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The Summerville News, Thurs., Jan. 14, 19651
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Committee Aids Students
Working quietly but effectively in
Chattooga County is the Chattooga
County Advisory Committee for Chil
dren and Youth.
Two of this group’s projects are (1.)
seeing that no child goes without a hot
school lunch and (2.) providing a used
clothing center.
Although a limited number of free
lunches have been provided for years
in the county’s school lunchrooms, it
was not financially possible in most
schools for the lunchrooms to serve all
who needed free lunches. It is this
overflow group of some 35 children
A Few Forecasts
It’s forecasting season again. The air
crackles with forecasts about who will
do what to whom in Asia, Berlin, the
Middle East. The alarms are clanging
over 1965’s forseeable traffic deaths,
crime, political crises and fierce new
challenges.
Okay. But let’s get it in perspective,
hm? Thanks to our resourceful re
searchers, it is now our pleasure tc
present a few of the items that fore
casters (even us) often forget.
Her? are some things that will hap
pen in 1965:
About 194,100,127 Americans will not
be hurt or killed in an auto accident
Nearly 13,199,000 girls will outgrow
the Beatles.
Sensing the News
by Thurman Sensing
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial
Council
THE ATTACK ON
CONSERVATISM
Stirred by the narrow win
of John F. Kennedy to the
presidency in 1960, the lib
erals that is to say, the
blood brothers of the social
ists and the communist ac
comodators began fever
ishly to determine how they
might best break down what
they deemed the '•conserva
tive rebellion'' that was
going on in the country.
They could envision an end
to their ambitions if this
were not done
As an aside, let it be noted
that by constant attack on
the word "conservative"
itself, they have since then
convinced even some of
sound conservative philos
ophy that the term should
be dropped and some other
word used in its stead, that
it has now come about that
the term "conservative" has
a certain stigma attached
to it and that it would be
harmful to continue using it
The tn üble is not with the
word "conservative"; the
trouble is that those who be
lieve in the conservative
philosophy simply haven’t
got what they mean by "con
servative" across to the
people generally. As far as 1
am concerned. 1 like the
word conservative. Conserva
tism is patriotism To be a
conservative is to be one who
wants to conserve what is
best of the past and build
on it for the future; is to be
one who believes that the
principles enunciated and
adopted by the men who
founded our government are
just as true now as they were
then, and will be just as true
a thousand years from now
as they are today.
A liberal, on the other
hand, believes that there is
nothing in the past worth
conserving, that the prin
ciples on which our govern
ment was founded are now
outmoded and outworn, and
must be replaced by other
principles These other prin
ciples, as identified by the
so-called liberals, always
turn out to be the principles
of socialism. They seem to
think these socialist prin
ciples are new, whereas they
are actually much older than
onservative principles They
have been tried tim< and
I hme .i . n throughout hls-
* dn did not
' ids conservative
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and liberal, but he stated the
problem quite well when he
said:
"If destruction be our lot,
we ourselves must be its
author and its finisher. As a
nation of free men, we must
live through all time or die
by suicide.’’
If we adopt the principles
ot liberalism we will no
longer be free men, and we
shall indeed be committing
suicide However, the attack
on conservatism has gone on
with intensified vigor the
past four years, and is con
tinuing.
The most dangerous at
tack, due to the financial
and political power back of
it, was instigated by the
Reuther Memorandum. In
the Fall of 1961, Walter and
Victor Reuther called on At
torney General Robert Ken
nedy and laid out an oral
plan on how to destroy the
"conservative rebellion.” Mr
Kennedy requseted that the
plan be submitted in writing,
which was done on Decem
ber 19th Except for distri
bution to a chosen few, the
memo was kept secret for
almost two years. Some of
the courses of action they
recommended the Govern
ment take were (1) Muzzle
the military by issuing or
ders against speeches or ar
ticles opposing Communism;
(21 Stop listing pro-commu
nist organizations exclusively
as subversive and add the
names of conservative or
ganizations by finding some
ganizations; <3> Stop the
flow of funds to conservative
organizations by finding
some pretext for removing
tax-exemption; c4> Use the
power of the FCC to investi
gate radio and television
stations carrying conserva
tive programs; and (5» Curb
the activities of J. Edgar
Hoover who "exaggerates the
domestic Communist menace
at every turn and contributes
to the public's frame of
mind." At least four of these
suggestions are in operation
now. and the proof is over
whelming.
