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IT’S THIS WAY
BY DOYLE JONES JR.
Jest of the Week: One of Winston Churchill’s favorite stories
was about a man waiting on the platform one bitter cold night for
a London-bound train. Due to some emergency, a nonstop express
made an unscheduled stop, and the man quickly stepped aboard.
“You can’t get on here,” objected the conductor. “This train
doesn’t stop here.”
“Very well then, just forget it,” suggested the passenger. “If
this train doesn’t stop here, then I’m not on it.”
• • •
THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE
Though bounce hall is at tournament time with baseball wait
ing in the wings, it will not he many weeks before ticket application
blanks will be received from major colleges, notably Tech and Geor
gia, for games this fall. The Georgia-Ole Miss blood letting may well
be the South’s number one attraction of the year. You can also
bet your bottom dollar that Sanford Field will be jam packed No
vember 28th when the Bulldogs ambush the pesky Jackets between
the hedges. The wise will order by return mail and also make a
contribution to their respective school’s kitty. The price of athletics,
like everything else, is going up. Many schools are raising their
individual game tickets to $7 per. The Isaac Jacksons, the Charles
Dudishes and Andy Johnsons are going up every year. It costs more
to recruit, more for equipment, and more for coaches. If the prices
continue to mount we may all be sitting on the trestle . . . Ecology
is n comparative new word that has come on the scene in the last
year or so. It means the study of survival, not only animal and
marine species, but man itself. Man may be doomed in a future
closer than we like to realize if we do not learn how to control
population and pollution. Fresh air and pure water, the lack of
both, will become more critical in the years immediately ahead
and may well spell man’s downfall. The critical problem is worth
serious thought . . . No one realizes more acutely that Jackson
and Butts County are growing than do C. B. Brown Jr. and Dan
Fears. Perhaps the principal reason is that Mr. Brown and Mr. Fears
are mayor and county commission chairman respectively. On their
shoulders, with the able assistance of the aldermanic board and the
two other commissioners, will devolve solving some of the problems
that expansion and growth always bring. One of the most pressing
and important is what to do with tons of garbage of both city
dwellers and the urban residents. Obviously the answer is not the
needless dumping of such garbage, discarded furniture and worn
out appliances alongside the roads of the county. A study committee
of city and county leaders has been appointed by Messrs. Fears
and Brown to study the feasibility of obtaining a federal grant for
a landfill which would alleviate the garbage problem for a time,
and the feasibility of a joint city-county law enforcement building.
It will take complete cooperation of the two branches of govern
ment and their representatives to achieve these projects. We are
confident that such cooperation will be Forthcoming . . . Con
gratulations to Pamela Kay Anderson for being chosen as Jackson
High’s STAR Student for 1970. It is a high honor and one she
richly deserves. She will be officially recognized at the Jaycee
Awards banquet on March 3rd . . . There was a happy ending to the
search for the two young girls lost last week from their home near
Canton. They were found safe and well about 48 hours after they
wandered from the porch of their residence. One was two years old,
the other three and much anxiety was expressed over their safety
because of the proximity of Lake Lanier and many holes in the area
made by mining interests. Other than exposure to the elements they
were declared fit and were united with their deliriously happy parents
at the 11. T. Jones Hospital in Canton. Unfortunately the search for
a missing 16-year-old Scout near Gatlinburg had a more grim end
ing. His body was found last week after several days by trained
dogs and their handlers. A doctor said that he had died from ex
posure about 24 hours after becoming separated from a hiking party
of which he had been a member. He left extra clothing and food on a
rock in the middle of a small stream. During the period the search
was underway 10 inches of snow fell in the Smokies with the tem
perature falling to 10 degrees . . . You may not believe it, but it’s
dangerous to live in Butts County. Figures recently released by the
Georgia Heart Association show that during 1968 there were 41,-
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THE ATLANTA JOURNAL
AND THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
BY LEO AIKMAN
EDITOR PENS REVEALING STORY
OF ‘WORLD’S MEANEST MOTHER’
Every once in awhile an editor turns out an essay
in the “Yes, Virginia” tradition and it makes the
rounds of the nation’s exchanges.
Currently there circulates one in which a writer in
the Richardson, Texas, Daily News admits to having
had “The World’s Meanest Mother.” This is it:
“I had the meanest mother in the whole world!
While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to
have cereal, eggs or toast. When others had candy
or cake for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich . . . My
supper was different from the other kids, too!
“My mother insisted upon knowing where we kids
were at all times. She had to know who our friends
were, what we were doing. She insisted if we said
we’d be gone one hour that we not be gone one hour
and one minute. I’m ashamed to admit it, but she
actually struck us; not once, but each time we did as
we pleased.
“Can you imagine anyone actually hitting a child
just because he disobeyed? Now you can begin to see
how mean she really was.
“The worst is yet to come! We
had to be in bed by nine each
night and up early the next
morning. We couldn’t sleep until
noon like our friends. So while
they slept, my mother actually
had the nerve to break the child
labor law. She made us work. We
had to wash dishes, make beds,
learn to cook and all sorts of
cruel things . . .
“She always insisted upon our
telling the truth . . . even if it
killed us —and it nearly did.
“By the time we were teen
agers, she was much wiser and
life became even more unbear
able. None of this tooting of a
horn in front of the house for
us to come running. She embar
rassed us no end by making our
dates and friends come to the
door to get us.
