Newspaper Page Text
^ummeruilh ta
DAVID°T. I SPY JR JSS Editor"
JAMES D. ESPY Manner
WILLIAM T. ESPY ---• Ad vert Wns M »ni<t
WOODROW W ESPY News E « ,tor
The Summerville News
Is the Official Organ
of Chattooga County
Address All Mall to
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
P O. Box 310
Summerville, Ga. 30747
The Espy Publishing Company, Inc., will not be responsible for errors in adver
tising beyond cost of the advertisement. Classified advertising rate 5c per word,
minimum $1 00. Caru Thanks, Memoriams, etc. same as classified advertising.
Display rates given upon request.
■ —
Mr fsKri is tvllla
h's Up l<> Congress
Now that the election isover, Amer
icans can now pay less attention to
politics and personalities and concen
trate on the issue which overrides all
others: inflation.
Rhetoric aside, it is congressional
action which was the major factor in
causing the huge boost in the cost of
living, and it is congressional action
which can get us out of it.
Let’s take a look at some compara
tive figures. In 1967 total federal spend
ing amounted to $158.3 billion and the
Cost of Living Index was 100.0. By 1971
the cost of running the federal govern
ment had soared to $211.4 billion and
Profligate al Hay
F ew remember the “good old days”
when the federal government first
learned to live on the cuff in a big way.
This came along during the worst ot the
Depression years in the 30 s and in
World War 11, when massive budget
deficits became away of fiscal life for
Uncle Sam. No one worried about it
because the experts said it really did not
matter. After all, we owed it to our
selves.
Maybe it didn’t matter. But with
inflation running in double figures, the
federal budget at S3OO billion a year,
phis and the national debt pushing SSOO
billion, many people are beginning to
Ils Tree-1 rimming rime
In a few weeks millions of Ameri
cans will buy Christmas trees. Many
know very little about them, or how to
look for value or freshness.
The National Christmas free
Crowers Association says prices ranged
from three to twenty dollars last year,
the average being about six dollars.
Americans buy more Scotch pines
than anything else, a bushy tree which
holds its needles well Red and Norway
pines are also bought but are losing out
with growers because wet snows often
damage them Eastern and western white
pines are also sold but many growers feel
firs are best, since they hold their
needles indoors longer There is balsam
The Sugar Tot
If the high price of sugar bugs you.
it may be well to consider going back to
the ok! days, when many prepared their
own sweet
A recent newspaper feature told the
story of a farm family which still boils
its own molasses every tour years.
After each four-year cycle, the
family plants an acre in cane, and when
it ripens, boils the juice alter crushing
the stalks in a mill powered by a circling
horse. That makes about 80 to a 100
H hat H as 1974 Like?
As December arrives, it's time to
look back over the year, hi many ways
1974 was a hard year for Americans. For
the first time in history a President was
forced to resign under the threat ot
Senate trial.
The economy went steadily down
ward; war fears gripped all the world and
an energy shortage early in the year was
the worst in the nation's recent history.
As Christmas approaches, the future
of the nation is less clear than it has been
for decades; many are out of work,
inflation is hurting most families, and
Subscription Rate: $5.15 Witbin
County, $7.21 Outside County
Published Every Thursday by
ESPY PUBLISHING CO., INC.
Second Class postage paid at Sum
merville, Ga. 30747.
the COL Index was 121.3. Estimated
federal spending in 1974 has been placed
at $268.3 billion, with the C ost of Living
Index (Aug.) at 150.2.
The budget boosts are almost
beyond belief and it has been difficult to
persuade Congress that S3OO billion will
be enough to spend in the fiscal year
ending next July. It seems obvious that
federal spending pulls the cost of living
up behind
Now, as never before, we all must
send the message to Washington, we
cannot afford more inflation. Our gov
ernment must not spend more than it
takes in. And it is taking in too much.
think it did matter after all. Saving and a
sense of economy are coming back in
vogue, and perhaps the American people,
not to mention Uncle Sam, can relearn
these old virtues.
It costs $55,000 a minute, or nearly
SI,OOO a second, simply to pay the
interest charges on the rising national
debt. That adds up to about S3O billion
a year, or 65 percent of all the corporate
taxes collected this year.
Actually, it is not a case of deciding
whether the federal budget should be
balanced or not. It MUST be. There is no
choice left.
and douglas fir (not a true lir), both
popular.
The spruces hold their needles a
shorter time, though pretty. There is
Norway spruce, white spruce (less popu
lar) and blue spruce, a very expensive
tree because it grows slowly.
