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DEVOTED TO THE HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE HOMES. SCHOOLS CHURCHES OF ALAMO AND WHEELER UANTY
VOL ME 33
Back From
The Capitol
Reporter—Frankie Holmes
On Monday • morning. May 27,
1946, the Senior Class of Wheeler
County High School with Mrs. Lee
Evans and Mr. C. A. Estes, left
Alamo, Georgia for the Capital,
Washington, D. C.
Our first day on the road was a
very pleasant one. We stopped in
a shady place to spread and eat our
lunch.
We lost no more time than was
necessary and got to Raleigh, N. C.
where we were to spend our first
night, about 6:00. We stayed in the
Andrew-Johnson Hotel. Some went
to bed while the rest of us went to
a movie.
We left Raleigh Tuesday morning
about 6:00 o”clock. Our 2nd day
on the road was much the same as
our first. We arrived at the
Hotel in Washington about 7:00
o’clock Tuesday afternoon. The
whole group was worn out, but
couldn’t stand the thought of stay
ing our rooms our first night in
Washington, so we went to another
movie.
Upon cur arrival, Congressman
Hugh Peterson’s message, for us to
contact him, reached us. Early the
next morning his former secretary,
Mr. Joe Underwood contacted Mrs.
Lee Evans, stating that he was
ready to show us the town. After
breakfast we went directly to the
House Oftice Building where each
of us personally met Mr. Hugh
Peterson. After he explained his
duties to us, who were seated around
the very table at which he and his
committee formed bills, we started
on our tour of Washington.
Through the courtesy of Mr.
Peterson, Mr. Joe Underwood had
come from Mt. Vernon Georgia to
Washington, D. C. especially for the
purpose of showing us our capital.
For two gloriously happy days, led
by our efficient guide, we thrilled
at the sight of a city which no
words of any author can do justice.
Naturally in such a short time, we
saw only the high lights. We give
you a brief summary of these high
lights in order to render to future
seniors and the friends who helped
to make this trip possible the bene
fits derived from our trip.
First, we visited thb nation’s
capitol building. We visited the
Senate and the House which were
in session. We picked out Georgia’s
two statues in the Hall of Fame.
Then we rode on the shortest sub
v :y in the world.
We next went to the Bureau of
E .graving and Printing, where wc
saw money being made. Bills cf
c"ery denomination.
Ikon wer.t to the Supreme Court j
EuiM . g where our guide turned
us over to a negro guide who had
been in Washington for 3C years. He
explained simply and well the duties
and offices of the Supereme Court.
The flag, he explained was flying at
hali-mast because of the death of
Senator Carter Glass. He even show
ed us the chair left vacant by the
death of Chief Justice Stone.
In the Library of Congress we
saw millions of books. This Library
contains a manuscript of every book
of every author.
Our visit to tha Federal Bureau
of Investigation was indeed inter
esting. A special F. B. I. agent
carried us on an inspection tour of
the whole building. We even del
ved into the files of such criminals
as Jchn Dillinger. We saw the hat
he had on when he died and the
broken place on 4 it caused by his
falling against a building as he was
shot. One agent gave Harold Mc-
Donald a pictured skelton which
had approximately 200 bullet holes
in it caused by his shooting of the
different guns in use by J. Edger
Hcover's special agent.
One of the scenes which will most
likely be remembered by us is Ar
lington Cemetery, where the soldiers
of tha Civil War are buried. We
were fortunate enough to be there
on Memorial Day and the Govern
ment had a poppy and a wreath of
He were on every grave. The beauty
find the meaning of those millions
c.' little white crosses gave each of
us a deep and seren feeling. We
also saw tjie Toomb of the Unknown
Soldier, which was in this Ceme
tery, and the wreath that President
Truman had placed upon it.
We made a thorough inspection of
George Washington’s home, Mt.
Vernon. The servants’ quarters were
TObeplrr ®nuw Saab
C A
Call Meeting
Call Meeting at The Burns-Geiger
Post No. 67 will be held Wednesday
evening, June 12th at 8:30 o’clock
at the Glenwood Masonic Hall.
