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Congratulations to Best Employes . . .
It was good news—the news that Best
Mfg. Corp, will again expand. The glove
making concern will not only add space
at its Menlo plant this time, but it will
also open a branch at Subligna. Some 250
employes will be added.
Best’s growth since it was founded in
1951 has been nothing short of phenome
nal, to use a trite but true expression. If
all goes well, it will have grown from a
few dozen employes to nearly 600 in little
more than a decade.
Why? There are several factors, of
course. But we like to think that one of
the most important is the quality of the
Stemming Welfare Rolls . . .
Proposals keep popping up here and
there suggesting that many of those on
the welfare rolls be rehabilitated or be
required to earn in some manner their
welfare ehecks.
Now comes news that the Fulton Wel
fare Department is helping its mothers
on the aid-to dependent children list to
get jobs. The program helps train them
for work and then helps them find it.
Sometimes, mothers are dropped from the
welfare rolls if it is felt they have not made
an honest effort to find employment after
being trained.
Tales Out of School...
By BERNICE McCUI.LAR
Director of Information
State Department of Education
COME LISTEN On Feb
ruary 19, at 9 30 in the morn
ing. the regular Legislative
Forum sponsored by women's
groups during the Genera! As
sembly. will be on Education.
If you live close enough to
Atlanta to get in that morning,
come sit and listen. We hope
I Herman Talmadge
Kcpoits From
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3 Washington
AT LONG LAST, word is ap
parently getting through to the
powers that be in Washington
that the American public and
Congress are growing more and
more dissatisfied with the na
tion’s $4 billion a year foreign
aid program.
Taxpayers and many Con
gn -men lately have become in-
creasingly per
sistent in ex
pressing con
cern over for
eign aid and
the fear that
w e may be
spending more
now, but en
joying it less.
The President last month ap
pointed a study eotnmittee to
take a look at the program to
see if it is fulfilling its deaired
objectives by contributing ma
terially to the ocurity of the
United State and the economic
and political stability of the Free
World.
1 hope that the committee will
not pull any punches and will
give foreign aid the good going
over it needs. The public, de
manding better results and con
crete evulrmr that foreign aid
is doing all it is supposed to do,
is in no mood for a whitewash
and will not be deludi-d into be
ing sold a bill of goods.
• • •
THERE IS A growing aware
nes* that dollar diplomacy and,
in many instances, the pouring
of good money after bnd, is not
sound foreign policy, and that it
does little, if anything, to com
bat Communism. There particu
larly should l»e a re-examination
of economic aid programs to so
called non-alligned nations and
to those which tend to embrace
Cviauicuust doctrines.
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Os Chattooga County
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that Senator Ed Kendrick, of
Cobb county, chairman of the
Senate Education Committee
an d Representative Quimby
Melton, Jr. of Griffin, chair
man of the Rouse Education
Committee, will be there to
answer your questions. Mrs.
Mamie K. Taylor is general
moderator of these forums,
which will be held in the Agri
•ulturc Building on Capitol
Square.
The committee, headed by re
tired Gen. Lucius D. Clay, a
native Georgian, has a sterling
opportunity to bring about a re
vamping of some of the policies
of the program to guarantee to
the people that their foreign aid
dollars are being wisely spent.
Another Georgian serving on
the committee. Eugene R. Black,
past president of the World
Bank, recently laid down sonic
sensible guidelines for an effec
tive foreign nid program.
To .Mr. Black, it is not a mat
ter of how much is spent, but
how it is spent. Foreign aid bills
would not be so difficult to get
through Congress, he contends,
if there wen' more emphasis on
quality and less on amount. "I
don’t think you can combat Com
munism, no matter how much
money you give, unless the
money is properly spent,’’ he
declared.
• * *
THIS IS PRECISELY my
position and it has been for as
long as 1 have served in the
Senate. 1 have long held the
view that this is the most im
portant consideration in formu
lating our foreign aid policy.
We ought not to try to buy
friends abroad or make the
world over in our own image.
Nations receiving foreign aid
must have sound fiscal policies
so that aid funds will not go
down the drain of inflation.
I am not opposed to the hu
manitarian aims of foreign aid
or to the strengthening of our
defense posture. But 1 will al
ways vote against indiscriminate
economic aid, the value of which
is at best dubious.
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ATIONAI EDITORIAL
employes and the kind of work they do.
Best officials themselves have often com
mented on this.
