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Acti ri ties (hi School Nights
Probably few countians realized how en
trenched athletics had become in educa
tion until they hoard what a problem it
would be to schedule basketball games only
on week-ends.
That would seem to be a simple thing.
But not so.
Coaches feel they don’t get. enough pay
supplement to warrant their working on
Saturday nights. The junior varsity pro
gram would have to be held in the after
noons and this could mean students leaving
before school is out for some road games.
(You’ve got to have JV or else you won’t
have a competitive varsity team). You
can’t just have games once a week, on Fri
day nights, because you can’t then remain
competitive. (And other schools don’t want
to cut down to one game a week, it was
noted).
Athletics in a school are, of course, de
sirable. But they should be kept in a prop
er perspective. And they should of course
merely supplement the physical education
program, which in turn should merely sup
plement the academic program.
But keeping athletics in a proper per
spective is a problem not only in Chattooga
but also throughout the nation. Public
A Lesson in Humility
One of the great attributes of George
Washington which, in our opinion, has
never been adequately extolled was his deep
humility. In proof of this we offer the fol
lowing excerpt from Washington’s inaugu
ral address on April 30. 1739:
‘'Among the vicissitudes incident tn life
no event could have filled me with greater
anxieties than that of which the notifica
tion was transmitted by your order and re
ceived on the 14 day of the present month.
"On the one hand, 1 was summoned by
my country, whose voice I can never hear
but with veneration and love, from a retreat
Aleart Sunday'
Almost every Chattooga family has
known the tragedy of heart disease. ‘
It is tliis month that a fund drive is
held to raise money for fighting the 25 or
more different diseases of the heart and
blood vessels "Heart Sunday" will be held
Sunday and the Summerville Junior Cham
ber of Commerce will conduct a road block
in Summerville to solicit funds from motor
ists.
This money is used for research, it is
used tor indigent patient clinics, it is used
Sensing the News
IB THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial
Council
The Civil Rights Bill—
Blueprint for Totalitarianism
To discuss the so-called “civil
rights' bill and be forced to
use the words "civil rights" is
in itself a victory tor totalitar
ians in our midst For the legis
lation being advanced in Con
gress under this label consti
tutes a demal of cherished
rights including even the right
ot freedom of speech
, U S Rep Howard Smith of
Virginia chairman of the
House Rules Committee is one
leader who clearly understands
tlie nature ol tins legislation.
In a t < cent comment on tele
vision. he pointed out that out
spoken opposition to forced
association, alter enactment of
such legislation, could result in
ft derally-ordered detention
Perhaps too much attention
has been devoted to the nar
row integration aspects oi the
' civil rights" law the power to
poliet restaurant owners and
shopkeepers The evils of this
legislation extend to tar mon
v :tive areas than to who
shall occupy a chair at a res
t. tant counter
I understand the totalitar
ian nature and aims of the
> -ights' bill it is best to
'■ to the arguments of the ex
trem ts who support it. One
< 1 these supporters is Arthur
'A is): w of the Peace Research
Institute, who is on record as
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opinion is, of course responsible for a large
measure of this problem.
We don’t know what the answer is in
trying to keep the mushrooming non-aca
demic activities on school nights under con
trol. It docs seem that the school itself
should not be a party to promoting these
things and it should in fact lead the way
in discouraging civic groups and others
from promoting activities on school nights.
Perhaps concerted action by concerned area
school people would be a step in the right
direction. Or perhaps parents could assist
in some way.
Knowledge has increased many times
over in the past 200 years. Students must
study diligently if they are going to grasp
anything like a smattering of this knowl
edge. They must be as alert as possible in
class.
We are spending more money than ever
before on education. Teachers are pre
sumably better trained than ever before.
Buildings are better than ever before.
Teaching aids are better than ever before.
But if we cannot provide a simple thing
like time tor study and time for a proper
amount of rest for the student, then ‘all
these things are to little avail.
seeking an international police
toree and American disarma
ment.
Writing in The New’ York Re
view of Books. Mr. Waskow
hails the "civil rights" bill for
being tough He says that it is
even tougher than Atty Gen
Robert Kennedy wanted it to
be. gleefully citing the fact
that it includes a provision for
th<' Attorney General "to ob
tain injunctions against state
and local police" and to remove
so-called "civil rights" defend
ants from state courts Mr.
Waskow points out that these
provisions “would encourage
the Negro movement to de
velop sit-ins and other non
violent techniques "
Another way of putting this
Is that the provisions of the
"civil rights" bill would encour
age revolution in the streets of
America.
