
Several points of law were
read by the lawyers. They asked
the court’s permission to lay the
books before him. He didn’t look
at the books when they were
placed in his line of vision. He
was too busy drawing a bead on
the bean can.
That judge ruled and over
ruled. He reversed himself twice
\ and he threw the book at the
three defendants, two before
him and one in jail.
I overheard a remark made by
! a spectator lawyer when the
farce was over. He said to one
of the trial lawyers, “friend, you
just got a kangaroo decision.”
I agree with his remark. But
that lawyer got paid. The three
Negro men got a free ride to Ful
ton Tower in the dilapidated bus
of the Fulton County Sheriff’s
Department.
tions may influence someone to
enter an occupation for which
he is not suited and where he
is not as productive as^ he
might be.
Somehow the Bills and Marys
must work their ways through
the maze of opportunities, blind
alleys, and obstacles. They can
be helped in an organized man
ner. This is vocational guidance.
An organized approach to vo- ■'
cational guidance is already pres
ent in some schools throughout
America. In these schools Bill
and Mary are helped to find va
rious kinds of information about
themselves and possible educa
tional and occupational opportu
nities. Some of the information
is given to them individually,
as they need it, or in groups,
such as regular classes, home
rooms, or occupational planning
courses. In addition, counselors,
and teachers with special skills,
counsel and talk over with the
students how they can best use
their talents in relation to dif
ferent kinds of training and
occupational requirements. Be
cause young people grow and
change with new experiences,
they find these services avail
able to them all through high
school. Many who see the value
in helping young men and wom
en "get a good start" in the
world of work hope that every
young American can have an
opportunity to receive adequate
vocational guidance in his high
school, regardless of its size or
location.