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Tax Mess Being Cleaned Up . . .
The tax mess in Chattooga County
should be cleared up by sometime next
year.
This mess can’t be blamed on any per
son or on any group. Like in other coun
ties, it has just happened gradually over
a period of years because the counties
haven't had time or talent to keep up
with all the parcels of property and all
the improvements made on them as time
went along.
Consequently, Chattooga has a ridicu
lously low tax digest (total property
evaluation) and a very high tax rate.
The digest is around $8 million (the
City of Summerville, which has about 100
per cent evaluation, has about a sl2 mil
lion digest in the city alone!). And the
tax rate in the county is a high 66 mills—
s66 on each SI,OOO property evaluation.
A vicious circle has developed—prop
erty owners don’t turn in their property
at its “fair market value,” as the law re
quires, because the tax rate is high. And
the tax rate couldn’t be lowered much
because the evaluations were so low that
Girl Seoul II eek . . .
The mind reels at reading a list of the
“days" and the “weeks” we are supposed
to observe each year in this country. Some
reach an ultimate in absurdity. But others
are very different They bring widespread
public notice to activities and organiza
tions which are of great value. That is
eminently true of Girl Scout Week, cele
brated March 10-16.
Last year marked the 50th Anniversary
of this movement. This year the program,
which has grown steadily over that half
century. is to be expanded and improved.
Particular emphasis is being laid on
Minister Speaks ...
By DAVID HAWKINS
Evangelist
“Woe unto him that giveth
his neighbor drink, that
putteth thy bottle to him,
and inaketh him drunken..”
Halt 2:15,16
This is a definite warning
from the Bible to makers of
legal alcohol, bootleggers and
bartenders It is possible that
you are already aware of this,
but this message is a warning
to the makers of intoxicants.
The Bible declares that these
are under the curse of God If
these people realized what
they are doing to people just
to make easy money, they
would. I believe, get out of the
devil's business of making
“liquid hell "
1 think this story illustrates
clearly enough what 1 mean:
“Harold Roberts sat with
shaking hands, tear-filled eyes,
and trembling lips as one
afternoon he confessed, 'tell
'em drink did it ' He degener
ated from a stiong, healthy,
husky husband to a drunkard
and now a killer. Just five
weeks previously the 25-year
old husband and father had
viciously, wickedly, heartlessly.
Notes From 20 Years Ago...
On March 18 at 3 pm the
Trion Company. Trion. Oa.
and its group of loyal em
ployees will enter the select
circle of American industries
and workers who hold the
coveted Army-Navy "E" Pro
duction Award for outstanding
excellence in the production
of materials for war.
Elaborate public ceremonies
will be held in the Trion Plata
to pay honor to the 5.000 men
and women who have turned
out enormous quantities of war
materials of quality quickly
and efficiently
R M King, age 64 years,
died Monday night at his home
In Menlo after a long illness..
Mrs Kathryn Wyatt Resigns
as School Superintendent
Friends of Sam Sitton, Jr
will be interested to know he
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inhumanly stomped his own
17-month-old baby boy to
death The baby had been
horribly beaten, battered, and
disfigured ”
The men who worked to
gether to damn this man's life
are the ones to be blamed
and not so much the young
“killer" I believe that baby's
blood will testify against those
people who made the booze
and liquor that crazed his
mind nnd made his daddy
drunk.
The makers and distributors
arc not the only ones to blame
though 1 believe our govern
ment should be warned. Offi
cials in both high and low
places need to remember Pro
verbs 31 4.5 “It is not for
kings, O Lemuel, it Is not for
kings to drink wine, not for
princes strong drink: Give
strong drink unto him that Is
ready to perish, and wine unto
those that be of heavy hearts.”
This would apply to the presi
dent. congressmen and all
state and city officials. They
ought not to drink, nor to sup
port any organization that will
promote the use of it
The general public should
be warned that drunkenness is
has been transferred from
basic training center. Miami
Beach, to Lynchburg College
training detachment. Lynch
burg. Va (or further training
as an aviation cadet in the
army uir corps
The West Summerville Wom
an's Home Demonstration club
met Friday. Feb 26. with Mrs.
A 8. Robbins
Little Leßoy Alexander is ill
of the mumps at the home of
his parents. Mr and Mrs Roy
Alexander
Miss Hannah Money was
luncheon guest Saturday of
Dr and Mrs Berton Lov
ingood.
Miss Dorothy Harlow re
turned to Rome Tuesday to
resume her duties In the Rome
schools after bring out with
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NATION A I EDITORIAL
to have a low tax rate too would fail to
bring in enough money for the county to
operate on.
