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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE I
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MORE THAN A QUARTER of a century ago, Georgia ex
tended full voting rights to eightcen-year-olds. With the ratification
of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution last summer, the
franchise was granted to all eleven million 18, 19, and 20 year
olds in the United States.
There is considerable movement underway to get this new un
tested political force registered for next year’s Presidential election.
This is not surprising in light of several significant facts. Nearly
one-half of the new voters were found to be uncommitted to any
political party in a recent national poll. Young people also tend to
be very issue-oriented. Most important, young people today are
concerned. They know votes are the most effective way to transmit
their concern about the war, the environment, and the economy.
Great attention has been given the potential college vote as a
critical factor in the 1972 election. However, young people are
more than just college students. In fact, 64 per cent of the new
18-20 voting group are non-students, and they of course must also
be considered.
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THE ENTHUSIASM AND DILIGENCE displayed by young
people in working for passage of the voting amendment must now
be channeled into civic participation. As new and equal members
of the electorate, they must be encouraged to register and to vote.
Too many Americans neglect this right, the most fundamental of
all rights in a republican form of government.
The lowering of the voting age is tangible evidence that change
in our society can be accomplished by working within the system.
Many young people worked hard for adoption of this amendment.
Now it is their right and in fact their duty to exercise the vote.
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THE EXPERIENCE with 18-year-old voting in Georgia has
shown that young people tend to think for themselves, inde
pendently and responsibly. They refuse to be herded into any
group or faction. The college student, the worker, and the young
housewife are all part of this diverse new voting group.
Young voters cannot be stereotyped. They are American citizens
from all walks of life. If they have one great thing in common, it
is their age and their desire to have a voice in the future of their
country.
By exercising the right to vote, young people can become full
partners in directing the course of the nation they one day will
lead.
(not prepared or printed at government expcnee)
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Why can't wa have Christmas in November, be
fore everybody is worn out with It?"
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, Dec. 4,
the 338th day of 1971.
The moon is between its new
phase and last quarter.
There are no morning stars.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Sagittarius.
Scottish historian Charles
Carlyle was born Dec. 4, 1795.
On this day in history:
In 1918 President Woodrow
Wilson sailed for France to
attend the World War I peace
conference at Versailles.
In 1942 President Franklin D.
Roosevelt ordered the liquida
tion of the WPA, created in 1935
to provide work for the
unemployed.
In 1946 the United Mine
Workers Union was fined $3.5
million for refusing to call off a
17-day-old strike.
In 1965 America’s Gemini 7
spaceship was launched into
orbit for a then record 14-day
voyage around the earth.
today's FUNNY
PEOPLE PONT
ECONOMIC
MONEY ~
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Dorothy Hofbauer '
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THOUGHTS
For the love of money is
the root of all evils; it is
through this craving that
some have wandered away
from the faith and pierced
their hearts with many
pangs.—l Timothy 6:10.
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It’s good to have money
and the things money can
buy. But it’s good, too, to
check once in awhile and
make sure that you haven’t
lost the things that money
can’t buv. —George H. Lori
mer, author.
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NEWS-DAILY, JONESBORO
Showdown on welfare
Like the gunfight at the OK corral, the
nation’s welfare program seems to be
heading for a showdown. The big question
that remains is if the nation will gain as a
result of the winner.
No single program has stirred more
antagonism to the federal government,
and its regulations, than the welfare
program. While a world of good can be
FOLLOWING a pattern of laudable re
form proposals, Gov. Jimmy Cart
er’s judicial reform commission has
recommended that the age of 18 be set
as the age of majority in Georgia.
This makes sense.
At 18 a Georgian can vote. At 18 a
Georgian can be registered for the
draft — and he can legally volunteer
for any branch of the armed services
without first gaining the consent of his
parents.
These are both responsibilities of
some magnitude.
It is totally irrational, for example,
that an 18-year-old is considered ma
ture enough to decide a state, county
or city election, while at the same time
he is not mature enough to make bind
ing legal decisions or to drink a beer.
Legend has it that the age of 21 was
arbitrarily selected as the age of ma
turity because by that time a man was
large enough to fit into a suit of armor.
