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Science Fair Noteworthy . . .
Evidence is mounting that schools in
Trion and Chattooga County, as well as
throughout the nation, are stressing more
and more the academic aspects of school.
The Chattooga County Science Fair,
first of its kind ever held here, is the latest
example. This fine showing was held
yesterday and last night at the Summer
ville Recreation Center, having some 200
exhibits from schools throughout the
More Highhandedness . . .
Another public official in Georgia, this
time in Hartwell, has denied a reporter
an opportunity to inspect county records.
Hart County’s Board of Finance holds
closed meetings, does not publish ex
penditures and refused to allow N. S. Hay
den, editor of The Sun, to see the records.
Questions for a Sheriff . . .
Surely all thoughtful citizens con
cerned with law and order in this state
were shocked at the recent statement of
the president of the Georgia Sheriff’s
Association with reference to the presence
of gambling devices and their operation
in the county in which he serves as chief
law-enforcement officer.
Concerning the wide-open use of these
devices in Lowndes County, Sheriff J L.
Futch is said to have lightly dismissed the
subject with the casual remark that. “It
looks like the people have accepted them,
and if so. I don’t have any objections.”
The l^owndes County Sheriff's state
ment raises some serious questions: (1)
Minister Speaks ...
By THE REV. S. PAIL STONE
Pastor. Lyerly Methodist
Church
To many people the church
Is a pleasant community ac
tivity where one's children at
tend Sunday School, where
adults worship occasionally,
and where one goes during the
week to meet other nice people
and raise money so that the
church can stay open On Sun
day the church is a religious
institution, but the gospel that
finds its way from the pulpit
on Sunday finds no translation
into the relationships of the
weekday
For most part we have be
come so caught up in the suc
cessful running of the church
that it is common for many to
think that these activities are
Identical with religion and tire
real purpose of the church. To
pay mortgages, to build new
and bigger churches, to put on
a drive for new members, to
hold rummage sales, to sell
lunches, dinners and have
sales, all this is very admi
rable, but It is not religion
The church Is the 'eklesia”
the "called out" body of
Christ, the invisible body com
posed of all the saved, and
when it has functioned as such
through the years it lias been
a mighty influence for good in
the world Christian steward
ship is the practice of a life
dedicated to God through
Jesus Christ Recognizing the
total claim which Christ has
over his life, the Christian
yields all that he has and is
for service in God's kingdom
Included in this response is
the use of his time, ability,
and money for the proclama
tion of the gospel A primary
enemy warring against his
total response and threatening
the practice of Christian stew
ardship is the commercialism
within the church
Commeniahsm in the con
gregation or in its auxiliaries
occurs when in the name of
the church and of our Lord
there is buying and selling of
products or sei vices through
such events as lairs, bazaars,
games of chance, ear washes,
sales and like enterprises,
these and similar activities are
open to serious question when
their purpose is raising money
for the church The results of
commercialism in the congre
gation are detrimental to the
church, the community, and
^he personal lives of ull who
^hrticipate Several r< asons
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1. Commercialism suggests a
false purpose for the church,
that it is a business enterprise.
The purpose of the church is
to proclaim the gospel
Commercialism exploits the
name of Christ mid His church
by causing members, as well as
others, to feel an obligation to
support such projects because
a church organization endorses
them.
3. Commercialism obscures
the church's sense of personal
responsibility in his steward
ship of money by transferring
tills personal responsibility to
activities of the group.
4 Commercialism adds to a
person's selfishness. He may
fail to consider what God has
done for him; and he may
think he is doing something
for God
20 Years Ago
Mr and Mrs Coy Lacey left
Tuesday for Dallas. Tex to visit
Mr and Mrs Howard Young
Corpl and Mrs James I Rag
land spent Sunday in Rome.
The Lyerly 4-H Club mem
bers will present a special 4-H
spiritual program by candle
light nt the Lyerly Methodist
Church Sunday night. Feb 28.
at 7:15 o'clock, according to an
announcement today of the 4-H
leaders and Rev Betts, pastor
ot Lyerly Methodist Church
The following named men
will leave Chattooga County for
induction at Fort Benning. Oa ,
on March 4 1943
Marvin Henry Bennett. Sum
merville. Ga Will Knox. Sum
merville. Ga Wiley Knox, De
catur Ala ; Matthew Smith.
Route 1. Summerville. Ga;
Charlie R.chard Evans. Lyerly,
Ga
The ladies of the First Bap
tist Church will observe a day
of prayer for home missions
Friday, beginning at 10 o'clock
Each lady is urged to attend
Mr and Mrs Archie Mills and
children returned to Lindale
Wednesday after several days
visit with Mr and Mrs. E L.