This has indeed created a “mess” and
one which couldn’t be rectified except
through starting all over—which is what
re-appraisal of property does.
Chattooga thus did the only logical
thing to get out of this mish-mash mess—
it decided to have professional outside ex
perts re-evaluate the property here, using
as a basis the property values here.
The results have been satisfactory to
most people in most counties where re
valuation has been finished. Had they not
been, the revaluation of property would
not have spread like wildfire all over
Georgia and in many other states, as well.
The people who have been dissatisfied
have generally been those who had prop
erty which hadn’t been turned in at all
or which had been turned in well below
the ratio used by other citizens.
We believe most Chattooga Countians
will be pleased with the results of property
revaluation.
qualified, well trained leaders and pro
gram consultants the girls need.
Girl Scouting offers almost countless
activities—in such fields as nature, the
arts, homemaking, the people and cus
toms of other lands. The goal is to pro
vide a consistently stimulating program
which will hold members’ interest—and it
the leader’s job to keep it so.
Every success to Girl Scout Week!
The movement has been well supported
over all the years and it deserves every
bit of aid and interest it can get.
sin nnd a work of the flesh.
Galation 5:21 states: ". . .
drunkenness, revellings, and
such like; of the which I tell
you before, as I have also told
you in time past, that they
wlihh do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God."
So think tvice before you buy
another bottle.
There should also be a
warning to all Christians. As
Billy Sunday said, "Liquor is
alright in its place, but its
place is in hell.” There have
been rumors of its use in
church socials. This is a
blasphemous sin against God
and many are going to suffer
for it. Christians are com
manded to have no fellowship
with drunkards. “But now I
have written unto you not to
keep company, if any man
that is called a brother, be a
drunkard; with such an one
not to eat." I Cor. 5:11.
There are many other rea
sons not to use or have any
thing to do with this abomi
nable stuff such as the effect
it has on divorce, death rates,
auto accidents, morals, etc.
However. I trust that the aver
age person upon reading this
article will see the wrongness
and sin of drinking.
flu.
Holland nnd Keita Thomas
visited th“ir parents over the
week-end
Mrs J c Williams and Mrs
Dennis Abney .• hop pe d in
Rome Tuesday
Rose Nell Weems and Anne
Allen will leave Sunday to
enter Young Harris school.
Since the Summerville High
School Library burned, we are
In gnat need of books We are
asking every one who has a
book checked out to please re
turn It at once
The high school students
have taken great interest In
preparing the lunch room and
gymnasium for classrooms as
places to resume their studies
for the remainder of the year.
k TheSummerville News, Thursday, March 14, 1963
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LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY
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■The Georgia
A
LEGISLETTER
ATLANTA—The General As
sembly entered the “stretch
run” Monday, carrying a heavy
weight of legislation to be dis
posed of before the March 15
deadline. Beginning last week,
members are putting in a full
working day, including Fri
days.
The most important bill
still to be passed is the San
ders Administration’s $954,-
000,000 two-year appropriation
measure. Senate Floor Leader
Charles Pannell had expected
to bring it up last week, but
the Senate Appropriations
Committee whittled at it
through Thursday. Items were
cut here and padded there for
a net decrease of $106,000
under the House version.
Senator Pannell now expects
Senate passage of the measure
early this week. Afterward it
will go to the House for agree
ment to Senate changes.
Gov. Carl E. Sanders has
found the enactment of legis
lation to abolish “speed traps”
and put sheriffs on a salary
basis rather than the fee sys
tem the two things have a
tenuous connection—the hard
est jobs on his legislative slate.
He has marked up a partial
success on the former, but
complete failure for this ses
sion on the latter.
Scrapping an original ad
ministration bill that would
have deprived communities
found to be operating “speed
traps” of all income from
fines on state and federal
highways for at least six
months, leaders got a weaker
version through the House by
a 151-5 vote.
Under the revised bill, a
committee including the Di
rector of Public Safety, the
Attorney-General and the Sec
retary of State will hear com
plaints about "speed traps”. If
a municipality is found to be
assessing lines on state and
federal highways primarily for
profit rather than law-en
forcement, the Governor can
deprive them of this right for
six months. The State Patrol
would take over enforcement
meanwhile.
Gov. Sanders had asked com
mittees of the Georgia Sheriffs
Association and Association of
County Commissioners to draft
legislation to put sheriffs on a
salary basis. They advised him
10 days ago it was too late to
get anything done at this ses
sion. but they would come up
with legislation for next year.
