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By Doyle Jones Jr.
Jest of the Week: Hie youngster had been invited over to his
friend’s house for dinner. Hie food was brought in, set on the table
and he began to dig in. His friend admonished him, saying, “We
have to say grace before eating.” Suspiciously, the young dinner
guest said, “We don’t have to say a prayer before we eat at our
house. My mommy is a good cook.”
Hie woman was telling her troubles to the judge in domestic
relations court. “Hie only time he ever brought a ray of sunshine
into my life,” she said, “was when he came home at dawn,
slammed the door and the Venetian blind fell off the window.”
THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE
Spring with its warmth and its rain caught us unawares this
year and will be gone in a few scant days. It will be replaced, more
than likely, by the heat of a typical Georgia summer that will
probably remain with us until the first cooling breezes come
wafting our way in late September or early October. The flowers
and shrubs this Spring were unusually lovely. Jackson’s azaleas
outdid themselves and those having camellias were dramatically
rewarded. Hie dogwood was pretty but not quite up to par for some
reason. Hie azaleas stole the show and, indeed, many over town
are just coming into full bloom .... We heard two
youngsters arguing the other day over the merits of school
lunches. One was pleased and satisfied; the other was critical and
unfulfilled -his stomach, that is. When I came along in high school
in the late 20’s and early 30’s there was something called a
depression going on that the youth of today would not believe or
understand. We had no hot lunches served us at a most nominal
price. Many students had nothing to eat at all at school and those
who did brought cold lunches from home. Hiis was before the era
of the sandwich and most of us had cold biscuits with some kind of
meat, usually sausage, ham or fat back, biscuits with a hole in one
end into which mothers had poured syrup, and a cold baked sweet
potato with the juices oozing from it. Now a potato was highly
esteemed and was the subject of an unusual amount of bartering.
A student willing to give up a succulent sweet potato could just
about command any food desired. My family were sweet potato
eaters and mother used to include a potato two or three times
during the week. Though I loved them I always fancied the biscuit
and sausage that Henry Turner used to bring and I could swap my
potato, depending on size, for two or three of Henry’s biscuit and
sausage. There was seldom any dessert but when there was it was
most likely to be an apple or peach puff, made by those gloriously
wonderful cooks from dried peaches and apples. We didn’t go
hungry but our lunches were skimpy compared to the hot,
balanced meals served today. But nevertheless I seldom see
anything on today’s school menu I’d swap for a good, juicy baked
tater or one of mother’s large, light and fluffy biscuits with the
syrup hole in the end. Reading, writing and rithmetic came a mite
easier after recess .... Speaking of azaleas, one of the
town’s beauty spots is the azalea bed in the rear of Mrs. Elsie
Hllery’s yard on Brookwood Avenue. It is a mass of color and from
the road it looks gorgeous. No doubt it is even lovelier close
up .... We are not accustomed to watermelons before
Easter, but then we never reckoned with Nelson Andrews. Nelson,
a former neighbor and friend in Jackson, now resides in Center
Hill, Florida, and at Christmas time he invariably remembers us
with a crate of Florida oranges and grapefruit. He was in Jackson
and Butts County last Tuesday and stopped by Wednesday to
leave a nice, looking watermelon and a box of fruit. We cut the
watermelon Thursday night and it was delicious, as sweet as a
mid-summer melon and large as well. Nelson had come up to visit
relatives here and in Barnesville and Covington. We appreciate his
generosity and particularly his early watermelon .... Back
in the good old days when there was nothing behind Maurice
Moore and Bill Watkins homes but Duffy’s house, a servant who
worked for the Watkins, and Paul Tyler’s slaughterhouse, there
was a small road or path that led between the two aforementioned
houses almost straight back to the Newton property and the power
line. There was then and is now a small branch that begins with a
spring to the rear of the H. M. Moore house in what we used to
refer to as Moore’s pasture. This small watercourse ran bv the
side of Tyler’s abattoir and then almost in a direct southern
direction, crossing the tower line at a point behind the home of Dr.
Gerald Ross. I was driving along McCaskill Drive Thursday
afternoon when a wave of nostalgia assailed me and I parked to
the side of Dr. Ross’ house and walked back to view the branch I
had not seen in some 30 years or more. In years gone by the branch
provided a ready source of minnows for crappie fishing and in my
younger days I can recall fishing with Vincent with a small hook
and pieces of bread and catching sunfish and horny heads by the
bucketfulls. The stream was wider then and in the pools one could
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Guest Editorial
THE WEEKLY-ADVERTISER
McDonough, Georgia
The Season Of Life
Hie meaning of Easter is far greater than any of us can
understand. The words of the Gospels read time and again
reinforce a shred of the significance.
Hiis man fulfilling his destiny to die upon the cross. The
words of the first Gospel have an especial meaning to me:
Matthew 28:39. “ My Father, If It Be Possible, Let This Cup Pass
From Me? Nevertheless, Not As I Will, But As Hum Will.”
