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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
DAVID T. ESPY—PUBLISHER
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New Industry |
Statements by Chattooga County Rep- t
resentative Joseph E. Loggins last week
should be taken into sincere consideration
by those in position to attract new industry
to the area.
Os the dozen or so possibilities advanced
by Loggins, we visualize that all of them
could locate here. The section and its qual
ifications admirably fit pre-requisites out
lined by manufacturers who are seeking
new locations in which to move their opera
tions.
Landowners, business men, city and
county officials and others interested in the
future welfare of Summerville and Chat
tooga County should band themselves to
gether in a concerted effort to entice new
industry to the section. With effort and
cooperation on the part of everyone, it
could be done.
One of the first things to be done is
the formation of an active and energetic
Chattooga County Chamber of Commerce
staffed with a full time manager-salesman.
The cost of such an organization is a mere
pittance when compared with the possible
benefits. For a dollar or so a month from
each member firm, a Chattooga County
Chamber of Commerce could SELL Chat
tooga County. The need for such a body is
great and we would like to see it organized.
Individual and combined effort is called
for in order to augment current payrolls in
Chattooga County. Diversified industry and
enterprise will go a long way in curing the
economic ills of the County as well as the
City of Summerville. Every reasonable ave
nue of solution should be thoroughly ex
plored by those qualified to do so.
We have not yet reached a point so low
that the only way is up. But we could
stand a few more dollars in the overall
economy of the County. The “Money Tree”
is only a fancy in song. To make dollars, it
is necessary that work be done.
We ask that sleeves be rolled and the
job at hand be tackled with immediate vim
and vigor.
Overdue
A few nights ago a local politician was
standing in front of the Chattooga County
Courthouse. Lights were on in the interior
of the building. The politician was asked
to identify a person in the corridor of the
building, almost immediately in front of
the door leading to the office of the Clerk
of the Court.
The politician, who has good eyesight,
could not do so. The glass panes in the
front doors of the Courthouse were so dirty
it was almost impossible to know that the
lights were burning inside the building.
The politician confessed his weakness
and apologized for his failure to see the
person to be identified.
The politician knows full well that the
Chattooga County Courthouse is a dirty
eyesore.
The politician should join others in a
hue and cry to get the building cleaned up.
Now!
The Weeds Grow Tall
Grass plots up and down Commerce
Street are growing taller with weeds.
Many of them are littered with debris.
The plots need cleaning and the grass
needs cutting. It would be awful for an
unwary motorist to overlook a parking
meter engulfed by weeds.
* * *
Rest Rooms Needed
Shoppers in Summerville would probably
increase if they were aware of the existence
of clean, well-kept rest rooms for both
white and colored.
The addition of one or two water foun
tains on Commerce Street would be wel
comed by day-long visitors to the city.
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Os Chattooga County
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Erection of a few benches would be another
step in the right direction.
Incidentally, the city needs a few more
waste receptacles in the downtown area.
Editorial! y A oted
The principal reason that hard work
hurts few people is because some oi them
do not give it the opportunity.
Everyone is an expert in making pre
dictions.
The end of the world will catch many
behind in their work.
In the history of office-holders, few of
them have tried to save their country by
resigning.
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Is it accidental that the word “NEWS”
contains the four letters of the directions? |
A compliment a day may not make you
prosperous, but it will make you feel like
you have a fortune.
Speeding automobiles make life faster
and death quicker.
Someone has said that the outer gar
ments of patriotism cover the underwear of
self-interest.
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And then there’s the heel who married
the shoemaker’s daughter only to find that
she was half-sold.
Food on the table becomes less impor
tant when greater importance is attached!
to eating between meals.
Few utterances contain sufficient wis
dom to be repeated after a lapse of years. |
* * *
Those who make prices evidently are of
the notion that there is more room at the
top.
;!- SR : I :
Too many individuals try to be smart
instead of truthful.
* * *
About half the people in the world are[
busily engaged in directing the lives of the
other half and the other half is busily en
gaged in trying to keep from being directed.
Then there’s the psychiatrist who told
the cannibal “you are fed up with people.”
* * *
It is the square at the w'heel who brings
life’s cycle to a quick end.
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Some politicians do not hold office. The
office holds them.
* * *
The government has nothing but money
to waste.
