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By Doyle Jones Jr.
Jest of the Week: Bright Side - The second-grade teacher
asked her pupils what the automobile contributed to man. Some of
the answers were not very optimistic.
“The automobile gave us smog," one boy answered.
‘Traffic accidents,” supplied another.
“Family arguments,” a girl offered seriously.
One little boy thought the question over carefully before
answering, ‘The automobile did one good thing - it did away with
horse stealing.” - Lane Olinghouse in The American Legion
Magazine.
No Round Trip For Him - “My boy,” said his father kindly,
“don’t you want to succeed in life as I did?”
“Well, I don’t know,” the son replied slowly. “You were
raised in the country and worked and scrimped so you could go to
the city. Then you slaved to own a house in the city. Then you about
killed yourself so you could buy this house in the country. I think
I’m better off staying here than killing myself making that round
trip.” -- Ernest L. Johnson in The American Legion Magazine.
DOLLARS NEEDED TO FIGHT POLLUTION
A dying Jackson Lake is of concern to most citizens in the
middle Georgia area. Pollution, primarily from Fulton and
DeKalb Counties, is fed hourly into Jackson Lake by the South and
Yellow Rivers. Though many estimates as to its demise have been
given, it does not seem probable that the lake can endure “live”
for more than another four to five years under present conditions.
Ray Merritt and the organization which he heads, The Coalition
For Pollution Control, have acted responsibly and have done all
within their limited power to cope with the octopus-like problem. It
is crystal clear that if pollution is to be stopped it will have to be
done in the courts and litigation is expensive and time consuming.
The Coalition has limited resources and with legal suits envisioned
contributions are urgently needed to help defray the costly legal
processes. All of us - each Butts Countian, white or black, rich or
poor - have a vital stake in the lake’s future - if it is to have one.
The fight will be long and expensive. To lose the battle is
unthinkable. For in so doing we will have the state’s first “dead”
lakeand itwillbutbea harbinger of things to come for other water
impoundments the length and breadth <rf Georgia. Give now while
there is yet time. Mail your contributions now to: The Coalition
For Pollution Control, Inc., P. 0. Box 3934, Jackson, Ga. 30233.
THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE
We had long since, in our mind, awarded the title of
Jackson’s walkingest couple to Julia and H. M. Fletcher. Both do
so for reasons of health and they can be seen along East Third
Street to downtown Jackson almost every day and often more than
once. Last week we observed Levi and Nora Ball, accompanied by
their pooch, Snoopy, on a leash, free wheeling ala Tom and Jerry
in front of the Baptist Church, and have seen them walking again
on more than one occasion. So we hereby decree Nora and Levi as
Jackson’s second most walkingest couple .... Women
have again preempted men’s dominance in the sports world. We
read this week where a buxom blonde has been accepted as the
first female bull fighter in Spain. In a short time posters will be
proclaiming, “See Blondie Buxom - Spain’s first topless
matador.” No bull! .... Elwood and Annie Mae Robison
started for Lexington, Ky., about the same time as the mammoth
snow and cold weather system began moving south and eastward
across the Plains. It was the cold Tuesday of April 3rd. As they
traveled through North Georgia they observed snow flurries of
varying intensity. When they reached Knoxville, fearful of what
might be happening weather-wise and with remarkable foresight,
they called ahead to discover Lexington was socked in by the
Spring blizzard. They did an about face and returned home to
schedule their tripata later date .... We understand there
were a few flurries seen here on that blustery Tuesday, with snow
reported at Rome, Gainesville, in north Atlanta, and
Blairsville .... The frost and freeze of last week damaged
the state’s peach crop, reducing it by about 50 percent. Truck
crops, tobacco and small grain were also hurt by the late freeze.
Farmers, as usual, appear to be taking their licks from Mother
Nature .... Overheard on Friday, the 13th. Two women,
obviously superstitious, talking in front erf a Jackson store,
... “and did you know thatd—black cat ran across our path twice
and we lost . . . (the conversation dwindled until it was
unintelligible), and then louder, “I’m going to get rid of that cat.”
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Guest Editorial
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
BY SELBY McCASH
Maddox: A Shoo-In or Has-Been?
ATLANTA - Is the popu
larity of Lester Maddox just as
strong in Georgia now as it was
in 1970 when he toppled Lt.
Gov. George T. Smith and
House Whip Charles Jones of
Hinesville without a runoff in
the race for Lieutenant
governor?
That question concerns
many politicians at the
moment.
Some, like Gov. Jimmy
Garter, believe Maddox peaked
in 1970 and won’t be elected
governor again in 1974.
Others, including both Mad
dox partisans and some foes,
still feel he is virtually
unbeatable. I suspect he is
going to be hard to defeat.
There’s little doubt Lt. Gov.
Maddox is going to be a
candidate for governor in the
upcoming race, and the horses
are already beginning to line
up at the starting gate.
