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VENIN VT
By Quimby Melton
Sunday is Mother’s Day.
And everyone is familiar with
Rudyard Kipling’s famous
lines:
If I were hanged on the high
est hill,
Mother ’o Mine, 0 mother o’
mine!
I know whose love would follow
me still,
Mother ’o mine, 0 mother’o
mine!
And young and old are famil
iar with the Irish ballard,
Mother Machree, written by
Rita Johnson Young.
Sure I love the dear silver
that shines in your hair,
And the brow that’s all
furrowed
and wrinkled with care,
I kiss the dear fingers, so
toil worn for me,
Oh, God bless you and keep
you Mother Machree.
But did you know there was
another Mother song popular in
1911 which declared:
I want a girl, just like the girl,
That married dear old dad!
Coleridge wrote “A mother is
a mother still, the holiest thing
alive.” And Oliver Wendall Hol
mes wrote “A mother’s secret
hope outlives them all”. Thack
ery, in Vanity Fair, says
“Mother is the name for God on
the lips and in the hearts of
children.”
James Russell Lowell, contri
buted this in his “The Cathe
tk-al”, “The best academy is a
mother’s knee”, and of course
we all are familiar with William
Ross Wallace’s statement "The
hand that rocks the cradle is the
hand that rules the world.”
All of the above is to help put
everyone in the proper mood to
honor their mother this coming
Sunday.
And may we suggest to our
readers that they not only
“remember” their mothers, but
that they take time to let other
mothers know how much they
love them.
For instance, if you know a
mother who has recently lost a
child or a grandchild, why not
express your sympathy.
And, should you know of a
mother who has a son or a
daughter in the Armed Ser
vices, write them a special let
ter and tell them how proud you
are of their son or their daugh
ter. For the hearts of mothers
with boys and girls away from
home fighting to preserve
among other things the sacred
ness of Motherhood are the
hearts that suffer most in such
times.
Clean-Up
Plans Set
The annual “Clean-Up, Fix-
Up, Paint-Up” week will be held
May 17-23 under sponsorship of
the Chamber of Commerce.
The Woman’s Division will
handle promotion and publicity.
Mre. Frances Beaty will serve
as chairman.
An old appliance roundup will
be held during the week. Jake
Cheatham is coordinating this
phase of the program.
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“Some folks think our
young people have been given
too much of everything—ex
cept criticism.”
Copyright 1970, by Frank A. Clark
Vince We've Got Too Much Sympathy
Lombardi In This Country For The Loser'
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
WASHINGTON, !).(’.—(NEA) —Say hello to Vincent Thomas Lombardi, concerned parent
and concerned citizen. He holds a law degree from Eordham and has taught chemistry, Latin
and physics at the high school level.
He is also Vince Lombardi, legendary coach of the Washington Redskins and the world
champion Green Bay Packers before them —a shirt-sleeve leader of young men. He is stern,
moral, emotional and idealistic. And he doesn’t like what he sees around him.
Lombardi, coach and citizen, 56 years old, is worried
about the ethics of American youth. In an exclusive inter
view for Newspaper Enterprise Association, he revealed
his feelings.
This is what Vince Lombardi thinks of unrest among the
young:
“We need a control or restraint, a bridle. It don’t mean
it has to be harsh or severe, the bridle of repression. It
'lt's easy to break the law
if you know there's
hope of impunity'
can be discipline within the spirit of teaching—a discipline
with love, a mother and father’s type of discipline.
“That’s where 1 think we fall down in our society, espe
cially in our schools. Some of our educators seem to think
the right to dissent is one thing, but the right to destroy is
another. We confuse them. We got radicals on both sides.
We got the young radicals who are throwing bombs at
property, and we got radicals on the other side who don’t
Retired Pullman man farms
Calhoun Recalls Railroad Days
Engineer Wrecked Train
With 'Wind' Movie Cast
By MILT HAYES
As the curtain falls on one
phase of the great age of the
American railroad, one man —
a Pullman porter — steps for
ward to take a final bow.
Marion Lindsey Calhoun, now
retired on a 170 acre farm near
Griffin, stands as an example of
what quite possibly may be the
most colorful of all railroad
characters.
“In the 42 years that I worked
for the Pullman Company, I al
ways enjoyed what I was doing:
working with people,” Calhoun
said warmly.
He recalls joining the Pull
man Company at the bidding of
an uncle and how he had to fib
about his education — he had
completed two years of college
—by saying he had left school
at the fifth grade.
