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EARLY COUNTY NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1969
LEWIS LLEWELLYN
Misunderstood,
Misrepresented
The young people of our
country are being grossly
misunderstood and misrepe
sented.
They are being misunder
stood by their elders, who
have associated youth with
irresponsible rebellion.
They are being misrepre
sented by the three or four
percent of their age group
who have rebelled so vocifer
ously against all authority
that they have created the
impression among some of us
that they constitute a ma
jority.
The truth that often es
capes our notice is that there
are many reasonable, re
sponsible young people for
every one of the miniminori
ty of militant malcontents.
What a Student Thinks
One of these young peo
ple—a high school senior—
has told us what he thinks,
in a letter to the editor of
his home-town paper.
“The violence and disrup
tion going on in colleges
across our country today are
a disgrace to the American
nation,” he says. "When I go
to college, I don’t want to be
kept from classes by a few
asinine idiots . . . Millions of
dollars are wasted each year
by putting up with spoiled
brats that want everything
their own way.”
This young student—who
is, I am sure, far more typi
cal of the majority than are
the bearded militants who
are bent on destroying what
they cannot control—points
out that students sometimes
break the rules and he adds,
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"When the parents, teachers,
and authorities don’t crack
down on students, they have
no right to complain after
wards.”
Where have we failed the
young people?
Some of us have failed to
obey the Biblical admonition,
“Train up a child in the way
he should go and, when he is
old, he will not depart from
it.”
Some of us have listened
too well to the once popular
but now discredited theory
that children should be al
lowed to do whatever they
want to do, rather than be
ing required to obey their
parents and other authorities.
How about returning to the
teachings of the Bible—the
book which was so highly
honored by the men who led
our country to greatness?
Useful, Respectable Citizens
Os this book, John Quincy
Adams said. “So great is my
veneration for the Bible that
the earlier my children begin
to read it, the more confident
will be my hope that they
will prove useful citizens to
their country and respectable
members of society.”
Henry Ward Beecher said,
years ago, “The Word of God
tends to make large-minded,
noble-hearted men.”
If the Bible is eliminated
from the education of a
young person, the surest
foundation for a successful,
satisfying life has been left
out.
We should not be surprised
when a building collapses, if
we have failed to build on a
sound foundation.
The publication Newsprint Facts
points out that this is more than
was realized from all advertising
in 1949. including newspapers,
radio, television, magazines, di
rect mail, and everything else. In
that year, newspaper ad proceeds
were $1.9 billion.
Gov. L^sterTMaddox
Reports People
ATLANTA (PRN) - When
the General Assembly was
thinking ahead and provided
record salary increases for
teachers and professors in
fiscal 1968 and 1969, that
action brought a flood of new
teaching talent to our State,
and our children benefitted
from it. I
Accord
ing to a
survey
conducted
by NEA,
Georgia was
the only
State in the
nation last
fall with
enough teacher applications to
fill all the classroom openings.
The only one.
Wouldn’t it be something
if, a year or so from now,
NEA made another survey and
found Georgia to be the only
State in the nation with no
applications to fill any of its
openings?
Os course, that won’t
happen, but we could lose the
favorable position we now
enjoy and, if we did, it would
be our children who lose the
most.
But, I want you to know
that the folks who re-did the
budget were not haphazard
about it. They were
consistent.
Not only did they leave out
the money that would have
attracted more teachers to our
State, but they also left out
the money for new school
buildings and classrooms
which these teachers would
have filled.
Now, I don’t think too
many of the people who did
the voting or who influenced
the voting on this
Administration’s budget and
tax revision measures really
intended to hurt the citizens
of Columbus, of Muscogee
County or of any other
Georgia community.
But, you know, I read in
the paper the other day where
a fellow took a shot at his
brother with a shotgun and
killed his wife. He didn’t mean
to do that either, and it’s a sad
thing.
There was a lot of shooting
going on up in the State
Capitol earlier this year, and a
lot of folks went home
bleeding.
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS
Stanley F. Yolles, M.D., Director
National Institute of Mental Health
Medicare Benefits
Changing For
Mentally 111
What do the newer provisions
of the Medicare laws mean for
the mentally ill?
Under the 1967 changes in
the laws, patients who use up
their 90 days’ coverage for in
patient hospital care in a single
spell of illness may now draw
on a lifetime reserve of 60
additional days.
This is favorable for the
psychiatric or mentally ill pa
tient because it gives more
time for recovery.
This extra time might mean
the difference between victory
and defeat in a siege with men
tal illness which, it is often
forgotten, can come and go in
its attacks just as do other
illnesses.
Another provision of the
law revisions provides reduc
tions for psychiatric patients in
hospitals.
Patients who are in a psychi
atric hospital on the first day
they become entitled to their
150 days of coverage for a spell
of illness are still subject to
have all days of such care im
mediately preceding entitlement
subtracted from their available
benefits if they continue to re
ceive psychiatric services
whether given in a psychiatric
or general hospital.
I predicted back toward the
end of last year that I would
get my head bloodied no
matter which way I went.
And I did.
Some folks were shooting
at Lester Maddox.
Some of the urban folks
were shooting at the rural
folks.
Some of the rural folks
were shooting at the urban
folks.
Some of the educators were
shooting at the other State
departments.
One or two bullets smelled
like they might have been
around some asphalt and
concrete ...
