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Established 1908
TONY MADDOX, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
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Editor’s Desk
Rarely these days do we pick up a daily newspaper without
seeing some bold headline describing the precarious situation
in our nation’s capitol.
A hurried - and somewhat harried - jaunt to some of the
tourist trodden sites in D.C. a couple of weeks ago confirmed
an idea I had acquired in reading recent accounts of activity
in the city. It’s in a mess.
Since it was the national day of mourning, the Sunday following
the interment of Robert F. Kennedy, the city wore an intangible
veil of “not open for business”.
The most obvious ‘sight’ to see was the Arlington gravesite
itself. We got near enough to glimpse the crowd of thousands
and see the blankets of flowers placed around the famous
Kennedy sector of the Cemetery.
Passing right near the turnoff leading up to the Cemetery
was a city transit bus. It bore a placard which read “John F.
Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, The Eternal Flame” in white
script on a solid black background. The message wore a mantle
of white roses. Also conspicuously taped on the bus’ windows
were cards reading, in effect, “if you don’t have correct fare,
you cannot board this bus”. I learned from a companion that
this ultimatum had resulted from repeated instances of thuggings
as bus drivers attempted to make change.
And there was the time spent in touring “Resurrection City”.
( Which we did in the luxurious safety of a motorized vehicle 4 )
It was not necessary that the attraction be pointed out. One had
only to follow the clamorous sounds and rank smells; the rest
was obvious.
Activities at the camp that afternoon included swimming in an
elaborately equipped fountain area that was expressly narked
“keep off the grass”. But then, the grass wasn’t suffering
like those gilded urns. Bare-to-the-waist , long haired young
men ( 1 supposed) and women of various races were sprawled
at random within the snow fence boundary, listening to distant
guitarists or merely enjoying the company of peers.
An ironical little jingle kept cropping up on posts throughout
the sight “do not cutcorners”. One could hardly help wondering
whether its meaning was literal or figurative.
CONTRIBUTED BY LINDA PRUITT
NEWSWINDOW
BY TONY MADDOX
It seems that the national TV networks and wire services
have taken up the hue and cry for gun control laws. We tend
to discount much of the so called “interpretation” of the news
by commentators on TV, but it is disturbing to think that
the campaign of browbeating and publicity might influence
Congress to pass hastily contrived gun controls.
No reasonable person wishes to oppose legislation which
promises to deter crime, but we fail to see how long gun reg
istration will serve any useful purpose save that of making
bother and trouble for gun owners.
I rather think that a criminal will be most hesitant to reg
ister his guns and play by the rule book. The rest of us will
have additional federal or state forms plus fees (naturally)
and we will be recorded somewhere on another punch card
to be fed into a federal computer - and we can kiss goodbye
another freedom.
Forsyth County and area residents who oppose gun regis
tration should write Ninth District Congressman Phil Lan
drum, c/o The House Office Building, Washington, D.C. and
voice your sentiments.
Husband: “Honey, will you hurry up?”
Wife: “I wish you’d stop nagging me. I told you an hour
ago I'd be ready in a few minutes.”
If you look forward to Monday more than you do Friday,
you're in danger of becoming successful.
At the same time there ought to be a better way to start
the day than by getting up in the morning.
Job seeker''to wife: “I found a job, good salary, free health
and accident insurance, paid holidays and coffee breaks. You
start Monday.”
It is said that a woman may be willing to forgive and forget,
but she will never forget what she forgave.
Dad: Well, son, were you a good boy in school today?
Son: Sure. How much trouble can you get into, standing in
a corner all day?
A speeding car screeched to a stop just beyond the red
light. “Watch out,” the driver yelled at a man he’d almost
hit. Nervously the pedestrian picked up his hat and asked,
“Why, are you coming back?”
Then there’s the story of the teacher who asked her pupil
“To what family does the whale belong?”
“I don’t know,” the pupil replied, “no one in our neighbor
hood has one.”
Mother: “Did you thank Mrs. Porter for the party?”
Small daughter: “No, I didn’t. The girl ahead of me thanked
her, and Mrs. Porter said, “Don’t mention it,” so I didn’t.”
Jokes courtesy TRUX magazine
No Changes By Violence
BY THURMAN SENSING
The tragic death of Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy in Los An
geles has deeply disturbed the
American people and trans
formed the political situation in
an election year.
