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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-DECEMBER 4, 1969-
Established 1908
TONY MADDOX, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Published Every Thursday By Ths Forsyth Co
unty News Company. Second Class Postage Paid
At Ths Post Office In Cummlng, Seorgis Under
Ths Act Of March 8,1807. Subscription Rates
In Forsyth And Adjoining Counties, 53.09 Including
State Sales Tax; Elsewhere, 54.12 Per Year. Tele
phone 887-3127
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Editor’s Desk
Five million farm workers in the United States produce
enough food and fiber for 195 million Americans and 60 million
foreign consumers. Thus, America today is blessed to be the
only civilization in the recorded history of man to enjoy the
"Age of Food Abundance,”
One American farm worker produces enough to feed and
clothe himself and almost 50 others. Foodpower, USA! Miracle
of all time!
In the 18th century, Adam Smith, the noted economist, earned
much derision from his fellow economists by predicting:
"When the time comes thatone farm worker, through improve
ment and cultivation of the land, can provide food for just two
people, the labor of half of the society will be able to provide
food for the whole society. Then and only then can the other
half of the people be employed in providing the other wants
and fancies of mankind.”
Through the unparalleled efficiency of American agricultural
producers, 95% of the United States population is free to dream,
t o study, to strike, to launch rockets to the moon, to indulge
in "other wants and fancies.”
Adam Smith’s hoped-for utopia has been so far exceeded
by America that his explosive idea seems rather ridiculous.
But Smith’s 18th century dream is reality in Russia today.
There, half of the population is required to produce enough
food for the other half. In Communist China, a "guestimated”
75% of the population is required for production of the barest
food substlnence ,
Think about it.
In 1900, every American family spent 40% of its disposable
income on food. Today, the average family spends only 17%
of its disposable income on food.
In the past 20 years, average farm prices have gone down 9%.
Hourly earnings of manufacturing workers have gone up 127%-.
Corporate dividends have gone up 251%.
In 1920, it took 4 hours and 29 minutes of work to buy a
pound of steak, a pound of pork, a quart of milk, a dozen eggs,
a dozen oranges, and a 10-pound sack of potatoes.
Today, it requires only 1 hour and 30 minutes of work to
purchase those same items - plus built-in maid service of
frozen orange juice, frozen ready-to-cook potatoes, and other
conveniences of packaging. The remaining hours of work can
be used to buy color TV’s, boats, swimming pools, air condi
tioning, dishwashers, weekend cabins, and three-week vacations.
Thus , we can all join the Psalmist in his thankful cry:
"The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed
us.”
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TV Is improving. You used to be able to get a coke from the
refrigerator during the commercial. Now you can go out and
rake the front lawn.
He who stops to look each way will live to drive another day;
but he who speeds across the stop, will land in some mortician’s
shop.
Tourist: "This is a very dangerous cliff. Why don't you put up
a ‘Danger’ sign?”
Native: ‘‘Well, we had one once, but nobody fell over, so we
took it down.”
An employment office checking references of a job applicant,
aisked one ex-employer: ‘‘Was he a steady worker?”
‘•Steady?” came the reply. ‘‘He was motionless!”
"What about Merchant Jones of Keokuk?” asked one credit
nian of another.
"He’s a problem,” said the second. "He always pays cash
sb we don’t know how honest he is.”
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Marriage teaches you loyalty, tolerance, understanding, per
severance and a lot of other things you wouldn’t need if you'd
stayed single.
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In 1940, each car on the road contained an average of 3.2
persons. In 1950, the average was 2.1. In 1960, it was 1.4.
AS this rate, every third car on the road will be empty by 1980.
"I came out of the stock market with a small fortune.”
‘‘You must have been smart or pretty lucky.”
"Nope, neither one. I went into it with a large fortune.”
You can’t lose. The Lord helps those who help themselves, and
the government helps those who won't
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By THURMAN SENSING
Refusal of the U.S. Supreme
Court to grant the Nixon ad
ministration’s request for
reasonable delay in im
plementing full integration in 30
Mississippi school districts
raises grave questions for
people in all parts Of the
country.
First of all, the decision by the
Supreme Court poses the
question of what is con
stitutional. The Supreme
Court’s rulings have no per
manency. For 14 years, the
court held that it was con
stitutional for school districts to
proceed with integration with
"all deliberate speed.”
