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Sen. Talmadge Warns Nation Not
To Be Fooled By Latest Soviet Deals
Back in his native Georgia for
a brief visit, US. Sen. Herman
E. Talmadge warned that the
American people must guard
against being “lulled into com
placency” by the recent ratified
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the
proposed sale of U.S. wheat to
the Soviet Union.
Addressing a Veterans’ Day cel
ebration sponsored by the Amer
ican Legion’s Atlanta Post No. 1
(after which he participated in
the annual Veterans’ Day parade
in Atlanta) the Georgia junior sen
ator declared:
“The test ban is no panacea for
peace, and the wheat sale, if con
summated, will be a cash-and
carry business deal only. Neither
signify any great breakthrough in
our relations with the Soviets.
“Make no mistake about it. We
are still engaged in a bitter ide
ological struggle with Commun
ism, and Mr. Khrushchev is just
as intent on burying us today as
he was before the treaty.”
Sen. Talmadge, who voted
against ratification of the treaty
because he said it was a threat
io U.S. security, told the gather
ing that “if the Soviet Union com
plies with the treaty, it could be
a meaningful step toward ending
the nuclear arms race.” But, with
emphasis, he added:
“However, the risk is too great,
for the Soviet Union has a shoddy
record for keeping promises.
Whenever it suits their national
interest, the Communists will vio
late this treaty, just as they have
broken other agreements in the
past.
“Witness the treachery of a year
ago when the Soviets invaded this
hemisphere with their men and
arms, and lied about the missiles
in Cuba. And to this day we can
not be certain that all Russian
nuclear weapons have been re
moved from Castro’s Island.
“Witness the 1958 moratorium
on nuclear tests which the Rus
sians violated after secretly pre
paring for a series of atmospheric
tests in 1961. Witness a long string;
of solemn pledges broken from
the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to
the present time.”
Talmadge warned that it would
be “a great mistake for the U.S.
to think that the Soviet Union
went into this treaty in good
faith. Anyone entertaining any
such illusions has either lost touch
with the realities of history and
Comment from the Capital —
ARE WE A NATION OF SHEEP?
by Vant Neff
Making a 100-year forecast
is one thing. Having history
prove it right is another.
Alexis de Tocqueville, world
famous commentator on Amer
ican democracy, did both.
Well over a century ago, he
warned how the growth of big
government could put the skids
on our free enterprise system
and reduce us to “nothing more
than a flock of timid and in
dustrious animals, of which
the government is the shep
herd.”
What’s more, he was right.
"That’s exactly what’s happen
ing today.
The fact is that our govern
ment is mushrooming into a
massive monster, with an in
satiable appetite for power.
And as it grows bigger and
trigger, it’s crowding the price
less American traditions of
rugged individualism, freedom
and self-reliance, closer and
closer to extinction.
Let’s take a close hard look
at what’s going on.
Fifteen years ago, there
were 7.1 million workers on
public payrolls. Now there are
12.3 million —a jump of 73 per
cent. And don’t expect it to
stay at that.
But that’s only a small part
cf this story. Those on the
receiving end of federal pro
gram funds, and their depend
ents, plus those on federal,
civilian and military payrolls,
and their families may well
add up to half the population
of the United. States.
Who says so? A highly re
spected Democratic congress
man—-Senator Harry F. Byrd
of Virginia.
All this, of course, takes
money, and in the end it’s
always the taxpayer who suf
fers." Federal, state and local
taxes Lake away from us about
35 percent of our national in
come—more thiin third of what
all people and business corpo
rations earn.
Naturally, a big fat bank
roll like this commands a lot
of deference in the nation’s
marketplace. And well it should.
One out of every five dollars
spent on goods and services is
spent by the government.
Now take a good look at
those government dollars and
you’ll make an important dis
covery. They have strings at
tached to them —long strings
that more often than not
stretch ail the way back to
Washington.
Communism or is soft in the
head.”
Turning to “another great threat
to the security of this country,”
the Senator and former Georgia
governor said the U.S. is now
“laboring under not one but two
great deficits, a domestic budget
far out of balance with a mount
ing national debt and a deficit in
our balance of payments with for
eign nations.” On that point he
declared:
“These critical fiscal problems
could be greatly alleviated by a
sizeable reduction in non-essen
tial government spending, a de
crease in our wasteful and inef
ficient foreign aid program, and
a withdrawal of some of our
troops from Europe.”