Wore ham.
A Prize-Winning
Weekly Newspaper
NATION A I EDITORIAL
BnHiirAiwjiAiLai
county system.
Much credit for the success of this
event goes to Lamar Parker, Lyerly prin
cipal who served as chairman. Mr. Parker
pioneered in this field by having an out
standing fair in his own school last year.
This newspaper commends him and all
those who had a part in the county fair,
including most of all the students them
selves.
This is hardly a news story in Georgia
- we’ve grown accustomed to highhanded
ness on the part of some public officials.
And because of this experience, we are be
coming more adept at righting these
wrongs. Marietta, for instance.
This is not the last chapter.
What sort of interpretation does he place
upon the obligation which his oath of of
fice imposes upon him to enforce the law?
(2) To what extent does his philosophy of
law enforcement permeate the member
ship of the association which he heads?
(31 To what extent is this philosophy re
sponsible for crime?
How many Sheriffs are there in Geor
gia. we wonder, who agree with Sheriff
Futch that they “don’t have any objec
tion" to lawlessness until the people run
out of patience and rise up in righteous
wrath and demand action from officers
whose business it was to stop it as soon as
it appears? (The Calhoun Times)
5. Commercialism tricks peo
ple into the satisfaction of
thinking they are giving to
Christ and His church when
they are receiving a product or
a service in exchange for
money that should have been
given as a tithe.
6 Commercialism reflects
lack of trust in God. in that
those who resort to its prac
tices are afraid that worthy
projects will FAIL if supported
solely by free offering or
giving
God is mrely preparing His
church for some decisive role
in history. If we can work with
divine discontent and candid
self criticism, God will help us
to make His gospel heard yet
by the generation that sus
pects at present that we do not
mean what we are saying.
Notes From
2 pound box. cocoa. 25c. A &
T. Cash Grocery.
Howdy, folks! by Rev. B L
Betts . . . Going home with
Brother George Arp for dinner
we had ice box lemon pie,
something new under the sun
to me Miss Edith Arp. attrac
tive" and talented daughter of
Brother Arp. made it The first
taste makes you think of lemon
custard; then, ice cream; then,
banana pudding, etc.
Miss Mary Ruth Tucker was
the guest of Mildred Copeland
last week.
Quite a nice affair was the
shower given by Mesdames
Hansel Baker and Robert Baker
Saturday afternoon at the
home of Mr and Mrs Jim
Baker in honor of Mrs Clyde
Baker, a recent bride.
High school plans for Russian
war relief There is need in
Russia at this time for all kinds
of clothing Any garment that
is clean and good can be used
They an- needed in large quan
tities and as quickly as possible.
A new flour and feed store
has opened on Commerce
Street in the past week It is
owned by Grady Allen and
HiMton Logan.
k- The Summerville News. Thursday, February 28, 1963
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—The Georgia
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A LEGISLETTER
By Glenn McCullough
ATLANTA—After an unex
ected week’s delay, House
Speaker George T. Smith has
set Tuesday of this week to
begin floor consideration of the
Administration’s $954,000,000
appropriations bill for the next
two years. The Appropriations
Committee did not finish work
on it until late last Wednesday.
Consideration of the budget
bill was expected to begin a
week earlier, but committee
men continued efforts to trim
it. In the end they wound up
by recommending about $2,000
more than Gov. Carl E. Sanders
asked. The Governor told news
men this was proof that he
had submitted a “tight” budget.
The House is expected to
spend two or three days on the
bill, then send it on to the
Senate. Minor floor amend
ments are expected, but with
no substantial changes.
Meanwhile, House and Sen
ate continued down the Une on
passage of Administration
measures, but, as usually hap
pens, wandered off into some
by-paths.
In the Senate an expected
floor fight between Lieutenant
Governor Peter Zack Geer and
his predecessor, Senator Gar
land T. Byrd of Reynolds, over
• ending private school ai d
grants failed to develop when
Senator Byrd unexpectedly an
nounced support of the Geer
bill.
Senator Byrd’s bill would
have killed such grants entire
ly. The Geer bill, passed by the
Senate last Wednesday, would
provide private school funds
only in counties where they are
requested by the Board of Edu
cation and county commis
sioners. Also, some of the
money would come from local
school funds. House support of
the measure is expected
The grants were designed for
pupils whose parents did not
want them to attend integrated
schools But the State Board of
Education revealed that 83%
of the grant funds were going
to parents who already had
their children in private
schools.