IN OTHER words,
gradualism was deemed con
stitutional. All of a sudden,
gradualism is out. The Supreme
Court says that integration
must be accomplished “at
once.” This raises the question:
If gradualism was con
stitutional last year or last
month, why isn’t it con
stitutional this month or in the
future?
The court’s latest ruling
confirms the suspicion of many
citizens that it doesn’t really
have a constitutional standard,
but simply adopts this or that
sociological standard, depen
ding on the whim of the justices
and the temper of the times.
MOREOVER, even the limits
of this sociological standard are
unclear. Does the latest
Supreme Court ruling apply
only to the 30 Mississippi
districts? To all the Southern
states that formerly had legally
segregated school systems? Or
does it also apply to Northern
school districts where de facto
segregation prevails?
If past experience is any
indicator, the court will zero in
on the Southern states, treating
them as targets for a judicial
crackdown. The other states,
which maintain de facto
segregated school systems,
may escape censure and
regulation.
UNDERSTANDABLY,
Southerners are very sensitive
in this matter. They feel, with
justice, that there are two
classes of law in the United
States—one for the Southern
slates and one for states outside
Uie South. They can point to the
unequal application of the law
insofar as voter rights
legislation is concerned.
The voter rights law was
framed to apply to the South
and the South only. The law is
unconcerned with violation of
voter rights elsewhere. It is
intolerable and outrageous, of
course, to have a double
standard of law in a federal
republic.
..THEN THERE is the prac
tical question of how Mississippi
and other similar situation
slates and school districts will
Education
endangered
adjust to the “at once”
requirement of the Supreme
Court.
No matter what the high court
rules, there are limits on what
local school officials can do to
alter schooling arrangements—
and still operate an efficient,
acceptable school system. In
some districts, immediate,
forced change of schooling
arrangements acceptable to
both races may simply result in
the end of public schooling.
PARENTS WITH sufficient
means will send their children
to private schools. Those
without means may decide to
relocate, to move elsewhere.
No court can abolish a
parent’s concern for his
children and his determination
to give them good schooling and
a decent educational en
vironment. If the schools in a
community are • virtually
shattered by arbitrary court
action, parents will withdraw
their children from the schools
and look for other communities
in which to earn their living and
continue their careers.
IT IS TOO much to expect
responsible parents to accept
The Upper Room
Read James 4:12-17
What is your life? It is even a vapour, that ap
peared for a little time, and then vanished away.
James 4:14
Based on the pattern of a football field, an
thropologists have constructed a time-line for the
earth. The 100-yard length of the field is the age of the
earth. The time that man has been present is
represented by a goal line!
Once a Sunday school teacher gave us this to
contemplate. She told us to imagine a rock bigger
than our solar system. Once a year a sparrow comes
to sharpen its claws on this rock. She concluded by
saying that the time it would take for this sparrow to
reduce the rock to nothing
would be but a minute in
eternity.
Though it is impossible to
convey what is meant by
eternity, we do know that our
time here is not very long. But a
human life and the brief time
any of us lives mean something
to God. He sent His Son to us to
redeem us from sinful living
and help us live useful, helpful
lives. Our responsibility is to
love God and in our short time
here to show others the love God
has shown us.
PRAYER: God of all things,
who has put us on this earth, be
with us and guide us. Make us
instruments of Thy love that others may see Thee in
us. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Christ’s transforming power gives immortal
meaning to our mortal lives.
the notion that their children
must be guinea pigs in a
sociological experiment—an
experiment, moreover, that is
not desired by the majority of
either racial group.
One way or another,
responsible parents will get
acceptable schooling tor 'tfaea
children, even if they have to
"bootleg” it. In the Northern
states, the flight to the suburbs
is an attempt to do just that.
THE COURTS have lost sight
of the fact that education is an
intimate matter, touching on
family values. No court in the
land can decree a single
educational experience for all
American children, for the
reason that Americans are
different.
They are not a monolithic
group, but have a variety of
social, religious, sectional and
cultural values. In the past, the
courts honored and respected
these differences, and saw in
them the source of a vital dif
ferentiating liberty in the
United States.
Land Is
Given
To State
An early Christmas gift to
the state of Georgia will be
accepted in Gainesville Dec.
10 when Gov. Lester Maddox
takes title to 125 acres of land
given by two Hall county bus
inessmen as the site for con
struction of a regional mental
hospital.