Mr Waskow openly discusses
Ihe possible effects of "civil
rights legislation" saying at
one point that "a large federal
police force would have to be
organized to enforce these laws
with a firm hand “
The whole outlook of the ex
treme "civil rights" attitude is
alien to American traditions.
Consider the viewpoint of Jack
Greenberg, counsel for the
NAACF’s legal Defense and
Education Fund, who is push
ing for the "civil rights" bill
before Congress.
Writing in Tlie Columbia
law Review, with co-author
A R Shalit, Mr Greenberg
praised establishment of "a su
pranational authority to guar-
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which I had chosen ... as the asylum for
my declining years.
“On the other hand, the magnitude and
difficulty of the trust to which the voice of
my country called me, being sufficient to
awaken in the wisest and most experienced
of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into
his qualifications, could not but overwhelm
with despondence one who (inheriting in
ferior endowments from nature and un
practiced in the duties of civil administra
tion) ought to be peculiarly conscious of
his own deficiences.”
for scholarships.
Significantly, the death rate since 1950
between the ages of 45 and 64 has shown a
22 per cent reduction in death due to stroke;
a 44 per cent drop in deaths from high
blood pressure; and an overall decrease of
six per cent from all cardio-vaseular di
seases.
We know Chattoogans will want to do
their part to keep this trend going down
ward.
antee fundamental rights
taking precedence over na
tional law" He says that this
kind of action has the poten
tial of infusing in the United
States "a new. perhaps in
vigorating strain of authority "
In short, they want the "civil
। rights" cause to be an opening
wedge for tlie subordination of
American law to the decisions
of an international agency.
From these comments by
Messrs Wask ow . Greenberg
and Shalits, it is possible to
see the grand object that the
so-called “civil rights" move
ment has in pushing legislation
in Congress. Behind this move
ment is tlie desire to level the
constitutional structure of tlie
United States, which is built
around states rights and state
authority, and. m process, to
cloak agitators and street
revolutionaries with immunity
from local regulation or state
jurisdiction m any way.
If tlie “civil rights" bill is
enacted by Congress, much
more will be lost than the right
of a storeow tier or motel oper
ator to choose his customers or
citizens to select their asso
ciates What would be scrapped
with passage of a “civil rights”
bill would be the local and
state authority that prevents
totalitarianism by dividing
pow er
At tlie same time, the most
radical elements in America,
who want U S. sovereignty
diluted, would gain a legal
shield behind whi c h they
would be free to undermine
tlie republic.
HIS GREATNESS WILL NEVER DIE
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By Glenn McCullough
Executive Manager, Georgia Press Association
ATLANTA—The House at last
has a Congressional redis
tricting plan to work on, but
the one it received from the
Senate probably will be twisted
and beaten into a new shape
before it emerges from the
former chamber. Then a last
round of map-drawing prob
ably will take place when con
ferees try to reconcile the
House and Senate versions.
But the Senate did succeed,
after 10 days of intermittent
debate, in passing a Rules
Committee amendment to the
original plan brought out by
Senator Julian Webb and his
committee that gave Georgia
its first, rt districting legisla
tion since 1931. The vote was
36-17.
However, Lt. Gov. Peter Zack
Geer, presiding officer of the
Senate, observed that he hoped
the House would straighten out
what he called an “inequity”
of the Senate bill—the placing
of both Macon and Columbus
in a new Sixth District with
466,230 people, making it the
largest in the state and above
the 15 per cent variance from
a 400,000 “norm" for all 10 dis
tricts.
Otherwise the Senate bill has
many good points.
It divides the old Fifth Dis
trict with its 823,000 people
(second largest in the United
States) into two districts.
Fulton county, minus its 36th
and 37th Senatorial districts,
would become the Fifth Dis
trict. with 398,763 people.
DeKalb county, plus the two
Fulton Senatorial districts,
would become the Fourth Dis
trict, with 414.345 people. And
Rockdale, the other county in
the old Fifth, would be added
to the Third.
The Senate bill also over
comes a major objection to
the original Webb bill which
lumped both Savannah and
Brunswick into a new First dis
trict and wiped out the old
Eighth Now Savannah would
continue as the metropolis of
the First, and Brunswick the
population center of the
Eighth, which has been en
larged by counties to the
north.
