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NAT I O NAL EDITORIAL
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
BY BERNICE McCULLAR
Georgia Department of Education
Do You? Little boy was in a
case with his daddy and mommy.
Waitress asked him what he
•wanted. “A hot dog,” he said.
Tlse mother interrupted, “Bring
ton roast beef and vegetables,
Jost like ours.” The waitress
finished taking the orders, and
then turned to the little boy and
asked, “What do you want on
you hot dog?” “Catsup and on
ions,” he told her. She walked a
way. The little boy turned de-
Tightedly to his mamma. “See?”
he said, “She thinks I’m real!”
Images of the Future: You can
get a free bulletin that will fasci
nale you depicting the probable
changes in American schools in
the next few years. It is titled
linages of the Future,” and you
can get from the Commission on
Experimental Study, 200 Gregory
Hall, Urbana, Illinois.
You Never Know: First grade
teacher whom children loved was
fforence Oplinger Freeman, who
ratine from Waycross, went to
CSCW, married and moved to
Atlanta. She had taught first
grade since 1942. Last year, she
pat on musical records the de
lightful little songs she had made
up for her children. She came
over with the children to sing
and dance them on my TV show.
A month ago I was out one rainy
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WONDERFUL DAY*
SUDDEN SHOWERS? Who cares? The laundry
still gets done. With an automatic electric
clothes dryer you can dial sunlike radiant heat
any time you want it.
No more lifting heavy baskets of wet clothes.
No more stooping and stretching at the clothes
line. New leisure time comes automatically 1
Electricity adds so much fun to life and so
little expense to the household budget. No
wonder the average home we serve is using
nearly three times as much electricity as it
did 20 years ago.
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I day at the airport to pick up a
1 guest. Across the station, I saw
! a dark-haired young woman, with
a white leather coat, and a white
leather beret on her head. She
was so full of light and life and
joy that her shining face made a
luminous glow in the grey day.
We stopped to great each other,
happily and briefly, for I was
once her own teacher, and we
I loved each other through the
years. The other night, I picked
* up a paper. It said Florence Op
| linger Freeman was dead. I was
shocked with grief. I remember
the lovely line, “Always say good
bye gently. You never know.”
! Advice: Wise man says if you
don’t want your children to hear
what you say, pretend you’re talk
ing to them.
Consider This: Maybe your son
or daughter would like to be a
college teacher. The nation will
need 425,000 before 1970. Pay is
good. Prestige is better. There will
be six million young Americans
studying in colleges by 1970. (I
am writing a vocational guidance
textbook called WAKE UP YOUR
MIND TO BE A TEACHER! It
takes a waked-up mind, believe
me. Ask any good teacher.)
Advice: Little girl wrote an essay
titled “How to Get Along With
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
Parents,” and she said, “Be pa
tient with them. It takes us a
while to understand them because,
although they’ve been children
once, we have never been parents.
That’s why they are strange to
us. They have been here a long
time, and they are not surprised
at the world any more.”
Using Ouija Boards? The U. S.
: Office of Education is co-operat
’ ing in a study of a half million
! high school students in 1400
I schools, which will carry over i
। past their graduation. They will
' be tested now, then five, ten and
twenty years later. That will give!
I us some idea of how effective we
j are advising them about their
I studies, and how successful they
■ are. Directors of the study say,
; “We want to get some system into
; a field where some guidance of
i ficers are now evidently using
I ouija boards.”
—
' The Other Eight Hours: The
i other day, Dr. Claude Purcell,
i state superintendent of schools, |
■had as his guest David Brown,'
who is one of the state’s top
• STAR Students. He is the son of
! a cancer surgeon at Emory. The
I superintendent asked David what
he is going to be. The bright lad
said, “Dr. Purcell, I am going to
be a scientist. But I am going to
take a liberal arts course in col
lege, because you see,- we work at
our jobs for eight hours But
there are eight other hours in the
[day when we live with ourselves,
। and I want to be an interesting
[ person to live with, informed a-
I bout history and art and litera
ture and the other things worth
I knowing.”
—
Other States Think We Are
Good: I went to a meeting of the
southeastern region of the Na
tional Association of Educational
Broadcasters. More than a hun
[dred bright, creative people sat
■ there and listened to Our Boss |
talk about what Georgia is doing ;
( and planning in educational tele
vision. When he had finished, Ray
| Hurlbert, Alabama’s top TV man
iin education, who was chairman,
I said, “I wish every state had an
| educational chief like that, who is '
' able, casual, assured, and with :
! vision about what TV can mean |
! to education. Georgia is using it l
• not to entertain, but to challenge I
| its children, and the Georgia child
I will learn more through this dy
i namic new medium of education.”
i Georgia’s school chief says that
| every school program should be
tested by that one sentence. “Is
the Georgia child learning more
because of this program?” And
!if the answer is No, then some-
I thing is the matter with the stuff.