Gov. Sanders aimed a hard
blow at "speed traps" last week
when Administration leaders,
at his behest. Introduced a bill
in the House to set up a plan
under which the state could
deprive a county or municipal
ity of highway traffic fines
for six months if they were
found administering the laws
unfairly.
The bill, expected to pass,
sets up a board consisting of
the Director of Public Safety,
the Director of the Commerce
Department, and the presidents
of the County Commissioners
Association, the Georgia Mu
nicipal Association, the Georgia
Sheriffs Association, the Geor
gia Peace Officers Association
and the Georgia State Cham
ber of Commerce.
Complaints about "speed
traps' would be made to this
commission Offending local of
ficials would be granted a
hearing If found guilty, the
Governor could order that local
traffic fines on state or federal
highways be turned into the
state treasury After six months,
the offending community could
petition for the order to be
rescinded
Gov Sanders is interested in
building up Georgia’s tourist
business, and wants no more
AAA blacklisting of Georgia
highways
A bill to safeguard freedom
of information was introduced
in the Senate by Senator H
McKinley Conway of DeKalb
County, who several years ago
served as chairman of a com
mittee established by Sigma
Delta Chi. professional journal
istic fraternity, to get through
the "open records' biH.
Senator Conway’s resolution
would establish a new Senate
rule (Rule 248) providing that
“no executive sessions or meet
ings of the Senate or any
standing committee of the Sen
ate” shall be held except to act
on nominations by the Gover
nor.
The Senate went into execu
tive session last year to de
date possible action when many
members were angered by an
article in the Atlanta Constitu
tion which criticized their con
duct. No action was taken.
After spirited debate, the
House passed 133-41 last week
a bill introduced by Rep. Den
mark Groover of Bibb County
providing that candidates must
receive a majority vote to win
nominations in any election
state, county or municipal—in
Georgia. It is aimed at con
trol of elections by “bloc" vot
ing. The bill was sent to the
Senate.
One of the hottest issues
shaping up in the House is over
distribution of a $9,300,000 state
fund to aid counties with road
work. Os this, about $1,000,000
is earmarked for municipalities,
but the Georgia Municipal As
sociation is fighting for a
larger share.
Gov. Sanders said he would
stay out of the fight, although
he realized the cities need more
money. He added he would sign
whatever legislation the As
sembly passes on this subject.
From Other
Newspapers
(Washington Evening Star)
DICK RUSSELL’S MEED
Thirty years in the Senate
of the United States must be
equivalent to several lifetimes
spent in more prosaic pursuits.
Few have had the opportunity
of serving in that exclusive
establishment for three dec
ades, and even fewer have
served with the distinction of
Richard B Russell of Georgia.
Who should know this better
than the men with whom Sen
ator Russell has shared the
ever more complex duties of
legislating? Some of them who
have watched him in the Sen
ate remembered his 30th an
niversary with appropriate re
marks on the floor With char
acteristic modesty. Senator
Russell called such encomiums
a “weakness" of the Senate,
but confessed he felt better as
a result.
Those who have followed the
courtly gentleman through the
years, particularly as chair
man of the Armed Services
Committee, are convinced that
every compliment was de
served Besides his far-sighted
safeguarding of the Nations
military destiny. Senator Rus
sell has been the farmer s best
friend in much legislation.
Most colleagues regard him as
the final word in parliamen
tary law He acts with calm
ness and kindness," said Ma
jority Leader Mansfield “He
can act with a fiery tenacity.
But always he acts with rea
son and deliberation, with
modesty, and with scrupulous
fairness He asks for no quar
ter that he does not grant to
any other Senator in the great
legislative battles of our time.”
But Senator Dirksen prob
ably summed it up most suc
cinctly when he said: "When
the Senator from Georgia
speaks, he knows what he is
saying and why he is saying
It.”
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MY WEEK IN Geneva,
Switzerland, was most inter
esting and informative. As I
mentioned last week, Speaker
John McCormack named me
as a delegate to the 80-nation
conference held for the pur
pose of determining how best
to put science and technology
to work to improve living
standards and conditions, par
ticularly in the underde
veloped areas of the world.
The largest delegation came
from France, due no doubt to
the fact that Geneva is located
right on the French boundary.
The United States had approx
imately 100 delegates, which
gave us the fourth largest
delegation at the conference.
Russia sent almost as many as
the United States and was the
fifth largest in representation.