But the old Sixth district,
served so long by retiring Con
gressman Carl Vinson, would
be wiped out. and its counties
divided among surrounding
districts Senator Culver Kidd
of Milledgeville attacked the
plan as an insult to Mr. Vin
son.
It seems virtually certain
that an acceptable redistricting
plan will emerge by the end of
Tlie Minister Speaks
•h the Rev. J. B. Cantrell Jr.
Minister of First Baptist
Church. Lyerly
I think of Pentecost as a
pivotal point in the birth pains
of Christianity It was the
dawn of a new era. The Apos
tles saw an unleashing of
heavenly powers heretofore
undreamed ot and heard a
sound "as of a rushing mighty
wind " Acts 2:2.
I recall standing at a place
in the Cave Spring area last
spring where a man's home
had been completely demol
ished by a wind storm. He ex
plained in detail how they
heard the sound of wind as
though it was a locomotive
Suddenly, he realized what was
about to happen. He gathered
his wife and two small chil
dren into one corner of the
room where they held to each
other and crouched on the
floor In a split moment, the
house was taken completely
the week. When the House-
Senate bills reach conference,
Gov. Carl Sanders is expected
to express his views.
The Assembly is not always
serious. House members were
amazed last week to see four
of their colleagues—former
Speaker George M. Smith of
Emanuel county, former Floor
Leader Frank Twitty of
Mitchell county, former Floor
Leader Denmark Groover of
Bibb county and Rep. Mac
Pickard of Muscogee county—-
enter the chamber wearing the
bushy black wigs associated
with The Beatles, a British
"rock ’n roll” group now storm
ing New York.
They were even more amazed
when Mr. Smith mounted the
rostrum and read a “pome”
lampooning The Atlanta Con
stitution and its editorial car
toonist, Clifford Baldowski, or
“Baldy,” who happened to be
in the galleries.
Explanation: The Constjtu-J
tion had printed a story about
a secret meeting of the four
and others to work for election
of the House leadership by
secret ballot, rather than
having it nominated by the
Governor. “Baldy’s” cartoon
had shown the four leaders as
“Beatles,” indulging in a song
fest while Gov. Carl E. Sanders
peered over a transom.
Later the four called on the
Governor.
"You don’t have to look over
the transom,” Mr. Smith told
him. “You can come in.”
Both House and Senate are
working long hours this week,
rushing toward a Friday ad
journment. Here's a capsule
report on some important leg
islation:
Prison reform bills have been
passed . . . Senator Mac Con
way’s "open meetings" bill has
been reported favorably by the
State of the Republic com
mittee, and may pass in a
“watered-down” version with
fine for violation reduced from
$250 to SSO and jail term elimi
nated . . . House passed a bill
putting tighter controls on
small loan companies . . .
House and Senate passed bills
eliminating “emeritus” status
for retired judges and consti
tutional officers, but making it
possible for them to be covered
by pension plan . . . Fate of
election law reform and anti
pollution bills at this session
doubtful . . . Constitutional re
vision to be taken up at a spe
cial session, probably early in
May.
apart and scattered over a half
mile area of the path of the
wind. The man and his family
found themselves, still clutch
ing each other unhurt, in a
plumb thicket some 30 yards
from where the house once
stood Just how and why all
this happened as it did could
not be explained by the man.
He could only bear witness
through experience that it did
happen.
Some residents could stand
and testify of first hand ex
periences, such as the peculiar
feeling they had when they
saw a two-by-four beam driven
through a bale of cotton or
building How much more is
our God able to let his power
come to us spiritually!
Had linotype been in the
vogue at Pentecost I fancy that
several editions of the news
would have been necessary to
handle the events. "Extra!
Extra’ New developments in
the Jesus Case." "Mighty Spir-
IN RESPONSE TO a recent
inquiry made by me to the Li
brary of Congress I have been
furnished with some rather in
teresting facts and figures re
garding the question of placing
medical care for persons over
65 under Social Security.
As most of you would natu
rally suspect, wages and sala
ries are, by far, the largest
component of our national in
come. Moreover, the burden of
taxes not imposed directly on
salaries and wages often falls
ultimately upon wage earners
and salaried persons. It is un-
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Summerville High school
basketball team will play Trion
High Feb. 10 at Trion. It will
be the first time since 1941 and
it is expected to be a good
game. Before, we had to quit
playing Trion because there
was always a fight, and now
that Mr. Dyer and Mr. Bell, the
superintendents of the schools,
have gotten together and de
cided to let us play again and
we hope there won’t be a fight
this time . . .
