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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Someone once called humor
“the spice of life.”
But humor, itself, Is hard to
define.
To the “practical joker” the
stunt he pulls on the other fel
low is the highest type of humor.
But did you ever notice many
“practical jokers” can't appre
ciate the joke if it is pulled on
them?
The skilled public speaker uses
humor to hold the attention of
his audience and to put over
-his message.
To most people humor is tell
ing a joke that carries a punch
line.
But there are all kinds of jok
es; and there are some people
who simply can’t tell a joke with
out getting all mixed up in the
telling. (Good Evening found out
many years ago that he is a mi
ghty poor joke teller.)
And there are those who should
refrain from telling jokes for the
simple reason that they seem un
able to tell any but filthy ones.
In doing so they first insult their
audience and then they show
their inability to express them
selves without wallowing in filth.
And the sad part about such,
quite often the audience laughs
at his filth.
There was a day and time
when a public speaker, especial
ly if his audience was a mix
ed one, would never have been
so daring as to tell some of the
jokes that are told today, at pub
lic meetings, at parties, at clubs
and in homes. It would seem that
we of today, like the people of
the 18th Century when Alexan
der Pope lived and wrote of
them, have gradually dropped
the bars and now “anything
goes” when it comes to "hu
mor” (?).
Substitute “A dirty joke” for
“Vice” in Pope’s "Essay on
Man” and you’ll see what we
mean. Pope wrote in 1732:
Vice is a monstee of so frightful
mien,
As to be hat 2d needs but to be
seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with
her face,
We first endure, then pity, then
embrace.
And while we seem to be writ
ing in a critical mood today,
may we close out by telling of a
conversation with a fine man, an
intelligent man, a good man who
is vitally interested in the youth
of today and wants to do somei
thing to help them. He is willing
and able to devote much time
and has the talents to be effec
tive, in advising, counselling and
directing the activities of our
young people. Our hat is off to
him.
But we would like to make one
suggestion. As we talked about
how he believed the youth could
be guided in their thinking, in
their studies, in their activities,
he kept referring to them as
“kids”.
And in doing so he unwitting
ly revealed one of the reasons
there is a “generation gap” to
day.
The youth in whom he is vital
ly interested are in the junior
high, senior high, and college
age groups. Some of them, both
boys and girls, are already old
enough to vote and have register
ed; and many of them are ol d
enough to join or be drafted into
the armed services of our nation.
These young people are not
“kids”.
Neither are the younger ones.
We are well aware of the pro
blems they face and the decis
ions they must make, and we ex
pect them to act like adults.
And as much as we of the old
er generation would like to help
our youth, if we consider them
“kids” — immature boys and
girls — we’ll never get to first
base.
The Country Parson
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"It isn't as important that a
man make something of him
self as that he be someone.”
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drin and Neil Armstrong. Mrs. '
Armstrong and Mrs. Collins join
in applause.
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North Vietnam
Sending Boys
Into Battle
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPD—U.S. troops
lowered artillery to ground
level today to break up an
attack on an American base,
Eagle One, by charging North
Vietnamese infantrymen, some
of whom were under 16 years
old.
American soldiers killed at
least 25 Communist troops in
the attack near An Loc, 65
miles north of Saigon. It was
another in a growing series of
clashes in the strategic area
between Saigon and the Cambo
dian border.
Communist troops made two
smaller attacks in Binh Long
Province overnight. Official
sources said the assaults were
part of an autumn campaign by
Viet Cong and North Vietna
mese. The drive began early
Tuesday with intense shelling
and ground attacks that killed
90 Amerians and wounded 600.
The drive left perhaps 1,500
Communists dead.
Lost 78,000 Killed
Official sources said Commu
nist forces had lost 78,000 killed
in their campaigns of May,
June and July. Intelligence
reports said the heavy losses
have forced Communist com
manders to use very young
replacements.
Revamp Panels Suggest Changes Immunization
In Lieutenant Governor’s Post Certificates
Ey TOM GREEN
ATLANTA (UPI) —Two com
mittees of the State Constitut
ional Revision Commission Wed
nesday recommended sweeping
changes in the office of lieu
tenant governor but rejected a
new system for selecting judges.
The executive Articles Com
mittee of the commission, which
is drafting a new state charter
for presentation to the 1970 Gen
eral Assembly, recommended
discontinuing the parctice of the
lieutenant governor presiding
over the Senate.
It also called for having gub
ernatorial nominees choose a
lieutenant governor as a running
mate, leaving the Senate free to
elect its own presiding officer
as the House now does.
