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< The Summerville News Thursday, July SO, 1904
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DAVID T. ESPY HERMAN BUFFINGTON
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SUBSCRIPTION RATE IN COUNTY, $2 58 PER YEAR OUTSIDE COUNTY, $3.61 PER YEAR
Antique Taxes
We applaud the Hart County Board of
Finance lor managing a 7.75 mill tax de
crease, and at the same time plead for a
realistic look at the tax structure.
It is foolhardy indeed to have a mam
mouth tax rate and ridiculously low eval
uation when it would be to the’best inter
ests of the county to base the tax rate on
realistic assessments.
Tax revaluation is needed in Hart County
as badly as it has been needed in the score
ol Georgia counties which have undertaken
the chore. Today’s ad valorem tax structure
is antique, unfair and a burden on the
county which is not receiving the revenue
which it is due.
How absurd that a $20,000 home is as
sessed at $1,500? How absurd that land sells
for SI,OOO an acre is assessed at S2OO an
acre. What good purpose does a high tax
rate and low evaluation serve?
Hospitalization of the Mentally 111
The "lunacy warrant ,” the “lunacy com
mission.” and “the commitment of insane
persons,” passed into oblivion July 1.
The current law in the new Health Code,
while retaining some crudities, is medically
oriented and reflects a new philosophy of
understanding and humanitarianism. The
psychiatric patient is treated as a sick per
son and not as a quasi-criminal. The sick
person is not “put away” for the relief of so
ciety but is sent to a hospital for treatment
and recovery The pat nt is expected to be
able reasonably soon to return to family,
home and community.
Many of these patients have been con
fined to jail prior to official examination
and transportation to Milledgeville State
Prime Example
Robert S. Boyd of the Chicago Daily News
Service reports that Hungary, a totally
communist nation, is now “. . . experiencing
a modest economic boom.”
But, lest one believe that a Soviet satellite
is now outdistancing us in material welfare,
a tew more of the facts set down by Mr.
Boyd are in order.
One is that average annual per capita in
come in Hungary despite the recent im
provement in conditions -is only about a
quarter or a third of that of the United
States.
More important is the proportion of a
man’s income that it takes to buy things.
To quote Mr Boyd once more: “It still takes
nearly a month's wages to pay for the
cheapest man’s suit, 2‘- months for a TV
set or a small refrigerator, and two years'
salary to buy the cheapest car on the mar
ket.”
These are the fruits of a totalitarian
economy in which the government owns,
operates and dominates enterprises of any
significance. Compare it with the Ameri
can economy, in which there is free com
petition and anyone can take his chances
Looking Ahead
By DR. GIORGI S BENSON
President—National
Education Program
Searcy, Arkansas
Till CONSERVATIVE
MAINSTREAM
For 20 years tins writer has
tried to avoid puely partisan
political hassles He still
doesn't propose to ma k e
choices tor his readers. except
to urge upon them principles
that make choices possible. Be
cause principles are so impor
tant a retrospective analysis of
the preconvention "stop Gold
water movement seems apro
pos This movement made
headlines and developed larger
significance than that of most
ordinary internecine party
The Republicans were not
< maging in. the quarrel alone.
1 >r there were plenty of out
side participants By the
to ,rth of July certain excited
- lummsts and commentators
w< re insisting that stopping
G 'lduater would be tlie only
way to save the nation. Press
The Summerville News
Is the Official Organ
Os Chattooga County
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Summerville, Georgia
on producing and offering for sale any
thing he thinks there may be a market for.
We see the operation of this economy best
in in our day-by-day retail shopping. We
are offered limitless selections of foods,
clothing, appliances, drugs, variety goods
and everything else that people need and
want including automobiles, farm equip
ment and a t housand and one products too
numerous to mention.
The prices charged are not established by
some faceless bureaucrat who follows a
policy laid down by the nation's masters.
They are set by the forces of competition,
and by the natural law of supply and de
mand. The profits earned per dollar of sales
by maker and retailer alike are kept to a
minimum by competition. In some in
stances they are so small on an article that
if no profit were involved, consumers would
hardly notice the difference.
Next time you look into a store window—
in any kind of store—you might reflect
that here, in microcosm, is a prime example
of the difference between what free enter
prise capitalism and communism do for
their peoples.
performance as a whole was
much less admirable. Led by
Pravda. the New York Times.
the Saturday Evening Post
Howard K Smith, and what
seemed like hosts of mass me
dia workers, the Liberal Estab
lishment took a frantic interest
in the Republican Party's pro
blem of what to do about Gold
water.
