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Are you registered to vote?
The deadline for those who want to vote
Sept. 9 and Nov. 3 (and in any run-offs) is
Saturday. The Chattooga Registrars office
is located on the second floor of the court
house and the office hours Saturday will
be 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Highly important elections are coming
up this year. Practically every elective of
fice in the county and several on the dis-
More Scholastic Honors
Scholastic honors continue to come to
Chattooga County.
A Menlo youth who is a senior at Chat
tooga High School has won a highly-coveted
National Merit Scholarship. Only one other
Chattoogan has ever attained this honor.
All Chattooga County can well be proud
‘Music Week'
One of Chattooga County’s many assets
is her fine Music Study Club.
For many years, this Club has been pro
moting an appreciation of line music
among our citizens.
Again this year, the Club goes all out to
observe “Music Week,” sponsoring pro-
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BY THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial
Council
ALERT TO COMMUNISM
In rising against the pro
commumst government of Pres
ident Jaoa Goulart of Brazil,
the states and people of Brazil
displayed an alertness to sub
version of their homeland.
Oddly, this patriotic anti-com
munist action in Latin Ameri
ca's biggest country came only
days after Sen ,1 William Ful
bright <D-Ark i gave a speech
in the U S Senate downgrad
ing the communist threat.
It is U> be hoped that the
American people will look to
the lesson of Brazil, which was
in danger of falling to com
munism as Cuba fell, instead of
listening to the lulling sounds
made by such as Sen. Ful
bright
The lesson of Cuba is that
communism is still definitely on
the march, though it may have
modified some of the details of
its marching order Unless pro
communists are blocked, as in
Brazil, they will continue to at
tempt to build an empire fash
ioned out of formerly free na
tions.
Tragically, those nations that
already have fallen to the com
munists cannot expect much
sympathy from American "lib
erals such as Sen Fulbright
For in accepting the idea that
the government of Red Cuba
is there to stay. Sen Fulbright
is in effect condemning the
anti-communist Cuban people
to permanent communist sla
very
Americans can be thankful
that Brazil had what V S
""liberals" would call Super-
Patriots. for these Super-Pa
triots spared the United States
from the disastrous situation
that would havi resulted had
he communists established a
beachhead m Bru. .
were preparing to do under
cover of the Goulart regime
For several years, the Amen
can Left has heaped scorn on
“alert” groups in the United
States and talked about "cold
warmongers" The Brazilian
situation shows how close tHat
country and the entire Western
hemisphere came to the edge
of the abyss. In all countries,
it is necessary to be eternally
vigilant if liberty is to be pre
served and the communists are
to be deterred
South America is far from
being stable, however The next
danger area is Chile, where it is
reported that a communist-so
cialist coalition may gain power
in the national elections sched
uled for September Chile is
strategically important, and
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trict and state level arc to be voted on.
Runoffs may follow in some cases. Then in
; November the general election will be held
' with party candidates vying for pasts rang
ing all the way up to the presidency.
I Voting is really more than a privilege;
it is a duty.
Be sure you can vote this year. Register
Saturday if you haven’t already done so.
of James Hames. He has represented us
well in the keen competition for the Na
tional Merit Scholarship and we know he
will continue to represent us well as he
continues his studies and launches his
chosen career.
grams and poster contests.
Let’s all refresh our appreciation of the
role music plays in our lives this week and
really "Make Music Our Keynote for Liv
ing”—the theme of this year’s "Music
Week” observance.
American citizens have tre
mendous investments in that
country The influence of the
United States needs to be
brought to bear to save that
country from becoming a cap
tive nation similar to Cuba.
Here in the United Slates,
citizens can be no less vigilant.
The summer ahead promises to
be a time of Stress for the re
public There are reports that
a nationwide Marxist youth or
ganization will be launched in
June as a net tor all the dis
contented radical elements of
high school or college age.
Moreover, there are abundant
signs that street demonstra
tions a form of revolutionary
warfare may rock American
cities during the summer
months. Left-wing extremist
groups such as the Black Mus
lim'. are talking of using arms.
Links are being established be
tween the Muslims and other
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IT II \S BEEN interesting in- i
deed to see certain senators and ,
congressmen deplore racial agi- '
tation and violence in their own ■
states and cities. Not too long i
ago they thought it was all right ;
- and even encouraged such con- '
duct so long as it took place ।
so mow he r e
lar 1 y in the
South.
