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NATI ONA L EDITORIAL
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Politics on Parade
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The great majority of Georgia
workers, who spend at least 40
hours per week at their jobs, and,
in many cases, far more than 40,
will not be in sympathy with
State Auditor B. E. Thrasher, Jr.
and State Treasurer George B.
Hamilton in their wails of anguish
over Governor Ernest Vandiver’s
suggestion that all State Depart
ments adopt a 40 hour minimum
work week.
Both Mr. Thrasher and Mr.
-Hamilton spend a lot more than
40 hours a week on their own
jobs, so it is a bit hard to under
stand their protects against State
employees putting in 40 hours.
The truth of the matter, though,
is that the 40 hour work week is
nothing but an issue on which
these two State officials can hang
their protests on their funda
mental disagreement over the
idea of a reorganization of State
Government, as is being carried
on by the Governor and his Re
organization and Economy Com
mittee.
Not that either Mr. Thrasher or
Mr. Hamilton object to the idea of
ecenomy and efficiency in govern
ment—for both of them are well
known for their dedication to such
virtues—but they seem to object
to the fact that the proposals are
naming from experts from the out
side, not from directly within the
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mRMAN
W/NGTON " V I
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THE SUCCESS OF Southern
members of the Senate and House
Judiciary Committees in eliminat
ing the more vicious force provi
sions of pending civil rights bills
ha* exceeded all expectations.
time in as many years, the sur
gery which has been done on these
proposals in committee has made
the difficult task of Southern Sen
ators and Congressmen in striv
ing to protect their constituents
from the enactment of punitive
legislation immeasurably easier.
Because the committee system is
so strong in Congress, it is ex
ceedingly difficult to amend a bill
during a floor debate —a fact
which makes it to the South’s ad
vantage to get civil rights meas
ures watered down as much as
possible before they are voted out
the committees.
• • •
A HOUSE JUDICIARY sub
committee which does not have a
•ingle Southern member wrote a
bill so comprehensive and vicious
that it would have been a credit
to Thaddeus Stevens himself.
Thanks to the determined and
persuasive efforts of Georgia Con
gressman E. L. (Tic) Forrester
and others, the full Judiciary
Committee knocked out sections
which would have given the At
torney General unlimited power
to police all civil rights, estab
lished a FEPC and given the
Commissioner of Education au
thority to force and finance school
desegregation in any state or
locality he might choose. The
Committee also substantially
(not prepared or printed at government expense)
State government. In other words,
they seem to believe that such
reorganization will be all right if
legislative committees or State
officials were doing the “recom
mending,” but that “outside” ex
perts “don’t really know what
they are doing.”
Actually, local groups have
tried for years to effect in Geor
gia’s complex governmental af
fairs a saving in both time and
money, but have had little success.
Witness the Economy Committee
back in the days of Governor Ed
Rivers, which made recommenda
tion after recommendation that
eventually came to naught. Too
much politics is involved when
only local people are concerned.
Governor Vandiver recognized
these facts, of course, and resolved
that the only effective way to se
cure true economy and efficiency
was to bring in experts from out
of State government, who would
not be swayed by political influ
ences or pressure from politicians.
When the job is finished, Georgia
will, for the first time in many,
many years, be operating on the
basis of efficiency such as used
in business. Only in this way can
the State save any appreciable
amount of money.
Peter Zack Geer, Executive Sec
retary to Governor Vandiver, is
modified the remaining five title*
of the bill it approved.
The Senate Subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights did even
better. Under urging from Sen
ators Sam Ervin of North Caro
lina and Olin Johnston of South
Carolina, it killed all the bills
before it and wrote a new two
part bill which would only extend
the life of the Commission on
Civil Rights and require the pres
ervation of voting records. The
liberals flooded the ful) Commit
tee with new amendments em
bodying the proposals which were
turned down but it was not antici
pated that they would succeed to
any great degree in overriding
the Subcommittee, * particularly
as regards force measures deal
ing with school integration.
WHILE GEORGIANS may be
assured that Southern Senators
will fight this legislation with
every effective means at their dis
posal, candor compels the asser
tion that our group of less than
18 does not have the votes to
i prevent the passage in a body of
98 members of a civil rights bill
of some description this Session
if the Democratic and Republican
leadership in both Houses vigor
; ously pushes the matter.
