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I —FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1985
NORMAN BAGGS
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
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'Opinion
South Africa
is a ticking bomb
Two recent announcements in
South Africa offer hope that the
divided country still can quench
the flames of racial hostility.
A government committee has
urged repeal of so-called “pass
laws” that help to regulate where
blacks live, work and travel. Fail
ure to carry a pass book is a crime,
and an estimated 200,000 to 300,000
blacks are arrested each year for
violations.
A committee of the President’s
Council, an advisory panel, stated
that the pass laws “conflict with
basic human rights” and are inef
ficient and too expensive to en
force.
Also, President Pieter Botha
says the government now is pre
pared to discuss restoring cit
izenship to nearly 10 million blacks
whose standing as South Africans
was taken away when their tribal
homelands became nominally in
dependent.
The homelands are isolated en
claves set up to advance the cause
of apartheid. Only South Africa
recognizes them as nations. Under
Botha’s plan, blacks could hold
dual citizenship in a tribal
homeland and in South Africa.
How far should we go in ap
plauding these proposals? Not too
far yet. Unless approved by
Parliament next year, they cannot
be implemented. And in the past,
Must treat AIDS as epidemic
Dear Editor,
A physician from the CDC (Center for
Disease Control) spoke on the subject of
AIDS at Rotary this week. I am concerned
that the CDC boththrough this speaker and
articles in Medical Journals continue to
address the civil rights and right to confi
dentiality of the AIDS victim rather than do
what its name mandates: Control disease,
in this case, potentially the worse epidemic
in modem history.
An article in the AMA Journal dated Aug.
23, 1985 written by members of Infectous
disease dept of National Institute of Health,
an outfit hardly given to hysteria, states
that deep kissing is a probable mode of
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similar “reforms” proved illu
sory. Nevertheless, that they now
are being discussed seriously is
cause for optimism.
Another encouraging sign is that
these steps appear to result more
from pressure within South Africa
than from the outside. President
Reagan’s modest economic sanc
tions, announced a few days ago,
would not have had time to pro
duce these effects.
South Africa’s business leaders
and other reform-minded whites
have been putting the heat on their
own president in recent months.
The industrialists sense that the
country’s sagging economy won’t
recover without strong political
medicine.
Although some black leaders are
praising these latest proposals,
others label them “too little and
too late.” We hope that is not the
case.
South Africa still is a ticking
bomb. Its white-dominated gov
ernment must do enough construc
tive things to keep moderate
blacks from crossing to the radical
camp. Apartheid is not likely to be
dismantled at one stroke, but in
stead through a series of rational
moves that cultivate more trust on
both sides.
That may be what is happening
now. If so, it deserves encourage
ment.
transmission of AIDS, that hetrosexual
transmission is spreading rapidly, so the
whole population is at risk since the virus is
now present in 2 million people.
We must treat AIDS as a terrible epide
mic disease not as a civil rights issue with
mandatory reporting to the health depart
ment, followup and testing of all sexual
contacts, perhaps legal steps to prevent
those with AIDS to stop sexual relations
except to those already afflicted. This is
routine for all veneral and contagious dis
eases now, why is AIDS different?
Olav H. Alvig, MD
Forsyth County Hospital
Be wary of advice from uncle
My two younger sisters who seemed to
spend my formative years locking them
selves in the bathroom are competing
again.
Within two weeks of each other they’ve
given my parents two grandsons.
It’s been a big deal around the old home
stead, but I’ve tried to put it in perspective.
After all, things have been dull lately with
the Braves and Falcons not winning.
After a lot of family pressure, I finally
called last week with obligatory congratula
tories.
“ Anything I can do for you?” I asked the
youngest one.
“Yeah,” she said quickly. “Write one of
those columns where you offer your newborn
nephew all this great advice.”
“Why?” I asked. “He won’t be able to read
it for five years.”
“I know,” she said. “But it’s the thought
that counts.”
“OK. I’ll think about it,” I agreed, hoping
the whole idea would die down and I could
get away with just sending her some diaper
coupons.
I wasn’t even thinking a day later when I
talked to the other sister and laughingly told
her about the idea.
“Well, don’t leave out my son,” she said
firmly.
I know when I’m outvoted.
Daniel, Alex, listen up and pay attention to
your old Uncle Bill.
First of all, be wary of advice. Fat folks,
divorcees and chain-smokers are usually full
of advice on things like losing weight, keep-
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Taxpayer's war may lead to Socialism
An article in a conservative paper headed
“Socialism Fails” attracted my attention. I
was interested in knowing what caused So
cialism to fail.
It gave first some examples of what was
happening in Sweden. One successful busi
nessman expressed his condition saying that
all the taxes, rules and regulations and
bureaucratic interference with which he had
to contend made him want to give up and
simply go on welfare. Another man who had
his own decorative hardware shop wrote
saying the bureaucrats had finally driven
him out of business.