Progress such as that shown by Best
can come only with the full support of
the employes and the community. We
congratulate Best on this latest expan
sion plan -and we congratulate their em
ployes for doing their part in making the
expansion possible. It simply means that
more jobs are soon going to be available
to their friends and families and that more
money will soon be pumped into the
economy.
During the time the women were being
trained, the Department invested money
to care for their children and to provide
transporation. Commercial food prepara
tion and commercial housekeeping were
among the courses taught.
It sounds like a good idea. And even
if the women can’t find jobs, they at least
have some training that should help them
better care for their own homes and for
their children. The training phase sounds
like a project which the tax-supported
home demonstration club program could
handle to good advantage.
IT WAS A CRIME TO BUILD
A SCHOOL Remember read
ing about Thomas Gibbon, who
wrote Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire? One of his an
cestors, a man named Janies
Fiens, who was Lord High
Treasurer under King Henry
VI of Engl an d, was be
headed for his “crimes." One
of ills “crimes" was this:
“Thou hast most traitorously
corrupted the youth of the
realm in erecting a grammar
school. Whereas before, our
forefathers had no other books
than the score and tally, thou
hast caused writing to be
used; and contrary to the
king, crown, and dignity, thou
hast built a paper mill. It will
be proved to thy face that thou
hast men about thee who
usually talk of a noun and
verb and such abnominable
words as no Christian ear can
endure to hear!”
ARE THEY TEACHING
YOUR CHILD HOW TO BE A
GOOD CITIZEN? It is more
Important for young Geor
gians to learn how to vote in
telligently than for almost
any other young people be
cause they actually CAN vote
at 18. ।They were permanently
given the vote in 1945: the
only other state where 18 year
olds can vote is Kentucky,
where they got the vote in
1955 lAttorney General Robert
Kennedy believes the voting
age in ALI states should be
lowered to 18.
ANTI-COMMUNISM ON A
GEORGIA TV Dozier Cade,
who handles public relations
for Georgia State College in
Atlanta, tells me that they
have begun a 13-week TV
series on Atlanta's WAGA-TV.
titled COMMUNISM Theory
and Action It is conducted by
Dr George G Thiehnan. asso
ciate professor of political
science He was one of the two
professors who conducted one
of Georgia's 5 institutes on
this subject last summer for
high school teachers He knows
what he is talking about be
cause he had to flee from Rus
sia. where he lived for 14 years
under the old Czarist regime
and 7 years under the Stalin
government
A LADY WE LOST Just a
little while after she was
elected vice-chairman of the
State Board of Education. Mrs.
Bruce Schaefer of Toccoa was
plucked off to become director
of the State Department of
Welfare Her appointment was
announced by Gov Carl
Sanders shortly after the New
Year.
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The Summerville News. Thursday. January 31, 1963
MEETING ITS RESPONSIBILITIES
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HEALTH AND f
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WMI T ^E LAST E > G H T
YEARS
—The Georgia
A LEGISLETTER
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ATLANTA—The House Ap
propriations Committee began
last Monday a two-weeks’
scrutiny of Gov. Carl E.
Sanders’ near - billion - dollar
money-raising and spending
bill to finance the state gov
ernment for the next two
fiscal years. It is by far the
largest fiscal measure on rec
ord.
Members of the Senate Ap
propriations Committees are
sitting in the House committee
sessions purely as observers so
as to have a clear understand
ing of the measure when it
reaches the Senate. Both
House and Senate recessed last
Friday to meet again Monday,
Feb. 11, when the report on
the appropriations bill will be
ready.
Before recessing, the Gen
eral Assembly passed a lot of
major administration legisla
tion and clearly showed their
willingness to cooperate with
the new governor by writing
into the law the program on
which he campaigned last
summer.
Both House and Senate com
pleted action on House bill
No. 1 to reorganize the State
Highway Board to make it
more representative of all
geographical areas of the
state.
Under terms of the new
bill, the present three-man
State Highway Board will be
abolished. Instead, the gover
nor will appoint a 10-man
board one member from each
Congressional district—with a
permanent chairman with a
$22,500 salary and wide powers.
The board will meet one day
each week. The present chair
man, Jim L. Gillis, is expected
to be the director. Later, mem
bers will be chosen by a caucus
of Assembly members in each
Congressional district.
