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IT’S THIS WAY^|
Jest of the Week: CONSIDERATE PATIENT - The young
doctor just out of medical school was having a difficult time
building up a practice in a close-knit town. But late one night he got
a call from a distraught woman whose husband had become
seriously ill. Although the family members were not his patients,
the young medic rushed to the sickroom and began his
examination.
“It’s gratifying that you thought of me in a time of distress,”
he said. “Is your own doctor out of town?”
“Oh, no,” the sick man replied. “He’s home ... but I might
have something contagious, and I didn’t want Doc to take the
risk.” - F. G. Kernan in The American Legion Magazine.
THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE
Perhaps it is wishful thinking, but it would evidence
interest on the part of Butts County citizens if the courtroom
Saturday is filled to overflowing. The important meeting is the
public hearing at two o’clock at which the proposed
comprehensive zoning plan will be explained to those present.
Every property owner in the county will be affected by the zoning
plan once it is adopted and implemented. Zoning is a way of life
and here in Butts County we are 10 to 15 years late. Once county
water becomes a reality, there is bub one word for the growth of
Butts and that is PHENOMENAL! There will be many questions
to be asked and much explaining needed to be done. There will be
misunderstandings and probably some abrased feelings, but once
the plan is understood and its purposes and great need made clear,
Butts can proceed on to a destiny of growth and greatness. The
Butts County Commissioners and the members of the Jackson-
Butts County Planning Commission, known to many as the zoning
board, invite and want you at the meeting .... There was
general elation about the nation in the announcement of peace in
Vietnam. The guns were stilled Saturday after 12 years of futile
civil war with few issues resolved. We personally reserve a later
opinion on the “honorable” peace bit, but we thank God for the
cessation of hostilities in this God-forsaken, far-away land which
“war” has claimed the lives of far too many Americans. We are
particularly happy that the prisoners of war will soon be released
and home, by the middle of February, and will be rejoined with
their families. I have long thought that President Nixon could have
gotten virtually the same terms for the war’s cessation at least two
years earlier. But, be that as it may, we’re glad it’s
over .... Harry S. Truman died on December 26th.
Lyndon B. Johnson died on January 22nd. Thus two former
presidents of the United States, and the sole two remaining, passed
from this mortal sphere within 26 days. While we never held
Johnson in the same esteem we felt for Truman, we did respect his
high office. Truman was thrust into the presidency upon the death
of President Roosevelt; Johnson assumed the office upon the
assassination of President Kennedy. But there the similarity
ended. Truman made momentous decisions that affected the
termination of World War II and irrevocably affected humanity
with his decisions to use a nuclear bomb for the first time in
warfare. Johnson’s decisions were more of a domestic nature, and
though Southern born and bred, he was the best friend the black
man ever had in the White House. Vain and pompous, he turned his
back on the advice of life-long friends such as Sen. Dick Russell of
Georgia and others, and seemed to take particular delight in
rushing desegregation laws through Congress that caused many
Southerners to call him a “turncoat” or worse. More than any
single man President Johnson was responsible for the integration
that exists over the nation today, and particularly in the South.
Historians will probably look with favor on President Johnson for
his role in civil rights but Southerners, many too close to the forest
to see the trees, view him now with mixed emotions. A politician to
the core and to the end, LBJ served the nation with energy and
dedication and always as he deemed best .... Parachut
ing, it is reported, is the current sporting rage hereabouts, having
gotten a good toehold in Butts County. Now jumping is
undoubtedly safer than driving and probably the tug of the chute
as it opens is an exhilarating feeling. But there are more sedate
and conventional ways to meet your Maker and at our twix and
between age, I hope my generation will be excused .... We
are all proud of our own Dr. W. W. Wright, president of Macon
Junior College. Bill or Billy, as he is known to his legion of Jackson
friends, addressed the STAR Student-Teacher banquet here
Tuesday night and did his usual masterful job. His mother, Mrs.
Gertrude Rowlenson Wright, has long been one of the town’s most
popular matrons. With all his degrees and accomplishments in the
field of education, I suppose I should address him as “Dr. Wright,”
but Bill just comes more naturally .... We congratulate
both local banks for their excellent reports made at recent
meetings of stockholders. The growth of Mclntosh State Bank in
THE JACKSON PROGRESS ARGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA
Guest Editorial
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL
President Johnson
Once upon a time a reporter was talking to Sen. Richard
Russell about his old protege, Lyndon Johnson.
The reporter said he felt at home with him as he could have
stepped out of any courthouse in Georgia.
