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OF GOD AND MAN
Commentary
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
You hear a lot from
preachers and politicians about
the biblical “work ethic” which
holds that men and women
should be busy, productive and
useful, earning their own keep
and contributing to the needs of
others.
But alongside this work ethic
the Bible also contains a “rest
ethic.” It is not so often
mentioned in our work-oriented
society, but it is even more
basic to the biblical message.
It holds that man’s primary
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With an Atlanta policeman on the roof of bank, gunman
emerges from the building with his hostages. The gunman
held four women hostage for several hours, and as he tried
Here’s how you can beat the rat race
purpose is not to produce and
consume, but to know God.
The rest ethic says it is not
good for us always to be busy.
We also need on occasion to
withdraw from the rat race, to
lay aside all our worries and
problems, and rest in stillness
and quiet until our minds, souls
and bodies have been renewed
by the healing Spirit of God.
This is a basic theme of the
Bible from beginning to end.
Sabbath Made for Man
The Sabbath, whose observ
ance is one of the oldest of
Policeman aims from roof
GRIFFIN
DAI LY N EWS
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human religious traditions, was
instituted, the Bible says,
because God saw that men and
women need at least one full
day a week for rest and re
creation.
It has always been difficult
for professional religionists to
believe that God really regards
rest as desirable in itself. That
is why, centuries ago, law
makers began to hedge the
Sabbath about with such minute
rules and proscriptions that it
became a burden rather than a
blessing to mankind. Jesus
COPE won’t
take fight
to court
COPE said today it would not
challenge in court petitions for a
liquor referendum. The
organization said it would take
the battle against legalized
liquor in the community to the
polls.
COPE predicted the cam
paign for liquor would be
defeated.
Dillard Wilbanks and Morgan
Harvill, representing COPE,
examined the petitions and
signatures at the office of Or
dinary George Imes, Jr. this
morning.
Wilbanks said they found a
sufficient number of
discrepancies to challenge the
referendum call, but he said
COPE would forgo this and
battle the campaign at the polls.
COPE stands for an organiza
tion known as Citizens Organiz
ed for a Protected Environ
ment.
The two COPE men said some
signatures on petitions ap
peared to have been made by
the same person, suggesting
to make his escape, was shot to death in a gun battle with
police. One policeman was wounded but the women were
uninjured. (UPI)
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Friday, November 9, 1973
swept away their whole struc
ture of “shall nots” with a
single penetrating statement:
“The Sabbath was made for
man, not man for the Sabbath.”
The great prophet Isaiah
looked at the feverish efforts of
men to make their lives secure
through frantic activity. “Thus
says the Lord God,” he said:
“In returning and rest you shall
be saved; in quietness and in
trust shall be your strength.”
In another place, Isaiah
speaks of “repose” as a gift
that God seeks continually to
that they were signed by some
other person.
Wilbanks said he realized
there were human errors
inherent in getting up such a
petition and COPE had taken
this into consideration.
Ordinary Imes has set Dec. 4
as the date for the referendum.
Registered voters in Griffin
and Spalding County will have a
chance to vote yes or no on
legalized package sale of liquor
in the community.
The results of the vote will be
binding on both the city and
county, officials have indicated.
A citizens campaign for a
liquor vote emerged after
Spalding Sheriff Dwayne
Gilbert announced liquor laws
would be enforced. Spalding is a
dry county.
Violation of liquor laws was
indicated in a series of gam
bling raids. This prompted the
sheriff to warn that liquor laws
should be enforced.
The campaign for a
referendum followed.
bestow on weary men and
women, “but they refuse to
listen.” The Lord’s invitation to
pause and rest has drowned out
man’s “harsh cries and raucous
shouts: ‘a little more here, a
litUe there!”’
Jesus Relaxed
Rest is prescribed not only as
an antidote for exhaustion of
mind and body but also, even
more importantly, as a state in
which men and women can “be
still and know God.”
“Wait quietly for the Lord, be
patient till He comes," says the
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Ever had the desire to take your frustrations out on a
Cadillac? You will have a chance to do so tomorrow. The
ALSAC campaign will sponsor a car bash at West Taylor
and 12th streets. For a 25 cent donation to the ALSAC
campaign, a person can hit this Cadillac with a sledge
Griffin High remains in 6-AAA
The Griffin High Bears will
compete in Region 6-AAA for
the next two years.