The custom of using a table wreath to
enjoy the approach of Christmas and keep
in mind its meaning is growing. The
wreath contains four candles, one being lit
on the first Sunday in Advent (Nov. 28th
this year) and two the next Sunday, three
the next and four the Sunday before
Christmas.
Many of our churches teach that advent
is the season one should prepare for the
-pdvent of the Savior on the 25th; in some
there are elaborate rituals. But there is
doubt over when the practice began.
The 'Human Pollution'
Prisons and punishment are a
necessary part of this nation's correction
system if society is to be properly
protected against criminals, but some of
our foremost authorities on im
prisonment are growing fearful that
“human pollution” may be resulting
from many of the methods employed.
Ellis MacDougald, director of the
Georgia Department of Corrections,
gives us food for thought in remarks
made here several days ago in ad
dressing a civic club.
MacDougald said, “Recent events
raise the strong possibility that our
prisons may have begun to pollute our
society.” He noted that prisons were
built as a means of protecting society and
separating the wrongdoers—a punish
ment for violating the laws. Ninety-eight
per cent of the prison inmates return
ultimately to civilian life in the com
munity.
The important point, MacDougald told
the civic club members, is that those sent
to prison for punishment and to protect
society “must be changed—they must be
returned to society with different at-
Do we have trouble
for our own good?
I have heard that trouble is for our own
good. Is this true? R.D.
The Bible definitely states that troubles,
afflictions, and adversity, are for the good
of the child of God. “And we know that all
things work together for good to them that
love God, to them which are called ac
cording to His purpose.” Romans 8:28.
But we are never to assume that this
goes for those who are not in Christ, to
those who are rebellious against God. This
promise is only for those who are “called
according to his purpose.” Christians are
enabled to handle trouble in a special way,
and God has promised to turn it to good, if
our love for Him is unfeigned.
Editorials
Atlanta Journal
Age of Majority
Americus Simes-Hecorber
Advent Sundays
The Moultrie Observer
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done with proper handling, abuses have
brought out the ire of many people who
ordinarily would favor helping the needy
in a manner which befits the world’s
richest nation.
Somewhere in the mire of politics, the
real philosophy of assistance has been lost.
It is now, in the reform program, that this
true welfare idea must be redeemed.
Whether that is apocryphal or not is
of little consequence now.
The fact facing us is that the age of
maturity should be just that, and not
vary from year to year depending
upon what is at issue.
The judicial reform commission
took the approach that such an incon
sistent attitude toward the age of ma
jority would turn the young “away
from the system.”
It should.
A person who is considered old
enough to vote and old enough to fight
should also be considered old enough
to buy his own automobile or make
any other adult decisions which con
front him.
The present method is that of the
double standard. It is one that should
be disposed of and replaced by a con
sistent and logical and rational ap
proach.
The age of 18 should be recognized
for what it really is.
Aside from specifically prescribed
rituals or specific beliefs, the custom of
using a wreath with four candles has been
adopted by more and more Americans of
all faiths, just as Santa Claus comes into
almost every home.
It’s a good custom, for the candles and
wreath are reminders of a happy time to
come, and if an accepted custom in the
home, lit at each of four successive Sunday
dinner tables, they add a warmth, and
often a Christian atmosphere, to these
days.
titudes and skills which can earn them an
honest living—or they will be freed in as
bad or worse condition than when they
entered prison.”
The Georgia director of corrections is a
strong believer in rehabilitation of
prisoners—not for the sake of coddling
them but as a future protection for
society. He also is convinced that the
general public is primarily interested in
protection and not in severe punish
ment—that the bulk of the country’s
population wants to walk down the street
safely, leave their cars parked without
fear of theft and damage, and be able to
live securely in their homes without fear
of invasion by the criminally bent.
Director MacDougald has a good point,
both for society and those who potentially
can be restored to citizenship as useful
wage earners. There is more to pollution,
it seems, than beer cans, waste matters
and paper litter. The human pollution,
obviously, must be checked as ef
fectively as air, water and soil pollution
if 98 per cent of the imprisoned persons
eventually return to our communities.