“Back then they didn’t want a
porter to have too much educa
tion,” Calhoun explained.
While still a young man, Cal
houn was chosen as the porter
on the private car of tabacco ty
coon and multimillionaire R. J.
Reynolds.
GRIFFIN
DAILY
Daily Since 1872
“When the Reynolds family
traveled, they always had 11
servants, and I was number
11,” said the 67-year-old Cal
houn.
He was such a favorite with
the Reynolds family, Calhoun
recalls the day when they sent
their limousine to bring him out
to their estate at Winston-
Salem, N.C.
“Mr. Reynolds is the only
man I ever knew who had his
own private post office," Cal
houn said.
Although Reynolds gave Cal
houn his first sizable tip (S4O)
with which he opened a bank ac
count, he left the family’s ser
vice when Reynolds divorced
his first wife.
“I got angry with him for
divorcing the first Mrs. Rey
nolds and never served on his
car again,” Calhoun recollect
ed.
As Calhoun walks over his
farm, he complains quietly of a
pain in his right knee —a re
minder of the day a special car
was attached to his train carry
ing the cast of “Gone With The
Griffin, Georgia 30223 Thursday, May 7,1970
want anybody to talk. Neither one of them worth a damn.
“We’ve always tolerated revolutionary dissent. It’s been
traditional—but only as a demonstration, with the exception
of the American revolution. You’d walk through the park
years ago and somebody would get up there shouting and
screaming. You’d listen and walk right away because you
knew that while there may have been some things wrong
with the particular institution discussed, it was basically
safe and sound.” y
And now we have rock throwing and violence Anv
thoughts? ' J
“It’s very easy to break the law if you know there’s hope
of impunity. I’d like to go out and throw a rock through
that window if I knew the only thing I’m going to have is
a reprimand. Punishment is a great deterrent. I believe
that, and it doesn’t have to be whipping somebody.
“What kind of courage does it take to be a campus rebel 7
He knows he’s not going to be punished. We don’t even
bounce him out of school. There have to be certain rules
regulations and laws. If you break them, there’s only one
answer—you got to be punished. If you don’t go to class
then you should be thrown out of the university—expelled'
“Can you understand the dissatisfaction today’ I don’t
know what the devil they’re dissatisfied about. They use
Wind” to Atlanta for the
movie’s world premiere.
“We picked up a new engineer
in Chattanooga and we already
were over an hour behind
time,” Calhoun said.
“I got a glance of him as he
climbed into the engine, then
somebody told me it was the
‘lnfidel’,” Calhoun continued.
The ‘lnfidel’ was a name
given to a particular engineer
who said he did not believe in
God, Calhoun explained.
Calhoun was chosen to be the
porter for the cast’s observation
car and had just begun his
duties as the train left the sta
tion and started to build up
speed.
“We were going around some
of those curves at over 90 miles
an hour, and I knew for sure
that man was going to throw
that car clean off of that train,”
Calhoun exclaimed.
The observation car broke
loose and derailed as the train
reached speeds of nearly 100
Continued On Page 24
University Yields
On ‘Kent’ Demand
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI)-About
3,000 students demonstrated
during the night for their de
mand that the University of
Georgia shut down for two days
in memory of the slain Kent
State students. Three were ar
rested on charges of breaking
and entering the administration
building.
There was no violence al
though state patrolmen were
moved in to help campus se
curity forces and city police
keep order.
Maj. T. J. Dumas, head of
the campus police, said damage
was minor and only a small
group of students, about 40, re
mained on the campus lawn in
front of the administration
building at dawn.
Dumas said there were five
troopers still on the campus. He
did not identify the students
who were arrested.
About 50 students had invaded
the building Wednesday, break
ing windows and snapping a
sprinkler system pipe, before
they were escorted outside by
university officials. State troop
ers remained inside the build-
Classes
Suspended
ATLANTA (UPI)-The Geor
gia Board of Regents today au
thorized a two-day suspension
of classes at all 27 colleges and
universities.
Chancellor George L. Simpson
said, “'Die Board of Regents
has authorized suspension of
classes on Friday and Saturday,
May 8 and 9 at all universities
and colleges in the University
System of Georgia.”
The one-sentence statement
made no reference to the sus
pension being related to the
shooting of four Kent State Uni
versity students in Ohio during
a clash with National Guards
men.
The schools in the state uni
versity system have an enroll
ment of about 83,000 students.