“Il is high time for the nations
of Western Europe to start meet
ing NATO commitments and shar
ing the cost of their own defense,”
Talmadge dded.
By The Medical Association
of Georgia
"Spinal Punctures
Are Helpful For
Many Reasons
Spinal fluid is withdrawn with
a needle through a puncture of
the spinal cavity for many rea
sons. Sometimes it is done so
that the fluid can be examined
for diagnostic purposes. It may
be done to relieve tension aroused
by pressure of the fluid. Some
times it is done to prevent an
excess of fluid when a liquid is
to be injected. An anesthetic is
sometimes given through a spinal
puncture.
The spinal cord in humans ends
around the lower chest. Below
this point there are only nerve
roots. This makes it possible for
a physician to put the needle into
the low spinal canal without ma
jor risk.
Some people have unfounded
fears about spinal punctures. They
are sometimes prompted by tales
of what other people have suf
fered after having one. But, when
When the strings are pulled,
people and companies all over
the country dance to whatever
tune the Administration chooses
to whistle. No dance, no dollars.
After all, does it make sense
to bite the hand that feeds
you ?
For the sake of example,
let’s say that you head up a
major steel corporation. To
stay solvent, you need your
share of United States defense
contracts. Then suppose that
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the government starts telling
you liow to run your business.
Would you tell them where to
go? Or would you toe the line
in order to keep those defense
contracts ?
Or suppose you are the head
of a great university with a
contract to train members of
the Peace Corps. The govern
ment tells you not only what
you will teach but insists on
passing on the members of
your faculty who will be al
lowed to teach. Do you sur
render your academic freedom
or give up the Government
contract ?
Suppose you are a farmer.
The Government offers you a
subsidy with the one hand and
with the other it compels you
to grow or not to grow what
ever the Government chooses
on acreage which the Govern
ment determines, with your
product to be sold at a Gov
crnmeut-established price. Will
you knuckle under or forego
the 'subsidy ?
It happens far more than
you think, even though you
don’t read about it in your
daily paper.
And there doesn’t seem to
be any end to it. The federal
government keeps growing big
ger, spending more money and
acquiring more and more
power.
As a result, there's prac
tically nothing of any signifi
cance that hasn’t been meddled
with, in one way or another,
by the administration.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE. ALAMO. WHEELER COUNTY, GEORGIA
one hears of such, he should make
sure why the patient had certain
after effects. Many of the condi
tions often calling for spinal punc
tures — head injuries, suspected
meningitis, a stroke, some back
injuries — are serious in them
selves. Trouble after a spinal
puncture may be caused by the
pre-existing condition rather than
by the spinal puncture. Sometimes
this trouble is mistakenly attri
buted to the puncture.
Local anesthesia is used in
making a spinal puncture. The
patient has very little discom
fort and the information the phy
sician can obtain from an exami
nation of the fluid is very val
uable in helping him treat the
patient.
Most spinal punctures are done
in clinics or hospitals. Patients
who have had spinal punctures
should lie flat in bed overnight
so that nature can heal the titny
opening made by the needle and
so that fluid will not drain into
the tissues of the back, causing
headache from low’ pressure. Oc
casionally people have a head
ache for as long as a week after
a spinal puncture. It is also wise
for patients to drink more liquids
than usual after the puncture.
This helps replace the fluid that
was withdrawn.
DOC MAG SAYS:
Your physician weighs the pos
sible risks involved in a spinal
puncture against its expected ben
efits in deciding for or against
the procedure. When the punc
ture is done for diagnostic pur
poses it can yield very helpful
information.
Editor’s note: If you have a
topic you would like Doc MAG
to discuss in this column, send
your request on a postcard to The
Medical Association of Georgia,
93-8 Peachtree Street, N.E., At
lanta 9, Georgia. Thank you.
NOTICE!
In order that I might be lo
cated at my office a larger per
centage of the time, I am estab
lishing 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
as office hours. This will give
me an opportunity to answer
the majority of the large ani
mal calls during the afternoons,
thus being able io remain in
the office during the morning.
While I am away from the
office I will have an electronic ;
secretary (automatic answering .
service) which will answer your
phone calls and record your
message, thus giving 24-hour
service.