During debate in the Senate,
an effort was made by Senator
Kyle Yancey of Austell to
amend the bill to spell out
more clearly the director’s re
sponsibility to follow board
policy. This was beaten down
by the administration floor
leader. Senator Charles Pan
nell of Chatsworth.
The administration suffered
its only defeat a temporary
one when a constitutional
amendment providing that
counties may consolidate by a
majority vote of their citizens
rather than the present two-
20 Years Ago
The following named men
have been ordered to rejxirt
for induction Feb. 2. 1943. They
shall be sent to an induction
station at Fort Benning, Ga.
Andrew Black. Summerville,
Ga . Route 2.
Harry Elles Shropshire. Sum
merville. Ga., Route 4
Warren Gamiel Benson,
Lyerly, Ga . Route 1.
Colbert Harues, Menlo. Ga.
Oscar Luther Smith, Sum
merville. Ga.
The Menlo 4-H Club met
Jan 25. 1943 in the Highschool
building.
The meeting was called to
order by the president. Char
line Hutchens New officers
were elected.
Mrs. J R Burgess was
hostess to the Summerville
Music Study club on Wednes
day afternoon. Jan. 20. at 3:30
o’clock . . . Mrs. Henry Mc-
Whorter was program chair
man for the afternoon . . .
The Chattooga County Red
thirds vote was defeated in
the House Wednesday by an
11-vote margin. It received 126
for and 58 against, or 11 short
of the necessary two-thirds
margin.
Administration leaders rallied
their forces overnight and on
Thursday, after a spirited de
bate, forced the measure
through a reconsideration by a
ballot of 159 to 30. The meas
ure is expected to pass the
Senate without trouble.
Under terms of the amend
ment, 20 per cent of the reg
istered voters of a county can
ask for a referendum on
merger with another. Fifty
one per cent of the registered
voters must approve to make
the merger valid.
The House also passed with
out trouble an administration
bill that would apply the state
withholding tax on individual
incomes to those of corpora
tions with an annual profit of
$25,000 or more. It is expected
this will step up tax collections
during the next two fiscal
years by $18,000,000 without
any actual increase in taxes.
The bill was read once in the
Senate and now is before the
Rules Committee.
The House also passed
promptly an administration
measure providing for loans to
counties to help them with tax
revaluation programs. No dif
ficulty with this is expected in
the Senate.
On their side, the Senators
completed action on Senate
Resolution 14 which would set
up a joint committee on
Economy, Reorganization and
Efficiency. The Senate also
passed a measure to give new
and expanding Georgia indus
try a tax break on equipment.
Another major administra
tion bill, that creating a De
partment of Youth, is before
the House State of the Re
public Committee, and prob
ably will be reported out fa
vorably shortly after the re
cess. The new department
would take over the functions
of the present child welfare
section of the Welfare Depart
ment as well as some new ones.
The appropriations bill now
under House committee study
provides for state spending of
$465,000,000 in fiscal 1963-64
and $489,000,000 in fiscal
1964-65. The governor says it
can be financed without a tax
increase.
Notes From
Cross announces that it will
hold a six-hour nutrition class
in the courthouse, commencing
Friday, Feb. 19. at 7 o'clock in
the evening.
This week has been set aside
as “Fight Infantile Paralysis"
week.
Chairman J. T Morgan says
the quota for the county is
$570.30 and he urges every
person in Chattooga county to
contribute liberally to the
tenth annual fund used to
wage war on poliomyelitis.
Rowland W. Ransom Jr. left
Friday for Athens to resume
his studies at University of
Georgia.
Friends of Paul Crouch will
be interested in hearing he is
in training at the machine
service school. Fort Sam Hous
ton, Tex.
Mrs Belle Lively and daugh
ter, Mary Lou. had as their
guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Lively.
N
WHEN I COMPARE the open
ing of the 88th Congress to
the opening of the 87th two
years ago, the difference is
remarkable.
The problems of a member
of Congress, I might first point
out, fall largely into three main
categories. First, there is the
business of enacting legislation,
which involves not only serving
on committee and appearing
before other committees, but
also the highly important
matter of the parliamentary
proceedings on the floor of the
House.
Next, a representative finds
that he must represent various
communities, groups and or
ganizations before government
agencies of all kinds. Third,
there are the many individual
constituents who have personal
problems which involve dealing
with some agency of the federal
government and who need as
sistance. Included in these are
the many servicemen who find
themselves confronted with un
usual hardship, usually on ac
count of sudden illness or ca
tastrophe in his immediate
family.
