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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-JULY 13, 1972-
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Established 1908
Tony Maddox, Editor & Publisher
Minor Martin, Advertising Mgr.
John O. Solesbee, News Editor
Published every Thursday by The Forsyth County
News Company. Second Class Postage paid at: Post
Office in Cumming, Georgia under Act of March Bth
. in 1897. Subscription rates in Forsyth and adjoining
counties, $4.12 per year, including State Sales Tax.,
elsewhere, $5.15 per year.
107 DAHLONEGA ST. CUMMING, GEORGIA...
887-3127 30130
EditoziaCCy Speaking
ON LIBERATION
By Jan Hughes
"Liberation ... So many of our national magazines and other
publications have saturated the minds of readers with ideas
abou women’s liberation, or even more sophisticated “feminine
consciousness.”
Being a typical American Woman with typical American
dreams, I have some views about liberation.
History has revealed that women are proud to be women.
Site the backgrounds of Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, and now, Anglia
Davis and Roberta Flack. Even Goldilocks had enough rocks
between her ears to run from the three bears!
Some of the rap publicity has done more harm than good for
the liberation movement.
Granted! Physical liberation has in some instances created a
deterioration of pride and respect for one’s self. But as I
implied last week, America is about to unveil a mental lib
eration that will produce people to their highest potential.
Liberation is to believe in mankind.
Today, women ae more interested in local, national, and
international events. Women act, think, and conduct themselves
to situations with a higher degree of poise than they have in
the past.
They have reason, too!
Our current world has produced a brilliant set of men;
therefore, the woman certainly has been in a light to develop
her emotional and mental strengths.
For an example, if your husband was walking around an
Apollo craft in space or just flying a beautiful Jet Star wouldn’t
this be reason to conduct yourself accordingly. With liberated
respect for his profession, women are placed in positions such
that they better be smart.
Liberation has a solid ground.
As women become emotionally stronger, naturally they are
going to seek challenges and positions to conquer their dynamic
drives. By the way, they haven’t stopped making people without
drives, yet. Hunger is a primary drive, and the energy to dash
into the future with success is a secondary drive. I’m sitting
here wondering if a woman will ever fly with the Blue Angels.
Whatever you prefer to call it, “women’s liberation” is a
movement to help women abandon stupidity. There are many
things we can do, and there are many things we can not do.
In learning what we can do, we do not want to step on the
man’s world, we want to ste p into his world so he will be
proud of us.
The Holy Bible is beautiful, but so is the Talmud. “God did
not create woman from man’s head, that he should command
her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather,
from his side, that she should be ner his heart.
Unfortunately, the idea of women’s liberation has been app
roached the wrong way. We have dwelled upon the ills of change
. rather than the beauty of change.
Most frankly, liberation has been around since the cave dayr.
Liberation is essentially good. Few and far between, some have
dwelled upon it, ugly.
Each day, we are called upon to create our own future.
If we create it by acknowledging the freedoms of life and if
we continue to appreciate the beautiful which is all around, we
are two steps ahead.
With renewed experiences, how can a person feel empty if
they discover something good in someone each day. That’s
what Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice was all about ... a certain
blindness in human beings; how can we feel the good if we don’t
see the good.
To discover ourselves by liberation, I believe leads us nearer
to the magnificent phenomenon we can’t describe Creation.
Editorially
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Johnny Solesbee
7 rite On!
When I first heard It, I felt my insides tying a twisting,
sickening knot.
Then cold chills popped out on me.
Then I got mad and thought of some new names to call
certain people.
Then I turned sarcastic for a few hours.
Then I decided to sleep on it overnight.
The next day I weighed every thought and every feeling and
my thoughts and feelings just couldn’t balance the scales of
justice that, to my thinking, were thrown so greatly out of
kilter with the Supreme Court’s ruling abolishing capital punish
ment.
My first thought was, as has been heard many times before,
“What is this world coming to?” But that phrase has been used
so much in the past few years that now it doesn’t even provoke
a moment’s hesitation f> thought.
My first feeling was similar to the one .Brad several years
ago when I was still relatively small and thought the world was
all roses. Then the television and newspapers started talking
a probability of a World War 111 because of some incidents in
Vietnam. Then came the Bay of Pigs. I didn’t understand it
all, but enough to be scared.