J. T. JEFFRIES. D.V.M.
For example, radio and TV
stations can’t operate without
a license . . . who issues the
license? The government, of
course. But only if they decide
you deserve one.
Kailroads, electric-power
companies, pipelines, interstate
truckers and barge lines aren’t
permitted to set their own
rates. The government tells
them what they can charge.
“Management of the news”
•—a new polite term meaning
“distortion” — lias apparently
become a standard government
procedure. (It's no secret that
the White House virtually os
tracized reporters from a
famous New York newspaper
because the President resented
something it printed.)
In labor-management rela
tions, government meddling
has been downright disastrous.
It’s all but hamstrung business
and it’s also deprived the
American worker of his basic
freedom to decide for himself
whether he joins a union and
what he settles for.-
Remember that the White
House has issued directives to
all government agencies, even
the military, virtually inviting
unions to move in and sign up
civilian employees.
The administration’s toler
ance of monopolistic unions is
obvious, and leads to an in
escapable question: Why?
Could it be to curry favor
among unions for votes that
would perpetuate an adminis
tration’s existence?
All this just doesn’t add up
to the American way of doing
things. The tragic fact is that
within the past few decades
the government has spun a
web of supports, subsidies, in
terventions and controls that
threaten to extinguish the spir
it of free enterprise.
It would be difficult to name
a basic American freedom that
has escaped the long arm of
government. Power breeds on
power, and the bigger the gov
ernment grows, the more
greedy its demands become.
I refuse to believe that self
reliance, thrift and freedom of
the individual are obsolete and
have no place in modern so
ciety.
To me, just to sit back and
let the Big Government take
over all of my freedoms and
responsibilities, and make all
the decisions would be intol
erable.
How about you?
Bishops To Meet
With Methodists
On November 22-25
Five Methodist bishops from
‘ across the nation will meet with
(Georgia Methodists on November
122 and 25 in two rallies on con-
I sideration of today’s minister.
( In September The Methodist
! Church launched a nation-wide
(“Bishops’ Mission on the Minis
। try.” Convocations, or rallies, are
(being held in all of the denomi
nation’s 44 episcopal areas (re
gional groupings) with three-man
teams of bishops visiting the are
' as. The program was planned, and
(is being co-ordinated, by the
I Methodist Council of Bishops.
I Meetings in Georgia are sched
uled for November 22 at First
Methodist Church in Athens
(North Georgia Conference) and
November 25 at Vineville Metho
dist Church in Macon (South
Georgia Conference). Every min
ister in the state, as w r ell as most
(church lay leaders, are expected
to attend the convocations.
Bishops Paul E. Martin, of
Houston, Texas; Hazen G. Wer
ner, of Columbus, Ohio; and Eu
gene Slater, of Topeka, Kansas,
are scheduled for the Athens
! meeting. Bishops Lloyd C. Wicke,
of New York; W. Earl Ledden
iof Washington, D.C., and Slater
will make up the South Georgia
team in Macon.
Bishop John Owen Smith, lead
er of the Atlanta Methodist Area
will preside over both sessions
which begin at 10 a.m. and ad
journ at 4 p.m. Each visiting
bishop will deliver an address on
some phase of the pastoral, or
local church, ministry.
Bishop F. Gerald Ensley, of Des
Moines, lowa, general chairman
of the program, said the mission
is intended to: (1) call attention
to the crucial importance of the
parish ministry; (2) lift the mor
ale of. current pastors, and (3) lay
groundwork for future ministerial
recruitment.
"Miss Mit" Keeps
Staying Busy On
Her Farm At 81
“Miss Mit” reached another
milestone the other day. “Miss
j Mit,” as just about everybody in
Georgia knows, is Mrs. Eugene
' Talmadge, widow of Georgia’s
thrice-elected governor and moth
er of U.S. Sen. Herman E. Tal
madge, himself a former gover
j nor. She was 81 years old Novem-
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ber 7.
“When you get beyond 80 you
kind of have to slow up,” ob
served the former First Lady. “My
doctor is always telling me to
slow up. But I can’t slow up.
There’s too much to do. There is
always something to do on the
farm.”