TWO YEARS AGO I was in
the midst of dealing for the
first time with these problems.
I was compelled to spend a
great deal of my time acquaint-
Looking Ahead ...
By DR GEORGE S. BENSON
President—National
Education Program
Searcy, Arkansas
THE PRESIDENT’S COLD
The state of health of men
of power has always been im
portant. From the dyspepsia,
gout or jaundice of monarchs
of old down to. Eisenhower's
heart attack, much news has
been made of ailments in high
places. Presdient Kennedy’s
October cold, however, had re
percussions nationwide in a
particular direction that far
exceeded its apparent signifi
cance as an idea of news
value. This happened simply
because it was false news. At
least, it was not true that
Mr. Kennedy had a cold that
was sufficient to send him
home to Washington.
The news was released when
he was out barnstorming for
the Democratic candidates, but
it was merely the cover that
presumably helped maintain a
curtain of secrecy when the
Cuban emergency discussions
began in Washington. Every
precaution was taken to pre
vent leaks (which did occur)
so as to keep Mr. Khrushchev
unaware that any action at
all was being contemplated.
The press therefore was used,
byway of false news, to set all
suspicions at ease on the Cold
War front. Such tactics soon
were being described at the
Pentagon as “news weaponry.”
News Control
This nation had discovered in
World War I how modern com
munications could be treated
psychologically and used to
serve our interests in waging
“psychological warfare.” Words
could be used as bullets, to
save men's lives and achieve
bloodless victories, we came to
think. In World War II most
combatants were going all out
with both truths and lies—
whatever was needed to win,
regardless of ideas or national
goals. Then came the Cold
War. and manipulation of
facts, withholding of informa
tion, and brainwashing came
to be ultimate in atomic age
conditioning.
Traditionally, our national
leaders at least have paid lip
service to "truth” in the proc
ess of dispensing information
and news in war and peace.
Government agencies have not
usually put into circulation
outright falsehood. But the
temptation undoubtedly is
great to commit political ag
gression in peacetime, and in
fighting the Cold War the
government views the easy ad
vantages of information shuf
fling. News control is increas
ingly an objective of power
seekers in public office.
Politically Tinged
Historians will discover to
what extent Washington ma
nipulated news during the
Cuban crisis, but current ac
counts are insisting that ac
tivity here was more than nec
essary and tended to take on a
political color. The New Fron
tier did seem to control and
at times close off information
channels. It went all out in
staging episodes that served to
mislead people and disguise
the government's particular
role at some stages of the con
frontation. News control. Ar
thur Sylvester, assistant Sec
retary of Defense, insisted,
was fully justified by the re
sults in a period when news
served as an available weapon.”
Every American can be
thankful that our news media
John Davis
Reports From
Congress
ing myself with the function
of the House of Representatives
and with the jurisdiction and
duties of numberless depart
ments, agencies and boards
which make up our federal
government.
This year I have naturally
not had to perform all of this
groundwork, and I find myself
able to do a great deal more
work in less time, with more
effectiveness than before. For
this and many other reasons,
I look forward to the coming
session with enthusiasm.
Too, as I begin my third
year’s work, my colleagues have
become old friends, and while
I am not exactly a veteran, I
may be pardoned for feeling far
more seasoned than the 67
freshmen who were sworn in at
the beginning of this session.
COMMENTING UPON THE
mood of the Congress for the
coming session. I feel confident
in appraising it as one of mode
ration. I further venture to say
that President Kennedy will get
along well with Congress if he
adheres to a policy of modera
tion. particularly on domestic
affairs.
If President Kennedy yields
to the wishes of the large urban
blocs and makes demands upon
Congress for the enactment of
immoderate legislation, his de-
rose up in almost unanimous
horror at this. They com
mended Mr. Sylvester for his
frankness, but they condemned
as reckless and dangerous his
disregard for truth. Such ac
tions, they said, are more
identifiable with Hitler, Mus
solini, and the Soviet Union
than with a free nation ac
customed to relying upon in
dependent news media to carry
information to every cross
roads village. They asked
whether the Administration
favors “managed control” of
the news. They warned that
henceforth information from
the Pentagon, even if it should
be the truth, will be suspect.