Sweden’s pension plan allows employees
to retire at a fairly early age with pensions
equal to the income of skilled artisians. The
tight restrictions enforced against business
people were not enforced against farmers,
because they were afraid the farmers might
unite and cause the welfare system to be
abolished.
The purpose of this action on the part of the
government was to drive the middle-class
proprietors out of business, to establish total
control by the bureaucracy and to make its
members an elite class.
The socialist politicians wanted to make
certain that a majority of all voters would be
receiving cash or its equivalent payment
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Becky Herman “The pretty
leaves. It’s cool not too hot, not too
cold. The scenery.”
Dwight Chastain “lt ain’t too hot
and it ain’t too cold.”
Bill
Kirby
Guest Columnist
ing your spouse happy and swearing off
tobacco. -
Behave yourselves. As long as there’s a
perfect God, there will be no perfect crime.
Be good boys and go to church. Religion is
the best form of fire insurance.
Experience is the name we give our mis
takes.
Usually, if you win a fight, you’ve made an
enemy. Always use diplomacy. This is the
art of saying “Nice doggie,” until you can
find a rock.
If a fairy godmother ever gives you three
wishes, always make the last wish for three
more.
Try to figure out what you’re good at and
develop it. Practice does not make perfect, it
can only refine a talent. God’s the only one
who can install one.
Do your best then don’t worry about it.
Your best is all you can do and everything
else is out of your hands.
The odds are that you will not marry
whatever little girl you happen to be in love
with from the third-grade through your
freshman year in college. Realizing this,
don’t lose sleep when things don’t work out.
Besides, women are smarter than men.
You will never win an argument with one,
S.V. WAGONER
Guest columnist
from the government so as to bind them to it
and create loyalty to the continued welfare
system for their support. Also, it is the
government’s intention to extort enough
revenue from the productive workers and
the middle class to dinance the cost of
welfare. This serves the government a dou
ble purpose, to pauperize the victims and to
buy the votes of the welfare recepients.
This general development has been
spreading in Europe for many years and now
has reached an advanced stage in the United
States. Our politicians have developed the
many welfare programs in order to make the
majority of voters responsible to them for
welfare handouts. There are 47 percent of
the households in the United States receiving
checks from the federal government and 23
million are for Social Security.
Statistics compiled by James Kilpatrick
also show that 16 million families have at
least one person receiving food stamps,
medicaid, subsidized rental housing, free
school lunches or aid to families with depen
dent children. He further shows that 1.6
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Ed Schreiman “Nothing. It gets
cold and nobody wants to paint. Busi
ness falls off and you get colds and
sniffles and have to rake pine straw
and leaves. I’m just teasing.”
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AND IT 16 NOT EITHER TO SAVE
OR DESTROY SUMERY. IF I COULD
SAVE THE UNION WITHOUT FREEING
ANY SLAVE, 1 WOULD DO IT; AMD
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ALL THE SLAVES, T WOULD DO IT',
AMD If 1 COULD DO IT By FREEING
SOME AND LEAVING OTHERS ALONE,
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because even if your logic is flawless, she
can make life miserable for you, anyway.
The secret to job advancement is making
your boss look good.
Work hard. The first 90 percent of the task
takes 90 percent of the time. The last 10
percent takes the other 90 percent of the
time.
When in doubt mumble.
When in trouble delegate.
When in charge ponder.
Remember, the man who can smile when
things go wrong has found someone to blame
it on.
When your boss gets to be too much to
handle, remind him he should be pulling his
own weight, instead of throwing it around.
The good Lord loves fools. He must. He
made so many of them. With this in mind,
don’t depend on other people to do the right
thing. Avoid disappointment by not putting a
lot of faith in politicians, faith healers and
sports teams.
If someone starts telling you how much
he’s going to help you, head for the door and
guard your wallet.
Don’t believe everything you hear on TV or
read in the paper. People lie to reporters just
like anybody else.
Make friends in as many places as you
can, you never know where your car will
break down.
Always remember where you came from.
Home is the name of the place where they’ll
always take you back.
Bill Kirby is the city editor of the Gwinnett
Daily News.
million households receive four or more.
Additional items such as railroad retire
ment, federal military and civilian pensions
add up to millions more. Another item not
included was subsidies for electric power
handed out by government owned and con
trolled electric power systems. Then there is
the national endowment for the arts and
humanities providing grants to a great vari
ety of artists and others who gain entrance to
this class.
With the government in debt to the tune of
two trillion yes, two trillion dollars the
next stop will be Socialism, which rules by
force, coercion and the bayonet. This causes
every vestige of private ownership and our
normal rights to disappear. The present tax
rebellion by the middle class in the United
States is the only method of preventing
Socialism and its ultimate consequences.
There is going to be a rough fight and the
fate of our country and the Western World
hangs in this balance, pending the outcome
of the taxpayer’s war. Many think the world
owes them a living they might wake up
and find they don’t have a crust of bread in
their house they can actually call their own
that the government hasn’t permitted them
to buy if they have any money with which
to buy it.
M
Pat Frank “I like the leaves
changing.”