The shock of the senator's
death at the hands of a lone
killer has been compounded by
the highly emotional and irres
ponsoble comments of some
television commentators. Ag
ain, as after the death of Pres
ident John F. Kennedy, there has
emerged the illogical theme that
all Americans share in the guilt
of the killing. President John
son is to be commended, in
his initial comment on the
shooting, for stressing that Am
erica is not sick and that the
murder was not committed by
200 million people. No society,
no matter how well organized,
can completely protect promin
ent citizens from attacks by de
termined fanatics in its midst.
What a society can and must
do, however, is to maintain gen
eral law and order and to stand
firm against notions of anarchy
and civil disobedience that are
a breeding ground for acts of
personal violence. The death of
Sen. Kennedy is especially
tragic in that it might not have
occurred, if in his political car
eer, he had applied his energy
and ambition to stressing the
importance of law and order.
A fair and balanced account of
the senator’s career must in
clude recognition of his role in
encouraging movements of soc
ial protest that included tres
pass on the rights of others.
It also is unfortunate that
the aides of the late senator,
in commenting on his role in
politics, have not acknowledged
that campus and inner-city pro
Who Runs Colleges?
(From Claxton Enterprise)
During recent weeks, as we have read
about student demonstrations at the Uni
versity of Georgia, at Columbia Univer
sity, and at other institutions, we have
been left to wonder who runs our col
leges?
There were pranks and “demonstra
tions” of one kind or another when the
older generation was in college. But
there was a big difference—the college
administration was still in charge, and
dealt severely with those who got too
far out of line, and disrupted school life.
Now we read about organized student
groups “taking over” buildings on the
Columbia campus, holding faculty mem
bers as hostages, stealing papers from
offices, vandalizing the buildings they
occupy for days at a time.
Finally when the school administra
tion calls the police, the students and
others express outrage. Policemen were
kicked and beaten—and the students de
manded amnesty for all demonstrators.
Finally, after the university had been
closed for ten days, peace was restored
enough to resume classes.
In former years, it would have taken
a special train to carry the students home
who had been expelled for this little epi
sode. And it would have ended the day
it started—not a week later.
This was not “undemocratic”—it was
Conservation Helps
Make State Beautiful
Help make Georgia Beautiful
through soil and water con
servation.
The Georgia Electric Mem
bership Corporation and the
Georgia Association of Soil and
Water Conservation Districts
are sponsoring a conservation
and beautification program in
1968 in rural areas of the state.
The program is designed to
beautify the landscape through
conservation practices.
The planting of flowers and
shrubbery in pleasing designs
will enhance the appearance of
the countryside but natural
beauty is fundamentally deter
mined by how the land is used.
A curving patchwork of strip
ecropped and contoured fields;
grassed waterways; lush, green
pastures; the soft green of Ge
orgia pines; and glisting farm
ponds are the things that will
really make Georgia’s rural
landscape beautiful.
Since the scenery and envir
onment will change to beauty
when conservation practices
are put on the land, Soil Con
servation Districts have a re
markable opportunity to “Help
Make Georgia Beautiful through
Soil and Water Conservation.”
Many acres of coastal ber
test movements are the source
of serious infection in our pub
lic life. Indeed it has been re
ported by THE NEW YORK TI
MES that a reputed leader of
the Revolutionary Action Move
ment listed Sen. Kennedy as one
of their targets. When the for
ces of civil disobedience are un
leashed in a country, no one can
tell in what direction they will
strike.
The killing of Robert F. Ken
nedy is a cruel reminder of
the surge of violence in the last
year. In a way, it is remark
able that there have not been
more assassinations of govern
ment officials. For many mon
ths, President Johnson and Sec
retary of State Rusk have been
the targets of Vietnik mobs on
their appearances in New York
City and elsewhere. Massive
police manpower has been nec
essary to protect them.
In Washington recently ,
members of the Poor People’s
Campaign rampaged in front of
the Supreme Court building, th
rowing rocks at windows. Ot
her members of this protest gr
oup shouted threats at the U.S.
Attorney General. Newsmen,
attempting to visit the camp-in
on the banks of the Potomac
have also been threatened with
violence.
Columbia University this sp
ring was the scene of shocking
student brutality against un
iversity administrators. Mem
bers of the clergy have invaded
draft board offices and dest
royed Selective Service rec
ords. Indeed the entire New
Left has a commitment to vio
lence to secure its ends. A
militant minority of dissenting
demonstrators in the United St
ates has soueht to overrule the
muda grass afford added income
to Forsyth County landowners
and complete protection from
soil loss.
The green protective cover of
well managed loblolly pine
means added beauty to the For
syth County countryside and in
creased income to landowners.
