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Teens and Their Values
•‘Youth—Measure Your Values” was the
theme this week of a nation-wide conven
tion of young people—the Future Home
makers ol America.
The young women were to explore what
is meant by values, to try to understand
where and how we gel our values, to realize
how values influence our decisions and to
stimulate further thinking about values.
The FHA group seems to feel it is up to
Pollulian and Hepatitis
During the first 23 weeks of this year,
the U. s public Health Service reported a
total of 39.477 cases of hepatitis from all
causes- four times the average. And, in
Raritan Bay, an area between New Jersey
and Staten Island. N. Y., the taking of shell
fish was banned by both states when it was
discovered that of 136 hepatitis cases in
volving persons who had eaten raw clams,
85 were known to have eaten clams traced
to Raritan Bay.
Now some unthinking persons may right
off place the blame for hepatitis on clams.
That is wrong: Infectious hepatitis is caused
by viruses introduced by locally contami
nated food or water. Crowding, poor sani
tation and malnutrition are predisposing
factors.
The New Jersey Health Commissioner,
Dr. Roscoe P. Kandle, said that exposure to
sewer facilities, such as septic tanks and
person-to-person contact within families
were major sources of hepatitis; also, that
pollution along the coast had increased in
pecent years because of the boom in new
houses -most of which are serviced by sep-
Tales Out of Sehool
By BERNICE McCULLAR
Director of Information — State Department of Education
TV FOR AUTUMN Mary I
Grubbs, our program co-ordina
tor for television teaching, is I
planning some wonderful courses
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HERMAN TALMADGE
Reports From
WASHINGTON
Tin OBSERV WCE of nn
other Independence Day as
fords an appropriate backdrop
for consideration of a question
• which is being asked with in
creasing frequency.
That question is what can the
individual citizen do about stem
ming the rising tide of Com
ir.umsm throughout the world
niumsoi iiimugiiu
people here at home. It forms
a thread which runs through
the bulk of the mad I receive
and it evidences a public con
cent for the future of the
country which is unparalleled in
our history There is an obvious
and ominous fear on the part of
the man in the street us to the
ultimate outcome of the current
trend of foreign and domestic
events and a pronounced frus
tration over the inability of the
individual by himself to do
anything alsmt it.
THERE IS SO one pat or
easy answer to this question
Even under the most favor
able circumstance*. it is difficult
for an individual citizen to
make his voice heard in the
councils of government. When
pressure gioups, motivated
zealots and misdirected ideal
ists have the ears of both the
mass communication media and
a majority of national official*
whose power and positions are
dependent upon the favor of
sinh groups, it is all but im
portable.
ftrfani or goal.
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: tor your children this autumn.
Added to science, math, music
and languages will be Georgia
history. We have been operat-
The one encouraging aspect
of these spontaneous expres
sions of public concern is that
they raise anew the hope that
the rank and file of the Amer
i ican people are shaking off
their apathy to the dangers
posed to their persons, property
and aspirations by policies and
programs which are undermin
ing our nation governmentally,
economically, militarily and
spiritually. While under ou r
form of limited representative
government there is little which
one citizen can do to change the
course of events, there is much
which can lie accomplished by
conscientious and sensitive cit
izens acting in concert to im
press their alarm upon their
public officials and to demand
positive action from them.
SOMI UHM; IS badly amiss
in a country where courts rule
that public officials do not have
to believe in Clod, students re
ceiving government assistance
object to signing loyalty oaths,
officials coerce our own citizens
with federal foive while backing
down Iwfore Communist aggres
sion !K> miles from the Ameri-
I can mainland and cynical mi-
I norities can impose their will on
I 95 per cent of the citizenry
Thomas Jefferson devoutly be
lieved that ‘•whenever things
get so fai wrong as to attract
public notice they (the people)
may ho relied upon to set them
to rights.“ Those of us in posi
tions of responsibility who share
the growing alarm of the pub
lic fervently hope that it marks
the beginning of tire arousal of
the American (ample to prove
that Mr, Jefferson was right.
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and halting
the ever wid
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croach-
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Federal Gov
ernment upon
the liven and
freedoms of
the American
A Prize-Winning
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
teenagers themselves to improve teenage
values.
This is good thinking and is certainly a
step in the right direction.
Young people feel a great need to be ac
eepted, and if being “accepted” means be
having properly then a long stride has been
made toward generally improving teen
values.
tic tanks and cesspools—and because of the
increase in boating.
According to the National Water Insti
tute, nearly half of the 100 million Ameri
cans who have community sewers do not
have adequate sewage treatment facilities
and some 40 million persons need new or
improved sewage collection systems.
The virus, as carried by the clam, is but
one species of a vast school of disease-pro
ducing bacteria which thrive in polluted
water.