In luncheon ceremonies to be
held at 12:30 p.m. in the Civic
Building in Gainesville, the gov
ernor will officially receive the
deed to the wooded acreage do
nated to the state by H.W.
(Washie) Wallis and Charles J.
Thurmond, both of Gainesville.
Dr. P.K. Dixon, Ninth Dis
trict State Board of Health
member, Dr. Elton S, Osborne,
Jr., deputy director of the Ge
orgia Department of Public He
alth, other Board of Health Me
mbers and state and local
health and civic authorities will
attend the title presentation ce
remony.
The state regional hospital -
tentatively scheduled for 1973
or 1974 occupancy, although not
yet funded by the General
Assembly - will eventually ac
comodate 300 mentally distur
bed patients from the northeast
Georgia area.
It will become part of an
intended statewide network of
some eight or nine multi-pur
pose hospitals scheduled to br
ing mental care within easy acc
ess of all Georgians. Similar
facilities are now in operation
in Atlanta and Augusta, with
a Savannah regional hospital
scheduled to open in 1970. Ot
her planned locations are in
Columbus, Rome, Macon, and
Albany.
The property given to the
state for the officially desig
nated "Georgia Regional Hos
pital at Gainesville” is located
about 1/2 mile from the city
limits near the Athens highway
and the 1-85 connector.
Tutors
Sought
Tutors for deprived children
on the welfare rolls are ur
gently needed by the Forsyth
County Department of Family
and Children Services accord
ing to the Director, Mr. Ronald
H. McClure.
‘‘Welfare children need help
with school subjects and an op
portunity to participate in re
creational and cultural activ
ities and many young people are
concerned and want to do their
part to help welfare children see
a better world,” Mr. McClure
stated.
Part of the statewide Vol
unteer Services Program, tut
orial services for dependent
children who need ‘‘catch-up”
help in school subjects are
essential to breaking the wel
fare cycle of dependency State
Welfare Director Bill Burson
pointed out when he announced
recently that this volunteer ser
vice will be offered in all Ge
orgia counties.
‘‘A keen interest has been
evidenced by students in all
parts of the State in helping
the less fortunate,” the State
Director explained. ‘‘We can
think of no more meaningful
way for young people to be
come involved than in assis
ting children of the poverty
group overcome their educa
tional handicaps.”
Forsyth County Director Ro
nald McClure urges all stu
dents and student groups wis
hing to participate in the Vol
unteer Services Program tutor
ial service to contact Mrs.
Reba C. Garrett, Coordinator
of Volunteer Services. The Wel
fare office is located in the
County Commissioners Build
ing. The telephone number is
887-6158
Chestatee
Meeting
Chestatee Elementary School
will hold Its monthly meeting
on Monday night, Dec. 8 at
7:30 in the school auditorium,
The program for this month
will be “Christmas Carols”
by Mrs. Williams 7th and Bth
grade Chorus.
Everyone has a special in
vitation to attend.
A Social hour will follow
the meeting.
Spiritualism
Finally
Accepted By
Serious Thinkers
FAIRLY SPOKEN ... By Sora Flint
Remember when you were a child and grownups used to sit
on the porch at night and talk about ghosts. Then they would
send you out to wash your feet at the back porch pump' Those
were the days when grandma recalled the second cousin who
was "born with a veil over her face” meaning that she had
queer powers. And it was back in those days that people
talked quite frequently of "spooks” and the "devil” and ghosts.
It was a reference to the supernatural which gave you the
feeling they were poking fun at it or thumbing their nose and
then running.
Today after a long period of completely ignoring the super
natural, America is once again acknowledging that this side
of life exists-but now the approach to the subject is from a
more serious point of view.
Psychic phenomonia has become the subject of many books
by people of such distinction that it cannot be denied recog
nition. Universities are recognizing ESP and related subjects
as a science and have dignified it with the name Parapsychology,
Even the Christian churches have begun to investigate this
field with relish, setting up Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship
Nationwide Organization which states that it aids in psychic
development.
Yes, psychic phenomena has caught the attention of the
world. People are turning back to Spiritual ism in great numbers.
Recently Dr. Eugene Pickett, pastor of the Unitarian church
in Atlanta spoke on psychic experiences and the church au
ditorium was so packed that people had to sit on the floor
and steps. Spiritualism, that age old religion that has survived
the death sentence of the dogmatic religion and is coming J
into a new heyday.
