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IT’S THIS WAY
By Doyle Jones Jr.
Jest of the Week: What a Relief! - Our neighbor boy had
returned home after a year of helicopter rescue duty in Viet Nam
and was getting a well-earned snooze on a blanket at the beach
when the Civil Defense whistle blew. In a stupor, he headed for the
brush. But, midway, he stopped, returned to his blanket, flopped
down and was heard to mutter, ‘Thank God, it’s only a tornado.”
- Ruth Peterman in the American Legion Magazine.
THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE
If every town had a citizen like the late David P. Settle our
state would be an infinitely better place in which to live. The
Jackson businessman and philanthropist died last September but
with one stroke of his pen he made possible through his will a gift
of $200,000 to the Van Deventer Memorial Scout Foundation, a
youth organization without a peer in the Southeast and one of
which Mr. Settle was inordinately proud. His desire to see the
ideals of the Van Deventer Foundation’s many facted programs
perpetuated was considered the principal reason for his
munificent bequest. Mr. Settle had an abiding faith in the youth of
today and realized that, like it or not, they would be the citizens
and eventual leaders of tomorrow. We are quite sure that this
remarkably wonderful man and citizen - David Paschael Settle -
will leave his footprints on the sands of time. So large, in fact, that
probably no single Butts Countian will be able to adequately fill his
shoes in another generation. There simply aren’t many David
Settles to any given community in a lifetime. We thank God for
this wonderful provision he has made for his county’s
youth .... Congratulations are in order for Mrs.
Anna dawn Edwards of Jackson for being chosen the STAR
Teacher from the Henry County School System by Peggy
Kimbrell, STAR Student. Mrs. Edwards, possessor of a brilliant
mind, is one of this area’s premier teachers and fortunate indeed
is any school system to have her on the faculty. A person of many
faceted talents, Mrs. Edwards gave the land on which Sylvan
Grove Hospital is located. She is receiving congratulations from
friends on her latest honor .... Riding along the other day
we heard the unappetizing announcement over the car radio that
the U.S. Department of Agriculture would continue to allow the
use of pig knuckles as an ingredient of hot dogs. A hot dog lover of
long standing, I don’t know now whether I can ever look a
perspiring puppy in the face again .... We are certain that
all members of the First Baptist Church are proud and elated over
the announcement of their magnificent and beautiful new church
edifice which will be erected on their property on the Griffin Road.
From the architect’s drawing it is truly an imposing looking
structure. Bids will be opened on March 28th as members canvass
the county for the sale of $500,000 in bonds .... Four white
Pike County students, three girls and a boy, were suspended last
week from school for violation of the Georgia Abuse Control Act or
possession of marijuana on the campus. Several arrests have been
made lately in Griffin where hard-hitting law officers are more
than keeping abreast of the situation. Arrests here are coming
painfully slow. Reactivation of the TIP Line here would certainly
help. There needs to be a means of communication with the police
and sheriff’s department whereby a private citizen can call
information in with immunity and if a reward is forthcoming so
much the better. The supplier of the information must be protected
at all costs, and once law officers receive the tip, and have an
opportunity to check it out, vigorous action should follow. Such
information kept undercover by law officers is doing harm to the
community, not good. Every legitimate tip should be checked out
and an arrest made as soon as humanly possible with all persons
treated impartially, regardless of who the drug suspect is. There
can be no double standard of justice for the prominent boy or girl
apprehended while the youths from more humble families have
the book thrown at them. All suspects must be treated fairly and
equally under the law. Let’s get on with the drug problem here. As
Snuffy Smith says, “time’s awasting” ... Along the same line the
great English statesman Edmund Burke summed it up pretty well
years ago when he said, “All that is necessary for the forces of evil
to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” It has
not been stated better since. It is so shockingly true that the
statement startles us when we reflect upon it. Recently in a
California city scores of persons watched from nearby apartments
while a young woman was in the process of being raped,
screaming for help while her fiendish attacker brutally assaulted
her. Not a single person went to her assistance. Also the police
were tardy in being notified. In Atlanta not long ago a man with his
arms full of parcels was assaulted and robbed at a busy
intersection while an estimated 50 persons looked on in horror as
he was knocked to the pavement and his arm broken by repeated
stomping. Not a single person went to his assistance. Such
incidents are magnified by the score each day over our nation. The
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Guest Editorial
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
Postal Rate Increase
Not the Total Answer
With assurances that the prediction is not intended to
frighten, Sen. Gale McGee, D.-Wyo., member of the Senate Post
Office Committee, says by 1984 the cost of mailing a first-class
letter will be between 20 and 38 cents.