In buying your tree, here are some
useful tips: I Bend a needle. If it breaks,
don’t buy 2. Bounce the stump. If
needles fall, don’t buy. 3. Look at the
stump If not moist or sticky, don’t buy.
4. Keep your tree green longer by cut
ting an inch off the stump and keeping it
in water or damp sand Some add sugar
or aspirin to the water according to pet
theories.
gallons of molasses each cooking pro
ducing about 10 gallons alter live hours
on the fire. That’s a four-year supply.
The syrup is used for making sweet
breads, candy, cakes, and for other pur
poses, replacing sugar Many are
convinced this sweet is tar healthier than
refined white sugar, and on a par with
honey for nutritional and health values.
Most experts agree with the claims made
for sorghum cane molasses.
there is a disillusionment in elected
leaders and anxiety over the nation’s
future security.
The year 1974. then, was a grim
one. and maybe followed by yet an
other.
But two consolations can comfort
every American. The nation has always
mastered its crises and can master the
present ones. We are still a land of
plenty-comparatively and should be
thankful for our many blessings, material
and otherwise, more plentiful than in
any other country in the world.
| PRSSCRIPTIOnS .te
^rnn M.
Ooi
i I / /^ //
1
“Well, whoever he is—every time I ring up
a dollar he snatches out thirty cents!”
LOGOGRAPHIC BRINKPERSONSHIP
Women’s Lib, as with so many other
“new” movements, began with some
good points. Also as other movements
have, it has gone from the humorous to
the ridiculous.
It seems that “man” has suddenly
become a no-no word and cannot be
used, even when it is combined with
other letters. The head of a corporation
or a committee must no longer be called
a “chairman,” he must be referred to as
a “chairperson.” And members of the
committee must not be called “com
mitteemen,” they must be “committee
persons.”
Read what a Presbyterian “clergy
person” had to say about the whole
thing:
“As 1 started on an errand the other
day, the first individual I met was the
doorperson at our apartment house
entrance. Going on down the street, I
met the postperson delivering the mail.
“At the corner, I greeted the patrol
person, and Irishperson, and an old
country person.
“1 boarded a bus and saw several
workpersons, businesspersons, and a
Gerperson carrying a plaque of rare
workpersonship. My seat person told me
he had a daughter who was an upper
classperson in college.
“There are other problems: fire
person, fellowperson, horseperson, pen
personship, huperson beings, not
mention the foreperson at the mill. That
is only the beginning. What about
wopersons living on Personhattan Island,
eating persondaran oranges, reading
Fuperson Chu and ropersonic novels,
doing personual labor, and taking a
propersonade down the avenue.
“Wouldn't it be nice if the church
didn't have to be the first to jump on
every silly bandwagon that comes along?
From Our Early Files
10 Years Ago
DECEMBER 3, 1964
Rep James (Sloppy) Flovd has announced that he will introduce
legislation in January to abolish the Chattooga City Court and to combine
the offices of tax receiver and tax collector Administrator Barry Collins
reported that five Chattooga County Hospital employees had resigned over
disapproval ot new policies at the tacility.
20 Years Ago
DECEMBER 2, 1954
The Summerville Little Theater will present a three-act comedy. The
Male Animal.: Friday night at Trion . . A careless mule was the cause
Wednesday of a wrecked automobile and the confiscation ot '^gallons o
moonshine at Lyerly, apparently headed tor the C hristmas trade.
* * *
30 Years Ago
DECEMBER 7. 1944
Chattoogans this week received new ration dates for processed foods,
meats, sugar, shoes, fuel oil, and gasoline ... For Sale-113-acre tarm near
Gore Five-room dwelling, barn, crib, spring. Price $-.500 ... For
Sale New five-room dwelling. One-halt acre land. Price. $-.-50.
Thursday
Comment
sxxyßy Wood row Espy*:*
“To which I say an evangelistic
'Aperson.’ ”
Where will it all end?
** * *
HERE’S GOOD NEWS
If you’re a consumer shopping for a
home right now, you probably need all
the help you can get. Luckily for you, a
new federal law may offer a good deal of
help.
Virginia Knauer, special assist
ant to the President and director of the
Office of Consumer Affairs, Department
of Health, Education, and Welfare,
reports that the Housing and Com
munity Development Act, passed in
August, contains a number of provisions
that should benefit home-hunting con
sumers. For instance:
—The limit on mortgages insured by
the Federal Housing Administration
(FHA) has been increased to $45,000
from $33,000 for single-family homes.
-The limit on mortgage loans by
savings and loan associations has been
increased to $55,000 from $45,000.
Down-payment requirements for
FHA-insured mortgages have been
lowered. An FHA-insured mortgage on a
$35,000 home, for example, now re
quires a $1,750 down payment
(formerly $3,450).