There are several important issues
to be discussed at this meeting.
Your attendance is requested.
W. E. Crawford, Commander
Burns-Geiger Post
Glenwood, Ga.
just as they had been when Wash
ington lived there. The meat,
though black with age, was still
hanging in the some-house.
As we went through Lee’s man
sion, we were looking forward to the
brief historical talk which was to
follow. On our tour through this
house, one thing that was noticed by
all was Lee’s glasses lying on a book
where he placed them when he
tock them off.
Washington’s Monument was found
to be very interesting. We went up
in an elevator and viewed Washing
ton from the top. Some of us
walked back down which meant
walking down 588 steps.
As we went inside the Lincoln
Memorial, we saw a statue of Abra
ham Lincoln. It was 19 feet high
from his head to his feet. One one
side, inscribed on the wall, is his
Gettysburg Address. On the other
side, his Inaugural Address. On
the inside is 36 colonades for the 36
states at the time of his death. His
age when he died can be determined
by courting the steps going up to the
building.
The Smithsonian Institute con
tains some of the most interesting
things that we saw while we were
away. In it we saw the improve
ments that have been made in
automobiles. The last model is a
car made of clear glass. We also
saw the original typewriter. We
saw dresses worn by wives of each
of the presidents. We saw Lind
bergh’s plane and so many other
things of interest that it would be
impossible to list them all here.
The Old Christ Church was
another point of interest to us.
This is the church which George
Washington attended. His family
pew is still named, just as it was
when he went to church there.
As our bus passed down the street,
our guide pointed out to us the
theater that Lincoln was in when he
was shot and the house just across
the street to which he was taken
and died in.
Our nights in Washington were
as exciting as our days. As I have
already said, the first night we went
o a movie, but the 2nd night we
./ere eager to go to an amusement
park, Glen Echo, which was just
ever the line, in Delaware.
On our last night there we took a
3 hour boat-ride down the Ptomac
River. We went down as far as Mt.
Vernon before turning around. On
the boat was an orchestra, which
played a request for us “Georgia”
people.
Friday morning we put our bags on
the bus preparing to start back to
Georgia. We got to Charlotte, N. C.
about 8:00 o’clock. We spent the
night in the Selwyn Hotel. Most
of us stayed in our rooms to
enjoy one night’s sleep.
We awoke Saturday morning
ready to travel again. We were go
ing to spend the next night in At
lanta and that meant Georgia to us.
We arrived in Atlanta late that aft
ernoon to find that the Henry Grady
Hotel, where we had reservations,
could not give us accommodations
wc expected. We refused to stay
there under the conditions that pre
vailed. We considered the idea of
coming on home that night but Mr.
Estes managed to get rooms for us
in the Cox-Carlton Hotel, which
proved to be one of the hotels we
stayed in. Everyone had the night
free to do what ever they wanted to,
and that proved to be fun indeed.
We left Sunday morning for home
and got here about 4:00 o’clock. We
were a tired but satisfied group. We
had achieved the goal we had been
working for during our Senior year.
We had been to our nation’s capital.
Speaking for the Seniors, Mrs.
i Evans and Mr. Estes, we wish to
express our sincere appreciation to
each of you who has helped to make
this trip possible. You have given
, us something that can never be taken
from us.
We wish to extend special thanks
to Mr. Audry Cox, our bus driver,
I who' efficiently drove us to the
.capital and safely back to Alamo.
ALAMO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNS 7 19 o
PRESTON FOR BBS
! ; s'
I hereby announce my candidacy for Representative
in Congress front the First District of Georgia in the
Democratic primary to be held on July 17, 1916, and re
spectfully invite the support of the vo; . s of tee district
for this office.