Tlie executive committee did,
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Schools Here Add
New Vo-Ed Program
A new Cooperative Vocational Spalding School System for this
Education Training Program fall,
has been added to the Griffin-
Bids Sought
On Resurfacing
U. S. 19 South
The State Highway Depart
ment has called for bids for
the resurfacing of 21.5 miles of
U.S. 19 from the Spalding Coun
ty line to the Thomaston city
limit. Bids will be opened Aug.
29.
Estimated cost of the project
has been set at $221,684. The con
tract will allow 125 calendar
days from completion.
The Thomaston Chamber of
Commerce has been pushing for
widening of the route. However,
no mention of widening was
made in the announcement for
bids.
The project will extend from
Georgia 333 south of Griffin to
the Potato Creek bridge north of
Thomaston, including all of U.
S. 19 in Pike County.
however, include a suggestion
by Lt. Gov. George T. Smith.
Smith expressed his opposition
to the proposal removing the
lieutenant governor as presiding
officer of the Senate and placing
him on the gubernatorial ticket.
The Judicial Articles Commit
tee earlier rejected by a 4 to 3
vote a move to establish a new
selection system for judges. But
proponent o fthe measure in
sisted the issue was not closed.
Rep. Maddox Hale of Dade
County had recommended that a
committee be set up to recom
mend nominations for vacant
judgeships.
Under the plan, the committee
would recommend three persons
for the vacancy and the gover
nor would make his appoint
ment from among the recom-
GRIFFIN
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, August 14, 1969
Sign In Crowd Os Millions
‘Through You We
Touched The Moon’
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The program has four objec
tives: To provide a more effec
tive program of Vocational Ed
ucation through closer relations
among the school, business and
industry; to enable the student
to adjust himself intelligently,
safely and confidently to work
routine as it exists in business
and Industry; to make learn
ing meaningful and practical to
the student who may be inclin
ed toward becoming a s c h 00l
dropout; and to provide finan
cial assistance.
Students enrolled in the pro
gram will be on the secondary
level. They will be placed in pri
vate businesses as trainees un
der school supervision while at
tending a related vocational
class made up of trainees.
Miss Georgie E. McCrary will
be teacher-coordinator of the
program. She has taught in the
system here for five years as a
business education teacher at
Fairmont High School.
Miss McCrary received her B.
S. degree from Fort Valley
State College and has done gra
duate study toward her Masters
degree in Business education
at Indiana University, Blooming
ton, Ind.
She is enrolled in a six-week
Education Work Experience Pro
gram at the University of Geor
gia.
mendations. Once chosen, the
judge would run for re-election
on his record, without opposition.
Currently, vacancies are filled
by appointment of the governor
until the next general election,
when any qualified attorney can
run for the post.
“If I were the governor right
now I would welcome most
heartily a nominating com
mittee,” Hale said, noting the
current vacancy on the State
Supreme Court caused by the
recent death of Chief Justice W.
■ H. Duckworth.
Rep. Carr Dodson of Macon,
Republican House leader, said
the issue will be raised again
when the committee makes its
proposals to the full commiss
ion.
J|
GREENVILLE, S. C. — Sen.
Everett Dirkson says that
President Nixon will appoint
Federal Appeals Court Judge
Clement F. Hanes worth Jr. of
Greenville, S. C. to the Sup
reme Court. The White Houst at
San Clemente, Calif., said the
president would announce his
decision late this week or early
next week. Judge Hanesworth is
shown here in a recent photo.
Compulsory
Children who do not have an
immunization certlflciate will be
rejected in the Griffin-Spalding
County School System. School
will open on August 29.
Immunization is required un
der the Compulsory School Im
munization ’Law passed by the
1968 General Assembly.
Supt. D. B. Christie said that
parents had been warned sever
al times through news media
that their children would have
to have the immunizations. Sc
hool officials will be helpless in
making concessions to the law
he said.
Vol. 96 No. 191
Moon Men
‘Touch’
Americans
By JACK V. FOX
LOS ANGELES (UPD—Neil
Armstrong choked back tears
as he groped for words to tell
America how the Apollo 11
astronauts feel about their
country and the honor it has
given them.
The first man to set foot on
the moon held a glittering
array of the nation’s high and
mighty spellbound as he spoke
of seeing a scribbled sign
among the masses in New York
at the outset of a day of coast
to-coast acclaim.
“Through you we touched the
moon,” it read.
Armstrong looked around the
room, at his fellow astronauts,
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., and
Michael Collins, at President
Nixon, at the great figures in
the audience and, through
television, at the people of the
United States.
“Through you we touched the
moon,” he said. “It was our
privilege today to cross the
country to touch America.”