Baby Sitte r : “I get a dollar an
; hour, car fare, food, and spanking
I privileges.”
You Were Wrong, Papa! If you
; have been complaining that mod
■ ern teen-agers don’t read, but
'only look at TV, you will be
■ surprised at this. A national
। survey shows two out of three
teen-agers currently reading a
[ book other than a school book.
! They also read magazines and
[ newspapers, and still find time to
' watch TV two hours a day.
New Ideas In Education:
iTheyr’re talking about (1) using
: the school house in America for
l year round education instead of
i wasting it for three months in
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summer ... (2) Merit pay for
teachers so that the creative, able
teachers would have more incen
tive to stay in the profession . . .
(3) abolishing the first three
rigidly separated grades and just
letting the youngsters go to the
fourth grade whenever they have
learned enough.
• Know What We Are Short Os? ,
Norman Cousins, editor of The
Saturday Review, told schoolfolks
this: “The principal shortage in
[America is a shortage of knowl
[ edge about the rest of the world.”
' These Will Be Taught First: We
will start TV lessons, when our
stations are built, with math,
science, and modern foreign lan
guages. First station to be put
into operation will be one in
North Georgia which we will
share with the University of
Georgia. We will use it during
the day, and they will take over
for adult classes in the evening.
Our problem: finding good TV
teachers and getting them ready.
There’s no point in magnifying
mediocrity. We must have teach
ers with knowledge, skill and per
sonality.
(Editor's Note: This is one in
a series of articles about your
health which will appear reg
ularly in this newspaper as a
public feature,.
Fatigue ^Tot Always
Due to Overwork
By The Medical Association
of Georgia
The simplest form of fatigue is
that caused by excessive muscular
activity and which can be relieved
by rest.
But there are several other
types of fatigue. Their causes are
different and so are some of their j
remedies. In general, there are ]
three other types besides muscu
lar fatigue. They are: emotional
or mental fatigue, environmental
[ fatigue and metabolic fatigue.
। Emotional fatigue is brought on
I by emotional stress and strain. It
i can occur when there has been no ,
I physical activity whatsoever. One
i study by a group of psychiatrists
has shown that frustration, de
[ pression induced by worry, fear
1 and uncertainty about the future,
| anxiety stemming from the as
j sumption of important duties,
marital difficulties, financial ob
। ligations, and social pressure com
: monly trigger emotional tiredness.
I Another common cause is plain
■boredom. Just as undue physical
activity results in fatigue, so does
I the expenditure of too much emo
tional energy.
Closely related to emotionel fa
tigue is the mental fatigue that
results from too much brain work.
Overwork in this sense causes
fatigue just as overwork of a phy
sical nature does. A man who
works with his muscles—say a
ditch digger—ordinarily will not
tire as easily as the man behind
the desk whose work is essential
ly mental. The body has a much
greater capacity for activity than
is usually believed. The mind gets
tired very easily.
Environmental fatigue is
brought on by factors in the en- e
vironment such as poor ventila- I
tion, noise, and inadequate light- t
ing. a
Metabolic fatigue is caused by t
some upset in the normal body s
processes. It could be produced c
by lack of sufficient vitamins in 1
the diet, loss of salt from the body, 1
or some other factor that disturbs I
the intricate functioning of sys
tems in the body.
We all feel tired at times. Some £
fatigue is a normal part of life. ’
We usually know exactly what (
caused our tiredness and a little f
rest and relaxation will relieve it. 1
But when we begin to feel un- *
usually tired for prolonged pe- !
riods, it’s time to take a closer 1
look at the possible causes and do >
what we can to eliminate or at;'
least reduce their effect. ■
DOC MAG says:
1. If you’re tired chronically or
too often, try to determine the 1
cause. If you’re engaged in too 1
much physical activity, don’t do 1
so much. If your mind is working 1
too hard, divert your thoughts by i
changing your activities.
2. If the cause is emotional, do
what you can to alleviate stress [
and strain. Try to resolve your
problems. Getting interested in 1
something or somebody is a cure ;
for boredom. Read books that will 1
improve your outlook on life. Try
to love and laugh a little more.