This attack on conserva
tism is being actively car
ried on by Group Research,
Inc., an arm of the AFL
CIO's Committee on Political
Education, and by the re
cently formed National
Council for Civic Responsi
bility, sponsored by the tax
exempt Public Affairs In
stitute. Both these organiza
tions are doing their best to
destroy the conservative phi
losophy in this country.
All patriotic cll iz en s
A Prize- Winning
Weekly Newspaper
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
that the committee is trying to help.
The cost to see that a child has a free
lunch is only $5 a month. Church and
civic groups, as well as individuals, are
being asked to help provide the neces
sary money.
Used clothing may now be turned in
at any school and it will be made avail
able to those who desire it.
These are extremely worthwhile
projects. And we wish full success to
the new Committee as they try to pro
vide for some of the physical needs of
our children.
About 750,000,000 acres of forest
land will not burn up.
About 44,503,000 couples will stay
married.
About 55,503,000 citizens will file tax
returns on which the arithmetic is ab
solutely correct.
About 11,000,000 teen-agers will not
drop out of high school, and over 600,-
000 of those who go on to college in
1965 will stay there four years.
Over 20 billion dollars’ worth of auto
loans will be paid off.
And all year long there will be only
one Friday the thirteenth.
There you are. Help yourself. No
charge.
should be aware of what is
going on, and resist with all
the vigor at their command
the efforts being made to
destroy the principles that
have made the United States
a great nation, and that
must be maintained if we are
to remain a great nation.
A London doctor touring
in the provinces had dif
ficulty in obtaining suitable
lodgings in a small town.
One landlady, showing him
a dingy bedroom, remarked
persuasively, “As a whole,
this is quite a nice room,
isn't it?”
“Yes, madam,” he agreed,
“but as a bedroom it’s no
good.”
NOTES FROM...
20 YEARS AGO
One of the most vital and urgent needs of the army at
the present time is cotton duck, it was disclosed today by
Captain Jerome B Temple, who was recently sent to Trion
to make known to this community the army’s need in this
respect. . . .
"When the people of this community realize how much
this cotton duck is needed to protect the health and well be
ing of our soldiers, we know they will pitch in and get out
that duck." he said
* • ♦ •
Under the leadership of Mrs. Paul Weems, hospital,
camp and council chairman of the local Red Cross chapter,
many citizens of Summerville and Chattooga County con
tributed to the making of the Christmas season a happy
one for many patients in Battey General Hospital at Rome.
• • ♦ •
The new high school building in Summerville has been
occupied A few minor things remain to be done yet but
the high school has moved in and the school session began
on Jan 3
• • • •
Frank Fisher, who has served as sheriff of Chattooga
County for several months, succeeding Sheriff Frank Kel
lett. resigned, has accepted the position as jailer in Rome.
• ♦ • •
Miss Joanne King spent a few days in Pennville last
week with Mrs Emma Parris.
• • • •
Mrs Lee A Martin is visiting Mrs E T. Hollingsworth
in Gadsden
"Alpine Glow." the home of Mr. and Mrs. C A. Dodd,
was the scene of a family gathering on Christmas Day
• * • •
Lt William A Henson 11, 21. who previously had been
reported missing in action since Sept. 28. was killed on that
date, the War Department has notified his wife, Mrs. Har
riette Whisnant Henson.
• • • •
The tenth grade has a new pupil, who is Billy Speer
from Menlo We are glad to have him The following boys
were home during the holidays: Verbon Hawkins. John
Henry Maxey. Weyman High. Weyman Milam and Deforest
Owens Gore School News
• • • •
Helen Owings was the week-end guest of Rebecca Manis
C N Kathryn Erwin, of Richmond. Va. visited her par
ents. Mr and Mrs O D Erwin, during Christmas—Subllena
School and Community News.
AWVr ® \V 1)
The Legisletter
by Glenn MuCullough
Executive Director Georgia Press Assn.
ATLANTA — When the
General Assembly convened
last Monday it had before it
a detailed plan for re
apportioning the House of
Representatives in response
to a Federal court order. It
was the work of a 15-mem
□er committee headed by
Rep. George Busbee of
Dougherty County which
had held hearings through
out the state and made its
final report January 4.
Leaders believe that the
plan, which fixes the mem
bership of the House at 205,
its present number, has an
excellent chance of passing
the lower chamber with
perhaps a few minor
changes. But what the Sen
ate will do with it and
whether it will be sustained
after passage by the Fed
eral courts are something
else again.