“This is a good example of the growing
problem of pollution caused by an increas
ing population and failure to construct the
facilities to properly treat waste water,”
says Mark Hollis, Assistant Surgeon-Gen
eral of the United States. “Present facili
ties are being taxed effecting our total wa
ter resources . . . the nation must be con
tinually alert to modify our controls and
facilities to fit changing conditions.”
The moral then, is: “Let’s not stop eat
ing clams; let’s rid ourselves of water pollu
tion."
ing the Athens station for a year,
and will add the Waycross sta
tion this fall. Two others in the
future are Pembroke and Pine
Mountain. A. C. Eurich, of the
Fund for the Advancement of
Education, says: "Students learn ,
as well or better by TV teaching j.
as in the traditional classroom. ,
. Tins is a case of Mark Hopkins
. on one end of the log and a half
( ; million students on the other.”
i AKE YOUR CHILDREN READ
ING? I hope your youngsters
are members of the library’s va
cation reading clubs—-or are
reading on their own. Reading
is by far the most important part
of their education. John W
Gardner, president of the Car- :
negie Corporation, says. "Some
subjects are more important
than others Reading is the ,
most important of all."
NEW SALARIES The State
Board of Education adopted a
I new salary schedule that will
start Georgia's new 4-year-de
gree teachers at $3400 state sal
: ary this fall, and pay a top state
salary of $5500 to a classroom 1
teacher with a 6-year certificate I
[and 9 years' experience. That’s
state salary You can add your
local supplements to that and
keep good teachers for your chil
, dren. (Some teachers also get
federal reimbursement, and or j
। travel.
OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF
BABES Little boy. saying good
bye to first grade teacher at
school dosing, "I'm heading hot- I
legged tor home I got a new frog I
m my back yard "
WHAT THF NEGROES SAY
You've been hearing and reading
about some tilings the Negroes
are complaining about in the
| school program One is that they
Ido not get their share of the
M & O" (maintenance and op
eration • money sent out to the
198 school systems at $450 per
teacher They want more jani
tors in the Negro schools They
also are pressing for a state
owned and operated trade school
and say that if one is not set up.
Negroes will press for admit
tance to the two white state
schools at Clarkesville and Amer
icus That is what Rev L. H
Pitts. Negro leader who was for
s'j years secretary of the Geor
gia Teachers and Education As
sociation. told the State Board
Here's the answer Os the 31 new
area trade schools in the plans
now. Il are for Negroes This
fall, there will be three Negro
trade schools in operation at
Savannah. Columbus and Al
bany. As for tlic allotment of
the M M O money, your super
intendent and board will have
।to deal with that The State
i sends it out. they decide how it
will be used.
FIFTEEN SYSTEMS STILL
OUT There are 15 of Georgia s
school systems that do not take
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part in the State Chamber of
Commerce’s STAR Student and
Teacher Recognition Program. I
would be deeply interested in
knowing why. They must have
very good reasons, and it might
help Ashton Albert, the new
; education chairman of the
Chamber, and Mozelle Christian,
co-ordinator, to know. This pro
gram spotlights intellectual at
tainment. If your system is one
of the 15, will you take time to
write WHY?
DIFFERENCE: “What’s the
difference between an achieve
ment test and an intelligence
test?” I heard a mamma ask
a high school student. “An
achievement test tells how far
you’ve come; an intelligence
test tells how far you can go,”
her boy told her.
WHEN CAN HE START TO
SCHOOL?—We are always gdt
! ting letters asking what age
Johnny has to be to start to
school The law says he MUST
be in school 180 days a year be
tween his 7th and 16th birthday.
But local schools can decide
: when he will enter, and when
he must be six to get into the
first grade. The State Board
tried to pass a state regulation
; on that two years ago, and have
the same date all over the state,
but there was so much fuss-and
flurry about it that they just left
it to each school system. Call
your superintendent.
IT’S STILL AS THE CROW
FLIES The recent legislature
voted to change our 1 Vz mile bus
| rule We measure by radius, 1 ‘/ 2
I miles from the schoolhouse, to
put state funds into hauling
children to school on one of our
nearly 5,000 school buses. The
legislators voted to change that
I to measure round by the road.
The words were “by the nearest
practical route.” That would
scoop up about 50,000 more chil
dren. Trouble is, it would also
cost another million and a half
dollars—and there’s no provision
for THAT! We now budget about
13' 2 million for transportation.
Our buses—with fine safety rec
ords, and new S2OO a year raise
for bus drivers this year bring
12 years of free education within
reach of every Georgia child,
from very near his own front
door.
MORE TEACHERS—Next year
we will add 700 teachers to our
teacher allotment rolls. They are
for the increased enrollments,
and added services. We had
31,200 state-paid teachers last
year, will have 31,900 this fall.