It seems that j
w hen demon
strators take
to the streets
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underfoot the W
rights of private individuals and
property owners, it is mere civil
disobedience or the exercise of
pea.cable assembly—if it hap
pens n places like Albany or
Savannah.
Hut when the same thing oc
< . • in New York City, Cleve
land or Philadelphia, it is
i anded as wild and unruly vio
lations of the law and an in
fringcment upon the rights of
other citizens.
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OF CO! USE. that is exactly
wha and w hat it has been.
The ider of it all is that it
has to n some people this long
to rectum v it. It would be un
charitat 1 suppose, to suggest
that it ha een the politically
expedient tl cto do.
Now, howis. r. they seem will-
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organizations that profess a
more peaceful approach but
which actually are shock troops
in the incitement to violence.
American communities and
law enforcement, agencies must
be prepared to deal with near
revolution. The general public
must, be prepared to recognize
revolution as revolution. Both
Congress and the states should
give thought to laws that will
inhibit the turning of peaceful
streets into battlegrounds and
alien scenes of social warfare
that this country has never
seen.
The struggle to hold off com
munist influence is not con
fined to Latin America and to
remote capitals with strange
sounding names. Citizens of the
United States must be as active
in preserving the American re
public as patriotic Brazilians
have been preserving their
homeland in these recent days.
ing at last to_ call a spade a
spade, up to a point at least.
They have issued cease and de
sist orders, declaring that this
isn’t the American way to
achieve any desired objective.
This is doing more harm than
good by anybody’s standards,
they are now saying.
Many of us from states which
have had to contend with law
less agitation for several years
now have been saying this all
along, and we’re glad to see that
we have enlisted some allies.
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MOB \t HON and the taking
of the law into one’s own hands
is of course deplorable whenever
and wherever it occurs. We sym
pathize with our friends from
other states, and hope that they
will be able to resolve their
problems just as we are now
and have been trying to do in
our states.
It will lie remembered that
one New York congressman went
to Albany. Ga., on an "inspec
tion” trip during the height of
racial disorder in that city a
couple or so years ago.
Perhaps a Southern delega
tion from Congress could take a
trip to New York or Pennsyl
vania to see if we could la' of
any assistance in settling their
troubles.
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The Georgia
A LEGISLETTER fß|
——By Glenn McCullough
Atlanta—The Georgia Gen
eral Assembly will convene in
extra session Monday to carry
out two monumental tasks—a
complete revision of the Geor
gia Constitution of 1945 and
revision of the state’s election
laws. In addition, Governor
Carl E. Sanders broadened the
call for the session to permit
the introduction of local bills,
of which more than 100 already
have been drafted.
In view of this formidable
program. House Speaker George
T. Smith of Grady County has
predicted that the session will
last five weeks and pos
sibly longer. Thus the legisla
tors seem likely to be in At
lanta until around the middle
of June.
A 30-member Constitutional
Revision Commission headed
by Governor Sanders completed
work April 20 on the draft of
the new Constitution, and it
has been mailed out to all leg
islators. As this is written, the
Election Laws Study Commit
tee, headed by Secretary of
State Ben Fortson, still is work
ing.
High spots of the proposed
new Constitution will be sum
marized in this LEGISLETTER,
and the electoral law changes
will be analyzed in next week's
column.
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In his inaugural address
Governor Sanders pointed out
that the 1945 Constitution had
been amended more than 360
times/ Many of these amend
ments are local in nature, af
fecting only one county or one
city. The Governor observed
that the Constitution was be
ginning to look like a patch
work of local laws rather than
the fundamental document of
a state.
So the new Constitution en
larges the powers of both
counties and cities to legislate
for themselves—in other words
more "home rule,” and provides
that "no amendments except
those of a general nature hav
ing uniform operation through
out the state shall be proposed”
to the state Constitution.
County and city governing
bodies may change local laws
and regulations by passing res
olutions at two consecutive
meetings and advertising the
proposed changes once a week
for three weeks within 60 days
preceding adoption. Or citizens
of counties and cities may take
the initiative in amending their
laws and charters by getting a
petition signed by 20 per cent
of the qualified voters and
holding a referendum of voters
on the proposed changes.
However, no city can be in
corporated, dissolved, merged
or consolidated with any other
municipality except by act of
the General Assembly. And all
local acts, of course, must con
form to the broad provisions of
the Georgia Constitution and
general laws.
