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Washington, D. C.—The writer
has spent most of the week here,
and this column will concern it
self primarily with Georgians in
ihe Nation’s Capital.
Last Thursday night the Sen
ate adopted the jury trial amend
ment by a vote somewhat larger
than had been expected. Senator
Talmadge told us early in the day
that he expected the amendment
to pass, but the exact vote was
^still pretty much of a question.
At midnight the final speeches
were concluded and the roll was
railed, ending in a 51-42 victory
for the South—and the Nation.
The writer sat in the Senate
Gallery with Betty Talmadge and
other Georgians. Surrounding us
were the wives and children of
nearly all the Senators. It was
interesting to watch the various
reactins on the faces of the wives
as their husbands spoke on the
amendment. The wife of one Re
publican Senator, had apparently,
memorized her husband’s speech;
her lips formed each word along
with his.
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lone, wife of the Senator from Ne
vada. Mrs. Malone had assured
us that her husband was very
much in sympathy with the
South’s position and would cast
his vote for the jury amendment,
which he did.
Actually, when one gets the op
portunity of talking confidentially
with persons close to the various
Senators, they make no bones
about saying that such-and-such
a Senator believes in the same
principles of States Rights as do
Talmadge and Russell, but that it
would be “political suicide” for
them to so express themselves
openly.
It was said to us more than
once that “the future of this
country depends on the South and
West getting together on political
affairs.” Both these sections of
the country are closer to the fun
damental principles which made
America great; they have the
same economic ties; and still be
lieve in the rights of the indi
vidual, as opposed to the East
which has become so overrun with
the “isms” of the world and the
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pressures from various minority
groups.
One of these days, as we have
predicted before, the South and
West will forge ties of steel and
elect a President who will return
this nation to the control of true
Americans.
♦* ♦ ♦
Herman Talmadge gains in stat
ure every day he spends in the
Senate. More and more of his
colleagues and officials of gov
ernment are coming to realize
that Herman has one of the keen
est minds and greatest depths of
integrity ever to come to Wash
ington. Even those Senators who
do no believe in the same philoso
phy of government as Talmadge
are high in their praise of Geor
gia’s Junior Senator. Senator
Hubert Humphrey of Minesota,
who is an ultra-liberal, made the
statement to a Georgian last
week that “Talmadge” is one of
the smartest men ever to come to
the Senate.” Humphrey said that
the national liberal press had
tried to smear Talmadge, but
“couldn’t find anything to smear
him with.”
Herman seems to be enjoying
his work in the Senate a great
deal more than when we were
here several months ago. As a
man who had always been as
customed to forceful action, he
found the Senate slow and pon
derous. However, as the months
have passed and he has been able
to throw himself into the civil
rights fight, Talmadge is begin
ning to take a keen delight in his
work. He still misses Georgia
and his host of friends from every
county, but he feels that he has
the opportunity to render a great
service to his State, the South and
the Nation as a whole.
At this writing, it is not konwn
just how long the 85th Congress
will remain in session. The House
expects to recess about August
10th, while the Senate continues
with the civil rights debate. A
filibuster might carry the session
on into September, but some per
sons here expect no prolonged
filibuster now, since the teeth
have been taken out of the
“rights” legislation.
However, Talmadge has had to
cancel a number of speeches he
had agreed to make in Georgia
during August, and may have to
cancel the September speeches.
When he does get home, though,
he plans to visit throughout the
state, shaking hands and renew
ing the friendships in all the
counties.
Capitol Hill this week saw a
great influx of Georgians. Seen
here were Zack Cravey, W. O.
Brooks, Jim Bentley, State Legis
lators Bill Trotter, Gene Hol
combe, and John Sheffield and
Mac Barber with Mrs. Barber;
as well as a host of others not in
the political picture.
We heard yesterday from a New
Yorker that two different groups
from New York are trying to buy
the Atlanta Journal and Consti
tution and WSB-Radio and WSB
TV. Reputedly, the offering price
is somewhere between 15 and 20
million dollars.
We heard up here also, that
Atlanta business man Ivan Allen,
Jr. has told his friends that he
will definitely be a candidate for
Governor in 1958.
James W. Varnadoe
Serving In Texas
BEEVILLE, Tex. (FHTNC)—
James W. Varnadoe, airman ap
prentice, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson W. Varnadoe of Lum
ber City, Ga., is serving at the
Chase Field Naval Auxiliary Air
Station, Beeville, Tex.