Word Battle
Besides the run-of-the-mill
obloquy and headlined misin
terpretations of modern inter
pretative news coverage. Gold
water was opposed by many
national columnist who took
Khrushchevs cue and made
him out as “that w ild man "
But the worst semantic trick
with smear labels was one that
took in almost everybody Tins
time, having failed to make
Goldwater an "extremist " of
the "ultra-right.” the whole
pack went all out in pinning
the label of "moderate ' on
anybody wanting to stop Gold
water They thought this dodge
would achieve the impossible:
make a radical out of a cou-
A Prize-Winning
Weekly Newspaper
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
Look at the penalty the average citizen
pays in one small case: the automobile.
While we are allowed to just about choose
our own valuation of personal property, the
valuation of automobiles is set by the book.
Thus, we will pay 52.75 mills in tax on a
$20,000 house we have valued on the books
at $1,500 making a tax payment of $79.13;
and at the same time we take a two-year
old car at book value of $1,500 and pay the
same tax. This is equitable?
No, it’s sheer insanity, and further, it’s
grossly unfair, for almost every citizen owns
an automobile. The automobile today is not
a measure of wealth.
If the tax rate was only 10 mills and the
house was on the books at $20,000 (like it
should be) then the tax would be S2OO on
the house and sls on the car.
Seems like it’s clear enough to see what
needs doing. The Hartwell Sun
Hospital. This is a cruel and barbaric prac
tice which causes the patient to suffer a
psychological trauma as well as personal
indignity. And such procedure is unneces
sary with the resources of modern medical
practice.
The hospitalization law now in effect
clearly imposes a legal responsibility on
Georgia communities to keep these sick peo
ple out of jail. Provisions can be made in
every community hospital in the state for
the temporary care of these patients. Re
quired is a lit Ik' money. Some effort and a
modicum of compassion.
This is a challenge to comunity leader
ship.
servatist.
But a conservative of the
Goldwater type is no extremist
or radical No amount of ani
mosity from communications
media could make the Senator
into more than simply a con
servatives are generally mod
servative. an d conservatives
are generally moderate in their
views But they did not stop at
this If the Senator could be
persuaded to take certain ex
treme positions, or change his
mind, he would appear unre
liable and no man of principle.
A Positive A’ote
The curious blindness of pro
fes.sional observers apparently
still discounts the presence of
conservative thought in the
nation Generally ignored by
news media was the fact that
Goldwater won 53 5 per cent of
nearly two million primary
votes, with Ins closest rival
getting only 15 per cent Mas
sive opposition from liberal
dominated labor, from liberal
dommated communications me
dia. from liberal-controlled
government, and from other
political and pressure groups
was tremendous But his sup
port apparently came from
conservative - minded people
who understood.
Until the California primary.
- there was little recognition of
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OBSERVATIONS
Uy Elbert Forester
BOTTOM LINES—It was my
pleasure recently to sit down
with an old time retired pastor
—and he is a pastor—not a
preacher. Well educated, as a
matter of fact, and brilliant.
He had earned a number of
degrees in Seminaries, and had
had a number conferred upon
him. He had passed the 75th
milestone, but his mind was
keen, alert and ever active.
It wasn’t 1o n g until I
thoroughly realized that, he
had “covered a lot of ground".
He had weathered many
storms. He, in addition to his
college and seminary training,
had gone through the school, of
hard knocks. Born and reared
on the farm, he had walked
deep in the valleys of disap
pointments and pain. Though
lie showed the “wear and tear"
and battle scars, victory, con
tentment. satisfaction and
deeply-seated faith glowed
from his wrinkled brow.
Well, son. I tell you, this is a
world of tension." he said “En
tirely too much money and
time is spent on modernizing
the church. Many have become
social clubs and the authority
of the Bible is often pushed
aside in order to get more
members, not Christians. Our
seminaries are not turning out
enough God-fearing servants,
they are sending out young
men who are looking toward
the "easy" way, with great
building programs and plac
ing the emphasis on “big show”
and the material, rather than
the spiritual things. Many,
many of our churches are be
ing turned into a state of con
fusion and more and more of
our “salt of the earth" true
Christians are leaving the
church. This in turn keeps the
would-be genuine Christians
from regarding the church as
a place of worship. We have
wandered away as sheep with
out a shepherd Hurtful and
fact that the Senator's
strength came from conserva
tive voters who did not
body. Their man had expressed
a positive political philosophy.
