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GRIFFIN
DAILY NEWS
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‘Quotes’
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Rep. Hale
Boggs, D-La., on the murder of
Martin Luther King:
“Violence has no place in
America. Anywhere. By any
one.’’
NEW YORK—Negro opera
star Leontyne Price, on King:
“What Martin Luther King
stood for and died for can never
be killed with a bullet.’’
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — The
Rev. James Groppi, Mil
waukee’s open housing advo
cate, on King:
“So he's dead. That man is a
saint and a martyr."
BLACKSBURG, VA. — Sen.
Strom Thurmond, R-S.C.:
“I do not favor violence of
any kind. I hesitate to say
anything bad about the dead,
but I do not share a high regard
for Dr. King. He pretended to
be nonviolent.”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, April 6,
the 97th day of 1968 with 269 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full stage.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1830, Joseph Smith orga
nised the Church of the Latter
Day Saints, more familiarly
known as the Mormon Church,
at Fayette, N.Y.
In 1909, Robert Peary became
the first "civilized” man to
reach the North Pole.
In 1941, German troops
invaded Greece and Yugoslavia.
In 1955, Queen Elizabeth II
named Sir Anthony Eden Prime
Minister, replacing Str Winston
Churchill, who had resigned the
day before.
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Editorial Roundup
Public Resents
Hog Killings
The National Fanners Organization is rapidly losing the
respect and goodwill of the general public.
The idea of willfully shooting hogs and burying them in
mass graves as a means of protesting low pork prices cer
tainly isn’t arousing public support for the NFO or the
farmers.
The Humane Society in Georgia threatened to go to
court to stop the mass-killings. In other sections, appeals
have been made by organizations suggesting that if the
NFO hog farmers want to remove the swine from the mark
et place, they might give them to charitable organizations
that would distribute the meat to needy people.
The NFO should also remember that pork prices norm
ally decline in the spring of the year because people do
not consume as much pork in the summer as during other
seasons. Every hog farmer knows this.
It would make far more sense for the NFO to urge
members to cut back production during the spring. Also,
it would be more advantageous for the NFO to do as other
farm organizations by instituting a check-off system where
by funds are raised for the promotion of pork. Actually,
there is already such a program and NFO members would
do well to support it.
Perhaps such a program of promotion of pork would
not get the headlines but it would stand a better chance of
increasing consumption.
Here are editorials about the hog killings from several
other Georgia newspapers:
MOULTRIE OBSERVER
Something occurred in a neighboring county of which
none of us should be proud. It was a mass killing of hogs to
protest the prices being paid for livestock.
Whatever the intent, the pictures and description of
what took place at the 100-foot pit had the opposition re
action of most citizens of Georgia.
It was a repulsive exhibition of waste of animals to make
a point when there are so many orphanages and foster
homes and relief agencies which need meat for their hu
man charges. There were immediate calls to disclaim any
connection with the affair.
This newspaper feels impelled to condemn vigorously
such practices. We have been a champion of the rights and
privileges of farmers for many years and have worked
diligently with them to provide better incomes, more share
of the consumer dollar, and a rural living fit for a king.
But the wanton slaughter of meat animals for the purpose
of protesting unsatisfactory prices was offensive and dis
gusting.
These cannot be the wonderful farmers who gave so
much sweat and tears and grew so many callouses to devel
op this into the No. 1 agricultural area of Georgia.
These cannot be the farmers we have known so intim
ately for more than 30 years — people who are the salt
of the earth, the human bastion of Christianity, and the
champions of a Southern sympathy which rallies to those
in need.
These cannot be the patriotic Americans who have stood
by their country through thick and thin, to whom the
Constitution is a sacred document to be nurtured and per
petuated as the Bible.
Any man who tills the soil has the right to produce or
not produce. He has a right to hold or sell his products.
And he has a right to protest individually or in groups.
Slaughter of animals and covering them in a ditch, how
ever, is not the answer to the ills of agriculture or the
farmer.
If prices or conditions are not satisfactory, avenues
which are not so offensive or wasteful are open to our
farmers.