Hie words, in analysis, tell me Jesus did not fulfill His
Messianic mission with the cross as an automaton. Matthew 28:38.
“My Soul Is Exceeding Sorrowful, Even Unto Death; Tarry Ye
Here And Watch With Me.”
Hiis phrase reminds of the pitiably insignificant
responsibility we whine and fuss about when called to duty.
His duty was to go to agonizing, humiliating, debasing death
that all mankind might live.
In every age, every nation, every race there has been one
obstacle no man has ever avoided. Death. Hie rich, the poor, the
powerful, the eloquent, the bumbling. Every man and every
woman has the unavoidable path to the grave that must be tread.
But a man who came down from the Mount of Olives riding a
Colt to fulfill his destiny with the most brutal deed ever inflicted
assures men of the Christian faith there is something beyond the
tomb. For all those who believe. ROL
Postal Hike Didn’t Help
Hie price of postage stamps has increased 50 percent in the
last decade, considerably more than the overall cost of living in
America, but sadly the increased finances have not necessarily
brought better service.
In fact, the mail service has deteriorated steadily. There is
nothing like complete assurance a letter placed in the Atlanta mail
today will arrive in Henry County the following day. And, as a
matter of fact about 10 percent of the time the letter will be
delayed for at least a day, and far too often, three, four days or
more.
Hie problems of mail handling are enormous ones, but when
the free enterprise system says it can handle the problems better
for the same amount of money, then maybe it is time to learn
whether there is truth in the contention. Certainly United Parcel
Service proved some points. ROL
Herman Talmadge
REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE ;
THE BUSING CONTROVERSY at long last is being aired
before a Committee of the United States Senate. The Senate
Judiciary Committee set hearings to give Senators, educators,
parents and all interested parties an opportunity to testify on
this issue.
There have been something like 18 proposed anti-busing
Constitutional amendments introduced in years past, since
forced school busing started creating chaos in public schools,
but never before have full Committee hearings been held in the
Senate on such a measure. Heretofore, the issue has been
locked in the federal courts or stymied by Senate social re
formers who think they know what is best for everyone else’s
children.
Through these hearings, the voice of the people could finally
be heard. For years, this voice has been suppressed 1 beneath
the weight of platitudes by liberal theorists, scholars, newsmen,
commentators and politicians. With their own children tucked
safely away in private schools or beyond the reach of forced
busing, they have presided over the dismantling of public
schools in the South, and elsewhere in the nation as well.
* * *
I APPEARED as one of the leadoff witnesses to urge Senate
approval of a Constitutional amendment, to put the forced
busing issue squarely before the American people and, hope
fully, to put a stop to this idiocy once and for all.
Although my own proposed amendment is pending before
the Committee, it is similar to the several others. I' indicated no
particular preference, except that an effective anti-busing
amendment be reported by the Committee in order to get such
a measure moving through the legislative process.
Something must be done to put a stop to forced busing that
causes school children to be taken out of their neighborhoods
and transported about like cattle.
The legislative route has been tried again and again. Each
time Congress puts an anti-busing statute on the books, the
federal courts proceed to pretend it doesn’t exist or doesn’t
mean what it says.
If a Constitutional amendment is passed, we can take this
problem away from federal courts and bureaucrats and return
it to the people. If the people no longer have any say-so over
the education of their children, then we have lost one of the
most fundamental of all American freedoms.
see when the minnows took the bait and all one had to do to catch
them was to pull up as the fish ran with the bread. I saw one or two
trees that were landmarks long before I knew them first some 45 to
50 years ago. I saw some minnows darting into the deeper pools
as I looked over the bank. I enjoyed my visit to the land of long ago.
I also recall that in the area where Ben and Mollie Garland have
built their attractive home there was an abundance of wild
honeysuckle or azaleas and a plethora of sweet shrubs in the
general area behind the home of Dickey and Sandra Moore.
Moore’s pasture is now the home of Sue and Vincent Jones, Bill
and Polly Garr, John L. and Rebecca Coleman, and Maurice and
Juanita Carmichael. Hme and progress has wrought great
changes, but it’s good to find even an insignificant thing as a small
branch as one remembered it in the long ago ... . Henry
County’s portion of 1-75 is rapidly gaining the monicker of “Death
Strip” as Henry County last week recorded its 11th traffic fatality
since the first of the year. Not all the fatalities have occurred on
1-75, of course, but far too many have. Of the 13 deaths suffered in
the patrol area of the Griffin barracks, the State Patrol reports 11
deaths in Henry, two in Spalding and none in Butts. One can never
doubt that 1-75 moves traffic, but it also moves many an unwary
motorist to an early grave. What price speed? It is the greatest
killer of all!
-Jm
ON BEARING OUR BURDENS
One isn’t too old when he discovers that life has its burdens.
No man is exempt from them, each man must eventually come
face to face with them. What are we to do with our burdens, how
are we to deal with them? I think that perhaps three sentences
from the Bible will be of help to us.
