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Jest of the Week: Inflammable Mixture - When an
insurance investigator returned from a recent fire, his boss asked
what had caused the blaze.
“Friction,” the investigator said angrily.
“Something rubbing together, eh?”
“Yeah,” the adjuster said, “the fire was caused by rubbing
a SIO,OOO insurance policy against a $7,000 house.”
Deordorized - It was an unusually rough football game, and
when the referee called a clipping penalty against our high-school
team and walked off 15 yards, one of the players muttered, loud
enough for the official to hear, “You stink!”
Without stopping the referee stepped off a second 15 yards,
then called out, “How do I smell from here?”
THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE
Seventy-one tornadoes Sunday struck areas of the midwest
and southeast. It is believed to be the greatest number for a single
day in the history of the U. S. Weather Service. It was a stormy day
in Georgia. Three inch hail fell at Rome. A tornado or high winds
struck southwest Atlanta Monday morning, inflicting considerable
property damage. Most of the state was under tornado watches for
the greater part of the day. Trees were uprooted and roofs blown
off houses in scattered sections of Georgia. We will be glad when
the weather settles down and it becomes hot to
stay .... Hooray for the beavers! After having their dam
destroyed for the umpteenth time, they have rebuilt it again. All of
this alongside Route 87 just beyond Big Sandy Creek in Monroe
County. The persistent and doggedly determined beavers have
rebuilt their dam at least six or eight times, always replacing the
structure after it is dynamited. The beaver is the great engineer of
the animal kingdom and men would do well to study their
engineering feats .... We are glad to see deer stage a
comback. In a population resurgence difficult to explain they are
rapidly extending over most of the state. Annually many
thousands are killed by hunters. The auto takes a heavy toll of
deer. Predators and disease account for many more. Yet they are
flourishing and Nimrods are happy. Keeping pace with the deer is
the crow population which must have mushroomed to new highs.
In traveling over the state a few years ago, one scarcely ever saw
a crow. Now they dot every highway and in droves of from three or
four to 10-15. We have been impressed not only by numbers but by
the size of the black rascals. They are fat and sleek with their
black bodies glistening in the sun like polished ebony. They feed
scant yards from expressway while cars whiz by, evidently
causing the brazen rascals no concern. Down in South Georgia the
other day we saw 50 or more fly overhead on 1-16, obviously
heading for a crow reunion of some magnitude. Yes, the deer and
crews are becoming more numerous as the rabbit, quail and
squirrel fight to hold their own in a most unfavorable
environment .... Mrs. Ron Wade called the other day to
say that her dog had been poisoned. There was grief in her voice
and concern for other pets in her heart. She has the sympathy of
the writer and of the great majority of animal lovers, most of
whom own dogs or cats or both. I know of nothing else to write that
I ha ve not written before in this column. I simply do not know how
to reason or appeal to a dog poisoner. As despicable an act as it is,
I suppose they have reasons, real or fancied, with which they seek
to justify their actions. I know barking and foraging dogs can be a
nuisance. I know the anger that flares when garbage cans are
upset and the contents scattered; of the momentary pique when
freshly planted flowers are uprooted, anew bed “scratched” to the
point of extinction; or a favorite plant or shrub killed with the
strong-smelling urine. But not once, and all the above has
happened on many occasions, have I entertained any thought of
resorting to poisoning. If I knew the owner of the offending dog or
dogs I would certainly speak to them -and a second time if the
first was fruitless. If it persisted one _ould appeal to the police or a
lawyer to seek legal recourse. If all else fails then I suppose one
could feel impelled to resort to a shotgun or rifle and a mercifully
swift death to the offending canine. Poison: No! I have seen the
victims of strychnine die in convulsions on the veterinarian’s table
in such undescribable agony that it would bring tears from
granite. Poison is for those sick and twisted in mind. For those who
hate and take it out on dumb beasts. We can only extend our
sympathy again and trust that God will show compassion on all
dog poisoners for it is they who by their madness are the victims
and not the dog .... I call your attention to the column by
Harley Bowers on this page. Mr. Bowers is sports editor of The
Macon Telegraph and his article, “Wouldn’t Rather Switch,” is
timely and provocative. There is little doubt that Tech will seek
and be admitted back into the SEC at such time as Bobby Dodd
steps down as athletic director. For many long suffering Tech fans
this can’t come too soon .... We extend congratulations to
Rev. S. J. Westbury and sons, Phil and James, upon their ground
breaking last week for anew 120-bed, $600,000 nursing home in
McDonough. Phil Westbury says “it will be the most modern in
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Guest Editorial
MACON HERALD
The Bloodiest Battleground
Georgia had a bumper crop of deaths last year on her
bloodiest battleground - her highways.