“I forgot to mention, while our
friends were dating at the ‘ma
ture’ age of 12 and 13 my old
fashioned mother refused to let
us date until the age of 15 to
331 deaths in Georgia of which 21,367 or 51.7% were attributable
to diseases of the heart and blood vessels, causing more deaths
in the state than all other causes combined. In Butts County there
were 114 deaths with 65 or 57.0% due to heart attacks and allied
diseases. Our neighbors around us, save two counties fared better.
Henry County showed 90 of 173 deaths or 52.0%; Lamar had 66 of
123 deaths for 53.7%; Monroe showed 57 of 130 deaths for 43.8%;
Newton scored 141 or 255 deaths for 55.3%; Spalding logged 230
heart associated deaths of 396 total for 58.1%; but living in Jasper
proved most dangerous of all where 50 of 81 deaths were heart
oriented for a 61.7%. Although Butts was surpassed by Jasper
and Spalding we still have one of the higher mortality rates in
the state from heart induced deaths. We’d all better, learn to take
it easy!
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18. Fifteen, that is, if you dated
only to go to a school function,
and that was twice a year.
“My mother was a complete
failure as a mother! None of us
has ever been arrested or beaten
his mate! Each of my brothers
served his time in the service of
his country.
“And whom do think we have
to blame for the terrible way
we turned out? You are right, our
mean mother! Look at all the
.things we missed—we never got
to march in a protest parade; nor
take part in a riot; burn draft
cards or a million things that our
friends did. She forced us to
grow into God-fearing, educated,
honest adults.
“Using this as a background, I
am trying to raise my three chil
dren. I stand a little taller and
am filled with pride when my
children call me ‘mean.’ Because,
you see, I thank God. He gave me
“the meanest mother in the whole
world.’!”
‘Whatsoever Things’
BY DONALD E. WILDMON
"I DON’T UNDERSTAND”
The little boy had just listened to an ad on
the radio. With his questioning eyes gazing at
his mother he spoke some penetrating words.
“Mother,” he said, “I don’t understand.” “You
don’t understand what, dear?” asked the mother.
“Well, the man on the radio said that if we
sold more whiskey we could collect more taxes and
help our schools. But the minister said in church
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recently that whiskey hurt and killed many people and that we
should not drink it. I’m confused because I don’t know who is right.
If the taxes from whiskey go to our schools, shouldn’t we try to get
everybody to drink more whiskey so we can have more taxes? And
if that is true isn’t Mr. Smith, the alcoholic who lives down the
street, the best fellow in town? After all, he buys more whiskey
than anyone else. Why do people treat him like a bum when he is
doing more than anyone to help support our schools? Mother, why
can’t I buy whiskey and help support the schools?”
Something Else
The little boy continued.
“There’s another thing I don’t
understand, Mother. You remem
ber when they took that artificial
sweetner off the market because
they found that it had caused
cancer in some mice? You remem
ber they said that for it to cause
cancer in a human that the hu
man would have to use large
amounts over a long period of
time? But they immediately took
it off the market. Yet on televis
ion that man keeps telling us that
cigarettes cause cancer, but they
don’t take cigarettes off the mar
ket. Why, Mother?”
“And, Mother,” the small child
continued, “something else puz
zles me. That man who you and
daddy said was drinking when he
ran into the other car and killed
that little baby, why didn’t he go
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to jail? They put the man in jail
who had been drinking and shot
his wife. Why didn’t the man go
who killed the baby? Is it worse
to kill someone with a gun than it
is with a car? Mother, are you
deader from a bullet than from a
car?”
“There’s something else, too,
Mother. That man who lost his
month’s pay check at the racing
track was really helping the
state, wasn’t he? I know he was
because I read in the paper that
betting was permitted so the state
could collect taxes on it. Mother,
does that man have lots of
money? If he doesn’t, why doesn’t
the state help pay his bills and
feed his family? Looks like they
would, for he was helping the
state. He is such a good man to
give the state his pay check when
his family needed it so much.”
THURSDAY, FEB. 26, 1970
THE JAMES PAYNES
EXPRESS GRATITUDE
It is with deep gratitude that
we express appreciation to all
the people who came and helped
in any way to extinguish the fire
which occurred Saturday, Feb
ruary 14th, on Mrs. J. W. Carter’s
and J. E. Payne’s property on
Highway 16. We understand that
if it had not been for Mr. and
Mrs. Ray, the Jackson Fire De
partment, the Forestry Depart
ment and the volunteers that our
house could have been destroyed.
Being so far away and knowing
that people care fills our hearts
with humility as well as gratitude.
“And there’s another thing,
Mother, that I don’t understand.
Who is the bad person, the man
who leaves his keys in his car
or the person who steals the car?
I thought the car was the man’s
property and that he had the
right to expect other people to
leave it alone. But the ads on
television said the man made the
boy a crook by leaving his keys in
his car. The ad didn’t say the boy
shouldn’t steal the car. Mother,
should we lock our doors when
we leave home to keep a good boy
from breaking in and going
bad?”
“Mother,” the boy continued,
“there’s one thing I don’t under
stand. When Uncle Joe died we
went to the Church and the
preacher made a speech. But
Uncle Joe never did go to church
while he was living. Why did we
take him to church when he died?
If you go to church when you
die, does that mean you will go
to Heaven? Mother, could you ex
plain to me. I don’t understand.”
The little boy didn’t under
stand. But there is one thing that
we do understand. He isn’t by
himself.—FlVE STAR
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