Permanent pastures afford a
protective green carpet on th
ousands of acres of Forsyth
County lands and are the bases
for the rapidly expanding live
stock industry.
L«oi Brown
Elected To Group
I.eon J. Brown,Gumming,has
been elected to membership in
the American Angus Assoc
iation at St. Joseph, Missouri,
The announcement was made
by Glen Bratcher, secretary.
There were 564 memberships
issued to breeders of regist
ered Aberdeen-Angus in the Un
ited States during the past
month.
majority of citizens who give
assent to law and order and rep
resentative government.
Had Robert F. Kennedy de
voted his energies to the cause
of sound, conservative govern
ment, he could have performed
an outstanding work. Instead,
he chose to align himself with
those who want to “re
structure” the United States, as
the New Left says. Ironically,
he was gunned down by a man
who had no respect for the law.
It is time for the American
people to fully restore the dom
estic tranquility that our Con
stitution states as a goal of our
national life. It is time to curb
the anarchists and to cease the
civil disobedience. If those who
50,600.000 REASONS
FOR SAFE DRIVING
just simple truth. If you don’t like it
here, and the rules don’t fit, get out
and find yourself a place where you fit
the rules.
On our campus at Athens, it seems that
a group of female students decided they
did not like the rules that put a curfew
on the dormitory students, and prohibit
ed their drinking in the dormitories.
They demanded the same rules as men
students—and they went on a demonstra
tion to get their wants. With as many
students living off campus as there are
in Athens, we cannot understand why
these students feel imposed upon—all
they need do is move.
And if they do not like the rules of
the University, go somewhere that will
let them live like they please. That is
the privilege of a free country.
Who is running our colleges, after all?
If the students are going to run it, why
don’t we fire all the professors and ex
pensive administrative people, and let
them take over. It seems they are look
ing for a four-year lark anyway—so why
go through the expense of having a col
lege—just send them all to a campus,
and let them work off this four-year
demonstration.
If it is still for educational purposes,
then let’s back the administration, set
some rules and send the rest home—or
to North Vietnam.
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NIAGARA SPECTACLE The Maid of the Mist is
dwarfed by the thundering waters of the Horseshoe
Falls. Views of Niagara Falls are also available from
towers above the brink and state and provincial parks
adjoining the cataracts. Free literature is available
from Dept. INB, Chambers of Commerce, Niagara
Fails, Canada or U.S.A.
mourn for Sen. Kennedy truly
want to perform a good work in
his memory, they can use their
influence to stop the marches
and demonstrations, the singing
and slogan-shouting that help
create a feverish atmosphere in
the country.
The laws and customs of the
United States provide ample op
portunity for change and re
form, where and when the peo
ple desire it. But this nation
cannot afford to tolerate change
by violent means. It cannot
afford sit-ins, camp-ins, lie
ins and other forms of bas
ically irrational activity that
lead to wide disturbances, th
reaten lives and property and
excite unstable persons to acts
of terrorism.
Gov. Uster Waddox
Reports Tp Ifre People
ATLANTA (PRN) It was
my pleasure to address the
82nd annual convention of the
Georgia Press Association last
week and I think some of the
things I had to say to Georgia
editors and publishers will be
of interest to you.
Newspapers in America are
the front-runners of the Free
Enterprise System and 1 am as
concerned as you are over the
continuing
little en
c r o a c h
ments upon
freedom of
the press,
whether it
be in the
form of
managed
news out of
the nation’s
capital or some little
regulation governing freedom
to advertise. Newspapers
operate under free enterprise,
too, and their revenue comes
not from editorial and news
content, but from paid
advertising space.
I call upon newspapers to
promote even stronger the
essence of free enterprise, not
only for newspapers but for all
American business.
I have opened the records
in this state and I have caused
previously closed meetings to
be opened and I resent the
unnecessary executive sessions
and I shall continue to resist
secrecy in government as long
as I am your governor.
Now, by the same token, I
hope you will take the trouble
to check the record and to
check reliable sources, which
most of you already do,
before you present to the
public alleged factual accounts
of government operations
which are of vital concern to
the citizens of this state. The
newspaper of today becomes
the history book of tomorrow.
There are several ways of
looking at history. Frederick
the Great used to call his
historian by shouting, “Bring
me my liar.”
I suppose that if I had as
many sins on my head as had
that Prussian King, I would
prefer an historian like that
too. In fact, when I read the
Atlanta newspapers I
sometimes think they have
dug up that historian and have
him on their staff.
It is of great concern to me
that news media in general
with such a tremendous
responsibility for truth so
often charge ahead with
unverified reports, and I
would urge you when you are
so inclined to take another
look at the Walter Williams
code.
