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By United Press International
SAIGON —A high ranking
Marine, explaining the practical
purpose of the U.S. and South
Vietnamese sortie into the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) se
parating North and South
Vietnam:
“They’ve been using it for a
sanctuary. They've violated the
.... thing—so we're sick of it.
We're going to clean them out.”
DAYTON, Tenn. —H. J.
Shelton, a citizen of Dayton, site
of the famous Scopes monkey
trial, agreeing with some
reservations that all schools
should be allowed to teach
evolution:
“Teaching it as a fact,
however, is a different matter.
I believe man was created in
the image of God and I don’t
think he has changed materially
since Biblical days.”
Almanac
For
Griffin
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, May 20
the 140th day of 1967 with 225 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning star is Saturn.
The evening stars are Venus,
Jupiter and Mars.
Born on this day in 1799 was
French author Honore de
Balzac.
On this day in history:
In 1902, Cuba became a
republic as American occupa
tion under Gen. Leonard Wood
came to an end.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh
began his flight from New York
City to Paris in the Spirit of St.
Louis, a monoplane. He landed
in the French capital 33)4 hours
later.
In 1939, Pan American
Airways started the first
regular air passenger service
across the Atlantic.
In 1963 the Supreme Court
legalized sit-in demonstrations.
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Bill Knight, Executive Editor
Editorial Roundup
Prison Camps
In Georgia
Spalding, Pike and other work camps in this section
(except the one in Fayette County) got good reports from
the investigating committee from the Legislature. Some
other places have not fared so well. _
Here is editorial comment from several sections of Geor
gia about the prison situation.
THOMASTON FREE PRESS
Georgia’s 75 public work camps maintained by counties
with state prisoners are coming under close inspection and
the future of these camps is deeply involved.
The camps are maintained, at the county expense, for
the two-fold purpose of providing labor for county roads
and bridge maintenance. And these camps provide a better
place than Reidsville State Prison for less than maximum
security prisoners.
In Upson County the prison camp was done away with
several years ago on a voluntary basis. Hired labor did the
job of road and bridge maintenance at about the same cost
of food, shelter, clothing and guards for convict labor. But
then the labor situation came on the scene and hired labor
was not so readily available.
Since the return of prison labor to Upson County the
Public Camp has presented the picture of a model prison
camp. And we’ll borrow the words of the critics of prison
camps by quickly agreeing that no prison is a country club.
The prisoners do go by rules, they must work to earn
their keep but they are provided with good food, clean and
sanitary surrounding, good medical attention and the re
creation of television. Many are trusties with the freedom
to roam the yards and even drive trucks and other equip
ment without a guard riding shotgun over them.
Prisoners aren’t model citizens or they wouldn’t be be
hind bars. Some discipilinary action is necessary but to our
knowledge there has been no brutality in Upson county.
Some have escaped but this is the inherent nature of
some people restrained behind bars.
There is a “hole”, or solitary confinement cell, that is
both sanitary and confining but it is not exposed to the ele
ments and presents no brutality unless a prisoner chooses
self-infliction. This “hole” is inside the camp and within
view of the other prisoners.
Last year when a prisoner escaped twice in rapid succes
sion from a work detail in mid-summer’s hot weather, he
was ordered out on the work detail on the day after his
capture. “But I’m supposed to go in the ‘hole’, ” he told
the warden of that time. He preferred this solitary confine
ment in the cool and shade of the Public Works Camp to
going back to a job that was neither inhuman nor brutal.
Georgia’s State Prison at Reidsville is not without diffi
culties as indeed we learn from the news almost weekly.
Running a prison or a public work camp isn’t an easy job
and it is becoming increasingly difficult to get personnel
to do both.
We have personally visited ,eaten at and thoroughly
looked over the Upson Public Works Camp on several
occasion/ many of them unannounced.
As incarceration goes, the Upson Public Works Camp is
about as good a home as any.
We hope the popularity of crying prison camp in in
dignation does not create the untimely closing of Upson’s
Public Works Camp.
DUBLIN COURIER-HERALD
It is an easy matter to sit back and contend that prisons
in Georgia—or anywhere for that matter, need reforms.
The very nature of a prison, whether it be a Federal prison
or a public works camp in a rural county in Georgia, can
well be the target for idealists and reformers and sociologi
cally-minded individuals.