Farming is the chief industry of the District, with its
eighteen counties, stretching from Burke to Mclntosh end
from Chatham to Wheeler, and, if .L J, I shall ccnccrn
myself primarily with the interests of the apriciiltural
producers, and promise that my fir.-I : "ii i J ;ct will ’ >
to introduce and work for the passage of a bill to utilize
government credit to set up and r.mintai.i a minumum
Brice schedule on all our agricuhm .1 r oden ts, iTieUdimr
truck crops, just as the price of permits it r. w sup] vF?d,
? price that will not be dependent cn the functioning of
the Commodity Credit Corporation.
I will support an effort designed to change the iniquitous
lule now in force for fixing parity prices on farm products,
which denies to the farmer any credit for his labor, so that
in the future it will be required that a reasonable allowance
be added for the farmer’s labor as- an essential elements in
fixing parity prices, as is set out in the Pace Parity Bill
now pending in Congress.
I am a member of the Georgia Farm Bureau and be
lieve in its priciples and pledge my active support of all
causes sponsored by it. *
Because of my sincere interest in veterans’ rights and
affairs, 1 will be found ready and filing to further their
causes at all times and will support legislation to pay t hem
a bonus and grant them terminal leave pay.
I believe in freedom of enterprise' with the least
governmental control. 1 shall take a stand against re
strictive measures which tend to retard reconversion and
discourage investments.
Believing that a great responsibility rests on leader
ship in our government to bring about a just, fair and
proper solution of the labor-management problem, I pledge
my best effort towards bringing this about so that there
may be a lasting and permanent relation of harmony
established.
I will represent each of the counties of this district
fairly and impartially and will earnestly strive at all time:
to promote the welfare of its people.
Respectfully,
PRINCE H. PRESTON, JR.
Two More Teams
Join Oconee
Baseball League
At a call meeting Monday evening
at Vidalia of the baseball fans and
executive oficers of the Oconee
Base Ball League it was voted
unanimously to enter Soperton and
Adrian into the league. This will
be a six club base ball league.
The towns that are now qualified
in the league now are: Alamo, Glen
wood, Mcßae, Vidalia, Soperton and
Adrian. Alamo played Glenwood in
Alamo Thursday, at the time' of go
ing to press the score was not learn
ed. Alamo will play Vidalia in Vi
dalia Sunday afternoon.
The business men of the towns are
cooperating with their respectiful
teams whole heartily. It is the
plans of officials of the Oconee
league to make this one of the most
notable leagues in the state.
The manger for the Alamo club J
Mr. J. F. Geiger has several years
of experience in baseball.
TRUCK TIRE FOUND
«
Found early Tuesday morning,
June 4, one large truck tire, size
9.00 by 20. Make is a U. S. Royal]
Fleetwood. Owner may get same
by paying cost and advertisement.
For more particulars call at the
Eagle office.
Mrs. CoHey Speaks For
Jimmie Carmichael
Predicting that Georgia women
would go to the polls in greater
]numbers than ever before to vote for
I good government and honest gov
]ernment in the State, Mrs. C. S.
.Colley, of Grantville, widely known
for her activities in civic and reli
gious organizations, spoke this week
on behalf of Jimmie Carmichael’s
I race for Governor.
Mrs. Colley said that the women
voters of the State were impressed
by Carmichaeh's sincerity, ability,
and courage,' and^approved his stand
for better educational facilities, in
cluding an expanded library pro
gram, a State guarantee of the
lunchroom program if Federal aid
( is suspended, and increased pay for
! teachers. Election of Carmichael,
^he said, was necessary to avoid a
return of bitter factional politics in
the State.
“There is not room in Georgia for
[politicians who defy the courts and
advocate mob rule and who want to
tear down the laws that enable us
to have honest elections and honest
counting of votes,” Mrs. Colley told
her radio audience in asserting that
Georgia women preferred Carmichael
because he supported law and order.
FOR SALE—Light 4 disk John
Deere tiller, on rubber. First class
condition. Martin Johnson, Alamo,'
Georgia, Route 2.
Sample Copy 5e
| Jyst A Moment
HAIS OiF TO MBS. PHII l IPS!
We deli our hats with old South
■ern courtliness and bow as low as
i.ur waistline will permit to Mrs.