All of these things threw quickly into perspective the world
we've all grown to love or leave.
It’s hard, very hard, to understand what goes on in the minds
of our country’s leaders and lawmakers. Just as it is harder
still to understand what goes on in the minds of criminals
that makes them do what they do.
And I’m doubly sure it’s very hard for someone who has
lost someone to a murderer’s strike to understand why the
murderer’s life is spared when his victim’s wasn’t.
I’d like to think that this new ruling is proper and the best
thing to do. But, Idon't. I’dliketo be able to periscope the future
and see that it has all turned out for the best. But, I can’t.
If I could, I’m afraid I’d be disappointed.
I feel the Supreme Court Justices might as well keep a light
burning, because I believe their decision for the United States
will someday come home to them.
I know--it’s the only system we’ve got, (damn it all) so don’t
knock it. I’m not knocking it. I’m just trying to understand it.
I wish someone could explain it to me. Right now, as earlier
in my life, I don’t understand it all—but enough to be scared.
The Selective Service System
has effected a major policy
change which will permit men
scheduled for induction after J
uly 1 to enlist or be appoi
nted In the National Guard or
Reserves after receipt of their
induction orders. The regula
tion _ change will al
so permit men who receive in
duction orders to join regular
branches of the Armed Forces
for a minimum of two years
active duty, if such programs
are offered. The new policy does
not affect men with June re
porting dates
The result of discussions be
tween the Department of De
fense and the Selective Serv
ice System, the new policy is
expected to stimulate recruit
ing for the National Guard and
the Reserve forces.
The Guard and Reserve for
ces are estimated to be 40,000
men below their authorized st
rength, and both Secretary of
Defense Melvin Laird and De
puty Secretary of Defense Ken
neth Rush have recently ex
pressed concern over this sit
uation.
The only option open to men
who had received induction or
ders in past months was to jo
in one of the regular branches
of the service for at least t
hree years active duty. No G
uard or Reserve enlistments or
appointments were authorized
after the mailing of Induction
orders.
The new policy requires that
men complete enlistment or a
ppointment processing in the G
Selective Service Changes
uard, Reserves or Regular fo
rces at least 10 days prior to
their scheduled induction dates.
All registrants are given 30
days’ notice Of induction, so
men who receive induction or
ders after July 1, 1972 will ha
ve 20 days to effect enlist
ments or appointments. In or
der to allow men scheduled for
induction in early July to ta
ke advantage of the new policy,
Acting Director Bryon V. Pe
itone has authorized local boa
rds to postpone for 15 days
the induction of men scheduled
to report between July 1-15 if
they request such action.
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WHO’S IN CHARGE HERE?
WASHINGTON-We are
often asked who is in charge of
our foreign policy—Richard
Nixon or Henry Kissinger.
Dr. Kissinger makes pro
posals. He presents the
options. He runs around the
world conducting secret diplo
macy in the President’s name.
Before the President announc
ed that the Paris peace talks
would begin again on July 13,
Kissinger quietly spread the
word to congressional leaders
that a major breakthrough on
Vietnam was imminent.
Kissinger, then, is the
President’s chief adviser and
number one legman. But he is
not the President. Richard
Nixon makes the decisions.
Here's an inside example:
During the high level
meetings that led up to the
mining of Haiphong harbor,
all of the President’s chief ad
visers without ex
ception-warned the
President that the Russians
would react against such a
bold move. Kissinger himself
warned the President that, at
the very least, the Russians
would cancel the Moscow
talks.
But President Nixon over
ruled his advisers. He said he
was convinced that the Russ
ians had too much to gain to
back out of the talks. The
President, it turned out, was
right.
—Bumbling Blowhard—
Nebraska’s Senator Roman
Hruska is an amiable fellow,
known inside the Senate as a
bumbling blowhard. He is
perhaps best remembered for
his comment that mediocre
Americans deserve
representation on the Supreme
court. - i
Then, at the height of the
ITT affair, Hruska excused
ITT’s $400,000 commitment
to the Republican convention
by declaring that such con
ventions were “bought all the
time’’ by business interests.