The plan represents a vic
tory for the small counties
as all except the very small
est in the state will be able
to retain at least one Rep
resentative. And a few
which have had only one in
the past will now have two.
Completely defeated were
big-county efforts to reduce
the size of the House dras
tically. For example, a
spokesman for the Demo
cratic parties of Fulton and
DeKalb counties wanted to
cut the chamber to a round
100 members with 10 elected
from each Congressional
district.
Moreover, the committee
recommended as a separate
bill a “safety hatch” which
would prevent the House
from ever being reduced be-
low 205 members in case the
plan passed by the Assem
bly should be rejected by
the Federal courts and they
should take over the job of
reapportionment.
Teh U. S. Supreme Court
has ruled that while a lower
Federal court may force a
legislative body which is not
based largely on population
to reapportion itself, the
courts cannot change the
size of the legislature, if
that is fixed by law.
All these factors, it is be
lieved, will add up to
enough small-county sup
port to insure passage of the
bill in the House.
But the big counties are
not very happy about it.
This results from the fact
that under apportionment
by population their delega
tions in a 205-member House
will be so large that the
members will have difficulty
agreeing among themselves.
Seats allotted the “big
eight” under the Busbee
plan are: Fulton, 25; De-
Kalb, 11; Chatham, 8; Mus
cogee and Harris, 8; Bibb, 6;
Richmond, 6; Cobb, 5; and
Dougherty, 4.
The report provides that
no House district shall have
more than four Representa
tives. If the number is four
or less, members will be
elected on a county-wide
basis with candidates filing
for specified Representative
posts. In counties or a com
bination of counties com
prising a legislative district
with more than four Repre
sentatives, the local delega
tion will decide how they
shall be elected.
Many Senate members
want the House reduced in
size. Some have threatened
to perform a major opera
tion on the Reapportion
ment bill when it reaches
them.
Vehicles
Bought By
Comity
A Rockmart firm’s bids on
three new vehicles for Chat
tooga County were accepted
by Commissioner Harry
Powell Tuesday.
The vehicles include two
police cars for the sheriff
and a half ton pick-up truck
for the Public Works Camp.
The Forsyth Motor Com
pany of Rockmart, a Ford
dealer, offered to sell the
two cars for $4,184.12 (or
$2,092.06 each) and the
truck for $1,532.82. Powell
had specified Fords in his
advertisement for bids.
Only two other bids were
received on the cars and
only three others were re
ceived on the truck.
Jackson Chevrolet of
Summerville offered to sell
the county two Chevrolets
for $2,164.92 each and a
truck for $1,561.39. Wilson
Motors Inc. offered to sell
two cars for $2,093.35 each
and a truck for $1,574.71
Marks Auto Sales bid $1,725
on the truck.
The sheriff's office, which
went from the fee to the
salary system Jan. 1, is pres
ently using leased vehicles
Under the salary system, the
county must furnish all sup
plies to the sheriff and
other county officers.
HOLIDAY NOTICE
We will observe Tuesday,
Jan. 19, Robert E. Lee's
birthday, as a legal holiday.
No business will be trans
acted.
—FARMERS AND
MERCHANTS BANK
/®\bservations
, bM
HAVE MERCY! Radio and
TV keeping in close touch
with the “dead on the high
ways” . . .The number now
stands at well over the 1278
in 1963. The correct num
ber will be given before this
copy is dropped in the mail,
but be assured the number
will be an all-time high for
Georgia and possibly the na
tion.
HALF BILLION in taxes
announced, as a matter of
fact, over half billion. At the
beginning of the New Year
marks the 47th consecutive
month of growth in our
state’s revenue collections.
... A 15.3 percent rise over
last year. It must be re
membered that “with privi
leges come responsibilities”
. . . and, responsibilities are
quite often expensive.
THE CHIEF, as a begin
ner, recalls the one when
the officer addressed the
judge: “Your Honor, I grab
bed this guy stealing apples
off a peddler’s cart.” Judge:
“Hm! Impersonating an of
ficer-sixty days.”
MY NEIGHBOR, in the
meantime, tells about the
speaker who gave as a rea
son for using notes that he
didn’t want to get mixed up
on who said what—For in
stance, whether it was Will
Rogers or Elizabeth Taylor
who said, “I never met a
man I didn’t like.”
BY THE WAY—The writer
is mindful that it is “un
ethical” to mention Christ
mas gifts, but just want to
mention three unusual ones
coming my way: Electric
shoe shine outfit, umbrella
with “case” to carry, and a
hair cut. How about that?