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There’s no doubt that the
fellows who get their deer
consistently, year after year,
have polished their skills to a
fine point. Yet, even they
agree that a good deal of luck
goes into outsmarting a wily
buck.
This is proved each year, by
the number of novice hunters
that bring home their buck
perhaps the first time they go,
while other hunters may have
gone years without getting so
much as a glimpse at a buck.
I hunted last fall, for
example, with a man who had
hunted deer over a 40-year
period...not every year, but
many of those years...and had
yet to see a buck in the
woods. That day he saw his
first buck, and one shot put it
in the cooler.
On the other end of the
scale, every year in Georgia a
man or boy goes hunting for
the first time, and gets one his
first day out, some of them in
only an hour or so.
Ted Borg, photographer for
Game and Fish Magazine, took
to the woods this year after
deer. Now, Ted had hunted a
few times in the past couple of
years, but really hadn’t had a
chance to spend a great deal of
time with a deer gun in his
hands. Most of the deer
hunting he had done was with
a camera.
Well, Ted went into the
woods with Wildlife Ranger
Gerald Kersey. Kersey left him
under a tree, and headed back
to his truck. Before Kersey got
to the truck, he heard two
shots. He headed back into the
woods and met Ted coming
out. “Got him,” Ted said.
The deer had zipped by
Ted’s tree at full throttle. The
first shot, a rifled slug, missed.
More Facilities
In entertaining some 20 executives from nationally known
consulting and engineering firms at the Governor’s Mansion the
other evening, Gov. Lester G. Maddox turned predictor. And
in this role, he foresaw greatness in Goergia’s future, Here’s
what he told his visitors:
“By building upon the momentum which we already have,
I have no doubt that Georgia is destined to be a state of inter
national importance by the 1980’s. Those of you who have
examined national projections can pretty well determine
Georgia’s future by doubling such projections for the state.
“When the rest of the nation goes up a little in per capita
income, Georgia will go up a lot. When the rest of the nation
makes a little industrial progress, Gerogia will make a lot.
“It is estimated that the national population will have increased
some 50 per cent b y the year 2000. I predict that Georgia’s
population 30 years from now will have increased 100 per cent.
“Those industrial consultants represented here today would
do well to keep an eye on our state. When the 21st Century rolls
around, those of you who have had the foresight to recommend
Georgia to your clients will be hailed as very astute economic
forecasters.”
Maddox Predicts
More and more overnight accommodations are being provided
for visitors to Georgia’s 45 state parks. For example, 31 new
cottages recently have been added at four state parks.
Construction of a number of these has been completed;
they have been completely furnished, and are ready for occu
pancy, according to State Parks Director John L. Gordon.
The new cottages that have not been completed are expected
to be ready for visitors earl y in 1970, it was pointed out.
The new two-bedroom facilities are at Elijah Clark Memorial
state Park, near Liiicolnton; Georgia Veterans Memorial St*!''
Park, near Cordele; Hard Labor Creek State Park, near Rut
ledge, and Tugaloo State Park, near Lavonia.
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The second, with buckshot,
caught the deer in the neck,
and dropped it in it’s track. It
was a fine six punter.
Bill Stejback, Game and
Fish Commission personnel
officer, bought a new rifle on
a Saturday night, and took it
hunting Monday morning. It
was his first deer hunt. An
hour later, he’d made a
one-shot kill on a six pointer.
The Georgia deer contest
winners for the past two years,
both in weight and antler
categories, were first-year
hunters. The probaUe winner
in weight this year is a
first-year hunter. You figure
it...luck, skill, or both?
If is is luck, then Lady Luck
has smiled more brightly than
usual this year on Georgia deer
hunters, it seems. Reports of
success seem to be much more
frequent than ever before. One
report heard by these ears, was
that Greene County produced
62 deer on opening day.
Similar reports have come
from many counties. While
covering the Deer Festival in
Monticello (Jasper County) on
Nov. 8, I saw at least a dozen
deer going through town on
their way home, during lunch
hour.
Wouldn’t you know, that
this being perhaps the best
year of deer hunting in
Georgia history, this old man
hasn’t had time to take his
rifle off the rack but one time.
I saw four does, but nary a
buck, and the way things look,
I’ll be lucky to get another
chance to try.
You never know, though.
Perhaps next time I take to
the woods will be the time
that the Fickle Finger of Fate
points out what I’m looking
for...at least that’s the hope
that keeps a man going.