Lester Maddox is one of the
most amazing, possibly the
most amazing, figures in
Georgia politics. He is laughed
at by some and thought to be
off his rocker by a few. But he
shouldn’t be considered a joke
by anybody, and he certainly
isn’t bats. He is a shrewd,
cunning, tireless politician,
whose ideology is difficult to
sort out and clearly define at
time.
He not only has acquired the
“image” of a wildman, but he
is a wildman. And his political
success is therefore not easy to
place in historical perspective.
Georgians have usually
insisted in recent decades that
their chief executives have a
dignified demeanor. This is
true in the cases of Jimmy
Chrter, Carl Sanders and
Ernest Vandiver.
The colorful Marvin Griffin
is something of an exception,
but comparing him to Lester
Maddox reminds me of a story
former Gov. Griffin tells about
a passenger aboard the
ill-fated Titanic who called for
room service.
“I ordered ice,” the man
said, “but this is ridiculous.”
Maddox’s personality has
been analyzed and psychoana
lyzed for the past 10 to 15 years,
Ever thus
The newspaper over in Jackson (The Progress-Argus) has
commended Butts County commissioners and City of Jackson
officials for cooperating to establish a county-wide water system
and fire protection.
‘The growth of Jackson and Butts County is inextricably
linked together,” Editor Doyle Jones wrote. “What benefits one,
helps the other. What hurts one, harms the other. It has ever been
thus.”
Mr. Jones was not writing about Griffin and Spalding
County, but he might as well have been because it is just as true
that “the growth of Griffin and Spalding County is inextricably
linked together. What benefits one, helps the other. What hurts
one, harms the other. It has ever been thus.” - The Griffin Daily
News.
Lawsy me, a poor innocent cat, whose only “sin” is being black, is
being blamed for a person’s misfortunes. What fools we mortals
be! ... . Maurice and Juanita Carmichael returned last
week from a most enjoyable 10-day trip to Spain. The Jackson
insuranceagent joined other agents for the jet trip to Malaga with
interesting side trips to places of scenic and historic interest. We
asked Deke if he had fun and he retorted “that’s what we went
for,” so I know they did ... . The Van Deventer Youth
Center building has undergone a major renovation and like a
woman who has just applied fresh makeup she’s shining and
glistening and pretty. William Mack Davis, youth director, is
understandbty proud of his new quarters and perhaps when the
work is totally completed the Youth Foundation will have an open
house to give the public an opportunity for a look
see ... . Sunday is Easter! Beneath the tinsel and
trappings of new bonnets, rabbits, Easter eggs and the numerous
other frills and furbelows that mark the season, Easter is the
occasion that marks the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ. With the thoroughness of Rome, guards were posted
at the entrance of the borrowed tomb after the massive golal, or
stone was rolled into place to seal the sepulchre. After all, rumors
persisted in Jerusalem that thieves or friends of the Nazarene
might make an attempt to steal the body to embarrass Roman
authorities. The power of man could not have broken into or out of
the carefully guarded tomb. But on Easter mom the power of God
touched the dead form of his beloved Son and called him forth from
his place of burial to spend, after a few more days on earth,
eternity with Him in heaven in the city not prepared by human
hands. The empty tomb conquered man’s last enemy, Death, as
Jesus only three days earlier had conquered sin by His death on
the cross. “He is risen,” the angel proclaimed. “Why seek the
livingamong the dead.” Why indeed! The empty tomb is the hope
of mankind!
and no one has clearly
explained what makes him
tick.
In his book, “Gothic Politics
in the Deep South,” Robert
Sherill makes this observation:
‘The most conclusive evi
dence of aberration rests . . .
with his inconsistencies. He is a
bubbling, petty volcano of
inconsistencies, dribbling his
wispy gray lava in every
conceivable direction; and the
source of the hot subterranean
bed from whence it flows -
except to those Gods who take
a special, protective interest in
our innocents - is unfathom
able.
“And in a way this makes
him one of the truest
representatives of his people
and a perfectly logical choice
to be their leader, for in his
personality is caught up all the
moon phrases of Dixie’s
personality - the love-hate
response to the black man, the
patriot-subversive response to
the federal government, the
rebel-6lave response to author
ity, the pitying-sadistic re
sponse to the underdog, the
populist-planter response to
the economic needs.”
The biggest question con
cerning political onlookers at
the moment is not Maddox’s
personality, however. It is not
what makes him tick, but how
well he will be able to tick in a
statewide race in 1974.
Will he be more vulnerable
after eight years in public
office, after eight years of
saying the same things so
often?
One thing is for sure - he still
makes the claim he made in
1963:
“So you screwballs, social
ists, communists, mistaken
and misguided who threaten
me, let me say that you are
wasting your time. I just plain
don’t scare.”
‘Whatsoever
JH? Things'
By Donald E. Wildmon
•VICTIMLESS” CRIMES
There is anew theory
making the rounds concerning
crime and how to reduce it. I
have run across the theory
several times in the past couple
of years. The theory is that we
should do away with “victim
less” crimes.
