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Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1967 Griffin Daily News
Is Something
Starting To
Move In Viet?
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It is a surprising, though
understandable, edict which
came from the Vatican, ban
ning certain forms of music,
especially that which is
known as the. “jazz mass.”
just Surprising, because we had
become accustomed to
the most revolutionary liturgi
cal reforms. Understandable
because jazz is noisy, discord
ant and strange to the uniniti
ated. In addition, it is more
of a solo or concert form of
music, in contrast to that ex
pression which lends itself to
congregational participation.
Nonetheless, there was a
syncopated phrase in the
edict. It referred to “music
of a totally profane and
worldly character.” Yet the
whole point of the Christian
faith is that God is speaking
in human flesh. It is a religion
of the Incarnation. It is the
invasion of that which men
called the profane and the
worldly, clothing it with new
meaning.
As a result, some of our
greatest chorales and hymns
came into the church by way
of taverns and public gather
ings which were profane. The
tunes of the people at play be
came also the tunes of the
people at worship. Then, just
as in the Old Testament,
cymbals, bagpipes tymbrels, dulcimers,
and flutes became
the gladsome praise of the
Lord.
“Music Sidney Lanier said that
is love in search of a
word.” Some of it doesn’t
sound that way to my ears.
Yet are we to dimension this
desire to speak to the con
temporary man who finds in
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FINDING THE WAY
What Music Is Profane?
By RALPH W. LOEW, D.D.
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
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this discordant statement that
which witnesses more than
the Gregorian chant or a Bach
chorale sings to my ears?
Staid Westerners are ac
customed to sitting in pews
and being quiet observers; the
Orthodox in Greece and
Russia enjoy motion, with
people walking about, kissing
icons, participating instead of
observing. What is disturbing
to a Westerner is normal to
another; what would be under
standable in one situation
would become dull conformity
in another. The joyous “beat”
of some congregations may be
strange but to the unaccustomed
the lack of an exultant
“Hallelujah” or an echoing
“Amen” would make it a dull
experience to others.
Obviously it is proper for
any church to determine the
norm of its forms of worship.
Yet we must also know that
the Gospel must be communi
cated in this profane and
worldly know situation which we
as our environment.
Into this world, the Word is
shared. It might just be that
the profane and worldly
music could be the swaddling
clothes!
Bv STEWART HENSLEY
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
feeling in Washington and
Saigon that “something Is
starting to move” tn the
Vietnam conflict appeared to
day to stem from several
factors, military as well as
diplomatic.
Though none was conclusive
in itself, taken together these
factors could lead to some kind
of tacit agreement with Hanoi
on de-escalation—a reciprocal
lowering of military activities—
by both sides.
They could result in a
development a good deal more
dramatic such as an agreement
on the part of the Communists
to talk peace. U.S. officials here
did not regard this as very
likely, however.
Johnson administration offi
cials, always mindful of raising
false hopes, denied they had
any “hard” evidence that the
Reds were preparing to alter
their tactics or attitude.
But they did acknowledge that
a number of signs pointed to the
possibility of a turn in the
nature of the Vietnam struggle.
Among these:
—Increasing evidence that
Hanoi is coming to realize It
cannot secure a halt in the U.S.
bombing without making some
significant concessions.
—The diminishing ability of
Peking to supply North Vietnam
because of contmulng chaos in
Red China. This increases
Russia’s power to influence
Hanoi toward moderation, if
and when the Kremlin chooses
to do so.
—Evidence that U.S. forces
are beginning to damage the
main Communist military struc
ture In South Vietnam Instead
of simply chasing the Reds
around the countryside.
On this last point, Gen.
Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief
of Staff, told Congress Tuesday
that a Viet Cong military
victory now was impossible.
In aditlon to these factors,
there has been a notable
increase in recent days of
discussions between the North
Vietnamese and officials of
other countries about the
possibilities of getting the U.S.
bombing stopped or talking
peace.