But, while some of those
bullets did hit the target, quite
a few went wild and did some
unplanned damage.
Our penal reform program
looks like an antique sifter.
Our plans for increased
highway safety were weighted
down with the lead pumped
into them.
And, the Agriculture
Department budget ended up
looking like a brown cow that
wandered onto a deer-hunting
preserve.
But, in spite of the failure
by some to get on with the job
that everybody knows has to
be done sooner or later, I’m
still optimistic about the
future of this great State of
Georgia.
The progress which Georgia
has made so far has come
about because everybody
concerned about this State’s
future worked together to get
the programs through which
were needed.
It’s been done before, and I
believe it can be done again.
Our chances for success
during the last session would
have been much better if we
had had some of the
forward-looking newspapers in
Atlanta that you have
elsewhere in the state.
Os course, I’n not going to
put the blame on any one
person, any one group or any
one organization for our
failure to get the job done.
All of us have to share in
the blame, including me — and
including you if you did not
let your wishes be known to
those who represent you.
You’ll get just what you
ask for ... no more and no
less.
If they require hospitalization
in a general medical institution
for medical services unrelated
to their mental illness, however,
their days of pre-entitlement
hospitalization are not counted
against them.
Another provision of the
1967 amendments calls for a
study of drugs and costs, includ
ing covering payment for addi
tional kinds of drugs, such as
those used for psychiatric
patients.
At present, the cost of a pre
scription drug that must be
taken by mouth cannot be re
imbursed. It is considered
“self-administered” even though
prescribed by a physician.
This is a serious limitation to
a person with an emotional dis
order who is dependent on regu
lar medication which has to be
taken by mouth, such as tran
quilizers in tablet or pill form,
in order to regain or maintain
his health.
Results of this study ordered
by Congress, therefore, may be
important for mental patients.
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| Dear
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Lt. Governor
GEORGE T. SMITH
When a new proposal for a
special session of the General
Assembly increase taxes was
suggested last week by
Governor Maddox and the
Speaker of the House, the
news media asked for my
reaction. Here is the statement
I issued on the subject:
“For as long as I have been
in public office, I have worked
as hard as anyone to assist
local governments in finding
solutions to their financial
problems.
“I have argued long and
hard for home rule. I have said
time and time again that
Georgia’s city and county
governments must be allowed
to broaden their tax base if
they are to survive and
function as they should.
“But, despite my feelings
on these matters, I do not
believe that a special session of
the Georgia Assembly at this
time will provide any relief.
“It is my opinion, based
upon my conversations with
members of the Senate and
the majority of the people I
have talked to since the
session, that the mood of the
people of Georgia has not
changed — they do not want
more taxes.
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. .The mood of the
members of the Georgia
General Assembly as of now
has not changed — they do not
want to vote for more taxes.
“Under these conditions, in
my opinion, there is no
formula that could be devised
that would make the people
accept higher taxes.
“I believe the prophecy of
Abraham Lincoln, ‘Public
sentiment is everything’ holds
true today.
“This being the case, I
believe the Georgia General
Assembly is against more
taxes, and thus will not pass
more should they be called
back into session.
“In view of this, 1 believe it
would be a waste of the
taxpayers’ money and the
General Assembly’s time to
hold a special session for the
purpose of raising taxes.
“Only after the people
make it clear that they feel the
needs of our state require
additional revenue do I think
that the General Assembly will
agree to a special session.
“I think a special session at
this time would build false
hopes for those who believe
that the state needs more
revenue at this time.”
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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
THERE IS A POINT beyond which we cannot be pushed. We
have very nearly reached that point. The violent and premeditated
North Korean attack on our unarmed reconnaissance plane is only
one of a series of aggressive actions taken against the United States
by hostile nations.
We have given in. We have compromised our integrity time and
again in the interest of world peace.
But there comes a time when integrity can no longer be sacri
ficed—when we can no longer tolerate such atrocities. We cannot
and must not permit this incident to become another Pueblo affair,
where we permitted North Korea to dictate the settlement and
regained the Pueblo's crew only by submitting our country to inter
national humiliation.
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THE FACTS OVER the past twenty years bear out the need for
immediate and strong action. In 1950. North Korea's invasion of
South Korea was branded an act of aggression by the United
Nations Security Council. Since the end of that war. North Korea
has consistently violated terms of the 1953 armistice. Even now
North Korea continues to hold as prisoners an undetermined num
ber of American servicemen. In 1968. North Korea forcibly pirated
the USS Pueblo, falsely claiming she had violated her territoriality.
Now North Korea has wilfully downed an unarmed American
plane and murdered thirty-one Americans. North Korea claims that
the plane was over her territory. This is utterly false. American,
Soviet, and North Korean radars all showed the plane a full 90
miles off the coast of North Korea when shot down, and that it
never came closer than 40 miles.
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THE TIME HAS COME for the U. S. to serve notice on North
Korea and all the Communist nations, on the United Nations, and
on all the countries of the world, both large and small, that we do
not intend to idly stand by and watch our ships taken from the sea
and our planes from the air. that there is a limit to our patience
and endurance, and that we are fast approaching that limit.
We will not make aggressive war. Nor can we afford to neglect
the defense and safety of our ships, planes and men against violent
and irresponsible attacks by two-bit countries like North Korea.
1 urge strong and immediate action by the President and the Con
gress of the United States to insure this.
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