3. When something in your en- 1
vironment is causing you to be
tired, do something about it. May
be you need more fresh air in your ■
office. Perhaps the lighting is
poor. Arrange to have it improv- 1
ed. If there’s too much noise a- :
round you, do what you can to 1
silence it.
4. Once you’ve ruled out the 1
other causes of chronic or too
frequent fatigue, consider an up- i
set metabolism as a cause. See I
your doctor.
5. No matter what the cause ofj
your fatigue, don’t just let it drag I !
on and on. If you can’t help your-1 ‘
self, let your doctor help you. |
Talmadge Again
Gives His Views
On Unit System
Georgia’s County Unit System
is still very much in the news,
and U. S. Senator Herman E. Tal
madge has just had his second
say about the present and possible
future status of the traditional
method used in the state’s pri
| mary elections.
It was the junior senator (a[
former governor) who actually]
triggered the current furor over
what to do, if anything, about
the unique system in the years
that lie ahead. He did it on an
unrehearsed Atlanta television
program the evening of April 1.
Talmadge was asked: “Do you
I see any need in the future at any
time in the next few years ini
। view of the shift in population [
for making any alterations to the
[County Unit System?”
His reply was: “I think it en-1
i tirely possible that the Legisla-!
[ ture might study that question. |
i It’s not only possible but even j
| probable that some readjustment j
[ would perhaps be wise.”
Reaction to this was spontane-;
> ous all over Georgia. So emphatic [
I were the arguments, both pro and |
| con, that Sen. Talmadge has now
! issued a second statement elabo
। rating on the first. His second
I statement, released simultaneous
;ly in Washington and Georgia,
•said in part:
“There have been headlines,
■ articles, editorials and cartoons
I purporting to interpret the sig
! nificance of my brief comment [
■ about the County Unit System j
I. . . My views on the County Unit [
' System are so well known that
they hardly need reiteration. I
am for it absolutely and unre
servedly. Without it Georgia's
[ small counties would have no
voice in our state government
and bloc voters' and metropolitan
political machines would domi
nate state affairs.
“Because the U. S. Supreme
Court has ceased interpreting the
law and has sought to establish
itself as a super legislature, it
should behoove all friends of the
County Unit System to do some
serious thinking about how to
preserve it.”
Talmadge pointed out that the
liberal complexion of the Supreme
Court has become even more lib
eral since 1958 when the system
was upheld by a scant 5-to-4 de
cision. He made it clear that he
was not attempting to make sug
gestions to Gov. Ernest Vandiver
lor the General Assembly, who
have the responsibility for the
laws which regulate voting in
Georgia.
“However,” he added, “since
the question has been raised and
now has become a matter of
general concern, it is my con
sidered opinion that it would be
wise for an appropriate committee
of the State Legislature to (1)
study such action as may be nec-
essary to best protect the County
Unit System from destruction at
the hands of the Supreme Court,
and (2) study whether, in light of
the present serious threats to the
system, a few of the populous
counties should be granted a
reasonable increase in unit votes
to more nearly reflect current
population trends.
“This would, in my opinion,
help preserve and protect the
system. Its preservation is some
thing to which all of us must give
our best thoughts. It would be
shortsighted, indeed, for us to sit
around and lose the system due
to our failure to do everything
necessary to protect and preserve
it.”
Boys State To
Be Held In Athens
The American Legion’s 1959
Georgia Boys State will be held
this year at the University of
Georgia in Athens starting Sun
day, June 14.
Boys State will be directed by
George Montgomery of Commerce
who is chairman of the Depart
ment Boys State Committee, and
W. B. Steis of Hamilton, Chair
man of the Americanism Commis
sion for the American Legion De
partment of Georgia.
Montgomery said the fee for
Boys State this year will be $35
per citizen, and it must be paid
by May 15.
He added that Boys State is a
I national program of the American
Legion operated for the purpose
of instructing and giving practical
application of fundamental prin
ciples and procedures of city,
county and state government un
der the American system.
To be eligible for Boys State a I
boy must be 14 years of age. He [
must have finished his junior [
year of high school, and have at i
least one semester left of his
senior year. The boy must be in [
the upper third of his class scho- j
lastically, possess above the [
average leadership ability, be [
capable of absorbing an intensive |
and advanced cours"e in govern-1
ment and citizenship and of de- ■
veloping additional qualities of!
leadership, must be of high moral:
character, honest and dependable. I
A boy must also be physically [
fit to take part in athletic activi-'
ties which require normal stamina ;
and endurance.
No boy who has attended a pre- [
vious session cf Georgia Boys
State as a citizen will be permit
ted to register for the 1959 session.