It was his detractors who had
labeled as extremist one who
champions the rights of the in
dividual. who would curtail ex
panding power in the central
government, who would prefer
a free enterprise economy
rather than socialist experi
ments. and who would endea
vor to slow the march of Com
munism.
A Continuous Debate
Neither of our major parties
has shown enough downright
dedication to principle. In
stead of scheming to win both
the organized vote and the in
dependent vote, our parties
need to find principles to
which they may attach their
loyalty. Good TV personalities
are easier to find than good
principles. People do not want
parties to exercise “flexibility”
that allows convenient chang
ing according to the way the
wind blows.
Integrity of principle is the
prime need: disdain for prin
ciple is behind most of our
fumbles in domestic and for
eign policy. Regardless of
which party is in power, the
American people must take
evident their growing appreci
ation for the conservation of
American values In the next
few months there will be con
tinuous debate of those issues
involved in the maintenance of
freedom of opportunity and
preservation of individual lib
erty— for a less governed peo
ple. for a fuller measure of in
itiative. and for conserving our
basic values All Americans owe
Senator Goldwater their appre
ciation for sharpening the is
sues in this continual debate
harmful disagreements are
scattering the flocks. The stan
dard of living is being pushed
aside. New converts and those
hungry for the gospel in all its
purity are not finding it in our
church leaderships. Truly we
are wandering in the wilder
ness—in darkness without a
guiding light.
“I just don’t know what’s
going to happen—The ‘gap' be
tween right and wrong has
narrowed to such an extent
that our youth are finding it
difficult to determine the
right from the wrong—We
need quality rather than quan
iiy We need examples, rather
than so much advice.
ODDS AND ENDS—‘Bout
time to plant a late turnip
patch. . .See Miss Wilson and
help get a “man" a job. . .Got
it on the grapevine that some
kind of meeting was held re
cently in San Francisco (at the
Cow Palace—not. pasture.) Re
minds me when we used to play
“townball" in the cow pa^UirjE-
Remember when one of the
fellows slid into what he
thought was third base. . .To
the newswriter of The News—
“l love you, too, and thanks”. . .
Mrs. O. J Espy—don't tell ’em
how old you are—just let 'em
find out. if they can. . .“Grats”
to the Ed Bishops—sßth An
niversary— and they started
housekeeping on SSO. My, My!
Wouldn’t buy an electric can
opener, now. . Yeah —let’s
hand pick a VP. Helen. . Re
member the old gentleman
from the “hills” who declared
he’d never married had he
known there was “going to be”
electric blankets and sliced
bread. . <By doggies, he’s got a
point there). . Thought for the
“weak”—An old timer is one
who can remember when a girl
married a man for his money
instead of divorcing him for it.
Well, now. ain’t that the truth?
Letter to Editor
Dear Friends and Neighbors of
Summerville,
I have asked the newspaper
staff if I might use their fa
cilities to enable me to express
my thanks to all the people of
this town and county who were
so kind to my family and
myself during my recent stay
in the hospital and during my
convalescence at home. I hope
to be able to meet each of you
and tell you personally how
much your cards, letters, gifts,
and prayers have meant to me.
I know it would take me too
long a time to reach you all
and I might miss someone
through oversight, so I am
using this letter as a method
of reaching the most of you.
The people I met in Boston
were all overwhelmed with the
generosity and good wishes be
stowed on me by the folks of
this town. I told them that I
thought the title of ' All-Amer
ican Town” should be given
Summerville and this county.
The doctors in Boston have
given me hope of seeing again
and I credit this with the many
prayers that were offered in
my behalf. My doctor stated
that up to now he had done
everything he could do and
that it was now up to God to
do the rest and I believe with
the prayers everything will be
alright.
Again. I would like to say
thank you and God bless you
all.
JIM DANIEL
Bible Verse
To Study
•'Father, forgive them: for
they know not what they
IN APPROVING THE recent
tax cut Congress inaugurated
a fiscal policy which was at
best an experiment. Most of
the economists seemed to agree
that our tax structure was a
burden on business activity
and economic growth. But not
every economist held to this
view. Some respected experts
in the field stoutly maintained
that it would do no good to cut
taxes.
A goodly majority of the
membership of the House, my
self included, decided it would
be worth whatever risks might
be involved to try a tax cut.
The Minister
Speaks . . .
By J. B. CANTRELL JR
Pastor, Lyerly Baptist Church
Man’s fight against illness is
perhaps his most heroic battle.
Man is created with a body
that fights to live even though
we know that sooner or later
the body will die, according to
nature.