Reactions of perplexity - or even anger - on the part of
postal patrons are more likely.
Postmaster General Elmer T. Klassen, testifying before the
generally hostile Senate committee, acknowledged that mail
service has fallen to a “disappointing” level. He said there
probably won’t be substantial improvement without a higher price
for postage stamps.
Klassen said postal service doesn’t intend to seek a rate
increase during 1973. Instead, the agency will concentrate on
better coordination with airlines in handling inter-city mail. But he
conceded later in his testimony, “obviously there must be rate
increases.”
Two years ago, the postal agency was reorganized with a
promise that mail service would be improved. While several
senators cited deteriorating service, Klassen and McGee agreed
that the quasi-governmental agency should remain intact.
Among senators criticizing the service were Georgia’s
Herman Talmadge and Sam Nunn, both of whom claimed that in
certain instances letters from their home states to Washington
arrived two weeks after mailing. In addition, Talmadge reported
that postal authorities found 175 pieces of mail addressed to him in
a San Francisco junkyard.
With prices of everything going up, it is unreasonable to
expect postal service costs to remain stationary. It also is
unreasonable to expect the agency to perform without error and
mistake.
However, with Americans facing the prospect of doubled
mail rates in the next decade, it is reasonable to expect -and even
demand - an improvement in present mail service.
THE WEEKLYY-ADVERTISER
Lester Can't Hide
If the Senate’s furtive vote on pay raises left us with less
than admiration, it is well to remember Lester Maddox is the
leader of that august body.
The Lt. Governor, Speaker of the Senate, immediately fired
back that Governor Carter should veto the pay raise legislation.
Any way you cut it, Lt. Gov. Maddox is the manipulator who made
it possible for the Senators to perform their stealthy deed in
secrecy. ROL
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AMERICA’S NATURAL WEALTH, perhaps more than
anything except her people, has accounted for the remarkable
success of the United States among the nations of the world.
The earliest settlers found that the New World’s wealth justified
the trouble it took to get here. Easterners of the last century
rushed to North Georgia, California, and Alaska to seek sudden
riches of gold. Immigrants of this century came to America
because they envisioned streets paved with gold.
But most who panned for gold were disappointed. And New
York’s streets are paved with anything but gold. America and
her people have experienced a long, slow process of discovering
the limits of her wealth.
* * *
THE CRITICAL LIMIT to our natural resources is now
hitting home. We are an extremely well-developed country and,
as such, we consume huge amounts of energy. We make up
about 6 percent of the world’s population, but we account for
nearly one-third of the energy consumed annually. Currently,
we have to import 14 percent of the energy we use, and by
1985, we will import 30 percent.
This limit to our wealth creates a dangerous situation. A
constant need for energy forces us to increase our trade deficit
by spending dollars abroad without also selling U.S. merchan
dise. And, it could easily become a threat to national security
as well.
Nations threaten one another with more than guns. If we
had to depend on other countries for crucial amounts of
energy, that would put us in a precarious situation.
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AN ENERGY CRISIS is already upon us, but its effects are
small, compared with the possibilities the future holds.
The only way to avoid living in fear while being charged the
proverbial pound of flesh for heat, light, and production energy
is to become self-sufficient in energy supply. We must take full
advantage of the energy resources we already have, such as
abundant coal deposits and Alaskan oil. We must exploit new
sources of energy, such as the Rocky Mountain shale oil de
posits, solar energy, and sea water converted into hydrogen.
Self-sufficiency has always been one of the most notable
characteristics of the American people. Of all our values, we
should cling to this one the tightest.
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incidents are not isolated, nor will they go away until citizens take
retaliatory action against the forces of evil. The stigma of our
society is the creed “Don’t Get Involved,” and this damnable
philosophy is leading us close to the extinction of our freedom.