Weight gaining found to be
coronary factor.
'Robbye Lee Haines
Amit Eva and Uncle Carl had found a house and were moving
e»Zu„lty. Aunl Eva wondered Idly
of the place was, but she was so busy she soon forgot to ask* S
was pleased to see that the road was being improved and
soon be paved, but at moving time it did prove to be a nuisance.
They were grading the road again as the first load or two> of.fur
niture came in. They had gotten about half of Aunt Evas things
moved when the rains came.
You could tell from the start that this was no ordinary raim,
It began with a deluge and slacked off into a steady drizzle. This
was to last almost a week without let up. You know how torn up
a road is when it’s about to be paved. It wasn t long befoie th |
road was a quagmire. They had to park their cars a good piec
( from Aunt Eva’s house and wade the mud the rest of the way They ,
had to make out with the things they had already moved andgo
after some more clothes in a car. drive it as far as they could, then
carry them through the rain and mud to get to the house.
Everything ends sometime. This muddy nightmare finally
ended also Order was restored. Once more they could drive o
the house and up in the driveway, and they had all their things
g Then the insurance man came around to collect. And he asked
Aunt Eva. "Well, how do you like living in Dry Valley?
“You could have knocked me over with a feather, she said,
1 "When I learned the name of that place.
Daryl's class was working in their English work books before
school was out. The exercise was all about Tom's dog. and just
to make the lesson interesting, the child was invited to write the
name of his own dog at the bottom of the page. I
All the other children were asking the teacher how to spe
ordinary dog names like Spot, and Brownie, and Rover. Then
Daryl piped up, "Mrs. Lewis, how do you spell Orange Juice
"Ah. Daryl." she said. "You don’t need to know how to spell
that. Now. get back to doing your work "
"But that's my dog's name." he insisted. "And I need to write
I think it took a little while before she was convinced that Daryl
wasn't acting silly and really had a dog by that name.
We have always let the children name their pets what they
wanted, and Daryl said his dog was the very color of orange juice
We call him Juice for short, and this name seems to suit him. He
has a purple tongue that makes him look like he spends his time
licking purple suckers, or drinking purple kool ade Juice has
slanted eyes, and he knows how to dance his own version of the
hula, and he yips like something m pain when he gets excited
When he was a pup we were sure he would never be fit for any
thing. but he has turned out to be the best rabbit dog of the lot
Daryl has gotten mad at him only once. That was when Juice
ate the squirrel tail tiiat Daryls grandpa gave him.
I bet tiiat dog's throat got a good brushing out that time.
Speaking of school work. I rather envy the people who live in
’ tlie first and second grade readers They usually live in the city,
and in almost every book they pack tile children off to the coun
try for two or three chapters Mickey used to get so tired of read
ing about children visiting the farm that he felt like screaming
about it I think one book was a little different. They had the
farm children packed off on relatives in the city
1 think by the time I have to sit and hear the Dick and Jane
, books for the fourth time. I will surely know them by heart Os
11 course, you have to listen to your child when he is learning to
’ 1 read, but doesn't it get monotonous' Oh. Dick, oh. Jane, see Sally.
I see Spot. etc., etc.
The old gander deserted his barrel when his wife left her nest
to announce two blessed events Now the goslings are about as
big as the parents, and they make a happy family. The gander.
’ fickle creature that he is. may never go around his once-beloved
barrel again, unless his wife decides to set again
One of the kidnapped puppies found a home with Lanelle
, Hartline Every time we pass the office where she works. Andy
» says, "I wonder if Strong likes to live with that woinan?
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LETTERS
...To The Editor
Mr. David T. Espy
Editor
Summerville News
Summerville, Georgia
Dear Mr. Espy:
Congratulations on the awards
won by your paper in the Geor
gia Press Association contest.
Cordially yours,
JOHN E. DREWRY
Dean. Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism,
University of Georgia.
Dear Sir:
Really, I thoroughly enjoyed
reading the Civil War Centen
nial Edition of The Summerville
News.
I really had some interesting
things I could have written
about our old home one and one
half miles south of Summerville.
It was built oefore the Civil
War and the three log cabin
rooms still stand there, only the
kitchen was torn down by my
father. J. H. Sewell, and he built
new bedroom, living room and
kitchen and weatherboarded the
three log rooms over into a nice
living room, sitting room and
bedroom. The logs still show in
the wall and ceiling of the bed
room as he wanted it that way
to show how old it is.
I imagine it can be seen in
the middle bedroom if the old
house of my childhood is still
standing. My grandfather, Jesse
Sewell, sold it to Thompson
Hiles of Rome, Ga. and moved
to Texas and we were all reared
there. The five Sewell girls.