Schools are reclassified every
two years and regions for 1974
Gawking crowd
watched violence
By SAM MILLER
ATLANTA (UPI) - A police
sniper, firing from the roof of a
bank, Thursday night shot a
bandit crouched in the middle
of four women hostages. The
bandit fell into the clear and
was riddled by bullets only a
few feet from a getaway car
containing $200,000 in cash.
The dead man, tentatively
identified as George Lenton
Whitfield, 32, of New Carroll
ton, Md., wounded policeman J.
B. Adams before he died in the
police and FBI fusillade.
Adams, a rescue truck driver,
was hospitalized in satisfactory
condition with a stomach
wound.
None of the hostages, who
fled screaming at the first shot,
was hurt.
A milling, gawking crowd of
several hundred persons
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Car bash here Saturday
and 1975 were drawn up Monday
by the State High School
Executive Committee.
There are 10 teams in 6-AAA.
The only difference from the
watched the violent end to a
three-hour drama that began
just before closing at the Spring
Street Brandi of the First
National Bank.
The gunman, a nattily
dressed black, asked about loan
information and then pulled a
gun. One of the bank employes
tripped a silent alarm but the
gunman heard the alert on a
police radio monitor he was
carrying.
Police and FBI units
swarmed to the bank, located
one block off Atlanta’s North
Expressway, but the gunman
threatened to kill the four
women tellers if he was not
give a safe sendoff with
$200,000. The branch bank had
only $50,000 and had to send to
the main office for the
remainder.
The money was placed in a
37th Psalm.
No one ever was more deeply
involved with human cares than
Jesus. Yet he found it
necessary frequently to retreat
from the hubbub of the world to
relax and rest. Time and again
the gospels report that Jesus,
after a period of hectic activity,
“went apart” even from his
closest friends and disciples, to
seek the refreshment of spirit
that comes from being alone
with God.
In his unparalleled compas
hammer. Gary Evans, a coordinator of the drive,
demonstrates how to bash a car. Contributions to the
campaign will go to the St. Jude’s Hospital for Children at
Memphis.
present region is that Morrow
was added.
The region officials will meet
the second Saturday in January
to arrange schedules.
getaway car by branch Manag
er Elmer Schneid, who agreed
to drive the vehicle. Schneid
was sitting in the car, with the
motor running, when the bandit
emerged from the bank with
two women in front of him and
two behind him.
Modesty comes easy to those
of us who have done nothing
worth bragging about.”
Inside Tip
Bears
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sion and empathy, Jesus
recognized that this is a
universal human need —and
one that often is grievously
neglected by conscientious peo
ple who feel, wrongly, that God
wants them to remain perpetu
ally busy with good works.
It was to these self-driven
ones that Jesus offered what is
surely the most appealing
invitation to the gospels:
“Come to me, all who labor
and are heavy-laden, and I will
give you rest.”
Teams presently listed in the
region are Forest Park, Griffin,
Jonesboro, LaGrange, Morrow,
Newnan, Newton County, North
Clayton, R. E. Lee and Rock
dale County.
According to the new lineup,
Forest Park is the largest
school with an average daily
attendance of 2,179.
Griffin’s ADA is listed as
2,056, the second highest.
The smallest ADA in the
region is R. E. Lee with 674.
R. E. Lee, if it desired, could
ask for re-classification as a
class A or a class AA team.
That move is doubtful since
the Rebels usually elect to play
in a triple-A region.
The current regions are all
tentative since some schools
may request reclassification or
to move to a neighboring region.
Coach Max Dowis said this
morning that it is doubtful that
any changes will be made in 6-
AAA.
There has been talk of
dividing the region into two sub
regions. And there has been
some discussion of playing a
region schedule, then allowing
the top two teams to hold a
playoff for the region cham
pionship.
Whether to subdivide or
arrange a playoff probably will
be decided at the January
region meeting.
Under the new reclassifica
tion, Jackson, Pike and Lamar
County are in Region 4-A.