(If you don’t believe it, ask
Spencer Brandon.) However,
the “best feeling” gifts were
received by visiting the sick
and indisposed in their
homes and hospitals during
the holidays. (“Sorta” does
something to a fellow to
visit the sick, particularly,
at a time when so many are
rejoicing and having a “big
time” in normal life.)
“CABLE” from two kins
men, Fred of Denham
Springs, Ga., and Max, Mor
ristown, Tenn. Max is “tak
ing it easy” at his boat dock
reservation, and Fred is pas
tor of the Morningside Bap
tist Church there. Fred
recommends sassafras tea to
keep “trim and young-like,”
like Elbert. Right! Might
add a “swig” of banana juice
occasionally. Also recom
mends carrying a grave
yard rabbit’s foot. I don’t
go along with that—a clov
erdale buckeye much pre
ferred. Have tried both, and
find the buckeye more de
pendable.
Incidentally, Fred, if you
go to Nigeria and/or Costa
Rica, how about making a
deal with ’em to send us a
few missionaries—(on sort
of an exchange basis?)
MY PASTOR sums up with
the most important state
ment of the “Observations”
Staff—“ You may drift into
hell, but you must choose to
row into heaven.”
This Writing—Wouldn’t be
dead sure, but looks like
Dade’s Maddox Hale will be
named Speaker Pro-Tern of
the House Monday morning,
when the Georgia General
Assembly convenes (for a
split session.) The Atlanta
Constitution reported (in
part,) today . . . Friday 8:
"Hale, a legislative veteran,
has been everybody’s choice
since the race began any
way. On the few occasions
when he speaks, people lis
ten. He is apt to begin with
some drollery about sitting
on his little mountain plot,
looking off Lookout Moun
tain, but before he has fin
ished, he makes his point.”
To say the least, Maddox
has done a very fine job in
the General Assembly and
has the utmost respect of
all the members. Be assured
that the position of Speakex
Pro-Tern of the House of
Representatives is a posi
tion that must be earned.
. . . The membership of the
body elect their presiding
officers and for Maddox to
be elected with or without
opposition speaks exceed
ingly well for the state,
county and himself. He is
thoroughly capable and we
extend to him our very best
wishas.
HELEN (quote,) “More
than a half-million addi
tional Americans are sub
scribing to weekly news
papers this year than sub
scribed in 1963.” ।You know.
I didn't know that, but it
makes sense to me. The
weekly keeps us informed,
mostly, on a local level, and
actually, the home town
weekly should and does have
a distinct advantage in let
ting us know what’s going
on in and around our com
munities.)
UNCLE NED (Summerville
News,) allows: "Summerville
people to get plenty ov room
to brag about their city.
Makes me wish I lived there
sumtimes.” (By doggies, me,
too, Uncle Ned.)
AND SPEAKING of the
weekly newspapers, it is not
surprising to this Scribe
that The Summerville News
has a higher readership,
percentage-wise, than any
other weekly in Georgia.
The News is listed as the
Uth largest in the State in
circulation, though far
down the scale in population
—4lst. The News goes into
John Davis Reports
From. Congress
MOST OF THE time the
first weeks of a session of
Congress are dull. But this
certainly has not been the
case with the convening of
the 89th Congress.
On the very first day some
very important rules
changes were voted upon,
and in a rare night session
the President made his an
nual State of the Union ad
dress which most of you
saw and heard.
There were three changes
involved in the rules of the
House, two of which I
heartily approve and the
third of which I found to
be so objectionable that I
voted against any change.
Under the procedural situa
tion, it was impossible to
vote separately on the
changes, so each Member of
the House was compelled to
vote all the changes up or
down.
CHANGE NUMBER ONE
I heartily approved. It em
powered the Speaker to
bring up for Floor action
any measure which had re
mained with the Rules Com
mittee for a period of 21
days without being acted
upon. This change enables
the majority of the House
of Representatives to work
its will upon any piece of
legislation which, in the
Speaker’s judgment, ought
to be voted upon even
though the Committee on
Rules had not acted to
bring it out.
Change number two pro
vides that a motion to dis
agree with a Senate amend
ment to a House bill should
always be in order if the
Speaker should recognize a
Member of the House for
the purpose of making such
a motion and if the com
mittee having jurisdiction
over the subject matter of
the bill should direct that
such a motion should be
madL In effect, this simply
means that a House bill
which has been amended by
the Senate can be brought
to a vote with absolutely no
opportunity for debate or
discussion in the House.