Newspapers are not alone,
of course, television and radio
are guilty also. I have watched
television off and on for the
last ten years and frankly I
prefer it off.
The radio stations, of
course, battle between each
other all the time trying to
prove that they have the
greatest audience. There was
one radio station in Atlanta
which called a thousand men
and asked to whom they were
listening. Eighty percent of
them said “to their wives.”
If you resent my suggesting
how you ought to run your
newspaper I would simply
remind you that turn-a bout is
fair play. The majority of you,
it seems to me, try to tell me
how to run state government.
I have observed, however,
that those who are constantly
kicking rarely have a leg to
stand on. It was Disraeli who
said “it is much easier to be
critical than to be correct.”
Perhaps 1 have disappointed
some of the big city
newspapers by not acting like
a politican. I am really not
influenced by their intellectual
dandyism. As a matter of fact,
the Atlanta newspapers have
about as much influence on
my administration as they had
in my being elected governor,
and you know how much that
was.
1 am reminded of the story
of the father and son who
were walking across the fields
with a donkey and they met a
man who suggested to the
father that he allow his son to
ride the donkey, whereupon
he did. They walked along for
several miles and they met
another man who suggested
that they both should ride the
donkey, after all the donkey is
a beast of burden. So the
father got on the donkey and
they proceeded for some
distance and they met a third
man and he said “the very
idea, making this poor animal
carry you both. You should
carry the donkey.” So the
father and son got off, cut
down a sapling, tied the two
front feet and the two hind
feet together, ran the sapling
through the legs, placed it
upon their shoulders and
proceeded. Some they came to
a footlog over a creek and as
they reached the midway
point, the log broke under the
weight and the donkey and
the two men fell into the
water. The two men swam
safely to shore but the donkey
drowned because his legs were
tied together and he couldn’t
swim. Now, the moral of the
story is that if you try to
please everybody you are
going to lose your donkey.
Some of you may have
another name to apply there.
I will admit to you that
being governor has been a
sort-of on-the-job training
program for me and I hope it
will continue to be that. For
no matter where I look in
state government I find
something that needs doing,
and I intend to continue to
look and do, and in some cases
undo, where I feel the people
of Georgia are not getting the
best benefit.
The Maddox
Administration is trying hard
to follow the moral laws given
to us by the Holy Bible. We
are doing our best to translate
those laws into government
programs for the benefit of
every citizen, be he high or
low, rich or poor, strong or
helpless. Ours is an
administration of all the
people and one based soundly
on honestly, efficiency, and
morality in government.
I realize, too, that that is an
approach in state government
to which Georgians are hardly
accustomed. I do believe that
unjust criticism is harmful to
the state.
The newspapers’
responsibility is great and I am
aware of the historic value and
vitality of our cherished
freedom of the press. It
focuses on the irreplaceable
role which our newspapers
have played for two-and-a-half
centuries in serving and
safeguarding our liberty.
Our newspapers are more
than just an expression of a
free press: they are unsleeping
sentinels of all freedoms. They
are ready interpreters between
the government and the
people. Newspapers’ freedom
to publish is our freedom to
interpret-and both incur the
responsibility and honor vital
to the success of the
democratic society which is
our way of life.
I take great pride in the
fact that newspaper
circulation in Georgia grows
each year and that as our
population grows the number
of newspapers increases also
and I pray that they shall
always be free to open and
fight in a competitive market
without government
interference. I congratulate
the Georgia Press Association
for your resolution against the
so-called Failing Newspaper
Bill in the Congress. I realize
that some may think it is
needed, but I am delighted
that GPA opposes government
assistance with he same vigor
with which it opposes
government restrictions.
I salute newspapers for their
support of many of the
Maddox administration
programs which have caused
our economic indicators to
reach a new high. When I was
elected, news stories far and
wide predicted that Georgia
was going to POT. And in the
18 months since then Georgia
has been headed for the TOP.
I am happy to see so many
newspapers stand with me in
opposition to the support
from national leaders in both
parties of the so-called civil
disobedience campaign which
is pure and simply a campaign
of criminal disobedience.
You and I know that it is
morally wrong to build false
hope in the hearts of the poor
by promising them castles in
the air and we need to remind
them that every castle in the
air is covered with a mortgage.
This great hue and cry for
non-violent demonstrations
will have its influence in
November. The non-violent
approach has convinced a lot
of voters and they may take a
non-violent approach at the
polls and simply switch parties
rather than fight.