In practical application the
theory would work something
like this - if there was no
victim there would be no
crime. Therefore, such “vic
timless” crimes as drug use,
intoxication, prostitution, and
similar acts would not be
considered a crime. The theory
is that these types of crimes
are of concern to no one other
than the person or persons
involved and should not be
punishable by law.
That theory, being talked
more approvingly by an
increasing number of people in
responsible positions, sets one
to thinking. Many questions
are raised by the theory.
Let’s say, for instance, that
you come to a traffic light and
it is red. You proceed to run the
red light but there is no
accident. Will it be under the
new theory, since there is no
“victim”, that you are not
subject to prosecution? Now if
you should happen to crash into
another car while running that
red light you would have been
subject to prosecution. But if
you didn’t have a “victim”,
would you have committed a
crime?
Or, again, should you take a
gun and try to kill someone but
fail to do so -- are you guilty of
having broken the law? There
is no “victim” involved since
you missed when you shot. If
you happen to be a good shot
and kill the person, then you
are subject to prosecution. But
what if you missed? Are we to
do away with the intent, or the
probable chances that one’s
actions will harm society?
What the advocates of the
new theory are trying to do is to
remove the moral basis of
some laws. They fail to see that
every law we have on the books
is founded on a moral basis. It
is just that these advocates
don’t happen to like the moral
basis on which some particular
laws are based. So they are
willing to impose upon society
their own particular brand of
morality - something they
refuse to let society do to them.
Sooner or later we are going
to have to face the fact that the
laws of this country are based
on the Judeo-Christian ethic of
morality. Using that basis of
morality this country has
grown and prospered. By all
conceivable standards of judg
ment, that basis of morality
has proven itself superior to all
others. A weakening of that
basis, then, could serve no
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other purpose than to weaken
our society.
Let’s hope that this new
theory of “victimless” crimes
never becomes accepted as
standard practice. For our
country cannot long endure if it
does.
Whether we like it or not,
morality is the basis for all
laws. And the type of morality
a country accepts ultimately
determines the destination at
which that country arrives. -
FIVE STAR.
Letters To
The Editor
“When spring comes and a
lady who was reared in the
country and has been taught by
a father just recently passed
away to appreciate nature to
the highest, the urge comes to
walk in the woods. This
happened to me about five
weeks ago and I was at my
home in Pike County along
with my little 2%-year-old
granddaughter when this urge
to walk in the woods and view
the grandeur of God’s handi
work came to me.
“We had walked and I had
showed her things that I
remembered had been shown
to me at a very early age, even
earlier than I can remember.
We came to an overgrown
place of honeysuckle vines and
I picked her up to carry her
through the area. I hung my
own foot in the vines and
fell . . . injuring myself
severely with a compressed
fracture of the spine.
“I had grown up in this
county, a member of an old
respected family and we had
always been treated as
such... and I guess I just grew
up knowing this ... we have
lived in Butts County about
nine years now and I found
during the days in the hospital
and since coming home that
the people in this county care
even though you might still be
a “newcomer.”
“For all the wonderful things
the people of this town and
county did for me and my
family I cannot possibly list.
Truly the cards, food for my
family, gifts, visits all meant
so much as did the prayers
which lam sure did the most
good of all. The compassion
and concern of the people of
Jackson will long be remem
bered and appreciated by both
Sandy and me and we truly feel
that Jackson is a good place in
which to live. Thank you every
one.”
Mrs. C. L. Sanvidge
510 E. Freeman St.
Jackson, Ga.
Letters to Editor
Jackson and Butts County
can justly be proud of its
football and basketball teams.
This past season, these teams
received great support from
the student body and the
citizens of our county. How
ever, a dozen young golfers in
JHS put together a golf team
twoyears agoand in their first
year of competition partici
pated in twenty-one matches.
They compiled an unprece
dented 18 victories and only 3
losses. The entire expense
incurred in playing all matches
these two seasons has been
borne by our parents to whom
we are very grateful.
At the outset of this season, it
was hoped that each team
member could be supplied with
two golf shirts that would
identify us as a team in
appearance and enhance a
team spirit attitude. Also we
had again hoped for assistance
in defraying the expenses of
our trips to various matches
played as far away as
Tallapoosa, Ga. To date, the
Athletic Dept, of JHS has been
unable tocontribute even token
assistance to our cause.
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Certainly, this has been a keen
disappointment to team mem
bers who played with pride
while representing our school.
The outstanding record we
have made in twoshortyears is
unprecedented in Georgia high
school golfing annals.
Weare utterly bewildered by
the total lack of interest shown
by JHS Athletic Dept, person
nel because our needs are
meager in comparison to some
other sports pursued in JHS.
In closing, we stand one and
all, and want to be counted as
representatives of our school
who will continue to compete to
the best of our abilities -
whether supported by JHS or
not.
Lee Bennett
Keith Daniel
Larry Biles
Johnny Morris
Billy Duke
Dennis Morgan
Charles Ivey
Kenny Norsworthy
Terry Duke