We fear that mass killing of livestock will arouse the
wrong public opinion—and after all, the consumer is a
vital part of our national economy.
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
The hog killers in Brooks and Pierce counties are al
most classic examples of how to offend and revolt a public
the farmers wanted to impress.
The farmers had every right to sacrifice the product of
their labor rather than sell low. But if they intended to gain
the favor rather than the enmity of the public by their
acts, they might have thought about filling hungry bellies
rather than burial trenches.
WAYCROSS JOURNAL HERALD
We are not without sympathy for the farmers who have
watched with dismay as the price of livestock has contin
ued its sharp drop.
Reports from across the country are that the prices of
pork and beef are now at a level lower than was the case
20 years ago.
We agree that emergency measures are called for to keep
livestock producers in business but it is difficult to believe
that the mass slaughter of hogs in Georgia or the burning
of wheat in other sections of the country is the right way
to cope with the problem.
The mass killing of hogs at several locations in Georgia
several days ago was admittedly designed to dramatize
the situation.
Would not the mass feeding of the children at an orph
anage or some other such compassionate project have also
focused attention on the plight of the farmer but in a much
more favorable light?
As long as there are hungry people in pur country and
countless millions who sleep on empty stomachs around
the world the willful destruction of rood seems sinful.
We join the farmers of our area and the nation in hoping
that a solution can be found to their economic difficulties.
Meanwhile, we hope that there will be no further “pro
test” slaughtering of animals.
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don headed ’em off at the
‘credibility gap’!”
MY
ANSWER®
Second Death
The Bible says that “The fear
ful, and unbelieving shall have
their part in the lake of fire. . . .
which is the second death.” I’m
honest when I say I fear God,
but I truly believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Is this fear wrong?
R.D.
There are two kinds of fear ac
cording to the Bible. We are told
to “fear God and keep his com
mandments.” (Ec. 12:13), One
of the definitions of "fear” is
“reverence”, or "respect.” I
respect lightning. I respect civil
authority. I respect a power line
which brings light and heat to
my home. This kind of fear Is
wholesome and healthy.
The Bible teaches that we are
not to take warnings of God’s
judgment lightly. It teaches that
His judgments are sure and un
compromising. It teaches that
we are to love Him, just as a
child loves its father, but coup
led with love is respect or fear.
A child may love and fear h 1 s
father at the same time. He may
love him so much that he fears
the consequences of that love
being marred by disobedience.
This is the kind of fear a
Christian has for God. To him,
God’s love is so real, so essen
tially a part of living, that he
treads softly and carefully, af
raid that some act of disobedien
ce may separate him from the
fellowship of God. This is a dif
ferent kind of fear than that
mentioned in Revelation where
it says, “The fearful shall have
their part in the lake of fire."
This kind of fear shrinks from
God because it has deliberately
rejected His love and mercy. It
is akin to remorse, the sadness
of misspent years and a wasted
life; lived without recognition
of God.
Herman Talmadge
WE HAVE BEEN looking into an interesting and somewhat
shocking sidelight to the United States foreign aid program.
Not only have we been giving food away free, which we know,
but we are also paying port charges to unload it on foreign
shores. Judging from the facts thus far, this is costing the
United States several million dollars a year.
We understand a desire to feed hungry people in foreign
lands, and the United States has long been engaged in this hu
manitarian program, at a cost of many billions of dollars. The
U.S. has sent free food to friend and foe, to countries struck by
famine like India and to nations like Egypt and Indonesia which
have turned around and bit the hand trying to feed them.
Wc have not insisted that these nations demonstrate total
loyalty or friendship in return for United States food shipments,
and we have continued to assist them although they may
criticize our effort in Viet Nam, aid and comfort Hanoi, or con
tribute to undermine the American dollar.
• • •
BUT WHILE DONATING this food and other foreign aid,
are we supposed to pay the cost of unloading these goods on
the docks of nations made the beneficiaries of our good will?
That is exactly what we have been doing—contrary to for
mal agreements that recipient nations would pay port charges on
such foreign aid shipments.