[G. 11. Phillips, who single-handedly
t o nes eight grades in a otic-room
TkT<K>Hte«*e,..in Upson county.
| 1: to a job which many IT IttWflern
• ej.hcr would disdain, she has put.
pier heart and soul and given to
| Georgia its spelling champion of the
I year—fair-haired, freckle-faced, 13-
i year-old Mattie Lou Pollard.
We nominate Mrs. Phillips for
reci snition as Georgia's Woman of
the Year or School Teacher of the
Year, for one very good reason—
She teaches children to spell by
breaking the words into syllables.
ITr instance, a word like “incom
prehensible” is spelled syllable by
yh..' Ie: “1-n, in; c-o-m, com, in-
• ■ p-r-e, pre, inccmpre; h-e-n,
. .n, i c ami!rehen, —55 and so on.
Teachers of 'ihe Modern School
I :e th.it this method wastes too
I r:: h th ,; old-timers argue that
I ' th: only means of impressing:
J-'s mind a clear under-j
' . f the elements of the
The Modern School believes that
■ cTld’s mi.id should, like a
.c... i rd a complete picture of!
1,11.? citir, word at a glance; old
' . .argue that all children don’t,
ih vo the camera mini and that!
.i re i.- t.o much hurried reading!
u world, and that camera
r'.Jr, l.ite films, survive best in
1 ; : ry, wo stand stubbornly
I .: t... r inks of tiie old-timers.
Hight alongside us, apparently,
finds Mrs. Phillips who lias proved
she was right by producing in her
little rural schoolhouse a girl who
•‘spelled dow: " all comers from the
few Modern Schools in Georgia and
moved on to Washington, D. C., to!
serve lie: slate creditably in a
national spelling bee.
MATTLE LOU IS NOT AN
ANARCHIST.—When young Mattie
-Leu stood on the platform in Wash
ington,, not only doing herself proud
I out she brought glory to Georgia and:
to lite soundness of the manner in
I which Mrs. Phillips must conduct her
Upson County school.
Mattie Lou stumbled only on the
rd “anarchy.”
Os her tongue tripped lightly such
words as “minimum,” “paralleled,”!
“indubitably,” “lugubrious,” and
“salumny.”
In “anarchy,” she substituted a
“k” for the “h”.
That's fine, Mrs. Phillips.
If more pecople in the world were
as unfamiliar with “anarchy” as
Mattie I.' u, y a and I and all your
friends in Upson county would find
our 1 wean of worries reduced to a
bear: bio pcint.
OLUcusly, Mrs. Phillips, you have
never discussed “anarchy” in your,
schoolhouse. I don’t believe in j
blissful ignorance, but I do believe
that the word and its meanings are
better reserved for stable adult minds.
A lot must be accomplished in the
world but only through the logic
and reasoning of a type engendered
by syllable spelling.
You, Mrs. Phillips, apparently
have been spending your time teach
ing your children the wisdom of
leading the healthier, sounder life
and I certainly hope Upson county
and Dr. M. D. Collins, of the State
Board of Education, .give you the
recognition your deserve.
The Atlanta Journal Wants Cor
rect Spelling.—Some forty years
ago, I represented my home town in
a national spelling bee and they
. cuunted-Rw- otR-ffn the word “phthi
sis.” The man pronounced the
word, as I heard it, “thesis,” and
that's the way I spelled it. Even if
he had pronounced the word cor
rectly, I would have missed it. I
had never heard of it. Some genius
from Cleveland, Ohio, spelled me
down on that one, even though, I,
being from the South should have
known more about “pythisis,” which
is a pulmonary tuberculosis, than did
the tall black-haired boy from Cleve
land.
Spelling was beaten into me by
hard-headed teachers, and a harder
headed grandmother who always
made me find the answers to my
questions in the dictionary and
then explain to her what I had
learned while she held the diction
ary in her hands and peered through
. her spectacles while I stumbled
' along.
