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Ga. editors write
The Thomaston Times
Governor Saves Pennies
Governor Jimmy Carter, equal
to our challenge to tell us more if
he wants more told about
reorganization of the state
government, has reported
another $45,000 saving.
This time the Reorganization
and Management Improvement
Study team closed down the
Georgia Game and Fish Com
mission central warehouse at an
RURAL GEORGIA
Georgia Has Many Slums
The caption of this editorial will not cause any
earthquakes because it has been generally conceded that
our slums are our worst mirrors across the state as well
as the Southland.
Almost as you enter any small town or larger cities of
the state you will find housing that is not standard and
is not in keeping with this modem day civilization.
Certainly we must not lose sight of the fact that the
Federal Housing Administration as well as the Farmers
Home Administration have been doing Yeoman service
in providing adequate housing. We just had a long way
to go. The recent spurt by the Farmers Home
Administration has given us much needed housing in the
smaller communities of the State. The limit was recently
raised from 5 to 10 thousand population, although the
10 thousand figure has been slow to get underwav
Ar cording to the 1971 census, there are at least
186,784 houses in Georgia’s rural areas and small towns
that are substandard**they lack plumbing and are over
crowded. This figure does not include dilapadated
houses or where the rent is more that 35 percent of the
income.
The figures that are available show that 27.5 percent
of the houses fail to meet the standards compared to
11.9 percent in the state’s metropolitan areas.
The national housing goal calls for 26 million units
over the next 10 years. Os those, we think 13 million
should be located in the rural areas and small towns.
Getting adequate housing in the rural areas will not
just happen. It will take dedicated local leaders who will
give some attention to this continuing problem.
It appears now that a good decent house to live in is
almost in the reach of everyone.
GEORGIAN, Carrollton, Ga.
Stop Denouncing Ourselves
Brig. Gen. John W. Donaldson and
Lt. Col. William J. McCloskey have
been accused of war crimes in
Vietnam by the United States Army,
with great publicity in the media. It is
news, but is it wise to beat our breasts
before all the world and cry, “We are
guilty?”
Why are we doing something now
that we never did before, i.e., ac
cusing ourselves in a great chorus of
mea culpa’s? Do we deliberately want
to downgrade, demean ourselves? We
seem to prefer keeping ourselves on
the defensive, as though we did not
want to admit that we have in fact
won the war, and that that is why we
can withdraw with honor.
Sat, and Sun., July 10-11,1971
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annual savings of $45,435.
As government goes that is a
pittance.
But as money goes, it’s a lot
and we still not belittle the effort
or the report.
If Governor Carter can get
government to watch it’s pen
nies, then we believe the dollars
will be next to come under study.
War crimes have been committed
in every war before and since the
days of Genghis Khan, who built a
tower of skulls of civilians and enemy
soldiers in Bokhara in the thirteenth
century. In all history there is no
account of a people pillorying its own
military officers with great fanfare
for war crimes, as is being done by
the United States now. It is time to
call a halt to such overemphasis.
Churchill used to say that
democracy is the worst form of
government “except for all the rest.”
To put it another way: The U.S.A, is
still the best country on earth. Let’s
keep it that way!
Things are looking up
Things may not be as good as we would
like, but they are looking up economically.
Exclusive Griffin Daily News reports
published recently show that:
—Spalding County wage earners made
11,162,984 more in the last three months of
1970 than they did during the same period a
year before.
—Retail sales in Spalding County were
11,165,000 more during the first three
months of this year than they were during
the same period a year ago.
—Construction is booming in Spalding,
especially outside the city limits. The
county issued permits for more than two
Almanac
For
Today
Today is Saturday, July 10,
the .91st y of 1971.
The moon is between its full
phase and last piarter.
The morning star are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1938 American industrialist
Howard Hughes and a crew of
four flew around the world in 91
hours.
In 1953 Lavrenti Beria,
Russian chief of internal
security forces, was purged on
charges of criminal anti-state
activities.
In 1962 the Telstar satellite
relayed television pictures from
the United States to Europe
while Americans received clear
pictures back from France and
Britain.
In 1970 Red China freed 79-
year-old Roman Catholic Bishop
James Edward Walsh after
holding him prisoner 12 years.
A thought for today: Physi
cian Sir William Osler said,
“Tact is the saving virtue
without which no woman can be
a success.”
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Mrs. Sylvia Jaffa I
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THOUGHTS
For all our days pass away
under thy wrath, our years
comes to an end like a sigh.
—Psalms 90:9.
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Finish every day and be
done with it. You have done
what you could; some blun
ders and absurdities crept
in; forget them as soon as
you can. Tomorrow is a new
day. You shall begin it well
and serenely and with too
high a spirit to be encum
bered with your old non
sense.—Ralph Waldo Emer
son, philosopher.
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million dollars worth in June alone.
—Assets at the three commercial banks
in Griffin totaled almost $92 million on
June 30. This is a big pot full of money.
Three pots full in this case.
On the other hand, we recognize that all
the news is not good, that inflation con
tinues to haunt just about everybody ac
tively, to rot away our savings, to empty
our pocketbooks, to plague particularly
the elderly and others on fixed incomes.
But, in balance, as they say, the good
outweighs the bad and things are looking
up. Way up.
No Sugar-coating
Os Man's Failures
Commencement speakers have traditionally retraced
the long climb of mankind to reach the mountain peak of
history represented by a particular graduating class.