The Americans consisted of
men and women from univer
sities and foundations, from
business and from government
—most of them recognized ex
perts and scholars in fields of
special interest to developing
countries. Some of the subjects
which were discussed were ag
riculture, transportation, com
munications, the training of
scientific and technical per
sonnel, mining, and the pro
duction of electricity by water
power, by geo-thermal heat
such as that found at Hot
Springs and by nuclear energy.
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I WAS SURPRISED to find
that almost all the meetings
Looking Ahead ...
By DR GEORGE S. BENSON
President—National
Education Program
Searcy, Arkansas
AN ATTEMPT TO “FACE UP”
It must have been either an
exercise in plain guts or good
sense, or both, that has led the
National Association of Broad
casters to extend its contract
with former Governor Leßoy
Collins of Florida to serve an
other term as its president.
The plain-talking NAB head
told the broadcasters when he
first took on their job two
years ago that he had no in
tention of paddling NAB’s boat
gently. Until last November his
frankness and candor had
brought only occasional grum
bling. but at that time a
genuine furor was created by
a speech in Portland, Ore.
On that occasion Mr. Collins
recommended that cigarette
commercials be revised to
avoid any encouragement of
smoking by youngsters. It was
his opinion that broadcasters
should take corrective meas
ures concerning such commer
cials. making them subject to
revisions that could be incor
porated in NAB’s Code of Good
Practices. Collins thus laid his
$75,000 a year job on the block,
and angry advertising and
broadcasting executives were
not slow to indicate that his
contract was in jeopardy. The
networks promptly released
statements that they did not
share the Collins viewpoint.
On Self-Honesty
This is what he had said:
"If we are to be honest with
ourselves, we cannot ignore
the mounting evidence that
tobacco provides a serious haz
ard to health. Can we either
in good conscience ignore the
fact that progressively more
and more of our high-school
age (and lower) children are
now becoming habitual ciga
rette smokers? The most re
cent statistics I have seen
point out that 20 per cent of
boys have started smoking in
the ninth grade, and almost
30 per cent of all girls smoke
before they are graduated
from high school. We also
know that this condition is
being made continually worse
under the promotional impact
of advertising designed pri
marily to influence young
people.”
His remarks hit the Industry
with unusual force because of
the importance of tobacco
advertising as revenue in the
broadcasting business. Os $215
million spent annually by the
tobacco industry in all meas
ured media, TV gets nearly
half, or $lO4 million. Radio
gets S3O million Broadcasting
thus earns $134 million from
tobacco advertising, and fig
ures for the year just ended
are expected to be even higher.
Moral Stamina
And now they have renewed
his contract! Let us hope that
they have seen fit to take this
action without applying any
sort of muzzle. Mr Collins was
particularly concerned with
broadcasting's moral responsi
bility. even though he recog
nized that this rests first on
the tobacco manufacturer, on
the advertising agencies, and
on “outstanding sports figures
who permit their hero status
to be prostituted " He urged
revisions that would make
NAB codes more than "legalis-
John Davis
Reports From
Congress
were conducted in English even
though French has always
been thought of as the in
ternational language. Almost
every country exhibited a
number of films, and I noticed
that the Russian films were
all in English, as were all of
the publications which were
printed in Russia.
English was spoken by every
one of the delegations from the
Near East and the Far East,
so that it was very seldom that
I needed to put on the ear
phones which were provided in
order to listen to the transla
tion of what a speaker was
saying.
I was privileged to address
the American delegation on
the first morning I was in
Switzerland, and from that
time forward all of the Ameri
cans knew me, although I had
a little trouble keeping up with
their identity.
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I DOUBT THAT any group
worked harder than the Ameri
cans in trying to do full justice
to the purpose of the confer
ence, while at the same time
upholding to the fullest the
American point of view. Our
group got up early and held a
full hour’s meeting of our own
every morning before the reg
ular session began.
Since there were about five
meetings going on at the same
time each day, these early
morning get-togethers enabled
tic standards and delineations
of good taste,” so that they
would serve also as a “con
science” for the broadcasters.
“Where others have per
sistently failed to subordinate
their profit motives to the
higher purpose of the general
good health of our young
people then I think the broad
caster should make corrective
moves on his own. This we
could do under code amend
ments, and I feel we should
proceed to do so, not because
we are required to, but because
a sense of moral responsibility
demands it,” Mr. Catlins said
in November. This is a super
lative brand of thinking that
deserves the greatest support
within the communications in
dustry.