Last year, there were 54,139 two car collisions in the state.
Two car accidents killed 768 Georgians and injured 15,474 more.
Lastyear, 13,155 cars and trucks ran off the road, killing 429
and injuring 6,597 Georgians. Another 632 cars and trucks
overturned on the highway, killing nine and injuring 372.
Lastyear, 3,367 vehicles hit guard rails, bridges, trees, and
other obstructions. The dead from fixed object crashes number
135. Injured were 1,286 men, women, and children.
Parked vehicles were smashed into by other cars and
trucks, 3,034 times in 1972. Eighteen Georgians are dead, and 285
were injured.
Georgia drivers killed 193 pedestrians and injured 690 more,
in 842 reported collisions of cars and trucks with people.
Some of the people injured in 1972 car crashes are dying
each day. For the 1,891 that are dead, 1972 was, quite unexpectedly
the year that everything stopped, cold.
The staff of The Progress-Argus and the Georgia Safety
Council urge you to drive defensively in 1973. The other guy wants
to live, too.
reports from the united states senate
FOR YEARS the American people agonized over the war in
Vietnam that took an enormous toll in blood, treasure, and na
tional unity. That war drove our people apart as they have
not been divided since the War Between the States.
More than 50,000 American lives were lost in Vietnam in
fighting that dragged on for 10 long years. The war drained
the energy and resources of our economy, and left economic
wounds from which it will take our nation a long time to
recover.
Now, the United States has disengaged itself from direct
combat involvement and our ground forces have been with
drawn. Yet, we are still involved in Southeast Asia, and United
States bombing raids over Cambodia and Laos are generating
renewed unrest in Congress and among the American people.
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AMERICANS SPENT terrible years hoping and praying for
the time when our country could extricate ourselves from that
unholy mess in Vietnam. I shared that concern.
My feeling was that when the time came that we could hon
orably reach a settlement and bring our forces home, we ought
to get out lock, stock, and barrel.
We surely do not want any more Vietnams. We do not want
any more unnecessary bloodshed.
The War in Vietnam must serve as a lesson to the United
States. We must steer clear of involving U.S. forces in any con
flict, anywhere in the world, under any conditions unless our
own national security is directly threatened. This, in my judg
ment, is what the American people want, and it is a policy I
believe to be in our best national interest.
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I HAVE joined a move in the Senate to curb undeclared
wars and to restore Congress’ role in war policy. The War
Powers Act is an effort to insure that U.S. forces will never
again be sent to foreign combat unless our own interests are
at stake.
In our nation’s relatively short history of 197 years, the
Armed Forces of the United States have been committed abroad
on 174 separate occasions. Yet, the Congress has formally de
clared war only five times.
My intention in supporting this legislation is not to criticize
Presidents whose Administrations have spanned the Vietnam
war. My desire is not to strip the Commander-in-Chief of his
rights and responsibilities under the Constitution. Congress
simply needs to make it clear that never again will American
forces be called into action merely because of some vague
treaty commitment or executive agreement.