Vol. 98 No. 82
ing Wednesday night after it
closed for the day.
The demonstrators demanded
that President Fred C. Davison
close the university as part of a
general strike by college stu
dents around the nation in pro
test against the Kent State
deaths and U. S. involvement in
Cambodia.
Davison told the students
their absence from classes
would be excused, but that he
wouldn’t close the school. He
said some students might want
to attend classes instead of
striking.
Davison was heckled by some
students and he left after shouts
interrupted his talk.
Ear lierWednesday,university
vice president George Parthe
mos followed a confrontation
with some 500 students by issu
ing a statement that attendance
at classes today would be op
tional.
Another memorial service was
slated for today at noon.
Student Government Presi
dent Bob Hurley said the ser
vices were being held to express
“our common concern and offer
our prayers for the students
who were killed.”
Hurley said he felt the shoot
ings could have been avoided.
“The students were probably
wrong in carrying the demon
strations as far as they did,”
he said, “but in my opinion
there is no excuse for the stu
dents who were killed in this.”
At George State University in
Atlanta, the Student Mobiliza
tion Committee has called for a
student strike and memorial
services Friday. A spokesman
for the group said there would
be four caskets and four stu
dents dressed in black to por
tray the Kent State students at
the services, scheduled for 10
a. m. in Hurt Park.
Some 400 Georgia State stu
dents rallied at a park Wednes
day to protest the shootings,
with many of them wearing
purple armcloths “because the
stores didn’t have any black
cloth.”
About 50 of them later march
ed through campus buildings,
mingling with black-robed par
ticipants in Honors Day.
rhetorical explanations and talk in the abstract. There’s
nothing really concrete as to why they’re unhappy, outside
of the.war in Vietnam.
“I don’t think our universities have done a very good job.
The college group seems to be an extremely unhappy
group. It's not just the war. They’re unhappy about going
to classes; they’re unhappy about taking subjects which
they don’t think help them in what they want to do. And
I’ll say another thing. We’ve got a lot of people today in
college who are unhappy because they don’t belong there.
“Everybody’s got a right to be educated, but some people
are beyond education. They lack the wherewithal to be
educated or they don’t have enough drive. You ought to
be able to find out in six months in a university if a boy is
capable of work at the college level or if he’s willing to
apply himself. A lot of them go to school right now—hell,
they don’t do anything but walk the streets.”
Where are parents at fault?
“The things we forgot to teach as parents are duty, a
respect for authority and the development of strong mental
discipline. We’ve idealized freedom against order. Before
I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties
I have; I have to respect whatever authority there is, and
I certainly should have some sort of discipline. We’ve ridi
culed authority in the family over the years. We’ve ridi
culed discipline in education. And we’ve ridiculed decencv
in conduct.
"We’ve got a great deal to answer for, too—l’m talking
about us, the older generation. The examples we set were
'We got radicals on both
sides... neither one of
them worth a damn'
not the greatest. We didn’t destroy, but we broke the law.
I’m talking about Prohibition, for example. We took the
easy way in a lot of things. We took pills to stay awake;
we took pills to go to sleep; we took this and that. It’s kind
of an immoral code, what we’re doing.
“And it can hit home. A close friend of mine—his son
was a drug addict. The father was on him so strong and so
fierce, the boy went and got a gun, and put the gun to his
head in front of his father and killed himself. A 19-year-old
boy. This is a terrible story.
“People like myself were interested only in our own par
ticular sphere. I was so wrapped up in the Green Bay-
Packers, that was it for me. I was involved in their disci
pline and their respect, how they walked and talked and
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Dr. Sonny Butler (1) and
Howard Wallace star in the
“Odd Couple” which opens
tonight at Mez-Art studio on the
Slogan
I Sought
The Chamber of Commerce
wants a new slogan for Griffin.
The Griffin Image and
Publicity Committee has
decided to sponsor a contest
asking Griffinites to suggest a
new one.
The committee is headed by
Lee Roy Claxton.
Author of the prize winning
slogan will receive $25.
Inside Tip
Champs
See Page Seven
Bucksnort road at 8:30. The
Footlight Players will present
the play each night through
Saturday.
Contestants have been asked
to submit slogans not to exceed
seven words.
The committee hopes to come
up with something that can be
used to promote Griffin in publi
cations, billboards, letterheads
and other places.
Anyone wishing to submit a
slogan has been asked to mail it
to the Chamber of Commerce.