A New Sales High
Tobacco advertising during
the ten years since the lung
cancer relationship was first
suggested has built up sales in
the industry to some $8 billion
a year, with and without
filters. Before the end of 1962
the U. S. Department of Agri
culture was predicting that
output would reach a new
high of 539 billion cigarettes,
11 billion more than in 1961, a
gain of 2 per cent. Apparently,
despite the American Cancer
Society’s educational program,
which includes a real “chiller”
for teenagers called “Is Smok
ing Worth It?” more smoking
is being done than ever before.
The industry attitude, ex
pressed by an official of the
LAST OCTOBER, I served as
a Senate delegate to the Inter-
Parliamentary Union Confer
ence at Brasilia, Brazil, which
meets every year to discuss and
debate various national and in
ternational issues.
Prior to the conference, the
delegation visited the leaders of
the principal Latin American
nations to try to influence them
toward a stronger policy against
Communism and especially
against Castro’s Cuba.
We also had an opportunity to
observe firsthand the political
and economic situations in some
of these coun
tries, which for
the most part
increased my,
fears concern-]
ing further
Communist in
roads in this]
Hemisphere.
The people of I
Latin America take little or no
interest in their government,
and on the average don’t care
who their leaders are today, or
who they may be next month.
Despite an abundance of na
tural resources, such as fertile
soil, timber, water, minerals and
petroleum, they lack the capital,
knowledge and ingenuity to de
velop stable governments and
economies.
Khrushchev is well aware of
the situation in South America
and the opportunity it presents
for ideological subversion, both
from witlun and without Cuba
the entire membership of
the American group to keep
abreast of the whole confer
ence and to learn of every sig
nificant development as it
occurred.
The conference left no doubt
in my mind about one thing,
namely, that the nations of
the world are seeking the same
thing that Georgia counties
are—more industry. I am sure
the delegations of Thailand,
Kuwait, or Mongolia never re
motely suspected it was true,
but at least one of the Ameri
can delegates listened intently
at the conference with the
idea of finding ways and
means of using science and
technology in an “under
developed” area known as the
Seventh District of Georgia.
Although this conference
was only a beginning, since it
was the first of its kind ever
to be held, I feel that a sig
nificant step was taken toward
giving the field of science
more prominence, and I be
lieve that these conferences
will grow in importance in
future years.
* * *
RECENT VISITORS WEL
COMED to our office were
John T. Fleetwood, president
of the Tribune Publishing
Company, Cartersville, and
Mrs. Fleetwood; Ford T. Shep
herd of Dayton, Ohio, repre
senting the Mead Corporation;
and H. F. (Ted) Hunter, Jr., of
Rome.
Tobacco Institute, is that
“none of us in the tobacco in
dustry believe there is an asso
ciation between smoking and
lung cancer or we would not be
in the business.” The industry
may need to find other prod
ucts to manufacture, for the
American Cancer Society says
it has “sound evidence that
cigarette smoking is one of the
major causes of the increases
in lung cancer over the past
30 years and can also be re
lated to other diseases of the
lungs and of the heart.”
WIDE OPEN WHERE?
This modern generation isn’t
more wicked than any other
age. the Atchison Globe de
clares. It just fails, says the
Globe, to pull down the blinds.
—The Chicago Times
KNEW HIM?
It is said a man in Catalonia,
Spain, has five arms. We are
positive we sat next to this
chap once, at a boarding
house.
—The Detroit News
NATURALLY
Every famous man’s wife
has an uneasy feeling that
something will happen to open
the world’s eyes.
—Hartford Times
Herman Talmadge
Reports From
Washington
was his beachhead for this op
eration.
* * *
IN BRASILIA, I participated
in a press conference which gave
me some of my most depressing
moments of the entire trip.
Some of the reporters were
Communists and naturally there
were “loaded” questions. How
ever, many of the opinions ex
pressed by the newsmen were
outright shocking.
While they were critical of
what we had done by sending
billions to Latin America in
foreign aid, they thought the
United States should do more.
Moreover, there was consider
able opposition to capital.
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TRE INVESTMENT of Amer
ican money in Brazil or South
American countries was seen as
some form of colonial exploita
tion. I knew that the Governor
of our State has flown to Europe
seeking the investment of Euro
pean capital in Georgia. I knew
the Secretary of Commerce has
long urged the investment of
foreign capital in the United
States. I knew that without
capital, this nation would never
have advanced to economic
greatness.
Yet these people thought they
could improve their standard of
living without capital, and in
fact sc-m to resent it.
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