HERMAN TALMADGE
il ' Reports From
! I WASHINGTON J
EDUCATION will again this
year rank high on the legislative
agenda of Congress, underscor
ing the growing national aware
ness of the importance of school
ing in our complex society.
By giving priority status to
the needs of education, the 89th
- i
Congress will
follow in the
footsteps of
the last Con
gress which de
voted more at
tention to this
field than any
other in recent
history. The
enactment of a series of legisla
tive landmarks in education in
1963 and 1964 made a remark
able record of accomplishment
vital to the future well-being of
the American people.
According to present plans of
the administration, federal aid
to education in various areas
will be continued and expanded
to provide for new classrooms
and more better-trained teach
ers, both at the common school
level and in our colleges. Con
gress, for the most part, can be
expected to support the admin
stration’s program for educa
tion
• • •
AT NO OTHER time, in my
opinion, has education been more
important to the security and
prosperity of the United States.
This is particularly true in states
like Georgia where the transi
tion to industrialization greatly
increases the demand for special
ized skills and training. So rapid
are the advances being made in
science and technology, that it
is difficult just to keep up.
4,193 homes each week . . .
The writer says, without
reservations, that SOME
THING! (By the way, Mr.
Editor and Publisher, that
number should be 4,194, in
stead of 4,l93—’cause The
News comes into my home,
too.) Congratulations, at
any rate . . . Rest assured
this record didn’t just hap
pen—No sir-e-e-e ... It rep
resents the fruits of careful
planning and “know how”
and plenty of hard work on
the part of a dedicated force
of “natural” newspaper men.
(Right, subscribers? Right!)
Suggestion — You Sub
scribers, at least, should
drop in The News plant
some press day, and see the
big offset “roll out” your
home paper ... Be assured,
it would be worth your
while.
SUCH A RULES change
might not be too objection
able if it were true that in
the Senate, as in the House,
an amendment to a bill
must be germane to the sub
ject matter of the bill. Such
is not the case, however, in
the Senate. On one occasion
since I have been in Con
gress the House passed a bill
having to do with honey
bees, and the Senate attach
ed an amendment control
ling the entire sugar import
legislation for the year. On
another occasion the House
passed a bill permitting cer
tain rare birds and animals
to be imported into the
United States, and the Sen
ate attached an amendment
setting up import quotas on
beef. It has happened in the
past that an obscure private
bill would pass the House
only to have the Senate at
tach a major piece of tax
legislation in the form of an
amendment and send it
back to the House to be
voted upon.
♦ ♦ ♦
IN INSTANCES SUCH as
these, it is, to my mind, im
perative that there be af
forded Members of the
House an opportunity to
hear what a bill is about, to
debate it, and to discuss it
before being called upon to
cast a vote. My objections to
this change were strong
enough to cause me to vote
against the entire resolu
tion, as I have stated earlier.
The third change was en
tirely unobjectionable. It
simply made it impossible
for an angry Member of the
House to delay the vote
upon a bill for an extra day
by demanding a printed
copy of the bill before the
vote was taken. This rule of
the House has never, in my
judgment, served any useful
purpose, and I was glad to
see it changed.
There are many important
pieces of legislation on the
program for this year’s
work, and I will be discus
sing each of them in this
space during the weeks
ahead.
1 If we are to prepare today
for the demands of the future,
education is the key. This of
course means more than just
more classrooms and teachers.
When we think of education, we
’ must think only in terms of ex
i cellence.
We must do more and do it
better than we have done in the
past. There are today eight mil
lion adults who have not gone
beyond the fifth grade, almost
20 million who have not finished
eight years of school, and near
ly 54 million of our citizens have
not finished high school.
There are 41 million students
■ crowded into our public schools,
1 and about one-third of the stu
• dents currently in the fifth grade
■ will drop out before graduation
from high school. Approximate
ly 20 per cent of the nation’s
18-to-21-year-olds with only an
I eighth grade education cannot
। find satisfactory employment.
I This is not a situation of
i which we can be proud.
• * *
I THIS IS A problem that calls
■ for a concerted effort on the
। part of local communities, cities
• and counties, the states and the
• federal government. Already
great strides have been taken,
and educational opportunities
' abound as never before. But
i much remains to be done.
1 It must be remembered that
• neither poverty, unemployment,
> nor any of the problems of our
■ citizens today can be corrected
’ without education.
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