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Weather Forecast Cool See Map Page Three EGOODp 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. Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY 77, low today 51, high yesterday 81, low yesterday 53. Sunrise tomorrow 6:49, sunset tomorrow 8:19. X HHRk “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 Continued On Page 13 .-■XX ' . .. 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.