1 Syllable spelling is excellent dis-
Aii Expert Spenks On
The Primary Laws
Charles J. Block, immediate pa: I
F resident of the Ge > i Ik A-. -
liaHon, is rc.' .so -a one of 1 ',j
ablest lawyers in : v state.
; Thus it .was tfect. when a Caium
|bus Negro, Primus King, bivnry ; suit
11 against the Muscogee County Den: -
• cratic Executive Committee for re
. fusing to allow him to vet? i,i a
party primary. Hr. Bl .1: w; : -
• tained by the Sicte Democrat Ex -
' -ut'cc C :. m? ; ■ t.» d. h : .1 t ?
i ease.
Ma Bloch c - "ed the s. tw. • . t
■ reat ler.gU. : - ; : ■
. and si ia: J ;cviden:.
. able poii.i'ng ■ > i de. '.- i n t
- Primus Kin;; and cl ..' .
. no right to vol: i:i
( erimr.rii.;'.
He . ■ ■ . '
l :?pp. sh . C .■ : . :
, well bi ..
Ssk n’J .■ - '
' Losing
, New Oileai . . i . ■- ■
i decislc:' 17 .'wr , f .? C
' ian. Judce £ n:.' H. Sibley ha
Kis again < Uc-d.
I Finally, r:
J Sup.. cm. C< u. t oi th’ United
States, which ref : > the
! -sc, thereby iq hld >th : N gro; ’
Jrlßlat to peril; ip... in |,' i.'k ;
which are tr.r.tan unt t.> : ...1
elections.
Tims Charles J. Bloch k;:. wr, .I
ter perhaps tha:i i' cl.c. ilia
ms and outs of C.-. primary
laws. And Mr. Bic ... .... there is
no way to retain a white primary
in Georgia without opening the door
। to election frauds and jeopardizing
the county unit system.
With ri’ si pertaining lo
। primaries reped;?, .ays Mr. Bloch,
i ballot box inc'.-uko ities would be
invited and unf.ur election practices
encouraged.
Strange, isn't it, that the candi
‘ date who is all .i t in- removing the
safeguards from cur primary system
never touches on the dangers which
Mr. Bloch and others who know
something about law see in his half
baked plan?—Atlanta Constitution.
Camp Takes Radio
In Governor’s Race
, •
Lawrence S. Camp will speak over
Station WSB on Tuesday evening,
June 11 at 6:15 i ' look in a dis
cussion of the i-*s’.’.s in ! b? 1946
governor’s race.
। As the United Si te.- Dis ct At
torney, Mr. Camp itivcstl;, ad the
alleged irregularities in th': Rivers
Administration, an! obtained in
dictments against The Klan Wizard,
. Dr. Hiram Evans, and oti../ figures
!influential in that regime.
Mr. Camp, who represented Camp
. bell county in the Assembly, manag
ed the gobernatorial campaign of
Senator Richard B. Russell and was
State Democratic Committee chair
. man until his appointment as At
torney-General of Georgia. An in
timate of the late President Roose
■ velt, Mr. Camp is a believer in good
. government and progress for Geor
: gia.
cipline for a child, particularly when
: he is in the formative years. Life’s
problems should be handled in
orderly, logical, fashion, just as
syllable spelling must be handled.
: Newspaper offices today struggle
with the stories of young men who
have not been taught to spell the
I words they uae-sa ^libly or to in
'; quire even casually into the ipean
■ ings of those words.
I like Mrs. Phillips’ method. I
■ know, too, that The Atlanta Journal
■. is doing an extraordinary service to
: ward the education of young Geor
: gia minds when it spends its money
. so freely in an effort to revive an
> interest in spelling through its con
i stant stressing of spelling bees.
Spelling is fast becoming a lost
■ art but The Atlanta Journal has of
fered the best plan toward stimulat
’ ing an interest in one of the funda
• mentals of education. When there is
ino longer an interest in spelling,
’ reading and writing will have be-
I come a lost art.
I When the public is interested
• only in the flash spots recorded on
i the camera mind, all reasoning will
I have been lost. When reasoning
vanishes, so does community prog-
■•ress. ■■