The Communist apparently
remain as unyielding as ever on
terms, but the fact that they
are talking Is taken as evidence
of Increased concern.
For months they demanded
that the bombings end uncondi
tionally. Now they are beginning
to talk about the possibilities of
discussions with the United
States if the raids end.
This is far from meeting U.S.
demands for some reciprocal
lowering of the Communist
military effort, but to some
officials It indicates a signifi
cant movement.
Agents Raid
Fargo Still;
Five Arrested
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI)
—A potential drain of $7,800 a
day in whisky taxes was plug
ged up when agents swooped
down on a 600-gallon a day
moonshine operation in Fargo,
Ga.
Florida, Georgia and federal
agents Tuesday destroyed eight
1,800-gallon cooking pots, con
fiscated two vehicles and ar
rested five persons on charges
of violating federal liquor laws,
according to beverage director
Don Meiklejohn.
Arrested were Oscar Ogilvie,
44, College Park, Ga., James
Lenten Parris, 27, Vidalia, Ga.,
Roy J. Cribbs, 29, Lyons, Ga.,
James Steedley, 60, Fargo, and
a 16-year-old boy.
Maddox Not Having Much
Luck As Labor Arbitrator
ATLANTA (UFI) — Gov.
Lester Maddox, whose position
as chief executive of Georgia
means many things to many
people, has tried his hand as a
labor arbitrator. 6o far, he has
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North Africa had its deserts, Korea had its mountains, and Vietnam
has its Mekong Delta. Though fertile and rice-rich, this area of slimy
mud and stagnant water pools has got to be one of the most improb
able spots to fight a war the United States soldier has ever faced.
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footwear, and corrodes ammunition and
weapons.
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
LBJ a Candidate in 1968?
I, Don't Take Bets Against It
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
'M Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The now sharply diminished talk that President Johnson
might not be a candidate for a second full term in 1968 never
was well-founded.
High party sources scoff at the idea he would ever seriously
consider not running—so long as his health holds chief good.
Lyndon Johnson may be a highly unorthodox conventional in execu
tive in many respects, but he is strictly history one to
important way. Like all his president. predecessors, he wants
record him as a superior full with major national
To quit after one term, only briefly so many faced, would be to
challenges still unmet or job fears that
acknowledge failure on the and suggest strong
he could not win in 1968.
Admittedly, public opinion polls showing him with less
than half the voting populace in support of his present And, per
formance may stir such fears. But polls change. decision to any
way, few leading political figures allow their samplings. run
or not to run to be guided principally by opinion of his
The late Arthur Schlesinger Sr. demonstrated in one long
historical writings that wanting to stay on the job as as
possible was an occupational ailment of the U.S. presidency.
He discovered that the old pre-FDR “no third term” tradi
tion was not so much an honored principle as a reluctantly
accepted fact of political life by men who actually aspired to
go on and on.
The motivating force in the drive to stay on in the White
House was always the deep-felt notion that the experienced
incumbent had important unfinished business to conclude—
and in any event could do the job better than anybody else on
the horizon.
Lyndon Johnson, the man who ascended to White House
power with more than 30 years of experience in the federal
government under his belt, hardly strikes his friends as one
likely to depart from this commonly held attitude among
presidential Furthermore, incumbents. has another powerful motive for wishing
he
to run and win again in 1968.
For two years now, he has been listening to wise types say
that he won big in 1964 only because he had an incredibly
weak Republican adversary in Barry Goldwater and was
whose riding a huge wave of sympathy him for the late John F. Kennedy,
assassination thrust into power.
There is evidence that Johnson would like to show he can
win well under different conditions —and particularly against
stiffer GOP opposition.
All the current indications are that he would get a far
tougher race, since polls continue to show Michigan’s Gov.
George Romney ahead of Johnson by substantial margins.
This being the prospect, and LBJ being governed by the
standard presidential compulsion to win the verdict. of
history, his friends have always been convinced of his intent
to make another race.
been less than successful.