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Floyd, of
Summerville, Route 3, received
word Tuesday morning from
the war department that their
grandson, William Riley Farr,
A. M. M., 2-c, age 19, was killed
in action in the Pacific war
area, details unknown ... He
was with a bombing squadron
somewhere in the Pacific.
Two more candidates quali
fied to run in the Democratic
primary set for March 1, 1944
before the closing time Satur
day, Jan. 29.
Homer M. Woods, former
mayor of Summerville, has an
nounced for tax collector
against J. A. Scoggins, incum
bent, and Romie C. Junkins, of
Trion, and James H. (Jim)
Leath.
T. A. Cook has announced for
sheriff and will be opposed by
J. Frank Kellett, incumbent,
and A. H. (Tiny) Glenn.
In the democratic primary of
1940 there were twenty candi
dates in the field, and this
year only twelve are running.
Rev. L. R. Obert, of Columbia
Seminary. Decatur, spent the
week-end with Mrs. Obert and
children at their apartment on
Park Avenue. They had as
guests also from the seminary
Messrs. Phil Nobles and Lamar
Wainwright.
One day last week the jun
iors and seniors moved out of
the small room in the main
building, into the room of the
gymnasium where they could
have more room and fresh air.
They celebrated by making
candy . . . Subligna School and
Community News.
Prof, and Mrs. John W. Teel
and daughter Jane, and Miss
Nell Clark were shopping in
Gadsden Saturday.
The many friends of 2nd
Lieut. Frank White, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest White, will be
interested in knowing he has
landed somewhere in the South
Pacific.
Os cordial interest is the
marriage of Miss Frankie
Echols, daughter of Mrs. Frank
A Echols and the late Mr.
Echols, and Staff Sergt. Wilbur
Elrod, son of Mrs. Ben Elrod
and the late Mr. Elrod, of
Lyerly. Ga . . .
itual Hurricane Follows Ten
day Christian Prayer Service.”
“Galilean Fishermen speak
in Many Languages.” “Some
Claim Miracle—Others doubt.
Extra! Extra!”
Mr. Christian of 1964 must
not be satisfied with ancient
Bible accounts as mere history
and reading matter. Dr. Hal
ford Luccock tells of the young
high school girl who visited a
well-known battle-field one
summer. After she had seen
the place of battle and heard
descriptions of the attacks, she
said to her father:
"This is the first time I
realized that the Civil War was
not just reading matter.”
From the apparent lack of
spiritual fervor in our time, it
appears that for millions the
New Testament is just reading
matter. We should open God's
book with the same type of ex
citement and expectancy that
a teen-age girl opens a love
letter.
Remember, what Jesus told
Nicodemus “the wind bloweth
where it listeth “ To be fishers
of men we must truly depend
on the winds of the Holy Spirit
to set us sailing at the prep
aration of the boats repent
ance and faith with our sails
of obedience and service high.
‘ Not by might, nor by power,
but by my spirit saith the Lord
of hosts." Zech. 4:6.
John Davis
Reports From
Congress
likely, therefore that under our
system of taxation wages and
salaries can escape sharing
some of the cost of medicare if
any such program should be
enacted into law.
Not all taxes, it is interesting
to note, have the same effect
upon different income groups.
Some taxes take a larger per
centage from low incomes than
from high incomes and are
termed “regressive”: others
take the same percentage from
all levels of income and are
called “proportional”; and oth
ers take a larger percentage
from high incomes than from
low incomes, and are called
“progressive.”
The proportion a tax takes
from the income of persons who
bear the final burden of the
tax — rather than those who
bear the initial burden—is the
basis for determining whether
a tax is regressive, proportional
or progressive. There are seve
ral studies on the subject
which, although they differ in
detail, reach much the same
conclusion.
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THESE STUDIES AGREE
that the Social Security tax
takes a higher proportion of
low incomes than of high in
comes. There are several rea
sons for this:
(a) The portion of the tax
paid by the employee generally
cannot be passed on to other
persons.
(b) The tax is at a uniform
rate and applies only up to a
maximum of $4,800. Therefore,
the person whose total wage is
$4,800 and the person whose
total wage is $20,000 pay the
same amount of Social Se
curity tax. Increasing the base
on which the tax is levied from
$4,800 to $5,200, as called for by
the Administration, would
broaden to some extent the
number of taxpayers who would
bear the tax burden.
(c) It is generally agreed
that the half of the Social Se
curity tax which is paid by em
ployers'is passed on to others,
in whole or in part, although
there is no agreement on the
degree of the shifting or to
whom the burden is shifted.