MY fMk
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Dr. Edward Wilson, who died on an
expedition to the Antarctic, wrote: “This I
know is God’s truth, that pain and troubles
and trials and disappointments are either
die thing or another. To all who love God
they are love tokens from Him. To all who
do not love God and do not want to love
Him they are merely a nuisance. Every
single pain that we feel is known to God
because it is the most loving touch of His
hand.”
The Great Physician, like earthly
physicians, often hurts in the very process
of healipg. We, knowing that God is all
wise, and is concerned for His children,
diould never doubt His wisdom, but accept
every adversity as a part of the Divine
process.
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"Frankly, John, I don’t care about the Gallup Poll, or the
Harris Poll—what does Jimmy the Greek say?"
If it had accomplished nothing else, the AFL-CIO con
vention in Miami Beach at least proved that this is still
a free country, insofar as freedom consists in telling the
President of the United States where to head in.
The President “knew what he could do” if he didn’t like
labor’s attitude of noncooperation with Phase 11, said
AFL-CIO president George Meany. And if that message
were not clear enough, it was underlined by the failure to
play the traditional “Hail to the Chief” as the President
entered the hall. Some delegates refused to stand, thereby
showing the world that nobody can push free Americans
around.
President Nixon was wise in discarding a “laundry list”
of prolabor accomplishments of his administration which
he planned to read to the delegates. He could have told
them he was instituting a union shop in the White House
and still labor would not love him. He could open his veins
to labor and Meany would call it tomato juice.
The funny thing is that had the President been a Demo
crat—ANY Democrat—the delegates would have rolled on
their backs and kicked their legs in the air like puppy
dogs being tickled. Phase I and Phase II would be the
greatest things in the world.
It would be funny, that is, were it not so unfunny.
By their negativism from the very beginning of the
President’s new economic program, and now by their
declaration of outright opposition to everything the admin
istration is trying to do to halt inflation and spur the
economy, Meany and other labor leaders have gone be
yond anything that could reasonably be called "loyal
opposition.”
Called upon to exercise a little foresight and statesman
ship, they have responded in the time-worn labor way of
using their muscles—in this case, the muscles around the
mouth.
Well, as the President said, he does know exactly what
he can do, and he is going to do it, with or without the
cooperation of labor.
It is too bad it has to be that way.
TV as They Decree
South Africa is usually considered to be a capitalistic
or free-enterprise nation. But one industry the govern
ment resolutely refuses to relinquish its monopoly on is
television.
Actually, it is a monopoly on something that does not
yet exist. Os all the world’s industrial nations, South Af
rica is the only one without television.
Despite long and strong opposition by the conservative
Afrikaans-speaking population, the government earlier
this year began making tentative plans to introduce tele
vision at long last, possibly by 1975. It made clear, how
ever, that it would remain a state monopoly and that
steps would be taken to ensure that this devil’s device did
not undermine South African society.
For Instance, sets would cost at least SI,OOO, placing
them completely out of reach of blacks, as well as most
whites.
Even so, there are serious misgivings and fears in par
liament. Specifically, the fear that foreign-produced
shows, which will be the only ones immediately avail
able, will expose South African viewers to ideas the
ruling minority disapproves of.
TIMELY QUOTES
We realize there are other
pressing needs in this coun
try. But research and devel
opment is not the kind of
thing that can be turned on
and off like a faucet.
—Dr. Wemher von Braun,
deputy associate adminis
trator of the space agency,
warning against turning
ourselves “away from the
the stars to the sewers.”
The men in the striped
shirts comprise the only jury
to which there is no appeal.
—Woody Hayes, Ohio State
University football coach.
We cannot permit one
man to put himself above the
interest of all the working
people of this country.
—Treasury Secretary John
B. Connally, on George
Meany, president of the
AFL-CIO.
They (price controls) are
there for a purpose. When
they’ve done their job they
ought to go. There is no one
involved in this who is
GRIFFIN
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By DON OAKLEY
enamored of controls.
—Donald Rumsfeld, director
of Cost of Living Council.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
About 71 per cent of the
earth’s surface, or approx-'
imately 140 million square
miles, is covered by the
sea. Diffused in more than
300 million cubic miles of
seawater are an estimated
10 million tons of gold, 500
million tons of silver and
20 million tons of uranium,
The World Almanac says.
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