This was usually byway of preface to listing the un
reached goals and unrealized dreams which the older
generation was hopeful that the new crop of graduates
(always the best ever produced) would accomplish. Youth
was charged to take up and, eventually in its own turn, to
pass on the torch of human progress.
If anything is different today, it is that less is said about
the successes of mankind in the past 5,000 years of re
corded history and more about its failures.
Consider the world described by Dr. Linus Pauling to
the graduating class of the College of Social Sciences at
the University of California in Berkeley.
“The very unequal distribution of the world’s wealth is
one of the greatest causes of human suffering,” said
Pauling, the only holder of two Nobel Prizes, one for
peace and one for chemistry.
In the world as a whole, he pointed out, two-thirds of
the people, the “miserably poor” numbering 2.3 billion,
have a total income equal to only 10 per cent of the
world’s income.
A similar total income, 10 per cent of the world’s total,
is enjoyed by a miniscule group, the “unconscionably
rich,” who number only one-tenth of one per cent of the
people of the world. .<-*< adj n
But what Pauling was also saying is that about one
third of the world’s people enjoy 80 per cent of the world’s
wealth.
This is far from a fair or equal distribution. Looking at
it from this perspective, however, does tend to pull the
world back from the absolute brink of catastrophe.
The important question is, how do these statistics com
pare with world income distribution 50 years ago or 100
years ago. The situation is probably no worse and is quite
possibly a great deal better, despite the world’s doubling
of population in the past century.
Most unfortunately, by charging that the unequal dis
tribution of the world’s wealth is a "cause” of human
suffering, Pauling lends his imposing prestige to the
current idea that the developed world has built and must
maintain its prosperity upon the impoverishment of the
underdeveloped world, that one man can have a high
standard of living only if several other men are kept to a
low standard of living, and therefore to correct this im
balance we must take from the haves and give to the
havenots.
But wealth, if properly used, generates wealth; charity
merely dilutes the misery.
The underdeveloped world has an old saying to the ef
fect that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day,
but if you teach him how to fish you feed him for the rest
of his life.
The world-savers now emerging from the colleges and
universities seem filled with a lot of information but little
knowledge.
The Boone Clan Rallies
So many people responded to an open invitation to all
the heirs of Daniel Boone to attend a reunion at Onondaga
Cave on U.S. Route 66 near Leasburg, Mo., that the affair
had to be postponed.
The famed scout and explorer discovered the cave in
1798. The reunion, to coincide with the official opening of
Daniel Boone Park, has been rescheduled for Sept. 10
to permit documentation of the hundreds of claims to
Boone kinship.
Some people will do anything to get invited to an exclu
sive party, points out cave director Bob Hudson.
Chances are, however, that most of the claims are legi
timate. Betwixt discovering caves and fighting Injuns.
Boone fathered 10 children.
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Way of contacting God
Isn’t prayer asking for things
we want and desire? Most
preachers say it is away of
contacting God. Is this true?
L.N.
Most people pray, but, as you
say, many times prayer is just a
selfish wish sent heavenward—
and because it is selfish, it
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Preu International
NEW YORK—Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger, suggesting
the number of cases facing the
Supreme Court be cut down:
“Either the quantity or the
quality of the work of the
Supreme Court must soon yield
to the realities.”
NEWARK, N.J.-U.S. Attor
ney Herbert Stern, commenting
on the convictions of Jersey
City Mayor Thomas J. Whelan
and seven other political figures
for extortion:
“You can fight City Hall-and
win.”
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24 Wolfhound
26 Eminent
27 Mineral spring
30 Abhor
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instance
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sacred books
35 Continent
36 Bad (prefix)
37 Lumberjack’s
tool (pl.)
39 Heroic poetry
40 River of lower
world (Gr.
myth.)
41 Tree fluid
42 Plead anew
45 Made use of
49 Better looking
51 Before
52 Epochs
53 Remove
(print)
54 Transgression
55 Nickname for
Algernon
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never catches the ear of our
heavenly Father.
But Christian prayer is
something else. The Bible says,
“The effectual, fervent prayer
of a righteous man availeth
much.”
It is not just a wish, not just an
expression of selfish desire—it
is motivated by the love for
mankind; it is said with a
burden for a sick, lost world; it
is prayed with the Spirit, and
with understanding. In short, it
is participating with Christ in
His love for the world. Paul
said, “I pray you in Christ’s
stead.”
Yes, it is possible to pray
without our prayers being
heard. James wrote,
not because ye ask amiss.”
When prayer is, as you say, an
expression of our own selfish
desires, we are asking amiss.
But there is such a thing as
effectual prayer. This is the
kind of prayer our Lord
referred to when He said, “ask
and ye shall receive.” The
greatest and most effectual
thing in the world is Christian
prayer.
Answer to Previoui Puxxle
9 Aphrodite’s
son (myth.)
10 Mature, as
fruit
11 Direction
17 Nazi
concentration
camp
19 Evergreen
trees
23 Continued
pains
24 Eve’s mate
25 Son of Jacob
(Bib.)
26 Muscular
affliction
27 Most slovenly
(coll.)
28 Melon
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Cary Reeves, Geacral Maaager
Bill Knight, Executive Editor
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31 lowa, Ohio
and others
33 Os a plastic
ingredient
38 Inquiry
40 Frothy
41 Drunken
carousal
42 American
ostrich
43 Nobleman
44 Rough branch
broken off
46 Skin of an
animal
47 Assam
‘ silkworm
48 Car damage
50 Poem
Quimby Melton, Jr,
Editor