However, the very nature of the prison itself and the
people who inhabit them impose certain actions that are
inevitable. With all ambitions gone, hopes centered only
on dates of release, and in the minds of most inmates the
thoughts only of escape if possible, a prison of any kind has
little chance of being an attractive or desirable place in
which to live.
We are sure that various standards prevail in the prison
camps over the state. State regulations impose cetrain mini
mum standards and practices, but guards, being human
beings, are certain to react differently to rules and regula
tions.
We do not believe that prison camps in the state can be
fairly condemned as a whole. The question may be debat
able as to whether or not a penal system should serve to
punish only rather than restrain and try to rebuild individ
uals. That question will probably never be adequately and
completely answered since the reactions of individual in
mates are also individualistic. Some may not be retrainable
and some may not be capable of assuming responsible
and lawful existences in society.
We think that prisons of all kinds should be undesirable
places to be in from any angle. Mere confinement with all
the comforts and pleasures of ordinary life will never serve
as deterrents to crime. That they should be humane goes
without saying.
But we do not think that all prisons in Georgia can be
summarily condemned because one or two, or a few more,
do not measure up to standards set by some.
WAYCROSS JORNAL- HERALD
Georgia has struggled for too long to outlive the stigma
of the old chaingang to be branded in the Space Age as a
state which uses medieval methods of penalogy.
Granted that some recent reports of mistreatment of pri
soners may have been exaggerated and some perhops are
even false, the old saying “where there’s smoke there’s
Quimby Melton, Jr.,
Editor
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Christ Necessary
Do you believe someone living
in sin can be saved by acknow
ledging his sins, going to the al
tar, and repeating a prayer af
ter the preacher? L.Y.
Your question does not even
mention Christ. No one can be
saved just by acknowledging his
sins, going to an altar, or by
merely repeating a prayer af
ter the minister. These things
are all good, but the Bible says,
“As many as received him, to
them gave he power to become
the sons of God.’’ It is receiv
ing Christ that brings salvation.
If we try to find forgiveness and
salvation in any other way, we
go against the Scriptures which
say: “I am the Door; if any
man climb up any other way he
is a thief and robber.”
There are those who leave the
impression that the “altar”, or
mourner’s bench is an object of
saving virtue. Others leave the
impression that going to church,
or reading the Bible, or joining
church, are sufficient unto Sal
vation. These are all good and
are certainly valuable means of
"growing in grace”, but before
we grow In grace, we must first
of all be in grace The Bible
says: “The law was given by
Moses, but grace and truth
came by Jesus Christ.” A corp
se cannot grow, unless by some
miracle it is given life. The Bi
ble says two things: “We are all
dead in trespasses and sin”,
and, “In Him was life; and the
life was the light of men.”
Christ, not the altar, not relig
ious exercise, nor church mem
bership, is the doorway to t h e
kingdom.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
When Europeans first
began settling in Canada,
there were an estimated
200,000 Indians in that
country. By 19TO, disease,
alcoholism and food short
ages cut the Indian popula
tion in Canada to about
100,000, says The World
Almanac. Today, self-help
programs and active gov
ernment aid have helped
the Indians make up their
losses and, by 1970, it is
estimated they will number
about 230,000.
Copyright © 1967,
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
fire” applies.
Not long ago eyebrows were lifted over reports or the
death of a prisoner while laboring on someone’s private
property. Recently another story came to light of an in
mate of a county camp who died while being used as a
retriever for a duck-hunting guard.
Gov. Maddox unexpectedly “entertained some escap
ed prisoners at his recent open house. They came to tell
him stories about being mistreated in a county camp.
While there is evidence that most prison units m Geor
gia, particularly those operated by the state, are run reason
ably well, some county camps have not kept pace with mo
dem penal methods.
Reports are that some local camps are too lax; others
still handle prisoners brutally.
Both extremes should and must be hailed. County camps
render an important service in providing labor for public
projects but unless they can be operated properly they
should be shut down. .
We hope the current investigation will point up the
problems in the prison structure of Georgia and that no
time will be wasted in correcting them.
Sat. and Sun., May 20-21, 1967 Griffin Daily News
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Religion Today
Crisis Os
Conscience
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
Three well-known American
theologians—a Protestant, a
Catholic and a Jew—have
written a book which explains,
with exceptional clarity, why
many religious leaders oppose
the war in Vietnam.
The book, to be pubhlished
next month, is entitled “Viet
nam: Crisis of Conscience.”