Illness has dogged us since
the dawn of history. If sickness
is one of man’s oldest enemies,
the doctor is one of his most
persistent heroes; a hero brave
before the terrors of disease .
the continual unknown. The
drama of the doctor starts
after 3000 B.C. when man 1
dared discard much of the
false security of primitive
magic.
Pioneer and primitive doc
tors have run errands of mercy
down through the ages.
Ancient Greeks paid homage
to the doctor Aslepius by wor
shipping him for 1,000 years as
the God of medicine. The sick
looked upon him as their doc
tor and would make pilgrim
ages to his temples hoping to
be cured as they slept at the
foot of his huge statue. The
walls of the temples were deco
rated with reproductions of
portions of the body that they
believed had been healed.
We are told that 5.000 years
ago the doctors of Egypt were
dosing out castor oil and gen
tian. These drugs are still used
today. Perhaps their greatest
advance was the ability to dis
tinguish different diseases by
discovering physical symptoms.
Before this time, disease was
thought to be a single horror
with endless variations.
Before Jesus’ day, India’s
plastic surgeons were repairing
mutilated faces in much the
same way that modern sur
geons do.
Hippocrates, one of the great
men of Greece’s Golden Age
<SOO 8.C.), has come to repre
sent dignity and humanitari
anism of the profession. The
Hippocratic Oath, which all
doctors pledge themselves to
uphold, stresses the doctor’s
duty to serve humanity un
selfishly.
Jesus, the great physician,
not only served humanity un
selfishly but also gave his life
that through faith in him we
can have eternal and abundant
life beyond the death of this
body. Certainly it is true that
Jesus ministered to the needs
of every person that came to
him, both physically and spir
itually. He performed many
miracles of healing to teach
man of his power to heal the
sin sick soul. Jesus taught his
disciples to look beyond this
present life and body to a new
body and life free of disease
and death. We are not to fear
that which kills the body, but
that which is able to kill the
soul.
We are grateful to God for
the skill and knowledge that
he has allowed our doctors and
nurses to possess in order to
minister to our physical needs.
It is through human instr
mentality, many times, that
God chooses for his will to be
accomplished.
At night, when you land at
New York's International Air
port, two rows of special lights
at the critical pre-touch point
must be fully visible to your
pilot. If he is off-center on his
approach, the light path be
comes automatically dimmed.
Unless the plane is guided back
to center, instant death and
tragedy is certain.
. Jesus is the light. Line up
with him for the sure safe
landing.
do."
1 Who made the above re
quest?
2. Upon what occasion?
3. Who were “they” to whom
He referred?
4. Where may this verse be
found?
ANSWERS TO BIBLE VERSE:
1. Jesus.
2. As he hung on the cross on
Golgotha, of Calvary.
3. The Roman soldiers, who
crucified Him specifically,
but generally to the Jew
ish leaders who had caused
his death.
4. Luke 33. part of the 34th
verse.
John Davis
Reports From
Congress
Now that it has been in
effect for several months, it is
not too early to take a look at
the nation’s present financial
condition in order to see how
the experiment is working out.
Happily, present indications
are that the lightening of the
tax burden, along with the
general state of good health of
the nation, is producing results
of most beneficial nature.
As financial writer Sylvia
Porter recently pointed out,
there are three important de
velopments that are well worth
noting at this time:
1. Federal government spend
ing is running well below
earlier official estimates.
2. Federal tax collections are
running well above earlier of
ficial projections. Rising busi
ness activity has resulted in
higher collections from more
prosperous taxpayers.
3. The Treasury's cash bal
ance at the close of the 1964
fiscal year (June 30, 1964)
totaled $10.2 billion, $2.3 billion
more than had been antici
pated as recently as late May.
In addition to increased tax
collections, the tax cut seems
to be closing the gap between
income and spending more
quickly than was predicted.
Withholdings on income last
month were S3OO million above
June of 1963, even though in
come tax rates have been
Notes From
20 Years Ago
O. H. Perry has been named
to head the local drive of the
Petroleum Industry War Coun
cil’s campaign to give the pub
lic the facts about the black
market and how it is hurting
the war effort, it was an
nounced today by Wiley L.
Moore, state chairman of the
Industry’s Committee on Ra
tioning, which is heading up
the drive . . .
The Chattooga County Fair
Assn, met Thursday afternoon
to discuss the probability of
having a fair. It was unani
mous by the group to have the
fair in 1944 . . .
Mrs. Elsie P. Berry received
the following telegram from
the War Department on July
19: “Regret to inform you your
husband, Pvt. Billy Berry, was
seriously wounded in France
on June 23.”