So you see I take great pride
and enjoyment in the great
progress The News has made
since I left 35 years ago. And
also the great progress and in
creased population my dear old
home town has made.
I am sending in my renewal of
my subscription to your very
progressive and interesting
paper. Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
MRS. J. E. WALKER
Nee Mary John Sewell
Route 3—Box 338
Hickory, N. C.
PS. After my grandfather,
Jesse Sewell, sold to Mr. Hiles,
he and his family moved to
Prarie Lee, Tex., as to seek his
fortune and my father rented
it and he lived at least 45 or 50
years.
INFANT GAS PROTECTORS
Children up to 4 years old may
be protected with special equip
ment being tested by the United
States Army Chemical Corps in
anticipation of possible chemical
and biological warfare.
Col. George D. Rich, deputy
assistant director of chemical,
biological and radiological de
fense, OCDM. Battle Creek.
Michigan, said, “The protectors
are pup-tent-like devices with a
strong aluminum frame along
with a vinyl plastic covering.
There are two large filter pads
similar to civilian mask equip
ment."
FIRST /
THINGS
FIRST
The men who wrote the American Bill of Rights put
first things first. In writing the First Amendment to the
Constitution they were wise beyond their own troubled
time.
They adopted the principle that any people—to be
and to remain free—must be informed.
And to be adequately informed they must have un
shackled sources of information.
So by the constitutional guarantee of a free press,
they gave clear assertion of every citizen’s right to know.
Your Newspaper helps you to “Know.”
Tlic Summerville News
। YOUR CONGRESSMAN f'^^*l
A JOHN W. DAVIS ’ fIH
More or less by accident, the
other day I picked up Vol. HI of
an encyclopedia that I bought
for the children and began,
reading an account of the
administration of Grover Cleve
land. Reading of the activities:
of Congress in his day and of;
the various public issues of the
time, I was astonished to find
how much more clearly I could
comprehend the nature of the
decision-making process than
was ever the case before I gained
a little first-hand experience
here in Washington.
I carried my reading project
through the encyclopedia’s ac
counts of the administrations of
Harrison, McKinley, Theodore
Roosevelt, and on through Her
bert Hoover, by which time one
fact emerged with great clarity,
to wit: the most persistent and
least understood gremlin to j
plague the President and Con
gress down through the years
has been the question of eco
nomics. A depression wrecked
the second administration of
Grover Cleveland; arguments
over the gold standard vs. sil
ver dominated the three-cor
nered race between Woodrow
Wilson, William Jennings Bryan
and Theodore Roosevelt; and a
depression marked the Harding
administration following World
War I. I hardly need to mention
the significance of the Great
Depression of 1930 and its effect
on the Hoover and Franklin D.
Roosevelt administrations.
As though to punctuate my
thought in this regard, in yes
terday’s mail I received a
282-page report entitled “Money
and Credit” based on a three
year study of the nation’s
monetary system by the Com
mission on Money and Credit.
This three-year study was fi
nanced by $1.3 million in grants
from the Ford Foundation, the
Committee for Economic De
velopment and the Merrill Foun
dation, and includes ov^r 80 rec
ommendations designed to en-
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THURSDAY, JULY 6. 1961
able the United States to meet
three goals: adequate conomic
growth, low employment levels
and reasonable price stability.
Many of the suggestions made
in this report contain startling
departures from orthodox con
cepts. For example, the report
recommends that the public
debt ceiling should be abolished;
that the 4*4 per cent interest
ceiling on new issues of govern
ment bonds should be removed;
that ceilings on federal FHA
and VA mortgage insurance
rates should be eliminated; that
the 25 per cent gold backing re
quirement for U. S. currency
should be abolished; and that
the President be given power to
lower or raise temporarily the
on ner cent tax on the first
$2,000 of taxable income to com
uat recessions or inflation.
Under the recommendation, the
tax change would be subject to
Congressional veto within 60
days, and could be extended be
yond six months only by Con
gressional action.
That this field of inquiry con
tinues to preoccupy President
Kennedy is readily established
by this quotation from him in
yesterday’s press conference: “It
(economics) is a very uncertain
science, but we have to figure
out what steps we can take in
this free economy that will pro
j vide not only a recovery now,
' and we hope a reduced unem
ployment rate, but will also sus
tain it. not just through ’62, but
over a period of time.”
The Kennedy Administration
is planning to use its proposed
new long-term foreign aid pro
gram to promote “social reform"
and narrow the gap between
rich and poor in the world’s
underdeveloped countries.
Secretary of State Rusk says
such reforms will mean sacrifice
by recipient nations and they
may be reluctant unless the
United States can assure them
of long-term acceptance.