; Fortunately for the South, an
> attitude of moderation appears to
t be prevailing among all but the
. confirmed radicals and the odds
1 are better than even that any bill
■ which ultimately may be passed
: will be a far cry from what they
’ are demanding. In 1957 Southern
s Senators and Representatives had
• to fight to take out the force pro
■ visions. This year it will be a re
freshing departure to see the rad
■ icals have to fight to try to put
them back in.
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With Con
gress headed
during the
rush for ad
journment in
to a showdown
debate on this
contrived po
litical issue
for the second
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE. ALAMO, WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
acclaimed widely for the terrific
speech he made last week to the
Georgia Peace Officer Association
convention in Atlanta. Peter Zack
took the floor after the day's ses
sion had been going for two hours
and the audience was weary of
speeches. But what he said electri
fied the 1500 officers, and they
i literally “hung on his every
| word. Many were heard to say
I afterwards that Mr. Geer is “the
I brightest young politician to ap
। pear on the Georgia political;
I scene.”
i Peter Zack wrote his own I
! speech while at home in Miller I
[ County last week end.
The many friends of the Stew
j art family, which is almost a land
mark in Georgia politics, regret
the passing of Mr. Jack T. Stewart
last week. Mr. Stewart, a super
visor of the State Highway De
partment, died while inspecting
I some equipment at Eatonton.
Among the better-known of his
: survivors are State Probation Di
[ rector Travis Stewart, his son,
; and George D. Stewart, Secretary
■ of the State Senate, a brother.
Rumors around the Peace Os-
Ificers convention last week were
[that George Wilson, former head
I of the State Department of Public
(Safety, is contemplating a race
i against Fulton County Sheriff T.
Ralph Grimes. George is extreme
ly well known in Fulton and
would make a fine race.
SCOTLAND
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Callaway of
Warner Robins; Mr. and Mrs. C.
C. Carson and Mrs. Jeanie Willis,
of Cochran, were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Callaway several
days.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Walker and
children Bob, Sue, Joy and Lynn
and Faye Beasley visited Pvt. Ray
Walker at Parris Island, S. C.
recently.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Ashley and
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Dockery of
Macon visited relatives in Winter i
Haven and Tampa, Fla. last week.
Miss Sandra Colson has return- >
ed from her vacation spent in
Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. George Shaeffer
of Coccoa, Fla. are visiting their
mother Mrs. Alex Graham and
Edwin Graham.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ray spent
Sunday at Jacksonville Beach,
Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Johnson left
Friday for Jacksonville, Fla.
where they will make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Barlow and
Mrs. Bruce Middleton have re
turned to Jacksonville, Fla. after
having been called here by the
illness of their mother, Mrs. Lester !
Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Stew
art of Alma visited their sister
Mrs. Lester Johnson Sunday.
Remember money spent at
home helps built your schools
and county.
^7 SCIENCE IN I
& YOUR LIFE !
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Push-Button Housekeeping
Young mothers may envy the
very handy octopus. Modern appli
ances and home furnishings re
flect the fact that two hands just
' aren’t enough for the many tasks
mothers must perform each day.
A push on a button today and
the family wash comes clean — so
do dirty dishes. Tomorrow’ super
sonic waves will do the family
i laundry — without soap or water!
■ Today’s houses are planned to cut i
! down the mileage homemakers j
tally up on their (
daily chore
rounds. In the fu
ture, mothers
won’t have to
traipse all over the
split-level to keep
a watchful eye on
the youngsters. A
flick of a TV
switch in the kit-
Chen will bring in a picture of '
j baby napping in the upstairs bed- ;
room.
That’s for tomorrow. Right now, i
it seems to the modern mother that ;
i one small infant takes more time I
and care than a whole push-button I
house. But here too, inventors are I
working in the right direction. :
Take the newest baby vitamins,
they’re push-button too. A single
press on a pump-top plastic bottle |
squirts out the full daily require- ।
ment, no more, no less. The mens- ;
ured dose prevents Junior’s gulp-' |
i ing more than he should. The
| orange-flavored vitamins, called
i Viterra Pediatric, are protected
against contamination and loss of
potency’ because, the. contents are
iever exposed to air.
Now still a gleam in the scien
tists’ eye, new wife-saving devices
j will streamline bringing up baby i
©ven further. Electronic engineers
have already designed a device
that cools or heats baby’s bottle \
i automatically with a tap of a but- j
ton.
One thing is certain, great ef
fort is being expended in all quart
; ers to explode that old saw about I
“ women's work is never done.” i
j For women, the time can’t come ,
fast enough.
(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,.