But as a result of liberalized
"home rule" the Assembly will
be relieved of a large part of its
annual burden of passing a
great mass of purely local bills.
One of the major changes in
the new Constitution is that
members of both the Senate
and House would be elected for
four-year terms rather than
two as at present.
However, these longer terms
would not apply until after the
election of November. 1966.
Senators and Representatives
elected next fall, at the same
time the Constitution is pre
sented for ratification, would
be chosen for only two years.
One of the most controversial
questions that came up in the
Commission was over appor
tionment of the House. Some
rural members wanted to cut
out the "bonus" Representa
tives the big and middle-sized
counties now have, and provide
for only one member from each
county On the contrary, some
city members argued that the
populous counties should have
more members than they have
now.
In the final draft form the
Constitution provides that each
of the 159 counties shall have
one Representative, and "there
shall be 46 additional Repre
sentatives to be apportioned
among the several counties in
such manner as the General
Assembly shall provide
Pending any change, however,
the eight largest counties will
continue to have three mem
bers each and the next 39 two
each.
Other major points:
1. The Governor will be elect
ed for a four-year term, but can
not succeed himself immediate
ly-
2 Terms of Superior Court
judges and solicitors-general
will be increased from four to
six years.
3. A method is provided for
counties to consolidate by a
majority vote of their citizens,
but at least 51 per cent of the
registered voters must take
part.
4. Truth may be given in evi
dence as a defense against libel
actions, and the juries in all
criminal cases “shall be the
judges of the laws and the
facts.”
5. All constitutional guaran
tees of personal freedoms are
preserved.
Looking Ahead
By DR. GEORGE S. BENSON
President—National
Education Program
Searcy, Arkansas
DILEMMA IN
SOUTH VIETNAM
The bitter struggle in South
Vietnam seems to be a minia
ture world where, as in the
real one. Communism is not
easily routed. The war goes on
as it has for 15 years mainly
because, as the consensus has
it, there has not been enough
will to win. This may suggest to
us that the real battle must be
fought elsewhere: in the Con
gress, in the bureaus of the
State Department, as well as in
the press, which must lead
public dialog on the necessity
of meeting Communism with
anti-Communist measures.
This South Vietnam action
consits of precisely the kind of
fighting that Mr. Khrushchev
likes to engage in. The guer
rilla, hit-andrun jungle tactics
keep the kind of warfare going
that is most awkward for the
free world.
The Nature of the War
The Communists will parti
pate in "brush fire” wars any
where in the world, they have
said, as long as Communist
strategy can profit therefrom.
Meanwhile, our leaders urge
caution about “escalation” into
major conflict, a development
in which neither Russia nor
China is prepared to partici
pate. It does not seem likely
that nations which can barely
feed themselves would go all
out for escalation. But the
Communists land there’s no
disagreement between Peking
and Moscow on this) are de
termined to pick up as much
as they can of the de-colo
nlalized remnants of French
Indo-China.
General de Gaulle, well
aware that France lost its try
at the war there in 1954. sug
gests neutralizing the area.
This would only facilitate the
political and guerrilla pres
sures that have advanced al
ready the Communist power
and influence in North Viet
nam. Laos, and Cambodia. The
French have not been the only
ones who have dealt futilely in
this part of the world, mis
understanding the nature of
the conflict Their officers re
fused to accept the fact of a
guerrilla, jungle war. But we
ourselves spent three years
preparing the Vietnamese for
an invasion from the north
that never came. We over
looked the Communist knowl
edge of the efficacy of infil
tration and political subver
sion.
An Area at Stake
Sooner or later, it is obvious,
the war will have to be con
sidered one in which the whole
area is involved. If Laos is
taken over, if Cambodia keeps
following the Communist sig
nals. and if the Reds success
fully infiltrate Thailand, then
it will make no difference how
much effort is put into South
Vietnam, the cause will be
very close to lost That is why
the war cannot be won in
South Vietnam alone, but will
have to be prosecuted in the
whole of Southeast Asia. It is
said that many Vietnamese
think the war will eventually
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Reports From [ ' F |
Congress
Despite Castro’s threat to
shoot down our planes, Presi
dent Johnson made it perfectly
plain this week that United
States planes would continue
to fly reconnaissance flights
over Cuba.