And that’s precisely what she
does — finds things to do in
running her 1,000-acre farm at
Sugar Creek, four miles south
east of Mcßae, with its cattle,
hogs, pecan trees, pines and roll
ing acres.
Mrs. Talmadge thinks her son,
whose farm home is at Lovejoy,
is in Washington “from now on,'
unless he makes a big mistake.”
The Senator phones her nearly
every day, she said.
“Mostly he says, ‘Mama, look
after yourself. Don’t try to do
too much. Take it easy.’ Shucks!
I'm all right.”
Commenting on her latest birth
day, The Atlanta Journal had this
to say: “She has a great capacity
for living her kind of life, a fierce
ly independent style that seems
to be slipping way, to the sorrow
of so many who have a sentimen
tal attachment for it.
“Miss Mit’s philosophy and the
manner in which she applies it
daily should be an inspiration to
young and old. She doesn’t live
in the past and likes being at
home because she’s too busy to
think of getting far away from
it.”
Teen-Age Traffic
Safety Week Set
The stage is set for the Uth
annual Georgia Youth Traffic
Safety Week Nov. 17-23. The
special safety week, a project of
the Georgia Teen-Age Traffic
Safety Assn., has been set aside
by a proclamation issued by Gov.
Carl E. Sanders.
As the adult guiding agency for
the youth association, the Geor
gia Department of Public Safety
is giving its full cooperation and
active support in an effort to
make the safety campaign a suc
cess, according to Col. H. Lowell
Conner, director.
Gov. Sanders urges all Geor
gians to do their part in trying
to “bring about a week entirely
free from traffic deaths.”
Similarity of cultural, social,
economic, and religious back
grounds is more likely to lead to
lasting marriages, according to
Miss Audrey Morgan, head of the
Cooperative Extension Service
family life department.
Auto Wrecks Kill
10,108 Georgians
Over Last Decade
In the decade ending with 1961,
10,108 Georgians were killed in
motor-vehicle accidents on the na
tion’s streets and highways, the
12th largest number for that per
iod in the U.S.
Figures released by the Atlan
ta office of the U.S. Commerce
department from data compiled
by the Department of Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare showed that
only California, Texas, New York,
Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Mich
igan, North Carolina, Indiana,
Florida and Missouri lost more
citizens in road accidents.
During the same period the 16-
state Southern region lost 133,170
residents in automobile accidents,
the equivalent of “wiping out”
such cities as Montgomery or Sa
vannah.
In the nation as a whole, 379,-
210 road deaths exceeded the
number of American soldiers lost
in both World Wars and the Ko
rean conflict combined, more peo
ple than inhabit either the states
of Nevada, Wyoming or Alaska.
Charles Gray, Florist
To Be In Alamo
Thursday, Nov. 21
Charles Gray, Uvalda florist,
will give a demonstration on
Christmas arrangements at the
cafetorium of the Wheeler Coun
ty High School on Thursday aft
ernoon, Nov. 21, from 2:30 until
5 p.m.
Gray, who is noted for his ar
tistic and unique arrangements,
has been named Florist of The
Year by Georgia florists.
The demonstration is being
sponsored by the Alamo Garden
Club and the public is invited to
attend. Admission will be SI.OO
IT'S NOT HARMFUL
The treatment of citrus fruits,
apples, or pears with chemicals
to reduce mold and rot is not
harmful. Miss Lucile Higginboth
am, head of the Extension Service
health department, says the meth
od has been tested and found
harmless by the Food and Drug
Administration. Nevertheless, all
fruits should be washed before
being eaten.
Hatching egg flocks need 13 to
14 hours of light each day, says
Milton Dendy, poultryman with
the Cooperative Extension Serv
ice.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1963
Classified Ads
PART TIME — National Organi
zation has opening for several
part time representatives in
your area. Complete insurance
and credit reports in spare
time. No selling or collecting.
Write, Manager, P.O. Box 3282,
I Savannah, Georgia. 31-6 t
$300.00 Belltone Hearing Aid for
sale. Reasonable. Frances Led
better, Glenwood. 31-lt
FOR SALE—Seed Wheat .$2.50
per bushel. W. H. Thomas, Ala
mo, Phone 568-4277. 30-2 i
INCREASED Fall business neces
sitates placing 3 women imme
diately. Real opportunity for
those who qualify. Write Mrs.