What Maddox tried to settle
was the 12-week old strike by
the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers against the
Westinghouse electrical supplies
plant at Athens.
Maddox said late Tuesday aft
er the second session in as
many nights with labor and
management negotiators that he
had come within inches of set
tling the dispute but that nego
tiations had broken down at the
last minute.
The governor said that the
only issue separating the union
and the company was five cents
an hour in wages.
"Only a nickle,” said Maddox
as federal mediators and com
pany and union representatives
Until recently, American forces
in Vietnam have left fighting in
the Delta to the South Vietnam
ese. Now a Gl buildup is under
way in this Viet Cong-domi
nated part of the country, and
river patrol boats and the fan
tastic hovercraft make regular
forays. Recently South Viet
namese paratroopers and U.S.
troops teamed up for a drop
into a Cong stronghold, the U
Minh forest.
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CALLED A "MONSTER" by the superstitious Viet Cong,
the hovercraft is a valuable vehicle in the swampy shallows
of the Delta. Buoyed up by a downthrust of air, it can skim
over either water or land.
walked from the governor’s of
flee after meeting on the dis
pute.
But the governor asked both
sides to “sleep on it” and try
again.
More than 750 employes have
been away from work in the
dispute and Westinghouse has
threatened to move all of its
operations out of Athens. The
plant has a $90,000 a week pay
roll. It also has announced a
$2.5 million expansion program
has been postponed because of
the strike.
Maddox said he had recom
mended a contract that was
turned down by the company
and that another offer was
turned down by the union.
Ex-Wac Goes On
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UFI)—For a
little while, police said today,
the blonde in the Black Bart
jacket and slacks and the white
go-go boots was a one-woman
wave of destruction.
What she did, Richmond
County officials related, was
hold up and shoot a taxicab
driver and leave him for dead,
terrorize a bricklayer and his
wife at gunpoint and steal their
car and bait a military police
man to a wild chase before
eluding him.
Even bloodhounds couldn’t
pick up the scent of the shady
lady with the pistol.
Officers, acting on a tip,
Tuesday arrested Natalie
Franklin, 20, a former Wac at
nearby Fort Gordon, and
charged her with armed rob
bery.
The victim of the holdup was
Danny Maddox, 40, who lost $6
to a woman passenger he had
picked up at a bar Monday
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PEASANT WOMAN in the Delta tries
vainly to douse a fire on her hut, set by
Allied troops who suspected the area of
being a Cong sanctuary.
night on instructions to drive
her to the airport. Maddox
was in an Augusta hospital
with a bullet wound in his
chest.
Maddox told authorities that
his woman passenger pulled a
gun on him, forced him to lie
down in the trunk of the cab
and slammed the lid.
He said she then drove off
and after a short while stopped,
accused him of making too
much noise, opened the trunk
lid and shot him at point blank
range.
Then she drove away again,
finally abandoning the car on a
side street near the Richmond
County community of Hephzi
bah.
It was about that time that
Winston Jenkins, a 26-year-old
bricklayer, was surprised by a
gun woman who showed up at
his house and held Jenkins and
his wife at gunpoint while she
stole their car.
Jenkins managed to notify po
lice of the holdup a few min
utes later and a military po
liceman, hearing a radio reporl
of the stolen car, jumped the
vehicle and gave chase.
The Jenkins’ vehicle was
abandoned and the driver fled
on foot. Police brought ujj
bloodhounds but they were un
able to pick up the scent.
Other officers, meanwhile
had found Maddox’s taxicab
abandoned and heard his cries
for help when they stopped to
investigate.
The officers had to use crow
bars to rip open the trunk and
Maddox was sped to a hospital
Jenkins and his wife picked
out Miss Franklin from a police
lineup Tuesday afternoon.
Authorities said she was a
native of California who had
been living in Augusta since
her discharge from service is
October, 1966.