Steis, who serves as citizenship
director, said that from the time
the boys arrive in Athens until
they depart for home they will be
given regular periods of instruc
tion in practical application of
government and citizenship.
Montgomery said that enroll
ment will be limited, and he
urges Legion Posts and other or
ganizations desiring to sponsor
t citizens to make plans early to
i do so, and to send in registration
[ fees at the earliest convenient
' date.
[ The Department Boys State
■ Chairman said in addition to the
governmental studies the Boys
' Staters will have well planned
। and coordinated programs of ath
| letics. The boys will be expected
to participate for one to two hours
each day in one or more of the
। several athletic activities, includ
ing swimming, softball, tennis and
basktball all under supervision
Fannin County
£ SCENIC MOUNTAINS
Nestled in the famed Blue Ridge Mountains, Fannin is one of
Georgia’s most beautiful counties. The Chattahoochee Na
tional Forest, one of the nation’s finest virgin forest and game
preserves, occupies about forty per cent of the county. Adding
seasonal beauty as well as a large share of farm income are the
many apple orchards that dot the Fannin landscape. Thou
sands of tourists come each year to enjoy the magnificent
scenery, and to fish for trout in the many mountain streams
or for muskies in the beautiful Blue Ridge Lake. Near the
lake is the town of Blue Ridge, the county seat and center of
Fannin County's extensive lumber industry.
In Fannin County, and throughout Georgia, the United
States Brewers Foundation works constantly to assure the
sale of beer and ale under pleasant, orderly conditions. Believ
ing that strict law enforcement serves the best interest of the
people of Georgia, the Foundation stresses close cooperation
with the Armed Forces, law enforcement and governing
officials in its continuing "self-regulation” program.
-"A United States Breiccra 1
Foundation
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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1959
of University of Georgia coaches.
A devotional service will be
held each day with prominent
Georgia ministers assisting.
Montgomery and Steis said they
are very happy over the facilities
at the University of Georgia.
They added that the faculty and
other personnel at the University
are all cooperative and enthusias
tic about Georgia Boys State.
Georgia Boys State has been
held at Georgia Tech the past few
years.
Two outstanding citizens of
Boys State will be selected by the
'staff to attend Boys Nation in
Washington, D. C. Expenses for
I the two boys will be paid from the
[Boys State Fund.
I Members of the administrative,
[counseling and recreational staffs
'will include approximately 30
1 men with outstanding back
grounds of training and experi
ence in government and citizen
ship activities, administrative pro
cedures and athletic programs. In
cluded will be members of the
Georgia General Assembly,
several attorneys and leaders in
city, county and state govern
ment.
All staff members will remain
on the University of Georgia
campus day and night through
out the week, and several will
be assigned to each dormitory.
SEWING MACHINE CARE
Any sewing machine, old or
new, can help you to sew well
I providing it is in good condition,
i says Miss Avola Whitesell, cloth
; ing specialist, Agricultural Exten-
I sion Service. Frequent removal of
dust and lint and an occasional
, oiling will keep it that way.
Eagle Classified Ads pay off.
i Mother J
We see by the calendar that
' a deserving lady is about to be
■ honored. She’s feted one day a
year—every year. Her once-a
year day in honor of her all-of-a-
lifetime job.
She’s got a
pretty rough
job, too. She’s,
in charge of
the cut finger
and black eye
bureau, the
runny nose-de
partment and
1 hurt-feelings section. She listens
I to complaints with heart-tuned
ears and gives out advice with
love, smiles and cheers.
She’s been lovingly immortal
ized in song, speech and poem.
But they never seem to capture
the sunshine in her eyes. Or the
tired tenderness in her smile. Or
the loving lightness of her touch.
Or the many times she chased
the shadows away with a com
! sorting word.
Take the nicest things about
1 all the nice women down through
history and they still wouldn’t
equal this one woman in the
world.
Her day, Mother’s Day, is
Sunday, May 10. Think of her
on that one day as she has
thought of you every day of your
life. Remember her with a visit.
Buy her a gift. Take her out to
dinner. Do something. There’s no
I excuse for forgetting Mother, es
pecially in this day of technologi
cal advancement. For instance,
we notice where you can now
send something called a Candy
। Gram—it’s a box of candy with
your personal telegram actually
i the cover of the box. And it’s
delivered by Western Union. A
real sweet message. Perfect for
Mom.
Wherever you are, whatever
you may be doing—don’t forget
Mom on her day.
Tell her you’re thinking of her.
Say it with love.