-Discrimination on the basis of sex
is prohibited in home financing. This
means that lenders may not discriminate
against single women in the granting of
mortgages, and that they must consider
the combined income of husband and
wife when a couple applies for a mort
gage.
There’s also good news for home
owners who want to stay put .
-The limit on FHA-insured home
improvement loans has been increased to
SIO,OOO from $5,000.
THIRTY
Sensing the News
By ANTHONY HARRIGAN
Executive Vice-President
United States Industrial Council
ENERGIZING THE ECONOMY
Though it is labeled a “lameduck” Congress because
many of its members were defeated at the polls or plan
to retire this year, the 93rd Congress continues to bear a
responsibility for legislating. Its term is not at an end.
And the most important work facing it-and the
incoming 94th Congress-is the fight against inflation.
How should America fight inflation 9 The country
hears a great deal from economists. They have a role.
But more attention should be given to the people who
bear heavy responsibilities as employers and producers
of goods and services. These are the people with
practical knowledge of how the economy works.
It is unfortunate that the views of businessmen
aren’t solicited more often, for today’s businessmen are
articulate about the problems facing our country.
A case in point is the recent statement supplied to
President Ford by William B. Johnson, chairman of IC
Industries.
Mr. Johnson pointed out that the “economic
strength of the country and its people comes from
production. Any economic unit which consumes more
than it produces will get poorer; those dependent upon
it will suffer.”
Mr. Johnson observed that “governments are not
producers of goods; they are consumers, service
oriented. and represent a kind of overhead function to
the country as an economic unit.”
These are basic economic truths which often are
lost sight of by both federal and state legislators.
Hopefully, the realities facing the nation will compel
Congress to acknowledge the validity of the economic
facts cited by Mr. Johnson.
In his statement submitted to the President, Mr.
Johnson spelled out what needs to be done to increase
production in this country and, thereby, to whip in
flation. His No. 1 recommendation-and it should be on
everyone’s list—was for a balanced budget or surplus in
fiscal year 1976. Indeed the objective of a balanced
budget or a surplus should be the objective of every
state government as well.
In addition, Mr. Johnson proposed new incentives
for our people at this difficult time. He proposed
incentives to save, such as “tax exemptions for interest
on savings.” He proposed incentives to invest, such as
reform of the capital gains taxes. Finally, he stressed the
need for incentives to produce.
As a parallel program, Mr. Johnson recommended
that the federal government stretch out, indefinitely
defer or discontinue costly national programs which do
not produce goods, such as environmental investments,
subsidies which raise prices, new health legislation, and
regulatory activities which restrict production.
?
i ,
By JOEC. HUMRICHOUS
Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church
THE PEACEMAKER
In this world of toil and periodic trouble, it is
always a blessing to find someone who is able to bring
peace to a troubled heart. Jesus himself pronounced a
special blessing on the peacemakers in Matthew 5:9 and
said that they would be called the children of God.
What are the characteristics of a peacemaker?
1. A peacemaker must know Jesus Christ as his
savior. (Isaiah 57:20.21) One must know the prince of
peace before he can bring peace to another.
2. A peacemaker must know and love the Word of
God. (John 8:32) It is only the truth that will set people
free.
3. A peacemaker must have his own life placed on
God’s altar for God’s own purpose and result. (Romans
12:1,2)
4. A peacemaker must then have compassion for the
needs of others. (John 13:35) Jesus said that love was
going to be the mark which would identify his disciples.
What then must a peacemaker do in order to lead
another person to peace in his own life?
1. He must first reveal God's purpose for their
problem. God has a purpose in all that he does and we
must be willing to seek his will and get the most
“mileage” out of every problem in our lives. (Romans
8:28,29) It is at this point, where the true peacemaker
will introduce Jesus Christ to the person if he is not
born again.
2. The peacemaker must lead the person to confess
any sin in his life that may have caused the problem. (I
John 1:9)
3. The peacemaker must then lead the person to
transfer the responsibility of the problem to the proper
person. Sometimes this responsibility belongs to God or
to another in authority. This should curb all worry
because worry is simply assuming responsibility that
God never intended for a person to have. (Matt. 6:33)
4. The peacemaker then asks the person to “thank
God" for the problem. This is a sure way to stop
bitterness. (1 Thess. 5:18)
5. The peacemaker finally leads the person to
dedicate his life to God’s work in order that he might be
a better servant in the future. (Phil. 4:6)
By these simple steps, one can both have peace and
be a peacemaker. Surely this person will be called a son
of God. (Phil. 4:4-7)
Brother Joe
Banners of
Truth