We’re rapidly becoming like the three monkeys who hear no evil,
see no evil and speak no evil. A few more years of silent assent on
the part of the public and you can kiss freedom goodbye. There are
many evil men all too ready to take it and us over and we only
compound their ease in doing so by our non-involvement.
Herman Talmadge
REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
RECOGNITION PROPERLY DUE
Former presidents Truman and Johnson died just a few
days apart. Their deaths were well publicized. Their funerals were
even carried on national television. Hardly a person in the country
were unaware erf their deaths. The papers all carried front page
headlines about their deaths.
A few days after their funerals another person died. Like the
former presidents, he had contributed much to the good of
mankind. In fact, people throughout the world were indebted to his
influence and actions. His name was E. Stanley Jones. He was a
Christian missionary and preacher, and in a very real sense a
Christian statesman. Very few people were aware of his death.
Little, if any, was said about it on national television. Some of the
newspapers did mention it. But usually readers found only a
paragraph on a back page.
These deaths serve to remind us of the value society places on
the life of individuals. No one would dare suggest that the death of
a president shouldn’t make the national news media. And,
according to our standards, it isn’t much news when a Christian
missionary dies. Not even one of the calibre of Dr. Jones.
However, one wonders what type of reception was given in
the next life to these great men. Without in any way trying to
belittle the greatness of the presidency, I have a sneaking idea that
Dr. Jones’ arrival on the other side was publicized more widely
than his death on this side.
Here in this life few of us will ever rise to the position of
responsibility held by our well-known business and government
leaders. Sometimes this causes us to feel that positions of lesser
responsibility are of lesser value. And this is a great mistake.
For our Creator never judges us on how high a position we
hold, but only on how well we fulfill the responsibilities of the
position we do hold. It is a matter of small importance with the One
who made us if we hold positions of major importance as the world
counts importance. But He is very much concerned with how well
we perform in the position which He has for us to serve in.
Some of the world’s greatest people are hardly known
outside the community in which they live. But they go at their
responsibilities day after day in a sense of genuine faithfulness
and fruitfulness. Often the only mention of their death is in the
local obituary column.
But this life isn’t the only life. And in the other life you do not
have to be famous or powerful to receive an honorable receptian.
When we Christians mention the word justice, we aren’t speaking
only of legal actions. We are speaking also of a reward rightly due.
That is the reason that our values and the world’s values are often
in conflict.
Dr. E. Stanley Jones is dead now. Few people in the world
knew of his faithful and fruitful work. But God knew. And it is God
who passes out the final commendations. While he was little known
here, you can bet your bottom dollar he was well-known and
received in the new land of Forever. - FIVE STAR.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1973
'Whatsoever
Things’
By Donald E. Wildmon
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Go forth with God! Then
His protection will be around
you, His provisions will rise
up before you, and your
problems will fall behind
you.
Because they went forth
with God, the people of Is
rael had everything they
needed for their journey to
the Promised Land.
The miraculous opening
of the Red Sea by the strong
east wind was the means by
which God brought about
two millions of His people
out of Egypt.
For a period of forty
years God cared for them. He
spread out a cloud above
them to shield them from the
burning sun. He sent forth a
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Cary Long of
Alma were visitors to Jackson
Saturday and attended the
wedding that evening of Miss
Gail Carter and Mr. Gerard
Clay McLaurin at the First
Baptist Church. Mrs. Long will
be remembered as the former
Ellen Payne.
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pillar of fire to give them
light at night. They asked for
meat, and He brought them
quails, and satisfied them
with manna-the bread from
heaven. He opened up a rock,
and water gushed out to
form a river in the desert.
Because of His mercy and
might, there were no sick
and feeble folk among them.
“This was done,” explains
Living Psalms 105:45, “to
make them faithful and
obedient to His laws.”
God is good to us. He has
provided for our salvation
through His Son, and for our
bodies through His bountiful
ness. Are we faithful and
obedient?
Friends will be glad to learn
that Edward Washington is
showing improvement at Geor
gia Baptist Hospital where he
underwent surgery Wednes
day, March 14th. He is
expected to be a patient there
at least another week.