While this activity on our
part represents some modifica
tion of the concept of interna
tional law respecting the air
space over a country, our deci
sion to continue the surveil
lance flights is one that is vital
to our national security. The
President’s decision follows the
only course of action open to
us, if a repetition of the fear
fully dangerous events of the
month of October 1962 are to
be avoided. Then, as you will
recall, the Russians almost
succeeded in establishing an
array of nuclear weapons well
within our lines of defense,
and so close that our warning
systems would be rendered in
effectual.
I once heard a saying to the
effect "Fool me once, you’re a
fool—fool me twice, I’m a fool.”
Uncle Sam might well quote
these words to Castro when he
complains about the fact that
we are keeping his activities
under observation.
The fact of the matter is
that the hard core realities of
this age of nuclear warfare are
such that it is necessary—in
fact imperative — that the
United States should over-fly
the Island of Cuba, not as an
act of aggression, but as an act
of self-preservation.
Had not this activity been
going on in October 1962, our
be won, simply because the
U. S. cannot afford to lose it.
This is a show of confidence
that would be more worthy if
it were from official Washing
ton.
Are We Anti-Communist?
In a wider sense that is par
ticularly significant, the war
actually is being fought in
Washington. The departure of
Roger Hilsman, Secretary of
State for Far Eastern Affairs,
and other personnel shifts,
emphasize the confusion that
has existed in the development
of policies in Washington. No
wonder the Communist world
is patient, apparently counting
on our weariness in supporting
a war that promises no clear
cut victory. Optimism has
reached the vanishing point.
The war costs us a million dol
lars a day. In the past 38
months we have lost 206 killed
and missing and 815 wounded.
The South Vietnamese have
lost 41,000 killed and wounded.
It is perhaps not suggesting
too much to say that we should
have been winning in Vietnam
by starting with Cuba. It is a
bit too much for some of our
allies to explain why we must
go to the other side of the
world to face the Communists,
instead of making it more dif
ficult for Castro in a much
more accessible field of con
flict. Perhaps it all boils down
to our sincerity of purpose in
facing the threat of world
Communism. South Vietnam's
front lines are right here in
crossroads America, where the
destiny of the world is being
decided.
The Newspaper
& Advertising
From the Boonville, Indiana,
Standard: “It is a pity retailers
so often have to learn the same
lesson over and over again
through cost and hardship.
"This observation was made
by Edward R Engle, official of
the National Retail Merchants
Association. Mr. Engle was re
ferring to the importance of
newspaper advertising to retail
trade.”
His findings were based on a
study made of the results of
the New York newspaper
strike. It was found that there
is no substitute for newspaper
advertising, and that without
advertising, retailing would be
in a chaotic state, as stock
needs and turnover would be
impossible to predict It is also
stressed that when the adver
tising of big stores is absent
the entire shopping complex—
including the little stores—feel
the ill effects.
The Standard sums up in
these words: "The ultimate
loser from inadequate adver
tising, then, is the consumer
who pays for losses due to
slow turnover, waste and high
per item selling costs."
The basic principle here is
simple enough If people don't
know what you have to offer,
they can't and won't come
seeking it. Successful retailing
and intelligent and extensive
advwtuung gc hand in hand.
country would at this moment
be at the mercy of the Com
munists, with their frightful
weapons placed a mere hun
dred miles from Florida.
Under the common law, a
person who owned a tract of
land was said to have owned it
to a depth which extended
“downward to the center of the
earth” and to a height “up
ward to the heavens above.”
Just as this concept came to
be modified in our courts with
the advent of the airplane, so
the idea of a nation’s complete
sovereignty over its airspace
must in certain instances be
modified.
We have been deceived and
almost caught napping once by
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GEORGIA HERITAGE— Between Rincon and Springfield on
Georgia Highway 21 and in adjacent areas northwest of
Savannah are several Georgia Historical Commission markers
commemorating sites of historic interest to Colonial Georgia.
About 1.5 miles south of Springfield a marker points toward
the site of Old Ebenezer, pioneer settlement of the Salzburgers.
These Europeans were Lutheran refugees from Austria, who
settled in Georgia in 1734 with the assistance of General Ogle
thorpe. After two years of hardship in what proved to be a
poor location, the Salzburgers moved to New Ebenezer (de
noted by markers on Georgia 275 five miles east of junction
with Georgia 21), where they soon produced a thriving set
tlement, and became especially proficient in silk culture. Their
church was at first a wooden structure built in 1738; in 1767-
69, however, the Salzburgers constructed a red-brick edifice
with a white box-like steeple above the front of a high-pitched
roof. Called “Jerusalem Church,” this still-standing building
was used by British troops during the Revolution as a hospital
and stable.