Chase Field is the Navy’s only
all-jet Naval Air Training Sta
tion for student carrier pilots.
There may be as many as three
million individual termites in a
termite colony, says Dr. C. R.
Jordan, entomologist for the Ag
ricultural Extension Service.
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Jury Trial Clause
Hailed As Victory
For South, Nation
Up in Washington President
Eisenhower reportedly is “damn
unhappy” over the Senate’s adop
tion of the jury trial amendment
to his so-called civil rights bill.
But it is doubtful if Americans
generally and Southerns espec
atlly share in his feelings. /
Adoption of the amendment
was, as Georgia’s Senator Rich
ard B. Russell put it, “a great
victory for constitutional govern
ment.” Russell, the acknowledged
leader of the Southern forces in
the Senate, said: “It is very re
freshing to see this body rise
above sectional differences to
guarantee the sacred right of trial
by jury.”
Approval of the O’Mahoney (D.
Wyo.) amendment to protect the
right of trial by jury in civil rights
cases, which was by a 51 -42
vote, was the South’s second and
undoubtedly the biggest major
victory in the battle over the
President’s proposed civil rights
legislation since it reached the
Senate in mid-July. The first
victory was the deletion of Part
3 of the House -passed bill deal
ing with civil rights other than
voting rights.
Since the House rejected any
jury-trial amendment when it
passed the rights bill earlier in
the session, there is some doubt
that it will accept this and other
changes voted by the Senate. In
that case the prediction is that no
civil rights legislation at all will
be passed during the present ses
sion. And even if it is, there’s a
possibility that President Eisen
hower may veto the watered
down measure.
It is amazing, in the opinion of
most observers, how the South
ern senators have managed to
win round after round in this
fight which at the outset ap
peared hopelessly lost. How
have they done it? Mainly by
centering their objections to the
bill on the legal and constitution
al questions it raises, and con-
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vincing enough senators outside
the South that such provisions
are wrong not only for the peo
ple of the South but for Ameri
can citizens everywhere.
One of the most forceful and
convencing speakers to use this
approach has been Georgia’s jun
ior Senator Herman E. Talmadge,
who has been called on frequent
ly in the Big Debate. Here, for
example are some of the pertinent
things he said from the Senate
floor on the eve of the roll call
vote on the O’Mahoney amend
ment:
“Mr. President, the debate on
this amendment resolves itself in
to one simple question: ‘Can the
right to vote be protected by
denying the right of trial by
jury?: I submit, Mr. President,
that it cannot. It is fundament
al that one right cannot be made
more secure by taking away or
qualifying another right.”
With documentary evidence and
sound reasoning that could be un
derstood by open-minded col
leagues from any section of the
country, Talmadge went on ar
guing for the jury-trial amend
ment. Then he concluded by
saying:
“That is why, Mr. President, I
feel confident that the good
judgment of those who feel the
full weight of their sworn re
sponsibility to uphold the con
stitutional rights of all American
citizens will prevail to write into
this bill the minimum safeguard
afforded by the amendment.
“A vote for the O’Mahoney
amendment will be a vote of con
fidence in the Constitution of the
United States and the Bill of
Rights. It will be a vote of con
fidence in the Judiciary of the
Federal Government and the 48
states. It will be a vote of con
fidence in our sacred right of
trial by jury.
“It will be a vote of confidence
in the sincerity and good faith
of the American people and their
right to manage their own affairs
in harmony and mutual respect,
our heritage of freedom.... And
above all else, Mr. President, it
will be a vote in ourselves and
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according to lime and fertilizer
needs determined in a soil test,
states J. R. Johnson, agronomist
project leader, Agricultural Ex
tension Service. General ferti
lizer recommendations are 400
pounds of 4-12-12 per acre, John
son points out.
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addition, the county boasts thriving industries that stem
from widespread timberlands. Located in the southwest part
of the state, this county has a population of approximately
9,000 people, according to the 1950 census. In addition,
Calhoun is one of Georgia’s older established counties,
having been created in 1854. The county seat is Morgan.
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Georgia’s Commissioner of Agri
culture Phil Campbell. He made
this prediction in a recent speech
before the Americus Rotary Club.
John Conner, dairy marketing
specialist for the Agricultural
Extension Service, says people
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made readily available—as in the
home, school cafeterias, and fac
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