The authors are the Rev. Dr.
Robert McAfee Brown, Pres
byterian theologian who is
professor of religion at Stanford
University; Dr. Michael Novak,
a Catholic scholar on the
Stanford faculty; and Rabbi
Abraham Heschel, professor of
ethics at Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
They believe the United
States is involved in a morally
indefensible and increasingly
dangerous war which could be
terminated honorably by a
determined and sincere effort.
Dr. Novak says in the opening
section that “all war is
barbarous” but the war in
Vietnam is particularly repug
nant to the moral conscience
because of the way it's being
fought.
“The special quality of this
war is that it is a war without
front lines. Most of the enemy
forces are mixed in with the
civilian population. The lowest
estimate of civilian to military
deaths is 3 to 1 . . .
Ditry War
Civilians are being killed and
maimed, he says, because U.S.
forces are “relying upon
enormously heavy fire power”—
especially bombs and napalm
dropped from aircraft —as a
substitute for the huge infantry
force which would be required
“to ferret out the guerrillas
rifle by rifle.”
“The United States is taking
the cheapest course possible.
American lives will be saved.
The South Vietnamese people
and countryside must pay the
costs.”
Dr. Novak concedes that the
United States may have good
intentions in Vietnam.
“But the moral dilemma is
that in carrying them out we
seem to be Involved in evils as
great as those we oppose,” he
said.
Rabbi Heschel observes that
the moral justification for
America’s role in Vietnam is
ostensibly that “we are living
up to a commitment to give aid
to democratic governments
when they are threatened or
attacked by dictators.”
“However, we do not fight in
Vietnam as allies of a freely
elected democratic government,
but rather as . . . allies of a
despotic military oligarchy,” he
says.
Questions Johnson Stand
Dr. Brown takes issue with
President Johnson’s assertion
that the United States has tried
its best to arrange peace
negotiations and now has no
alternative except to apply
increasing military pressure to
North Vietnam.
“Such an attitude can only
prolong the war,” says Dr.
Brown. “We, as the stronger
nation, must give more conclu
sive evidence than we yet have
that . . . W’e genuinely wish to
negotiate, that we seek a peace
without victory, and that we are
not trying to win at the
conference table what we have
been unable to win on the
battlefield.”
He proposes that the United
States halt the bombing of
North Vietnam—without de
manding or expecting any
“immediate response from the
other side.”
This is necessary, he says, to
break the present impasse in
which the United States keeps
saying it will stop the bombing
if North Vietnam will give some
reciprocal evidence of readiness
to negotiate, and North Vietnam
says it won't consider peace
talks until the bombing is
halted.
Dr. Brown concedes that a
bombing halt entails the risk
that “during the Interval the
other side will simply build up
its supply lines for more furious
battle in the future.” But the
United States also could use the
interval to strengthen and
redeploy its forces, so that “the
proportions of power would not
materially change.” And in the
meantime, "fewer people would
be dying” and the de-escalation
of conflict would create “a
climate more conducive to the
possibility of peace talks.”
Urges U.N. Help
He thinks prospects for
negotiations would be further
enhanced by the United States
declaring that it will accept the
Viet Cong at the peace table
and by sincerely seeking the
good offices of the United
Nations in the quest for a
settlement.
The book concludes with a
plea to churches and syna
gogues to “mobilize enough
support for new peace initia
tives so that our policymakers
will be forced to move in new
directions.”
Not all church and synagogue
members will agree with these
authors. But even those who
sharply disagree will find their
book worth reading as a
detailed, documented, closely
reasoned exposition of a view
point which seems to be gaining
many adherents in America’s
major religious communities.
"Vietnam: Crisis of Con
science” will be published
jointly by Association Press,
Herder & Herder and Behrman
House. Publication date is June
12, and the paperback edition is
priced at 95 cents.
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SOS TODAY FROM W'Jt
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As many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons
of God. (Romans 8:14)
PRAYER: Our Father, we
thank Thee for giving us the de
sire to listen for Thy voice, to
hear Thy directions and to res
pond to Thy command. Grant
that we may strive to stay alert
to Thy call that Thy message
may reach us not only in times
of emergency but at all times.
In Christ’s name. Amen.
Thought For Today
A thought for the day
French author Honore de
Balzac once said: ’‘Those
sweetly smiling angels with
pensive look . . . innocent faces
, t . and cash boxes for hearts.”
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