! Get Rid Os
Those Worms
By The Medical Association
of Georgia
Several kinds of worms can in
vade and live in man’s digestive
tract. Sometimes they produce
acute distress or a chronic tired
ness. At other times, they cause
no symptoms at all but the infec
ted person is a source of infection
to those around him. A person’s
reaction to worms depends upon
the number and virulence of the
worms and the resistance of the
person to the poisons of the
worms.
Fortunately, modern sanitation
has vastly cut down on the threat
of intestinal parasites in the
United States. They are still a big
problem in less developed parts of
the world.
Hookworm, one of the com
; monest types of intestinal para
sites, usually enters’ the body by
making a sore between the toes.
It is deposited in the soil by an
infected person and someone else
picks it up by walking barefooted
in the infested soil. The worm
travels through the blood stream
from the foot to the digestive
tract.
The pork tapeworm enters the
body by being eaten in inade
quately cooked pork, the beef
tapeworm in inadequately cooked
beef, and the fish tapeworm—
which may reach 30 feet in length
—in poorly cooked fish. Trichi
nosis, a disease caused by a tiny
worm that settles in the muscles
jof animals, is passed to man by
I way of insufficiently cooked pork
; and other meats.
If foods through which these |
worms are passed to man are
cooked sufficiently, the worms
will be killed before man eats
the meat. When he does the dead
worms can’t do him any harm.
Inspection of the meat for the
presence of worms before market
ing is another protection.
Other worms *jnter man in egg
form. The eggs get into man’s
mouth when he eats contaminated
food or drinks contaminated
liquids. They can also contaminate
fingers and other objects so that j
when man puts these into his ’
! mouth, the worms go in too.
These worms include pinworms,
roundworms, whipworms and
dwarf tapeworms. Pinworms, or
seat-worms, are by far the most
common worms that infect man
in the United States. They attack
both children and adults. The
second most common in the
roundworm, a round shiny worm
which has’ been known to grow
as long as a foot in length. It has
also sometimes escaped from the
mouth of a person it has been
infecting.
The other types of worms are
becoming increasingly rare be
couse of improved enforcement
and compliance with meat inspec
tion laws and better sanitation.
Symptoms of worm infestation
are varied. Itching around the
rectum is common with pinworms.
Other symptoms of worms are
anemia, weakness, diarrhea, ab
dominal pains, retarded growth,
nausea and nervousness. Usually,
the infected person gets progres
! sively weaker and becomes a res
! ervoir of infection for others.
Contrary to the popular theory,
tapeworms do not cause one to
have a voracious appetite.
Worms can be removed from
the digestive tract by certain
drugs. Laxatives, enemas and
other home remedies are not very
effective. The spread of the
disease can be prevented by care
i ful personal hygiene and sanitary
(disposol of the waste of the in
fected person.
। Doc MAG says:
1. To prevent having worms,
। always eat clean, well cooked
* food. Avoid outdoor toilets and
I soil that might be contaminated
i with worms. Don’t go barefooted
in soil that might have worms in
it. Keep your hands and nails
clean and keep your fingers out
of your mouth.
2. If you suspect worms, see
your doctor. Having worms is no
disgrace, but keeping them is.
Young people need chores in
, order to learn the meaning of
> responsibility and the importance
, of service as it relates to others,
points out Family Life Specialist
; Miss Audrey Morgan, Agricul
i tural Extension Service.
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By JAMES B. POLHILL JR.
Manager, Jefferson County
Electric Membership Corp.,
Louisville, Ga.
The Rural Electric Program
which has meant so very much to
rural America, and which has con
tributed so much to business along
main street in every town and city
lin the nation and so much to
workers in mines and factories is
the outstanding and most miracu
lous achievement of this genera
tion. This being true, it is hard
to understand why the program
is receiving so much advertising
of an adverse nature. On all hands
and from the mouths of millions
of informed people the rural elec
tric program is acclaimed as a
grand and glorious thing. Yet,
there is a solid block of allied
business interests who constantly
and continuously say in effect “It
has been and is a wonderful pro
gram, BUT,” and then by word
of mouth and by expensive ad
vertising they undertake to dis
credit and belittle a program
which has added to the economic
strength of the whole nation and;
to the well-being, happiness and
prosperity of all the people in:
rural areas.
in considering the subtle and
misleading, as well as abusive,
criticism now being so freely
I showered upon so grand and won
derful a program, one must think
clearly to understand the back-,
ground of and the cause for this
unfair, unjust and malicious abuse
and criticism. In the first place
it will be well to remember that
some selfish interests are what we I
commonly call "poor losers.” In
the next place one must keep
firmly fixed in his mind the
very pertinent fact that Govern-1
ment loans are and were available (
to Private Power Companies, i
Private Corporations, Cities,!