The Governor then said he
would ask his administration
leaders in the Assembly to
draft a bill. They also decided
it was too late The Governor
announced his determination
to put sheriffs on salaries had
not weakened, and that a bill
to accomplish this would be
the "first order of business”
when the Assembly convenes
next January.
Following a personal appeal
by the Governor, the House
promptly gave a 177-0 en
dorsement to a measure
drafted by Rep. James A.
Mackay of DeKalb County to
set up a Department of
Youth. It will function under
a 15-member committee to
be headed by Mrs. Bruce
Schaefer, head of the newly
nam e Department of Family
and Youth Services
The Georgia Bar Association,
after two days of sometimes
acrimonious debate, got
through the House a bill to set
up what is called a “unified
bar", operating under regula
tions prescribed by the Geor
gia Supreme Court. It passed
the House 127-53. and is ex
pected to have no trouble in
the Senate.
The Senate, meanwhile,
passed a bill to regulate bill
boards on Georgia s new Fed
eral interstate highways
(which reportedly would mean
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By Glenn McCullough
a $2,000,000 bonus in Federal
funds!, but its fate in the
House is by no means certain.
After a hot debate, the House
slapped down a bill, backed by
Rep. Frank Twitty of Mitchell
county—former floor leader in
the Vandiver administration—
to set up a pension plan for
sheriffs by alloting them $1.50
of court costs in criminal
cases. One of the most effec
tive arguments made against
it was that many sheriffs
already are protected under
the Georgia Peace Officers As
sociation pension plan as well
as Federal social security.
The Senate defeated a bill
offered by Senator J. B. Fuqua
of Augusta which would have
made radio and television sta
tions eligible for legal adver
tising.
House action was expected
Tuesday on Senate Bill 80
which would allow the state
board of examiners in optom
etry the power to regulate ad
vertising. It has been reported
favorably by the House Hy
gience and Sanitation Com
mittee. A floor battle is ex
pected on ihe measure, which
is opposed by department
stores and corporations offer
ing optometric services and
broadcasters and newspaper
publishers.
Two former governors of
Georgia, Senator Herman Tal
madge and Richard B. Russell,
are assured of a rousing wel
come when they address a
joint session of the Assembly
at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
GOLDEN
GLEAMS...
Science has fulfilled her
function, when she has ascer
tained and enunciated truth.
And the weak soul, within
itself unbless'd
Leans for all pleasure on
another's breast.
—Goldsmith
Yet, taught by time, my heart
has learned to glow.
For other's good, and melt at
other's woe.
—Pope
Being myself no stranger to
suffering. I have learned to re
lieve the sufferings of others.
—Virgil
We have lived and loved
together.
Through many changing
years;
We have shared each other’s
gladness
And wept each other's tears.
—Charles Jefferys
It is error alone which needs
the support of government.
Trutli can stand by itself,
—Thomas Jefferson
It is better that some should
be unhappy than none should
be happy, which would be the
case in a general state of
equality.
—Samuel Johnson
The doctrine that all men
are. in any sense, or have
been, at any time, free and
equal, is an utterly baseless
fiction.
—T. H Hualey
The doctrine of equality sel
dom embraces those who are
worse off than its exponents.
—R A Piddingston
AN IDEA
The laziest man in our town
gets up at the crack of dawn
so he’ll have more time to
loaf
—Christian Science Monitor
RUSSIA CONTINUES TO
pretend that she is in favor of
disarmament but her actions
belie her words. There are
dozens of examples of such
actions but it is sufficient to
mention the recent Russian
bomber which flew over our
Naval fleet in the Pacific,
Khrushchev’s statement that
he can drop an atomic bomb
from outer space to any point
on earth, and the continued
presence of Russia sub
marines near both our Pacific
and Atlantic coasts.
Even more to the point, I am
informed that the largest item
on the Russian budget in the
way of foreign assistance is
Cuba.
The recent Russian pro
nouncement that she would
treat an American invasion of
Cuba as an act of war against
Russia brings to mind the
situation that existed when
the United States made the
same statement to Russia
about West Berlin during the
days when the Russian high
way blockade made an airlift
necessary.
♦ * »
EVEN THOUGH OUR de
fense budget consumes more
than half of every tax dollar, I
am convinced that full mili
tary preparedness is the best
insurance against war.
“There will always be wars
and rumors of wars,” says the
Bible, and history has cer
tainly proved this to be true.
Looking Ahead ...