To which Sen. Russell replied, perhaps, but that Lyndon
Johnson was a lot smarter than any Georgia politician he ever had
known, and that he understood more about the uses of power than
anybody since Martin Van Buren.
Now Lyndon Johnson is dead and a lot is going to be written
and said about the man’s controversial nature. He was smart, but
he was vain and sometimes his vanity led him down roads which
his common sense should have avoided. He was powerful, but
sometimes he used his power for the unworthy purposes of
chastising his enemies and hurting his friends.
Lyndon Johnson’s background was that of the rural south.
The Johnsons were Georgians and Carolinians before they were
Texans. He came of age in the drought stricken years of the Dust
Bowl. He was an early New Dealer. He knew the sufferings and the
hopeless position of the poor farmer and he took the vision of a
better society with him to the White House. His administration was
the last of the Democratic party of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This
party’s common denominator was poverty. With the coming of the
affluent society and the assimilation of many of the minority
groups, this party began to fall apart. Lyndon Johnson was its last
catalyst and he lost his fire before his elected term ended. He
outlived his time.
He was homespun after the nation had ceased to be.
He was paternal after paternalism had disappeared.
He was a boss after political bosses had lost favor.
He was a big man and his ideas were big. When they
succeeded, fine, but when they failed the wreckage was immense
and the last two years of his administration saw one big plan after
another go wrong. Finally this big man saw that he and the
country were out of sympathy and he withdrew to the Pedemales
where he was at home and where some of his sort survive. But not
even his retirement was completely peaceful. He was driven to
justify his administration and explain away his policies which
had failed.
Lyndon Johnson was a man of the people. He liked to mix
and mingle with the crowds. He had great aspirations for his
country. Few became reality. He was bigger than life and the last
President who will bring the outlook of the frontier and the feudal
gentry to the White House. He was intensely human, so his faults
were as forgivable as his virtues were admirable.
jap
| Herman Talmadge
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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED states senate
EVERY TIME a Supreme Court Justice walks through the
entrance of the Supreme Court building he passes under a
stone inscription that reads: “Equal Justice Under Law.” Either
these Justices don’t look up, they can’t read, or they don’t
understand what those words mean.
In the past several years, members of the nation’s highest
court have become more and more arrogant and less and less
responsive to the will of the people. They have consistently
placed the power of the bench above the right of the individual
states, short-sighted interpretation of the Constitution before the
health and safety of the public, and vague technicalities of the
law before the proper execution of criminal justice.
* * *
FOR EXAMPLE, last summer the Supreme Court over
turned hundreds of state laws by ruling against capital punish
ment. A decision such as this flagrantly superseded the Con
stitutionally-given right of the state to determine for itself
whether the death penalty should be established within its own
domain and trespassed into areas intended for state legislators.
Another example, and one 1 have fought for years, is forced
school busing. In the Charlotte, N.C., Swann case, the Supreme
Court not only defied the overwhelming opinion of the people
against busing but they ignored a 1964 act of Congress that
forbade the assigning of school children to achieve racial bal
ance. The education, to say nothing of the health and safety,
of hundreds of thousands of children across the nation has
been jeopardized because of the arrogance of these nine judges
in thHr determining what was best for someone else’s children.
Still another example is this Court’s irresponsib'e tendency
to virtually cripple standard law enforcement agency proce
dures by accenting the technical purity of the law over proper
criminal justice.
* * *
“EQUAL JUSTICE Under Law” cannot mean, as the Su
preme Court seems to believe, making the streets safe for
criminals. It does not mean forcing the legislators of our states
to be responsible to the national judiciary rather than the peo
ple who elected them. It certainly does not mean ignoring the
tremendous sentiment of a majority of people who don’t want
their children bussed.
I believe the time has come to have the Supreme Court
come down from lofty bench and have their records reviewed.
I will support any reasonable legislation that would make the
Supreme Court more responsive to the will of the people and
attentive to the basic meaning of the law.
seven years is nothing short of phenomenal. While it is
unquestionably true that the opening of Mclntosh made a better
bank of Jackson National Bank and its successor, C&S Bank of
Jackson, it is also unquestionably true that the older bank has met
the challenge and moved forward in a manner that must be
pleasing to its stockholders and patrons. There is a bright future
ahead for both banks and Butts countians should be thankful and
proud that they have two such fine banking institutions in their
midst .... Prices of real estate in Butts County is sky high
and as Cap’n Billy on Showboat used to exclaim, “you ain’t seen
nothing yet.” As Butts develops with county zoning about to
become a reality and county water perhaps no more than 18
months away, the price of land will increase to a fantastic level.
