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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
THERE ARE INCREASING reports, government and pri
vate, of a military readiness gap developing between the United
States and the Soviet Union. Consequently, American people
are growing more and more concerned about national defense
—as well they ought to be.
High-ranking members of the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee and military experts —in the Pentagon and elsewhere —
point with alarm to the fact that the United States no longer
has undisputed military supremacy. At best, we are only run
ning neck-and-neck with the Soviet Union at the present time.
In some respects, we lag behind.
For example, the Soviet Union has superior intercontinental
ballistic missiles. They have a more sophisticated ABM system.
They have a modem navy capable of operating anywhere in
the world on every ocean. They have launched an antisub
marine program that could neutralize much of our missile
submarine fleet. The Russians are developing space weapons
systems, while we continue to spend billions to put men on the
moon again and again on rock-collecting expeditions.
Unless the United States moves faster, the Soviets no doubt
will secure military superiority over us within the next few
years.
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I CAN UNDERSTAND — but I cannot justify—how na
tional defense and the military have fallen on such bad days.
People are fed up with the war in Vietnam, in which we have
been involved for almost a decade and wouldn’t fight and
wouldn’t quit.
It has been a curse on the nation and so divided our people
that many seem willing to strike out at anything to do with the
military. Some people even appear ready to do away with the
Army and dismantle our defense establishment.
We all want to get out of Vietnam. We all want to cut
federal spending, and reduce the burden on our taxpayers in
every way possible. But we cannot strengthen the economy or
guarantee security of the U.S. by weakening our defense estab
lishment.
We cannot ignore the lessons of history, whose highways are
littered with the remains of nations that allowed themselves to
grow weak while their neighbors became stronger.
I hope Congress will redouble efforts toward national defense.
I intend to support the expenditure of any amount necessary
for our security.
(not prepared or printed at government expense)
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, April 15,
the 106th day of 1972.
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Aries.
Florentine painter Leonardo
da Vinci was born April 15,
1452.
On this day in history:
In 1861 President Abraham
Lincoln sent Congress a mes
sage recognizing a state of
rebellion in the South and
calling for 75,000 volunteer
soldiers.
In 1865 President Abraham
Lincoln died from an assassin’s
bullet and Andrew Johnson was
sworn in as chief executive.
In 1912 the luxury liner
“Titanic” sank off Newfound
land. Os the 2,223 passengers
aboard, 1,517 were lost.
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THOUGHTS
Before them peoples are
in anguish all faces grow
pale. Like warriors they
charge, like soldiers they
scale the wall. They march
each on his way. they do not
swerve from their paths.—
Joel 2:6. 7.
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The three great essentials
to achieve anything worth
while are, first, hard work;
second, stick-to-itiveness;
third, common sense.—
Thomas A. Edison.
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Editorials
From other newspapers
Metro green belt
News Daily, Clayton County
The metropolitan areas of America are beset by a
number of problems, and as more and more people con
tinue to be attracted to the opportunities of these areas the
problems are expected to multiply instead of go away.
That is, unless there is some reasonable thought and
study given to this trend and how to best accommodate it.
One of the best ideas making the circuit has been one
which proposes to establish an area of greenery to
surround the population areas so that we can take ad
vantage of what nature has provided us.
The suggestion is a paradox. It furnishes us with some
complex measures to answer the ecological problems of
pollution, noise, and crowded conditions, and at the same
time it offers a simplicity that rescues us from “sardine
ness” by offering us more of the wonders of Mother
Nature.
How does it work?
Simply it says that some zoning regulation and
cooperation must be established on a broad scale for metro
areas which will set aside some land for a “green belt”.
The green belt will encompass a strip of land surrounding
the metropolitan area, such as Atlanta, maybe five or ten
miles wide and restrict housing to development that in
cludes say, one home unit, at least on a minimum of five
acres.
In other words, you would not be able to stack apartment
upon apartment, or residence next to residence, without
meeting these specifications. The “green belt”, which isn’t
exactly a great name for it, would therefore insure that a
greenness of nature-trees, shrubbery, grass, etc.-would
have a chance to develop to its fullest.
In return for this greenery, nature would perform what
it always has performed for us-providing the means to
take some of the polluted elements from the air, clearing
and muffling some of the noise into her greenery, and most
importantly giving us some space in which to breathe in
the open sky.
The ideas have been proposed for Atlanta’s metropolitan
area, and met some receptive ears. But the scope of the
approach is one that must be area-wide in order to be ef
fective. If it could be accepted, and put into practice, over
the South Metro area for instance, it would have a
tremendous effect on our growth in this quadrant of the
metro area.
At long last. . .
(MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL)
Practically eveiyone in this part of
Georgia, not to mention thousands of
north-south motorists from other states, will
be relieved by the knowledge that state and
federal authorities have finally agreed on a
route for Interstate 75 between Marietta and
Cartersville.
The **T” route selected, of course, will
not meet with universal approval, for a few
Cobb Countians had continued to fight for a
route that would have paralleled U. S. 41
through the north part of the county. But a
vast majority of persons who have taken a
position on the matter have favored Line T,
including the noted University of Georgia
ecologist, Dr. Eugene Odum, who helped to
design the route.
Sunshine Law Now In Effect
The Daily Sun, Warner Robins
Georgia’s new Sunshine Law opened up one of the darkest
areas of state government - the Georgia Public Service
Commission - this week.