By DR. GEORGE S. BENSON
President—National
Education Program
Searcy, Arkansas
IMPULSE TO APPEASE
These remarks are addressed
to any who think that “ap
peasement” as an element of
foreign policy exists only as a
historical reference, symbol
ized by bumbling Neville
Chamberlain and his umbrella.
It must not be forgotten that
Mr. Chamberlain was able to
seal his bargain in Munich—
peace in our time—only be
cause a sizeable chunk of
British thought had come to
reject strength as an element
of foreign policy and had
sought security instead in dis
armament and international
policing. England slept, all
right, and the awakening was
almost too late.
But Anthony Eden showed
England that strength would
make the dictators behave
themselves for the first time.
It took a terrible holocaust to
prove this, but that bitter
price was paid. Twenty-three
years after Dunkirk, however,
there are leaders in American
public life, who, like the
Socialist liquidators of empire,
talk of the new Khrushchev,
the new Russian look, and the
“mellowing” of Communism.
Or they .suggest (as Chester
Bowles has done) that Com
munist ideology is becoming
irrelevant. These attempts to
whitewash are just what the
Soviet dictator ordered.
On Schedule
The Communists’ 45 year
history has proved to them
that they are the future, we
the past. They expect to con
tinue with our burial. And is
there any reason, from the
Soviet view, for denying that
it is not proceeding on sched
ule?
Relying upon expressions
from Lenin’s writings, Bertram
Wolfe in Foreign Affairs Octo
ber, 1962. shows the Commu
nist patience: “The ideology
gives its possessors the wisdom
to know when pauses are nec
essary. the pride to ‘crawl in
the mud on your belly’ without
a sense o f humiliation, the
skill to ‘keep a clear line for
maneuvering,’ for ‘retreating
when possible and necessary’
lest you lose all you have
gained, for renewing the at
tack' when that becomes pos
sible. for ‘using treaties as a
means of gaining strength,’
bringing up ‘fresh forces,' ob
taining a ‘better rather than
a worse peace as a respite
for another war.’ a ‘breathing
spell.’ ”
Giving Away Victory
And so it goes today. The
Communist bloc gets its vic
tories mostly from the vic
tories we give away. The weak
ness of the Wist provides the
strength of the Kremlin, and
the chief element of this
weakness is the inability or
unwillingness of our leaders to
understand the alms and pur
poses of freedom's enemy. To
day the weakness is not for
lack of arms but seems to find
basis in a sort of intellectual
paralysis and corruptness of
morals We retreat from
strength, as if expecting the
little countries in the U. N to
wield the balance of power for
us according to the extent of
our handouts to them.
The neutrals—the uncom
mitted—Supply no moral basis
John Davis
Reports From
Congress
The S3OB billion national debt
is due almost entirely to
World Wars I and II and the
Korean conflict, according to
most of the experts.
Bearing in mind the key
word “war”, take a look at the
following figures which show
how the American tax dollar is
spent each year:
National defense and de-
sense related matters: 63%
Interest on the national
debt: 10%
War veterans benefits: —6%
All other purposes: 21%
Most of this twenty-one per
cent is spent on routine, well
established and non-contro
versial items of government
such as law enforcement,
courts and prison systems and
the agencies which provide the
“housekeeping” facilities for
the American family of 180
million souls.
* * *
ONE OF THE most vivid
recollections of my days in
Brazil in World War II is the
fact that the Brazilian troops
had German rifles and fol
lowed the goose-stepping prac
tice of close order drill which
was true of Hitler’s troops.
This fact unquestionably cre
ated a close sense of kinship
between the Brazilian and
German troops, even though
Brazil finally entered the war
on the side against Germany
and sent troops into Italy. It
was only by dent of estab
lishing air bases in Brazil and
for decision. They have no
grasp of ihe issues, nor can
they defend their neutralism
except on pragmatic grounds.
They may live to see the Rus
sian expansion first hand: the
worst imperialism the world
has ever known. No, Mr.
Bowles, the ideological foun
dations of the Kremlin are not
crumbling. Among Communist
stalwarts there is no “crisis of
faith” or “private doubts.”
Why should there be? The
Sovi e t government is no
“crisis” regime. The faithless
ness and doubts belong to those
who should believe-ip America.
Hypnotized Counselors
A recovery of U. S. initiative,
and even victory on one Com
munist front, was in sight
with regard to Cuba last Oc
tober. But apparently the
October advisors were then
hypnotized by Communist
tricks: the mellowing of
Khrushchev, the de-Staliniza
tion of the Kremlin, the quar
rel with the Chinese. The
President’s advisors thought
they were fortified with knowl
edge of Russian intentions.