Touch America
Touch America the moon
men did as they somehow
survived the biggest ticker-tape
parade in Manhattan, sent two
million in Chicago into shouting
jubilation and then flew to the
Pacific for a ’ state dinner
Wednesday night that was
hailed as the most exuberant
bash since Andrew Jackson’s
clan tore up the White House.
Nixon revealed they will start
shortly on a tour around the
world. It is expected to begin in
mid-September and tentative
plans call for 49 days abroad.
Today the astronauts head
home for Houston for a few
days with their wives and
families before another super
spectacular in the Astrodome
Saturday night.
Members of the sophisticated
foreign diplomatic corps were
scurrying around for astronaut
autographs like schoolgirls at
the Century Plaza banquet
where Hollywood stars rubbed
shoulders with Supreme Court
Justices and 44 governors rose
in unison to be introduced.
Nixon Toasts Astronauts
Nixon, beaming with pride
raised the toast to Armstrong,
Aldrin and Collins.
“I say simply to the three
astronauts we thank you for
your courage, we thank you for
eaising our sights and the
sights of men and women
throughout the world.
“The sky is no longer the
limit and we thank you for the
fine young men you are, fine
examples for young people all
over the world.”
Armstrong, a man to whom
words do not come glibly,
seemed to falter as he
responded, but his sincerity
range through.
“We hope and think that this
is the beginning of a new era,
the beginning of an era when
man understands the universe
around him and the beginning
of the era when man under
stands himself.”
Said Aldrin:
“There are footprints on the
moon. Those footprints belong
to each and every one of us, to
all mankind, and they are there
because of the blood, sweat and
tears of millions of people. The
footprints are the symbol of
true human spirit.”
Said Collins:
“A Proud American”
“Mr. President, here stands a
proud American, proud to be a
member of the Apollo team
proud to be a citizen of the
United States of America which
nearly a decade ago said it
would land men on the moon
and did so, proud to be an
inhabitant of this most magni
ficent planet.”
The three astronauts were
awarded the Medal of Free
dom, highest award the United
States can bestow on a civilian.
Vice President Spiro Agnew
read the inscription.
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ed car, fires tear gas at rioters.
Rebellion Spreads
To Eight Cities
By DONALD P. O’HIGGINS
LONDONDERRY, Northern
Ireland (UPI) —Roman Catho
lics drove police out of the
Catholic Bogsl|de stronghold
today in a savage battle whose
shock waves were felt in three
governments and the United
Nations.
The spark of the Londonderry
rebellion spread to at least
eight Northern Ireland cities,
unleashing attacks on police,
fire bombings and shootings.
Northern Ireland recalled its
parliament to consider the riot
situation in its first extraordin
ary session in 30 years.
In London, Prime Minister
Harold Wilson reviewed possi
ble British action with mem
bers of his cabinet. The cabinet
met after Britain rejected
proposed U.N. intervention in
Northern Ireland.
Calls For Action
The call for U.N. action came
from Premier Jack Lynch of
the overwhelmingly Catrollc
Irish Republic. Lynch also
hinted he might push for an end
to the partition of his nation
and predominantly Protestant
Northern Ireland.
The six Northern Ireland
counties have been part of the
United Kingdom since 1920 and
the issue of separation from the
Irish Republic is an explosive
one.
Northern Ireland’s premier,
James Chichester-Clarke, den
ounced Lynch for "a clumsy,
intolerable intrusion into our
internal affairs” and said U.N.
Intervention would be “ludi
crous.”
In a renewed effort to crush
Catholic violence, the Northern
Ireland government mobilized
its entire auxiliary police force.
Some were sent to guard
borders with the Irish Republic.
British troops remained at alert
at garrisons across Ulster.
Rioting Erupts
Major rioting by Catholics
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also erupted suddenly in Belfast
—where 300 persons firebombed
a police stations—and in
Dungiven — where the local
courthouse was set ablaze.
Smaller disturbances were re
ported in Dungannon, Coalis
land, Armagh, Lurgan, Inniskil
len and Newry.
Protestants swearing alle
giance to militant leader Rev.
lan Paisley entered Bogside for
the first time since rioting
began, slugging it out with
Catholic youths. Previously
Protestants had remained be
hind police armored cars,
tossing stones over the barri
cades.
Police, falling back under the
new Catholic firebomb on
slaught, said 34 of their men
were injured Wednesday, push
ing their injuries to about 150
since Catholics touched off the
rioting Tuesday by stoning a
Protestant parade celebrating
an ancient Protestant victory
over a Catholic English army.
Civilian casualties were esti
mated at more than 300.
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