Quick Reaction
Editor & Publisher com
mented editorially:' “History is
replete with examples of gov
ernment officials trying to
make the press a hand
maiden of politics and diplo
macy. In our day we have an
V/ Straight from the
horse's
mouth
HI By DONNIE ESPY
Many persons around the
county have been talking this
week about the news that of
ficials are discussing the es
tablishment of a sewage dis
posal plant in Chattooga Coun
ty.
Such a plant would not only
stop killing fish in the Chat
tooga river, but would also
abolish a major health hazard.
If the plant becomes a re
ality, the efforts of the of
fiicals of the Chattooga Wild
life Club and interested citi
zens who have worked so hard
to end pollution, will not have
been in vain.
This is the time of year when
there is a comparative lull in
the sports world. This is not to
disparge the great sport of
basketball which is the biggest
spectator sport in the country,
a fact few people realize.
But it is not quite up to re
placing football in general in
terest in the medium and
larger-sized towns and cities.
Baseball is over, golf is not
played too much in the county
in January and February and
outdoor sports like fishing,
hunting and water sports are
all but dead.
But have you read in the
newspapers the alarming death
rate in the country from hunt
ing, fishing and boating ac
cidents?
There is a need—a great need
—for those who pursue outdoor
activities such as hunting and
fishing to be as safety-minded
no field and stream as they are
on the job or behind the wheel
of an automobile. Caution, not
carelessness, should be the
watchword.
A hunting trip or fishing ex
pedition is meant to be a
pleasurable outing and so it
is. when safety and good com
mon sense are constant com
panions.
Hunting and fishing “acci
dents” occur, not because these
sports ar? dangerous but be
cause somebody forgets to obey
she rules. A person who
wouldn't think of trying to
"beat” a speeding train to a
*
Alta
mands are going to go un
satisfied, and his position of
leadership will be damaged in
the eyes of the world.
There was a time last fall
when the President was talking
as though the medical care
legislation was the foremost
domestic issue facing the na
tion. To me it is of great sig
nificance that in his State of
the Union message this month
the President has de-empha
sized this issue, and now states
that the one great issue of 1963
is tax reform. This may well
mean that the President has
determined to embark upon a
course of moderation and to re
frain from making demands
upon Congress which more
than likely will be denied.
For one, I hope Mr. Kennedy
can find it within himself to
resist the pleadings and ca
jolery of the urban blocs and
be constrained to chart a course
more in line not only with the
mood but the true needs of the
nation.
AMONG RECENT VISITORS
welcomed to our office were Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Boring of Dalton,
Mr. and Mrs. Norman McClellan
of Trion, and Mr. J. B. Ransom
of Vienna, Virginia, formerly of
Walker County.
admission in Washington that
a controlled flow of news in
the Cuban crisis constituted a
part of the nation’s‘weaponry.’
The thought is as abominable
and as frightening as the ac
tual management of news in
totalitarian countries.”
The Washington Evening
Star wrote in an editorial:
“The truth given the Ameri
can people as what has hap
pened is that part of the truth
selected by officialdom to piece
together a desirable image.
That image may be a distor
tion, the inevitable result of
an attempt to use the press
and its news as instruments of
national policy.” Thomas Jef
ferson’s “eternal vigilance” is
truly the price of liberty here.
Every American should insist
that the government control
neither the media nor close up
information sources in away
that would limit the people’s
right to know.
grade crossing, who wouldn’t
dare drive an automobile over
50 miles an hour will some
times endanger his life by care
less gun handling or unsafe
boating procedures.
Study will usually reveal that
you don’t know as much as you
though you knew about a sub
ject.
I have heard that some col
lege basketball teams have
some of the officials hired, but
after watching the fame on
TV Monday night “I” think
Georgia Tech had ALL the of
ficials hired.
Did you know that Chattooga
County was originally a part
of Floyd County? Floyd was at
one time a large county em
bracing Chattooga and Walker.
Chattooga was formed in
1839.
A race track was built west
of Summerville in 1842.
The only person I know who
makes a success of running
other people down is an ele
vator operator.
Bible Verse
To Study
“The son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father,
neither shall the father bear
the iniquity of the son: the
righteousness of the right
eous shall be upon him, and
the wickedness of the wicked
shall be upon him.”
1. Where are those words
found in the Bible?
2. Who spoke them?
3. What was the role of the
writer?
ANSWERS TO BIBLE VERSE
1. Ezekiel 18:20.
2. “The word of the Lord” as
it came to the prophet,
Ezekiel.
3 He was one of the four
great prophets.