Notes From
20 Years Ago...
Friends and relatives here
will be glad to know that Brice
Gayler has recently been pro
moted to pharmacist’s mate
3-c.
Eugene Stoddard Taylor, 54,
prominent lawyer of North
Georgia, died Tuesday evening
following a lingering illness. He
was a lifelong resident of
Chattooga county, and a mem
ber of the Cloudland Presby
terian Church, in which he was
greatly interested, having been
instrumental in the founding
of this church. He served in
World War I in the Air Corps ..
54 more men called for pre
induction physical examina
tion.
The Lyerly High School com
mencement exercises will begin
Friday evening. May 5, at 8:30
p.m. in the gymnasium, at
which time Senior evening will
be observed . . .
Lyerly Methodist Church
Sunday School had 84 present
last Sunday. Let’s all come
back next Sunday and bring
someone with us and have 100
present.
The freshmen and sopho
mores entertained the juniors
and seniors Tuesday evening in
the gymnasium. The gym was
decorated with wild dogwood
and honeysuckles. Entertaining
games were played: after that
delightful refreshments were
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GEORGIA HERITAGE—Fort McAllister, off U. S. Highway
17 just south of Savannah, is an historic Confederate earth
work fortification. Situated on the south bank of the Great
Ogeechee River, Fort McAllister successfully withstood Union
naval attacks in 1862 and 1863. Begun in 1861, the fort was
constructed largely of earth and sand so that it could receive
the fire from the Union's new rifled naval cannon. Its gun
emplacements were connected by underground traverses. After
attacks by Union ironclads in 1863, whose shells did little real
damage although they dug craters in and around the fort
("large enough to bury a horse,” as one Confederate officer
expressed it), Fort McAllister was free from further Federal
attack until late in 1864. Nearing the end of his famous
"March to the Sea,” General William T. Sherman found the
fort on the Great Ogeechee in the path of his contact with
the Union navy and much-needed supplies. On December 13,
1864, General W. H. Hazen’s division assaulted Fort McAllister
from the rear, finally overpowering the garrison of 280 men
commanded by Confederate Major George W. Anderson. The
loss of Fort McAllister rendered further defense of Savannah
useless, and General William J. Hardee evacuated the city a
week later. Some restoration of the fort was done in the 1930’s
by Henry Ford, owner of the site; later he sold the land to
the International Paper Company, who, in 1958, presented it
to the State of Georgia. The Georgia Historical Commission has
restored the fort and established a museum there.
Castro. To assume that this
would not happen again would
be suicidal. It is for this reason
that Castro and his Commu
nist followers can expect to be
kept under observation by our
aircraft. So long as he and his
followers refrain from activity
such as that which occurred in
Ocotber 1962 then Castro has
no more to fear from flights
over Cuba than has Farmer
Jones from an airliner flying
overhead.
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RECENT VISITORS TO THE
OFFICE from the Seventh Dis
trict were J. L. Ivey of Rome
and Senator and Mrs. Ed Ken
drick and son David, of Mari
etta.
served . . . Subligna School and
Community News.
The wedding of Miss Vera
Bea Hemphill, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Hemphill, of
Summerville, Ga., and Pfc.
Andrew Williams 11, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Williams,
of Summerville, took place
Oct. 20, 1943, in Chattanooga,
Tenn. . . .
Cpl. Woodrow Espy, who
served with the army anti air
craft artillery, and has been in
Australia for several months,
is now stationed somewhere in
the S.W. Pacific:
Miss Jean Wyatt has re
turned home from her teach
ing at Franklin. Her sister,
Mrs. Sherman Eley, and son,
Mickey, accompanied her. Also
a sister, Doris, of Genola, Ga.,
was home for week-end.
The Menlo Home Economics
girls feel that we have made
an effort toward winning the
war by making skirts for the
Russian girls.
Miss Inez Wallace, state su
pervisor of Home Economics,
sent us twenty skirts. They are
heavy brown wool material . . ,
The grammar grades contrib
uted $7.25 to buy the thread
and fasterners, and also for
shipping them to New York . . .
We hope the Russian girls
enjoy wearing the skirts as
much as we have enjoyed
making them .. .