From the point of view of
ability to pay. the financing of
The Poor Soul
THE POOR SOULS PHILOSOPHY — While we think that
one of the great needs of American journalism is more edi
torial features, we will be the first to admit that this col
umn does not fill that need — only space.
Heart Fund Worthy of Support
Heart diseases and other diseases related to the heart have
been the No. 1 killer and crippier for many years. Os this you are
well aware. But did you know that 650,000 men are lost to indus
try each year because of heart and blood vessel diseases? Even
more tragic are the almost 180.000 persons who each year die of
strokes. Since 1949, $25,000,000 has been spent on research seek
ing an answer to the cause, and ultimate conquest, of the more
than 20 forms of heart disease. Few families in our county have
not felt the impact of this ruthless disease. Through public edu
cation and research, great strides have been made toward con
trolling heart diseases, and although you cannot personally assist
in this campaign, you can help — Contribute generously to the
Heart Fund on Heart Sunday, Feb. 23.
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you are convinced that the report was not conclusive to the point
of giving up the "fags”, disregard all suggestions by everyone
and simply say, "I WON'T quit.”
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n orth Repeating:
"Success is neither fame, wealth nor power; rather
it is seeking, knowing, loving and obeying God. If
you seek, you will know; if you know, you will love;
if you love, you will obey.—Charles Malik.
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In Warmer Climes
It’s human nature for most of us to be
dissatisfied with our surroundings, no mat
ter how humble, palatial, cold. hot. wet, dry.
etc., but we in the cooler regions of the coun
try envy Floridians as the most fortunate
climate-wise. Very moderate temperatures
prevail throughout the winter: and in the
summer, cool tropical breezes abound to
make Florida a most desirable place to visit.
This is evidenced by the great number of
tourists that flock to Florida by the hundreds
of thousands, winter and summer. And. while
thousands enjoy the surf and many fresh-water beaches there,
we turn up our coat collars and hope that Spring isn’t far away.
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nlTn rrr William J Humphrey, of Lynnwood. Calif., 100
VLOIE years old and one of two 100-vear-old members
OF THE of Lions, had this to say about his longevity:
WEEK: Recipe for a long life? Never
exceed the feed limit.”
medicare from federal general
revenues would take a smaller
portion of low incomes than of
high incomes while the opposite
is true if medicare were to be
financed solely from the Social
Security tax. The total federal
tax structure is progressive, a
fact due primarily to the per
sonal income tax. Because of
the increasing tax rates that
are applied to additional
amounts of income, the per
sonal income tax a considerably
larger share from high incomes
than from low incomes.
From the point of view of the
tax burden, the financing of
medicare as a joint Federal-
State effort would not be so
advantageous to the lower in
come groups as its financing
from federal revenues alone be
cause the state and local tax
structures take a higher per
centage of low incomes than of
high incomes.
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SUPPORTERS OF FINANC
ING medicare through the So
cial Security tax argue that the
individual taxpayer tends to
identify himself very closely
with the Social Security tax he
pays on his salary—a phenom
enon that would not exist if
the system were financed from
general revenues. Because of
this identity, the taxpayer
thinks of his Social Security
benefits as a right for which
he has paid. Moreover, it is
claimed, this close identifica
tion makes the taxpayer more
aware of costs so that if he
wants more benefits he knows
he must pay more.
I recognize that persons over
65 are faced with a dilemma
which grows worse with every
increase in medical costs. At
the present time the average
cost of a hospital room per day
is $37, which is four times the
prevailing cost in 1946. The ave
rage monthly payment under
Social Security to a retired
worker is $77, and for widows
it is $67.
Nevertheless, I have still not
abandoned hope that away can
be found to meet this problem
through a voluntary program,
even if it is necessary to make
it actuarially sound with back
ing from the federal govern
ment.
The recent report by the surgeon general on
the effects of smoking has prompted many men
(and women) to switch from cigarettes to pipes,
cigars and the small but potent cigarillos. Many
theories have been advanced as to how easy it
is to stop smoking, but we are convinced (after
puffing the things more than 20 years) that the
suggestions come from people who: (1) Have
never smoked at all, or <2) Smoke occasionally
and are not addicted nicotinists. To us the best
approach thus far suggested is to take a nega
tive attitude rather than a positive approach.
Instead of saying, “I WILL quit”, try saying,
several times a day, “I WON’T smoke.” Or, if
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