* * *
If a working mother spends all of her
income on a baby-sitter there’s not much
excuse for staying away from home.
* * *
Individual merchants in Summerville
might be interested in knowing that a few
pennies in parking meters in front of their
establishments wouid probably provide an
incentive for shoppers to come to Summer
ville.
* * *
Anyone who professes to be a writer
should be able to express himself in a few
thousand words and then put the rest in
footnotes.
* * *
This newspaper would like to know why
YOU do not shop in Summerville. Letters
on this subject will be published and names
will be withheld if requested. Don’t be
merciful. If YOU do not like to shop in
Summerville, we want to know the reasons.
* * *
Everyone in favor of a big motel and res
taurant near Summerville, get together and
build one. The need is great. Form a cor
poration. It will pay off.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
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HERMAN TALMADGE
Reports From
WASH/NGTOAf
THE CALL OF Senator Mike
Mansfield of Montana for a “thor
oughg-oing- reform” of the nation’s
foreign aid program is an encour
aging straw in the wind.
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jnr.- t
ity on foreign affairs, has on two
recent occasions addi’essed the
Senate about the urgent need for
Congress to act to correct what
he aptly called “the administra
tive decadence with which foreign
aid is now surrounded . . . (and)
the costly bureaucratic obsession
to expand the aid program into
whatever nation will have it,
whether it is needed or not.” The
fact that he has added his power
ful voice to those of us who long
have spoken out against the ex
cesses and follies of the present
aid program is perhaps the best
indication yet that the growing
disenchantment of the masses of
the American people with it is
making itself felt in Washington.
* * *
WHILE IT WOULD be too
much to expect Congress to re
verse itself overnight, hope has
been renewed that the day of the
great giveaway is drawing to a
close. There seems to be a good
chance that that end may be has
tened with the adoption at this
Session of some of the amend
ments proposed by Senator- Mans
field and others, including myself.
■Senator Mansfield wants to
abolish the International Coopera
tion Administration and end all
foreign aid grants, economic as
sistance and defense support in
(not prepared or printed at government expense)
TRAFFIC QUIZ NO. 7
EDITOR'S \OTE: This is the seventh of eight
traffic safety quizzes to be published in the Nuns.
How old must I be to get a
driver’s license? Will I be re
j quired to know road signs and
| traffic laws? Just when was the
i first driver’s license issued?
If you know the answers to
those questions you should do
[ well on this quiz. But don’t be
i over-confident —you may be in
j for some surprises!
1. When you’re 14 years of age
j you can get a full-fledged license
’to drive a car alone. True or
। false?
2. The first driver’s license was
I issued in 1920—just after World
War I. True or false?
3. It’s necessary in every state
।to take a driving examination
| before getting a license. True or
false?
4. It's not necessary to know
; road signs and traffic laws in
j every state to get a driver’s li
: cense. And neither are you al
| ways required to show you can
। drive. True or false?
Answers:
1. True. That’s the age at
I which you can get a driver’s li
cense in South Carolina and
Texas. But 40 states require that
you be 16 or older.
2. False. According to the Na
tional Safety Council, the date
was earlier—probably 1903. Oth
er sources say the first licenses
were used in 1908.
3. False. No examination is
: ! necessary in South Dakota, but
! every other state requires one.
4. True —But only in South
Dakota.
■ “We must continue to pound
I home the fact that driving is a
I privilege, not a right,” the Coun
■ cil says. “It’s a privilege that can
' be withdrawn with just cause.”
What are the purposes of
driver licensing?
1. To improve the quality of
• drivers on the road through
! tougher initial examinations and
periodic re-examination.
2. To identify the driver for
police use in traffic, and for
, other law enforcement purposes.
3. To get revenue to pay for
’ licensing, traffic policing, driver
' training, or highway construe
i
Church Schedules
Special Services
Reverend R. C. Clark of Faith
( Temple. Chattanooga, will be
1 the guest speaker at a District
Fellowship meeting to be held
at Pennville Pentecostal Mission
on Friday night, June 26 .
r The service will begin at 7:45
o'clock.
’ Churches from Berryton, Rome
5 and LaFayette are expected to
■ attend. Special singers and old
fashioned preaching will be sea-
1 tured.
. The pastor cordially invites
everyone to attend. Look for
signs on Highway 27, turn at the
■ Pure Oil Station and go one
I block.