All of the schools in the
County School System, with
the exception of Summerville
and Berryton, will open Aug. 7.
The Summerville and Berryton
Schools will open Sept. 4 . . .
The German plan to defend
Nazi Europe has been blasted
in two months of fighting
which has seen the Tuetons re
treat more than 250 miles in
Italy, lose a beach head in
I^IHAN TALMADgV
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11 WASHINGTON |
IN 1960, a series of severe
earthquakes and tidal waves
struck a devastating blow to
southern Chile and the United
States mounted one of the larg
est emergency relief operations
ever undertaken in peacetime.
Under the;
mutual securi
ty program,,
foreign aid
funds totaling
$124.8 million
were made
available for
reconstruction
and rehabilita-
tion projects in the stricken
country.
Just recently, the General Ac
counting Office took a look at
the program to see how it was
progressing and issued a report
which shows why there is great
concern in this country over how
our foreign aid dollars are be
ing spent.
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ACCORDING TO THE report
of the GAO, “serious problems
were encountered because the
Agency for International Devel
opment (which administrates our
foreign aid program) did not
adhere to accepted standards of
programming and project plan
ning ... no meaningful review
was made of the Government of
Chile’s plans, specifications, and
cost estimates for the projects
undertaken (and) in many cases,
plans and specifications were
non-existent.”
As a result, found the GAO,
serious cost overruns occurred
in mpy projects, Uw coapU-
sharply reduced. Furthermore,
corporation profits are steadily
rising to new peaks, and so are
corporate tax collections.
At the same time prices have
held steady and interest rates
have not changed, both of
which are good signs.
The situation looked so good,
in fact, that the Treasury De 2
partment did not carry out its
plan to borrow several billion
dollars of new each to pay its
bills during the lean tax
months of July and August. In
stead, it decided that the bor
rowing could be postponed
quite comfortably, and the
present estimate is that it will
not have to borrow more than
$2 billion in the entire quarter
beginning July 1.
“In government financial
terms,” says Columnist Porter,
“this total is chi.cken-feed. The
Treasury always borrows in the
second half of a calendar year
—when tax collections are low
—and then repays as much of
the borrowing as it can in the
first half of the next calendar
year, when tax collections are
at a peak.”
Though it cannot be said
that the tax cut will fulfill- all
of the hopes held out for it by
its most optimistic sponsors,
still the present signs are that
it is having a most salutary
effect on our national econ
omy.
I France and suffer a disastrous
■ defeat in White Russia .. .
Prof. C. B. Akin, superin
tendent of the Summerville
; schools, has arrived with his
family in Summerville . . . Mr.
Akin received his B.A. degree
‘ from Piedmont college in 1934.
He has been doing graduate
• work this summer at the Uni
versity of Georgia in Athens.
He has completed the work
■ leading to the M.S. degree in
i education .. .
Mr. and Mrs. James Hudson
“ have- announced the engage
ment of their daughter, Jimmie
Frances, to Cadet Midshipman
I John Henry Wilson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Wilson . . .
Mrs. R. A. Duckett will spend
1 next week-end with Miss Alice
‘ Keown in Waterville.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Allen
■ and son, Farrell, of Marietta,
i were visiting relatives here
: Sunday.
i Pvt. James F. Hardy, Sum
merville, returned from service
outside the continental United
I States, now is being processed
1 through the Army Air Forces
; Redistribution Station No. 2in
Miami Beach, where his next
i assignment will be deter
i mined .. .
' tion was delayed and a number
i of them were deleted from the
> financing agreements because
1 they had not been started some
■ 3 years after the earthquakes.
With respect to hospital con
struction, under-estimates of
cost were as high as 300 per
cent, and some three years after
the earthquakes not one of the
20 hospitals which AID had
agreed to finance was operation
al. Also, in another relief area,
none of the AID-financed agri
cultural reconstruction projects
were operational.
In short, the GAO report is
replete with such examples of
mismanagement and the ineffi
. cient use of aid funds.
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ALTHOUGH THIS was an
emergency assistance program
and not subject to the regular
requirements of foreign aid leg
islation, the GAO correctly'
pointed out that the Agency'
. nonetheless had a responsibility
; to “assure in all reasonable re
spects that the funds were prud
. ently programmed and expend
. ed.”
Apparently, however, pro
■ gramming and planning stand
ards were virtually abandoned
. in the Chilean aid projects.
' If anyone wonders why our
foreign aid program frequently
. runs into difficulty in Congress,
he doesn’t have to look very far
, to find ample reason.
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