Land that sold for $25 an acre 35 years ago is going now at $1,700 an
acre and for the landowner, the best is yet to come. If anybody
wants 210 acres at two M per, call 775-3107 and maybe you’ve got a
deal.
‘Whatsoever
J§f Things’
■ By Donald E. Wildmon
“LET’S GET AWAY . . . FOR AWHILE”
One of the mistakes we make when we think of God is that we
think of Him only in “religious” terms. We divorce God from the
physical and material areas of life. Anyone who is willing to make
a serious study will find God to be just as concerned with our
physical and material needs as our spiritual needs. He is
interested in the whole person.
One of the Ten Commandments require one day in seven as
a day of rest. This is not only for religious purposes, but also for
physical and health purposes. Physically the body must have rest
in order to function properly. Pity the poor person who never
learns this.
One of the secrets of Jesus’s strength was that occasionally
He managed to get away - to be alone. Each of us needs to get
away sometimes whether it be to the woods behind our house or to
the country across the ocean. Remember that the Carpenter once
said: “Let’s get away from the crowd for awhile and rest.”
The modern day pace of living is entirely too fast for us to try to
keep pace with it all. We must learn to live in a fast moving world
without killing ourselves trying to keep up with it.
We can over-extend ourselves. We must learn to make the
proper choices and to say no to some things which beckon us. We
can take on too much, become too involved in too many things. A
mother once told me how much time she spent just taking her
children to and from their activities. It was something like three
hours a day. She was exhausting herself trying to keep up with
everything and everyone.
The secret to a healthy life is balance. We need to learn to
work hard and rest easy. Remember that you can overdo anything
-- working and resting. Try to learn the proper balance and
maintain that level.
But let me say it once again - occasionally we need to get
away for a while. A person needs some time to rest, to think, to
get his perspectives straight in this fast moving world.
In a meeting once a minister said rather boastfully - when
the subject of vacations was mentioned, that he had not had a
vacation in 20years. Another minister leaned over and whispered:
“Yes, and the people who have to listen to him can tell it.”
A time apart can be anything which breaks the routine -a
vacation, special trips, a refresher course in school, even a hobby.
I like to go fishing when I can -- even if I don’t catch a thing. At
least I can lean back and sleep a while while I wait for the fish to
bite. It helps my soul catch up with my system.
Everyone needs a hobby -then when things get to be too
much, the pace gets to moving too fast, you can turn to your hobby
and rest your mind for a while. I have found that my hobbies have
been a part of my physical and mental salvation.
Divide the word recreation into two parts and you get
re-creation. Recreation is a time to re-create, to renew. Why drive
yourself to the breaking point which is bad for you and a burden on
others?
“Let’s get away ... for awhile and rest.” Don’t ignore this
important part of life. - FIVE STAR
I SEEDS FROM
/THE SOWER
F By Michael A. Guido, Metier, Georgia
William Jackson was so
fond of an oak tree that he
wrote a deed conveying it to
full possession of itself and
the land into which its roots
were thrust.
While the Lord deeded no
space to trees in the world,
He did in His Word. It is re
corded in Living Psalms 104:
16, “The Lord planted the
cedars of Lebanon.”
The cedars are high-mind
ed. These stately trees often
soar over a hundred feet. We
need , more of its characteris
tics in our lives. We have too
much of the willow, and are
easily bent; too much of the
aspen, and we quake with
every stormy blast; and too
much of the bramble, and we
cut others with our sharp
Every Sunday
Chicken as you like it
Broiled, Fried, Bar-B-Qued
Served with all the trimmings
Make it a family affair
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THURSDAY, FEB. 1973
points; but not enough of the
heaven-aspiring, tempest-de
fying cedar.
The cedars are deep-root
ed. They fasten their anchors
to the foundations of the
earth after clinching them
selves around the deepest lay
er of rock. And that is the
difference between those
who stand and fall. Some are
fastened to the Rock of
Ages.
The cedars are broad
branched. They spread wide
ly as they grow old. And
some cedar Christians em
brace the world with their
love, prayers and gifts.
I am determined to be a
cedar Christian. How about
you?
HL jj®sp w^
HERE'S LOU! Lou Jacobs, world-famous clown with
the all-new 103rd Edition of Ringling Bros, and
Barnum & Bailey Circus. The Greatest Show On Earth
comes to the Macon Coliseum on Tuesday and Wednes
day. February 13 and 14. There will be two spectacular
performances each day at 4:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.
“Where there is a will, there’
a lawsuit.” (Addison Mizner)
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