NATO strengthening urged by
Atlantic Congress.
three years. He would replace
them with scaled-down programs
of military assistance to depend
able allies under the Department
of Defense and of repayable loans
for specific economic projects un
der the Department of State. He
also is advocating removing the
present shroud of secrecy which
prevents both Congress and the
people from learning exactly how
foreign aid dollars are being
spent.
In addition, 20 of my colleagues
and I have offered an amendment
to require the Administration to
submit to Congress detailed bud
gets of its proposed yearly ex
penditures under the existing
program.
* * *
THERE IS AMPLE evidence to
support the recent assertion of
the Wall Street Journal that the
program has become “unhinged
from reason” and that a “new
sense of proportion” must be re
stored to it. Failure to act on
that evidence will amount to, in
the words of the House Minority
Report on Mutual Security writ
ten by Georgia Congressman J. L.
Pilcher, “irresponsibility and in
defensible dereliction.”
There is no man possessed of
conscience and a sense of Chris
tian duty who would oppose any
reasonable and practical program
designed to assure the safety of
his country and to help the needy
of the world. Conversely, the
same sense of proportion and re
sponsibility demands the unquali
fied rejection of the philosophy
that the Treasury of the United
States is a cornucopia whose out
pourings of dollars can solve all
the problems of the world.
The Senate
Democratic
Whip, who is
one of the
most respect
ed members of
the United
States Senate
and a recog
nized author-
tion.
According to the Council, few
states call for periodic re-exam
ination of drivers. “In most
states, you mail in your money
for a renewal license every year
or two, with no check on any
changes which may affect your
ability to drive.”
Attention All Parents
Student Guidance:
EDITOR’S NOTE: This Is the fourth
!n a series of articles on student guid
ance. Others will appear in subse
quent editions of this newspaper.
By Dr. Edward C. Roeber
Have you ever been caught
in a situation where you would
like to have a quick, easy solu
tion to your problem? If you
have, you are very much like
the rest of us.
If you would like to see what
parents sometimes want, you
might be interested in reading
the mail of a vocational coun
selor.
“We have a boy who isn’t do
ing so well in school. We were
wondering if you would test
him. Maybe tests would help
him and ...”
“Do you give that test which
tells a person what he is best
suited for?”
“Could we have, an appoint
ment for testing We don’t have
much time? Could you do it in
an hour some morning?”
“I've been out of college for
ten years and am beginning to
wonder whether I ought to
change jobs. Do you have a test
that might help me?”
“Could you help us settle an
argument? My husband thinks
our seventh grade daughter is
real bright. I think she is just
a good normal youngster. Could
you give her an I.Q. test so
he’ll stop bragging about his
genius?”
One thing stands out in each
request. All of them felt that
tests would in some way solve
their problems in a hurry.
Some tests are directly relat
ed to vocational guidance. Other
tests are helpful but only indi
rectly related to careerxplan
ning. In either case, it becomes
important that every parent
know something about tests and
what part they play in educa
tional and vocational planning.
The beginning of standard
ized tests go back a good many
years. The first test was de
signed to help pick out children
who needed a special kind of
training. Both World Wars gave
a push to the development of
testing, Today there are hun
dreds of tests, testing to some
extent such characteristics as
interests, intelligence, scholastic
aptitude, personality, achieve
ment in skills or school subjects,
mechanical reasoning, space re
lations, clerical aptitude, and 1
many others. |
Vandiver Talks
On Federal Aid
School Ordeal
: —On the education front, Gov.
Ernest Vandiver spoke out the
other day on (1) the school de
segregation movement and (2)
I federal aid for education pro-
I posals.
Following U.S. District Court
Judge Frank A. Hooper’s written
decision outlawing segregated
schools in the Atlanta public
school system, the Governor is
sued this formal statement:
“Officials of the state con
cerned are watching the situa
tion, as it relates to the At
lanta school case, very carefuly.
We have the highest degree of
confidence in B. D. (Buck) Mur
phy, counsel for the Atlanta
School Board.
“Every Georgian is hopeful, of
course, that the Federal courts
will not force the closing of a
single school in Georgia. How
ever, I would remind all that the
laws of Georgia require such ac
tion should integration be or
dered pursuant to Federal Su
preme Court decisions.