These knights of the New
Frontier chuckwagon above
all were impelled to ignore the
“extremists,” the rash-talk
is-cheap crowd. It seems more
obvious with each passing
W>:^X
THE TWO-PRICE cotton sys
tem hangs like a stone from the
neck of the American textile
industry, slowly but surely drag
ging it down to the depths of
economic disaster.
Textile mills and cotton farm
ers are struggling for survival
against unfair foreign competi
tion, brought about not only by
the inequit
able two-price
cotton system,
but also by
cheaper wages
and other low
er costs of
manufaet-l
bring overseas.
The off-l
shore mill can buy cotton —
whether it is grown overseas or
in the United States—at $42.50
less than mills here must pay.
Foreign textile products are
made cheaper, sent to this coun
try and sold cheaper, thus dis
placing products made in the
United States from American
cotton.
Inevitably, a loss of a market
for domestically-made cotton
textile products is translated
into a loss of market for Amer
ican-grown cotton.
• • •
AS POINTED OUT by the
American Textile Manufacturers
Institute, the problem reaches
far beyond the textile industry.
Cotton consumption in the U. S.
is on the decline. Acreage is be
ing reduced and cotton farm in
come is suffering. Competing
fibers and other products are
taking over cotton’s markets.
Cotton is piling up in govern
ment hands at great costs to the
taxpayer. Many mills have
closed and others are operating,
on shaft tuas.
by supplying Brazil with a
number of American military
aircraft that we were able to
capture the imagination and
friendship of that country and
enlist them on our side as
allies
The point I am making is
that America, in furnishing
arms and teaching military
tactics to the Latin American
nations, is building up a vast
reservoir of good will and a
sense of identity with the
United Stages. It is for this rea
son that I am wholeheartedly
in favor of military assistance
not only to Latin American
nations but to countries like
Pakistan. If we fail to furnish
arms and military know-how
when it is requested, not only
have we missed a chance to
convert a country to the free
world but we have issued an
open invitation to the Rus
sians to come in and furnish
Russian arms and to teach
Soviet military methods.
I certainly think this type of
assistance is vastly more meri
torious than the other aid
programs which have resulted
in much waste and whose ef
fectiveness is doubtful.
♦ ♦ ♦
Visitors from the Seventh
District in recent days have
included Harry G. Fisher, Jr.,
a native of Rome; Dr. and
Mrs. E. P. Inglish, their son,
Steve, Jimmy Scarr, Sims Gar
rett, Jr., and Lee Rogers, all of
Marietta.
week that appeasement has
been enjoyed by Mr. Khrush
chev.
It is also now evident that
a tight blockade of Cuba could
have been maintained with
advantage to this very hour.
The nations of Latin America
and Europe were behind us.
But are they today? Credibility
in U. S. action and response
was almost restored. Yet it was
not. This is the old story of
Communist victories being de
rived from cur weaknesses. Mr.
Khrushchev has taken stra
tegic steps backward, only to
take more steps forward a bit
later.
Bible Verse
To Study
Who sheddeth man’s blood,
by man shall his blood be
shed; for in the image of
God made he man.
1. Who spoke these words?
2. To whom?
3. Where are they recorded?
ANSWERS TO BIBLE VERSE
1. God.
2. Noah and his sons.
3. Genesis 9:6.
Herman Talmadge
Reports From
Washington
The cotton grower suffers, the
textile worker suffers and the
nation’s economy, which already
leaves much to be desired, suf
fers further.
* ♦ »
THE CRUX of the problem is
the two-price cotton system, and
nothing short of a complete re
turn to a one-price system will
put our cotton on a competitive
bar is with that grown overseas.
The future of the entire cot
ton economy demands nothing
less than an American textile
mill, employing American work
ers, being able to buy American
cotton at the same price as it is
Sold abroad.
The Talmadge Farm Plan
would accomplish this and more.
My plan, as it relates to cotton,
would eliminate the two-price
system, do away with export
subsidies and alleviate the ma
jor problem now confronting the
cotton growers and the textile
industry.
• • •
MY PLAN would allow Amer
ican cotton to move freely in
world trade at world price with
out subsidy and make it possi
ble for American textile manu
facturers to buy their raw cot
ton at competitive prices.
Money now being paid for ex
port subsidies could go directly
to the farmer, thereby boosting
the nation’s agricultural econ
omy.
There can be no letup in our
efforts to correct the existing
situation, and the increasing
support for the Talmadge Plan
is encouraging.
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