Wan L. Mattox, Route 2, Alma,
| Georgia. 13-if
FOR SALE
PIANOS
GRINDLE ELECTRIC COM
PANY is having a giant sale on
all pianos. Just received a truck
load of Factory Rebuilt Piano*
going at rock bottom prices.
New Pianos at a big saving also
used pianos cheap. See us be
fore you buy. Phone 2281.
FEDERAL LAND BANK LOANS
for farmers in Toombs, Tatt
nall, Montgomery, and Wheel
er Counties are available
through the Federal Land Bank
Association of Swainsboro. Loans
run up to 40 years. Can be paid
any time without penalty> Pro
ceeds can be used io buy land,
pay debts, make improvements,
or to finance almost any need
of the farm or family. For de
tails, see or write. E. O. Mc-
Kinney, Manager, P. O. Box
; 148, or Mitchell Bldg, in Swains
boro, Ga. or at Courthouse in
Alamo, Ga. on Ist and 3rd
Thursday morning ad 10:00 a.m.
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE
! GEORGlA—Wheeler County.
By virtue of an order of the
court or Ordinary of Wheeler
County, granted upon the appli
cation of Mrs. Gladys G. Clark,
as administratrix of the estate of
Aulden T. Gillis, deceased, late
of said county, to sell the lands
of the said Aulden T. Gillis, de
ceased, for the purpose of paying
debts and distribution, there will
be sold before the courthouse
door, at public outcry, to the
highest bidder, in the city of Ala
! mo, Georgia, between the legal
i hours of sale, on the first Tues
i day in December, 1953, as the
I property of the said deceased, the
following described lands, to-wit:
190 acres, more or less, of lot
of land No. 259 in the 11th Land
District, Wheeler County, Geor
gia, bounded as follows: North
by lands of Alvie Barlow, East
by lands of G. C. Barnhill estate,
and on the south and west by
lands of J. A. Pope. The above
described land being all of said
lot of land No. 259 in said 11th
Land District of said Wheeler
County, Georgia, excepting that
certain ten acre tract of land
owned by Alvie Barlow, or Mrs.
Alvie Barlow.
Terms of sale, cash.
This, the sth day of November,
1963.
Mrs. Gladys G. Clark,
Administratrix. 30-4 t
i GEORGlA—Wheeler County.
Court of Ordinary
’To Any Creditors And All
Parties At Interest:
Regarding estate of Dr. Morris
Kusnitz, formerly of Wheeler
County, Georgia, notice is hereby
given "that the heirs, have filed
application with me to declare
no Administration necessary.
Said application will be heard
at my office Monday, December
12, 1963, and if no objection is
j made an order will be passed
( saying no Administration neces-
;sary.
: This November 5, 1963.
D, N. Achord, Ordinary 30-4 t
GEORGIA —Wheeler County.
COURT OF ORDINARY
■To Any Creditors And All
Parties At Interest:
Regarding Estate of Mrs. Jessie
A. Clark formerly of. Helena RFD j
No. 1, Georgia, notice is hereby i
given that T. B. Clark and Dewitt
Clark the heirs, have filed appli- i
cation with me to declare no Ad
; ministration necessary.
Said application will be heard |
lat my office Monday, December '
12, 1963, and if no objection is
; made an order will be passed
; saying no Administration neces
isary.
November 4th. 1963.
D. N. ACHORD, Ordinary 30-4 t
Christmas Seals To
Be Mailed Fri., Nov. 15
A fifty year fight to relieve
.'suffering and death from tuber
; culosis in Georgia will be contin
i ued Friday, November 15, when
■ residents of Telfair County re
i ceive their Christmas Seals in the
’ mail from the Georgia Tubercu-
I losis Association. Contributions to
Christmas Seals are used to help
TB patients and their families, to
find new cases, and in educational
programs to protect every citizen
I from this dread disease.
Organized in 1913, tne Georgia
ITB Association is celebrating its
■ 50th year of Christmas Seal serv-
I ices. Mrs. Elma D. Whitehead, At
' lanta housewife, is the president.
“Millions of lives in our coun
: try have been saved since the first
■ contribution was made to Christ
i mas Seals,” she said, “but the
I fight is far from finished. We had
; nearly 1400 new cases of TB in
(Georgia last year and the disease
i claimed 177 lives.