“As Governor, it is my respon
sibility to uphold the Constitu
tion and laws of Georgia. That
I will do.”
The federal aid matter ac
tually developed in Washington
where a House subcommittee is
studying federal aid to educa
tion. A letter written by State
School Supt. Claude Purcell in
reply to a series of questions
submitted by the committee to
Gov. Vandiver, who turned it
over to Dr. Purcell to answer,
was made public.
Commenting on the letter, the
Governor said he did not think
Dr. Purcell was espousing fed
eral aid in it. Vandiver said that
“of course with federal aid
comes federal control, and I am
vigorously opposed to it.”
He further said he has dis
cussed the proposed Murray-
Metcalf bill for federal aid for
teachers’ salaries (one of sev
eral proposals before the com
mittee! with some members of
the Georgia congressional dele
gation.
“Those I talked with were op
posed to it,” Gov. Vandiver said,
“and I agreed with them gener
ally. I am not familiar with the
terms of the bill, but generally
I am opposed to federal aid for
education.”
CARD OF THANKS
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. (Bill) Lee
and family wish to express their
appreciation and thanks for all
kindness and sympathy shown
them at the death of their son,
David Lee, his wife, and their
grandson, Tommy.
’ Tests are only tools. They can
- be used by the amateur, con
fusing both students and par
ents. Or they can be used by the
professionally trained person,
t enabling him to help both stu
-1 dents and parents.
Ordinarily students and par- ;
j | ents expect too much from tests.
; I What then are some of the
things which parents should
t know about tests?
i Tests at best are only samples
, of what a person can do or how
’ he feels about something. A test
of how well one can do arith
metic cannot cover every pos-1
, sible arithmetic problem. In
building such a test, it is neces- .
sary to pick out a few arith- j
metic problems which separate
those that know something!
1 from those that know very lit-1
L tie about arithmetic.
If a test is a sample, it is im
■ portant to remember that a sin
! gle test may not always show a
i student’s skill with arithmetic.
The sample for some reason or
• other may be a poor one for I
> some students.
> On the other’ hand, if several
t similar tests show the same
trend, we can have more faith
j in the samples and especially if
. the same trend continues over
, a period of time.
L Interest inventories, when giv
। en to an adolescent, are good ex
, amples of tests which can show
. abrupt changes. A very unus
ual experience may cause a
drastic change in a student’s in
1 terests and test results.
_ The way in which tests are
; given to groups of students may
also have something to do with
' the results. A student’s attitude
toward intelligence tests may
cause scores to differ from time
’ to time. Students may “clutch
’ up” when given this type of
test. Some may not want to take
the test in the first place. These
are just a few of the problems
to be considered when trying to
■ make sense from test scores.
' Tests never make decisions
■ for anyone. They merely give .
i bits of information which have j
M to be viewed in the light of pre
: vious experiences. The value of
! a college aptitude test is in- :
• creased when it is compared 1
: with school marks. Test results :
s and school marks may or may 1
I not agree. In either case, the i
I test results become meaningful
, for students as they have a,t
[chance to talk them over with i
I[a counselor or a teacher with 11
(special training and skills. 11
John's Corner
By John S. Harris
Espy asked me, “where is John’s Cornel, Foi a moment
oi two the question was puzzling and then it dawned on
me that I had not written the Corner. Which is pi obably
just as well. I don’t know what I would have wiitten about
anyway All of which explains the absence ol the Corner
last week.
The break in continuity of the i J
Corner has set me back some- j'
what. I don’t know what I am j'
going to write about this week. । f
lAs some of you may have no- '
ticed, Herman Talmadge took
| over my bailiwick last week. J
That puts me in some sort of a '
spot as I am strictly not in the j 1
class of Talmadge when it comes j ’
to writing, or talking. He has a!
natural flair for spreading words [ i
around, some of which stems'i
from his having been the son of [!
ole’ Gene. j ■
Within the past few months |
my desk has been flooded with
frequent mailings from Tai- 1
madge’s office in Washington.