Hie first sentence is this one: “Each of us must bear some
faults and burdens of his own.” Hiere are, indeed, certain burdens
each man must bear primarily by himself. For instance, each
person must bear physical pain by himself. No one can bear it for
him.
Then, too, some of our burdens in life are our own doing and
we have to carry the burden ourself. I had a small auto accident
one night with a man who was driving across the country to get to
his dying mother. He had been driving nearly twenty-four hours
without stopping. Hie man had paid no attention to his mother for
nearly twenty years, and she was expected to die at any moment.
Now he was in a hurry to see her before She died. That man will
have to bear the burden of neglect himself.
Another sentence which can help is this: “Bear one
another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Strange as it
may seem, you can lighten your own burdens by sharing those of
another. People often need a friend they can confide in - talk with
-and know what they say will be held in confidence.
We were taught to “do unto others as you desire them to do
unto you.” So it helps us and another when we help them to bear
their burdens by being concerned. That is what we would want
them to do for us.
The third sentence which can help is this one: “Give your
burdens to the Lord. He will carry them.” Christianity does not
remove the burdens which life places upon our shoulders. But
Christ does teach us how to best bear those burdens and when to
turn them over to Him.
It was Christ Himself who said: “Come to me and I will give
you rest - all of you who work so hard beneath a heavy yoke. Wear
my yoke - for it fits perfectly -and let me teach you; for I am
gentle and humble, and you shall find rest for your souls; for I give
you only light burdens.”
When in life our burdens get so heavy they are difficult for us
to carry, it is a great relief to be able to turn them over to God. We
miss a great friend and helper when we try to sail life’s seas all
alone, carrying upon our shoulder the weight of the world. There
are some burdens which best can be carried by turning them over
to God. Why not do it!
Well, life does place upon us some heavy burdens. No
rational mind would disagree with that. But I hope that when life’s
load becomes heavy for you, that you will remember these
sentences from the Book of books and they will prove helpful to
you. - FIVE STAR.
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Hencely, Donnie, Cecelia and
Joe of Decatur spent Saturday
with Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Hencely.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Whitaker of Toccoa spent
Easter Sunday with Mrs. Ben
Moss. Also visiting were Mrs.
Jean Yell and Miss Sheila
Moss.
Mrs. Jean Yell had as her
Sunday night supper guests
Mrs. Ben Moss and Mr. and
Mrs. Nesbit Moss.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dean
and family of Norcross were
guests during the holiday
weekend of Mr. and Mrs. Tyrus
Grant and family.
Rev. and Mrs. Lon Hadwin
and Mrs. Billy Crum spent two
days this week in Nashville,
Tennessee at Trevecca Naza
rene College.
Important Notice
Snapping Shoals E. M. C. Members
Payment for wiring assistance under
Wiring Incentive Plan shall be abolished
as of May 1, 1973.
Any consumer who has signed a Wiring
Assistance Contract prior to that time and
has a building in any stage of construction
will be paid according to the plan in effect
at the time of the contract signature.
No new contracts shall be executed
after this date that include a wiring assist
ance clause.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1973
‘Whatsoever
Things'
By Donald E. Wildmon
The family of Mrs. J. W.
Carter spent Sunday at the
Carter-Williams cottage on
Turtle Cove. A picnic lunch
was served and in the
afternoon swimming, tennis
and an Easter egg hunt was
enjoyed. Those present were
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Williams,
Melissa, Susan, and Stacy of
Conyers, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry
McLaurin of Athens, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Carter, Lisa,
Laurie and Wesley, Mr. and
Mrs. Johnny Carter and Mrs.
J. W. Carter, all of Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Elliott
visited Sunday afternoon in
Macon with their children, Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Hood, and
Jonathan.
Mrs. Susan Thompson,
Michael and Ronda were
visitors of friends and relatives
in Jackson Friday.
What Is God Like?
This description, by The Rt. Rev. Everett H.
Jones, was submitted by Mrs. A. C. Sellers:
Most of us would never think that television
commercials had any religious value, or that they
could help us in our thinking about God.
However, I have heard recently of a school
teacher who suggested to the children in her class
that they take some phrases from the commercials
and see if they could make them applicable to God.
She was amazed at the results, and I have
shared her amazement. Here is anew version of the
faith of a child:
“God is like - Bayer Aspirin. He works
wonders.
“God is like - Ford. He’s got a better idea.
“God is like - Pan Am. He makes the going
great.
“God is like - Dial soap. He gives you ’round
the clock protection.
“God is like - Coke. He’s the real thing.
“God is like - Scope. He makes you feel fresh.
“God is like - G. E. bulbs. He lights our path.
And how’s this for a climax:
“God is like ~ Hallmark Cards. He cared
enough to send the very best.”
I am reminded of another example of the
religious insight of a child. A little girl was leaving
Sunday School when she was accosted by a sceptic
standing outside her church. He asked her if she
believed in God, and the child answered him that she
did.
“I will give you an orange,” he said, “if you will
tell me where God is.”
Quick as a flash she replied, “I’ll give you two if
you will tell me where He isn’t.”
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