Hruska ought to know. He
has taken over as the Senate
champion of the special
interests and has diligently
defended the drug, insurance,
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auto and cattle interests. He
has done his best to scuttle
consumer legislation. And, as
part owner of a chain of bawdy
movie houses, he has worked
behind the scenes to defeat
antipomography bills.
Now, the senator’s brother,
Victor, has turned up as head
of volunteer programs for the
elderly. Victor recently retired
from the Prudential Insurance
Company. His handsome re
tirement benefits will now be
supplemented by a $33,000-a
--year government salary.
Our sources tell us that
Victor Hruska was recruited
by the White House. His
brother in the Senate, said a
spokesman, had nothing to do
with Victor’s appointment. \
“However,™ tie spokesman
added with a twinkle, “I'm
sure the senator didn’t black
ball his brother.’’
—Pigs’ Ears—
President Nixon is in
trouble with the women and he
can’t understand why. He
sailed into office on a wave of
promises that he would
improve the lot of American
womanhood. And the truth is,
he has done a lot.
The President has, for
example, appointed numerous
women to high-level govern
ment positions. He has named
many others to advisory
boards and commissions. He
has even elevated military
women to general’s rank.
Despite his record, the
President has managed to
alienate most women’s groups.
It’s his attitude, they say,
which turns them off. Nixon
has made it plain he prefers
women who confine their
activities to the home and
hearth.
The same attitude, say the
women, pervades the entire
administration. They claim
Nixon’s men are insensitive to
their problems and cite this
example: Last February, the
women’s affairs adviser to
Senator Edmund Muskie, Dr.
Irene Murphy, was invited to
speak to the White House
Fellows on the subject of
women in politics. Afterward,
she received a letter of thanks
from a White House Fellow
named Glen Kendall. He told
By Jack Anderson
Dr. Murphy that if women
want to work in government,
they have to start on the local
level, all, he wrote, “You
cant make a purse from a pig’s
ear overnight.”
It’s unlikely the White
House will win the distaff vote ,
by equating women with pigs’
ears.
lllegal Campaign Cash—
It is illegal to spend public
funds for political purposes.
Nevertheless, the administra
tion is using the resources of
the federal government to
promote President Nixon’s
re-election.
We have uncovered an
especially flagrant use of the
public purse for presidential
promotion. It’s an elaborate,
illustrated booklet entitled,
“For Purple Mountain Majes
ties Above The Fruited
Plain.” The subtitle is more to
the point. It reads, “President
Nixon’s Program for Building
a Better Environment.”
The book maizes Daniel
Boone look like laiyihdoorsman
compared to President Nixon.
In only 24 pages, the
President is mentioned no
fewer than 78 times as a
staunch defender of mother
nature. This doesn’t count the
times he is referred to simply
as “he.”
The booklet is the joint
product of several agencies
and it cost about SII,OOO
to print it. This figure
excludes the cost of preparing
and writing the book whiijh no
one can even estimate.
Officials insist this is a
routine document that has
nothing to do with pushing the
President’s re-election.
But the White House staff
member in charge of distribu
ting the 15,000 copies already
off the press, concedes it is so
blatant that it might not be
distributed after all.
-Who’ll Be No. 2?-
With Senator George Mc-
Govern far ahead in the race
for the Democratic nomina
tion, party leaders are be
ginning to jockey for the
second spot.
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sounding out the McGovern
camp, though Muskie tells us
he doesn’t want the vice
presidential nomination again,.
Party regulars are beginning*
to line up behind Wilbur Mifla/
McGovern’s own staff bas
prepared a list of men they,
prefer. It includes
Governor Reubin Askew, Ida
ho's Senator Frank Churchy
Illinois’ Senator Adlai Ste-‘
venson, and even consumer
advocate Ralph Nader.
However, Washington pun
dits predict that, if Me-,
Govern wins the nomination,
he will pick Frank Church,
handsome Senate orator froiq
Idaho.
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Letter To
The Editor
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
I wonder if the taxpayers of
this county are aware of the fact
that some of the county zoning
board members are absolutely
filling the county full of trailer
parks. V
The law says that to re-zone
it will be run in the paper
for four weeks and a public
hearing held at the courthouse,
I challenge die readers to
bring forth this information in
a letter to the editor as soon
as possible.
If this information is revealed
I am sure the taxpayers of this
county will be shocked!
A CONCERNED TAXPAYER
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