Counties and other sub-divisions [
of Government. No electric coop
eratives were formed immediately;
after the passage of the Rural j
Electrification Act as it was
thought that others would elec
trify rural America. Cooperatives
were formed only after it became’
apparent that nobody else would
do the job. Power companies and I
others who might do the job did ;
not do it because they thought it,
would not succeed and stated that
the electrification of rural Amer-I
ica was “unfeasible, impractical ’
and doomed to failure.” Bear in i
mind that Government loan funds •
were available at the same inter- j
est rate and under the same terms !
to power companies and others as!
was finally accepted by the Co
operatives.
The success of the rural elec
tric program, which causes it to;
be a factor in and a benefactor to!
our national ecenomy, proves that ■
the Wall Street Boys and the!
power companies made a serious;
error of judgement in not follow
ing and embracing President;
Roosevelt’s proposal to electrify i
rural America. This error in |
judgement, made twenty odd|
years ago must be a source of |
constant embarrassment and an-.
noyance. It proves that the ex
perts can be wrong and they are i
made to look bad because they;
were so completely wrong. Also
the successful area coverage plan
and program of the rural electric
cooperatives leaves little growing
room for the profit hungry pri
vate interests spawned on Wall
Street. Likewise, the very pres
ence of the cooperative furnishes
a yardstick of measurment as to
service rendered and cost of elec-;
tricity. Os course, the cooperatives j
are not in competition with the
power companies because the law!
under which they are organized
sets forth where they can serve j
and where they cannot serve, j
They serve only in the great rural
void where no private company j
would serve, places that all such
companies said could not suc
cessfully be served.
Had the electric cooperatives
failed the experts would today!
be licking their loquacious lips
and saying, “We told you so all
the time and don’t you know we ■
would have done this job in the
first place if it had been practical I
and feasible.” And then they
I would have said in their charac-
! teristic manner, “This thing was;
just another of Roosevelt’s wild ■
and impractical dreams.” But the \
trouble is, the cooperatives have ;
succeeded. The critics of the pro-!
gram have been made to look bad
and in desperation they join hands
with the Madison Avenue Boys,
and undertake as only the Madi
son Avenue Boys can do, to Brain ,
Wash America by feeding them
lots of “hog wash.” half truths
! and even malicious falsehoods.
, Whether they realize it or not,
; this makes the “profit grabbing”
experts look even worse in the
eyes of thoughtful Americans.
The truth is, electric coopera
। fives took nothing from anybody, j
1 Instead they served a tremendous 1
' rural area where service was more
; than needed. Needed not only to
make agriculture capable of com-
I peting in an era of mechanization,
and cheap power, but to also give
Ito that grand and wonderful
group of rural Americans, from
which America’s best and strong
est stock eminates, comforts and
i conveniences; cooperatives have
raised the standards of living, they
have brought to the most distant
rural home the advantages of
radio and T. V. and thereby stim
ulated thought processes and en
couraged better practices in home
and on farm. In short, rural elec
trification has put a light in every
home and.a light in every heart.
Yes, the cooperatives are hurt
ing nobody and helping every
body in the whole nation. The
cooperatives are strengthening the
spirit of America and reprsent
true democracy at work. There
fore, the support of every mem
ber and every American is just a
part but all of the nation has
its rightful share of the comforts,!
conveniences and e con om ies
which in other years have been j
denied the vast rural population.
NOT ENOUGH CORN
IN GEORGIA
Only a small portion of the corn I
used in Georgia is supplied by (
Georgia farmers, say agronomists, ■
Agricultural Extension Service. In '
1955 it was'estimated that 89 mil-I
lion bushels were shipped to!
Georgia and the Georgia farmers I
supplied only 15.7 per cent of this !
grain, which means that 100 mil-;
lion dollars is leaving Georgia an-1
nually to buy corn.
A poor spirit is poorer than a (
poor purse.—Horace
POND DRAINING
300 Acres Sand Hill Lake Will Be Drained
and Fished
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
10:00 A. M.
Fishing Rights $7.00 Per Person
Located Six Miles Northeast of Soperton
For More Information Call 9-4967
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Rural Electrification is the
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ELECTRIC SERVICE! i!
IT IS THE
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