When this group opened its meetings to the press and “let the
sunshine in” you knew that secret meetings of public bodies in
Georgia have come to an end.
We are glad that the Georgia General Assembly took the
position that the public has a right to know what its elected and
appointed officials are doing .. . and how they are doing it!
Her husband admitted.
he was unfaithful ’dR
My husband served overseas, and I
found a girt’s address hi one of his shirt
pockets when he returned. He admitted
being unfaithful to me with this girt, but
asked me to forgive him. He is a good hus
band, doesn’t drink nor smoke, and loves
his family. But, I can’t bring myself to
forgive him for his unfaithfulness. What
can I do? N.A.
Many non-Christian married men in
dulge in fornication, not because they love
their temporary mate, but for sexual
relief. I do not condone this, but I am
saying it is not an uncommon occurrence.
You do not state whether you are a
Clristian or not. But, my advice to you is:
since your husband has asked you to
forgive him, and you say he is a faithful
The general public’s attitude-to build the
long-awaited link as quickly and
economically as possible-will be served by
Secretary John Volpe’s decision Monday,
because Line T can be completed sooner and
less expensively than the other two routes in
final consideration.
The City of Kennesaw and Kennesaw
Junior College also can breathe a sigh of
relief, for Line T will provide the college the
accessibility it needs without cutting
through the heart of Kennesaw, as Line G
would have.
We trust that state and federal highway
officials, now that they have settled their
differences over the route, will work
together to expedite all other phases of the
road’s completion.
husband, and loves his family, you should
forgive this incident and thank God there
have been no more.
To harbor bitterness and an unforgiving
spirit can bring ill health, and can further
complicate your problem. Everyone hopes
to seek and find the forgiveness of God
before they die, and give an account to
their Maker. Jesus said: “If ye forgive not
men their trespasses, neither will your
heavenly Father forgive your trespasses.”
Matthew 6:15. An unforgiving spirit is an
indication of pride and self-centeredness.
Yes, your husband did wrong in breaking
the vows he made at the altar of God. But,
if you will not forgive him, then your sin is
as great, or greater, for the sins of the
spirit are more serious than the sins of the
flesh.
JERRY’S WORLD
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Some Surprises:
A Look Inside
High Schoolers
By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)
It may be that the nation’s youth don’t quite fit the
stereotype we’ve drawn.
A survey of 23,000 high school junior and senior stu
dent leaders conducted last summer by Merit Publishing
Company and later tabulated by computer contains more
than a few surprises.
More than half said that when they have children they
will handle their offspring the same way their parents
raised them. Only 12 per cent thought their parents too
strict. A surprising 5 per cent think them too lenient.
Almost half believe the lines of communication with
their parents are almost always open. Only 17 per cent
were negative. The rest feel the open door is there 50
per cent of the time. Fifty-one per cent think they’re
understood half the time. Only 16 per cent feel their
parents hardly ever understand them. A startling 31 per
cent hold that their parents almost always understand
them. Girls feel more understood than boys.
More than 80 per cent believe in marriage as it exists
today. The same heavy majority feel their parents are
happily married. Half want their husband or wife to be
a virgin when they marry.
Almost 70 per cent of those who replied, including half
the black student leaders, were against the busing of
children to achieve integrated school systems. But more
than half of all the students (including 81 per cent of the
blacks) believe the government is not doing enough to
promote desegregation and equal opportunities in all
areas of life.
Two-thirds said they do not approve of the use of
marijuana but feel that the laws on this are too strict.
Six per cent said they used the drug regularly.
Half feel their elected officials and representatives are
not doing a good job of representation. But only a fourth
believe the police in their communities are doing a poor
job. Half believe the government manages the news. But
almost two-thirds think the criticism of the press by
members of the government has been justified in some
cases.
The majority said they favored either gradual troop
withdrawal (45 per cent) or total military victory (6 per
cent). Forty-four per cent want immediate withdrawal
of all troops. Eighty per cent of the males favor an all
volunteer army but would not volunteer for such an
army. Forty-three per cent would consider applying
to the draft board for a conscientious objector status.
The five things the nation has done in the past five
years that the students as a group said they were partic
ularly proud of were the landing on the moon, the 18-
year-otd vote legislation, the attack on pollution and
ecological protection, the thaw in relations with main
land China and withdrawing troops from Southeast Asia.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
TIMELY QUOTES
The cold, hard and cruel
irony of it all is that South
Vietnam would have been
better off losing to Hanoi
than winning with us.
—Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-
Wis., introducing a bill
calling for the National
Academy of Sciences to
conduct a study of the
ecological damage caused
by the United States in
Southeast Asia.
What I want now is for
the I.R.A. to stop the bomb
ing and the killing. I don’t
agree with that, and I’d like
the other side to give up vio
lence, too. Then maybe we’d
be able to get at each other’s
minds instead of each oth
er’s throats.
—John Laughlin, a Catholic
in Northern Ireland.
The bad thing about pop
ulation is that sooner or
later it all has to boil down
to sex, and this always up
sets people.
—Member of the President's
Commission on Popula
tion Control.
Some say Jerusalem should
belong to the people of the
Jewish faith, just as Rome
belongs to the Christians and
Mecca belongs to the Mos-
GRIFFIN
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Publisher Bill Knight. Executive Editor Editor
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lems. But nowhere in the
world have the three great
religions met except in Jeru
salem, and therefore it must
belong to all.
—King Hussein of Jordan.
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