All told we spend almost $2 billion a year under the Food
for Peace Program, with about three-fourths of this involving the
foreign sale of farm goods for soft currencies and the remainder
being donated outright.
The U.S. disposed of some $309 million in free foodstufls in
1967, which included s7l million transportation costs. It is esti
mated that we have been paying about 10 per cent of the trans
portation expense in improper port and handling charges, and
thus about $7.1 million went down this drain.
This fiscal year, free food shipments are valued at nearly
$329 million and shipping expenses at $95 million, and $336
million is budgeted for 1969 with a shipping cost of $lO5 mil
lion. Take 10 per cent of these amounts and it means that S2O
million will likewise be squandered if the United States continues
paying these port charges to unload our free food and aid.
This is ridiculous under any circumstances. But considered
at a time when we have a critical dollar deficit, restrictions on
private investment and tourist travel overseas, as well as the
possibility of more taxes, it is extremely hard to take.
Sat. and Sun., April 6-7, 1968 Griffin Daily News
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Religion Today
Hypocrisy And
Drinking
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
Methodists are choosing up
sides for a family fight over
their church’s stand on drink
ing.
It will take place at a general
conference which convenes in
Dallas on April 21, and it bids
fair to be a slzzler.
For generations, the Metho
dist Church has flatly con
demned the consumption of
alcoholic beverages in any
quantity.
“Persisting in the use of
intoxicating liquor” is an
offense for which a member
theoretically may be tried and
expelled from the church.
Ministers are required to take
formal pledges of total ab
stinence.
It has long been an open
secret that these rules are
winked at by a large proportion
of Methodist laity and a not-
Inconsiderable number of cler
gy-
Survey Shows Drinkers
A 1963 survey of drinking
patterns showed that 61 per
cent of Methodists above the
age of 15 use alcohol. That’s
only two percentage points
under the figure for Protestants
in general. Other surveys have
indicated that the number of
drinking Methodists may run as
high as 70 per cent.
Last October, a meeting was
called by the Methodist Board
of Christian Social Concerns
(successor to the famous
Methodist Board of Temper
ance) to consider the advisabili
ty of modifying the church's
stand.
The participants In the
meeting—a broadly representa-
tive group of pastors and
theologians—concluded that the
policy of insisting on total
abstinence "is producing hypo
crisy and a loss of integrity in
the corporate life of the church
and in the lives of many
ministers and laymen.”
Drawn Proposals
Following the advice of the
October meeting, the Board of
Social Concerns has drawn up a
series of proposals to be placed
before the general conference,
supreme legislative body of the
church, when it convenes at
Dallas later this month.
The board’s recommendations
call for;
—Scrapping the ministerial
pledge of total abstinence.
—Deleting the section of the
Methodist “discipline” which
permits trial and expulsion of a
drinker.
—Revising the church’s offi
cial statement on alcohol to
stress practical reasons for
abstinence, while making clear
that each Christian is free to
make his own "responsible
decision" on the matter.
The net effect of these
changes, if adopted, would be to
put the United Methodist
Church in the position of
strongly urging voluntary ab
stinence instead of trying to
enforce a legalistic proscription
of alcohol.
Opposition to the proposals is
likely to be vocal and vehement.
It will come from Methodists
who view any modification as a
retreat from the traditional
temperance stand.
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Behold, I have set before thee
an open door, and no man can
shut it. (Revelation 3:8)
PRAYER: Father, make my
life an open door to love and
serve Thee. Lead me to do Thy
will by helping those I see in
need. Bless me in my work for
Thee with Thy nearness to guide
and lead me. In the Savior’s
name. Amen.
Thought For Today
A thought for the day:
American writer David Thoreau
said, "Rather than love, than
money, than fame, give me
truth.”
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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If a French horn were
unwound it would measure
more than 17 feet, says The
World Almanac. Similarly,
the trombone would
measure S-feet-8" and the
trumpet almost 5 feet. No
amount of coiling or uncoil
ing will change the timbre
or characteristic sound of a
given brass instrument.
Cylindrical and conical
variations in an instru
ment’s tubing and mouth
piece, together with the
length of tubing, determine
timbre.
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