He is making speeches all over
I the place and is appearing before i
all types of groups, especially in
the Washington and New York
areas. He must have a good staff
of publicity men and typistsand
mailing personnel because he is
getting his messages across to •
every editor in Georgia. I can
not help but wonder what he is
up to. He could very well be
building his fences with an eye :
on a Cabinet spot, providing the 1
Democrats put a man in the
White House. As I say, I do not
know what Herman is up to. But ,
like his Dad, you can bet your
boots he’s up to something. It
costs a pretty penny to repro
duce his long speeches and get
them mailed to several hundred ,
Georgia newspapers on a re
curring schedule. I (
Speaking of long speeches and | (
other utterances from politicians ;
reminds me that this desk also ,
receives voluminous reports from .
those in the State government. .
Vandiver makes a talk before
a Kiwanis, Rotary, Jayc.ee or .
other group and, bingo, we get I
the full text of his talk. The i
same gees for the Lieutenant
Governor.
The State Highway Depart
ment mails us a several page
resume’ of highway bids and
proposed construction through
out the State. (None for Chat
tooga County since I have been
here). Roughly speaking, I would
say that the Highway Depart
ment’s mailing bill to Georgia
weeklies runs several hundred
dollars in postage alone and the
reproduction costs would amount
to about $500.00 a month. Road
work all over the State is listed.
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The importance of counseling f
as a part of understanding tests [t
and their results is all too often ;t
overlooked by students and s
their parents. This “talking it t
over” gives meaning to the tests, [t
For this reason, the mailing of t
test results to students, even [;
though accompanied by explan-11
ations, is not a very good prac-, (
tice. _ :
Interpreting tests is tricky [I
business, requiring far moie >
knowledge than most people im- t
agine. The I.Q. or intelligence <
quotient, for example, creates
some real problems. For some c
reason, a child’s I.Q. within the I;
average range is a curse to some I
parents. They forget there are a t
lot of average people in the e
world. And many of them as \
suine very important responsi- a
bilities. Any time you strike an c
average, some people by defini- s
tion are going to be above that c
mark and some below. f
Sometimes parents forget that
test results may vary over a pe-'v
riod of time. Johnny’s parents in
found out that his I.Q. was “only [a
95” when he was in the fourth |s
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959
I cannot see the business sense
of it. In the first place we do not
have space to print it and in the
second place we wouldn’t if we
did have the space. Its nice to
know that a county on the Flor
ida line is getting a new bridge
culvert but when it costs us
money as taxpayers to find it
out, then we draw the line.
Georgia could save thousands
of dollars every year in this in
stance alone. There’s no telling
how many other dollars could be
saved in other departments.
But, the politicians have to
talk. The various State and Gov
ernment agencies have to mail
lengthy reports. After all, what
else would they do? They could
go about trying to save money
so that us poor taxpayers could
rest a little easier. But that evi
dently is a little too much for us
to ask.
As we said at the beginning of
the Corner this week, we left out
last week’s and we might as well
do the same with this one. Who
are we to be crying about exces
sive waste and misuse of tax
money?
John F. Eales Dies;
Buried in Alabama
John F. Tate died on June 20
at Riegel Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Tate is survived by a
daughter, Bonnie Tate Shamblin
of Broomtown, Alabama, and
three sons, Louis, Johnny and
Joseph, all of Cloudland. There
are also 14 grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mr. Tate
were held at Mt. Bethel Baptist
Church at Broomtown. Inter
ment was in the Church Ceme
tery.
Pallbearers were the grand
sons and flower girls were the
granddaughters.
Honorary pallbearers were L.
P. Wood, C. R. Downey, A. D.
Snoots, Bill Bannister, Paul
Pullen, Jr., John Webster, Her
man White, Deed Hogg, L. A.
Wilson, Roy Farrow, Millard
Ward, Roy Tallent, Bob Rattrary
and Luke Deering.
Books covering specific teen
age problems can be obtained by
parents at the library.
grade. In their minds this num
ber grew way out of proportion
to its value. They even made
some remarks about his ances
tors. Although actually within
the average range, Johnny was
treated from that time on like
a moron. He even began to be
lieve it himself. Not until some
one took time to check once
again in the tenth grade did
they discover that another test
gave different results — and
there is no magic in the results
of a single test of any kind.
These are but a few of the
common errors which students
and parents make when given
little or inadequate help with
test results. By this time, par
ents might feel that tests are not
valuable. This attitude is prob
ably correct when the school
does not provide counselors or
specially skilled teachers who
can help them, get meanings
from tests.
Testing will become effective
when the schools of America
make an adequate counseling
and testing service available to
students and their parents.