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Georgia,” and if any of the Westburys say it, that’s good enough
for me. Present Westbury nursing homes are in Jenkinsburg and
Conyers. The new facility is envisioned to be completed by
January 1, 1974 .... Margaret Shannon unleashed her
considerable writing expertise in The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution’s Sunday magazine section on a story of American
Mills three day work week. As expected, it is unusually well done
and tells of the reasons of the management’s decision to try this
innovative program. One deducts from the article that thus far the
program must be termed a success with its motivation for more
time off for employees. In fact, it is such an excellent story we
suggest that the Shapard clan, who can afford it, should treat
Margaret to a week’s stay at Eden Roc .... Three Middle
Georgia students were killed last week in a high speed crash down
a 150 foot embankment on 1-16 south of Macon. The 3 a.m. crash
occurred after the collegians had a “night on the town” at a Macon
night chib. Investigating officers reported the car literally
exploded upon impact. The estimated speed by officers was 120
m.p.h. Enough said! .... Jack Nicklaus played near
perfect golf for three rounds in the Atlanta Classic, shooting
67-66-66, and calling the round Friday perhaps the best golf he had
ever played. I can believe it. I saw it. This truly great golfer made
it look ridiculously easy. But Sunday he had his problems and
proved that he is still human. He finished two strokes ahead of
Tom Weiskopf who managed to turn the Classic into an Ohio State
Derby. And when one tired of watching Nicklaus, the men, at least,
had a fashion show at hand featuring belles, fore and aft. There
was never a dull moment despite threatening weather the entire
four days. The forms of the spectators matched or exceeded those
of the players on the course. Many of the girls came dressed to be
seen and the men got their money’s worth. Even the wives
expressed amusement in some of the modish monstrosities that
were prancing and jiggling about the course. Of course, it was fun
and we enjoyed every minute even with Jack winning.
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1973
‘Whatsoever
jpl? Things’
flj By Donald E. Wildmon
KEEP MEANING IN LIFE
In the spring of 1972 actor George Sanders took a vacation in
a resort area of Spain. At the time Sanders was 65 years of age. He
ted what many people work toward in life. He had fame and
fortune. He ted a good education. And he had good health for a
person his age.
Yet while on that vacation George Sanders committed
suicide. On a note which he left he stated: “I am bored and have
already lived enough.”
There are many people who feel that way. Life loses its
meaning and they lose the desire to go on living. They are simply
tired of living. It isn’t hard for life to get that way, especially if
one’s purpose for life doesn’t stretch beyond himself. We need to
remember, also, that many share equally the lost zest for living
which Sanders had who don’t commit physical suicide.
There is a great truth running through the very fiber of life.
The truth is this: The zest for living disappears when a purpose for
living doesn’t exist. One of the elementary rules for life to have
meaning is for a person to find purpose in it all. For without
purpose nothing really matters. And that purpose, if it is to keep up
going, must be above and beyond ourselves.
The Carpenter from Nazareth laid it out in a very simple
way when He said: “The person who loses his life for my sake shall
find it.” When you have committed yourself to building a better
world, to working for man’s Creator, to helping the human race
learn to love and help each other -then life is always worth living.
Despite the opinion to the contrary, fame and fortune do not
-of themselves -- put purpose and meaning into life. Very few poor
people commit suicide. They have to keep going because someone
else is depending on them.
Lose your life in service to your fellowman, give yourself
over to making the world a better place, follow the advice of that
Galilean Carpenter and you will find life. You will find life with
meaning and purpose - life full of zest.
The person who lives only for himself will one day become
bored and grow tired of it all. Eventually the meaning of existence
will disappear. Then there will be no purpose to sustain a desire to
press on.
‘The person who loses his life for my sake shall find it.”
There is a world of truth in that statement. The person who heeds
its truth will never lose the purpose for or meaning of life. The
person who ignores it will often die years before he is buried.
Leo Rosten, writing in the Library Journal, said: “The
purpose of life is not to be happy -but to matter, to be productive,
to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
A person striving to make the world a better place in which
to live hasn’t got time to become bored. - FIVE STAR.
Letters to Editor
As the newly elected Presi
dent of the Georgia Lung
Association, known so long to
so many as the Georgia
Tuberculosis and Respiratory
Disease Association, I want to
personally thank The Pro
gress-Argus and the people of
Butts County for the very fine
help and support we received
in the ’72 Christmas Seal
Campaign, one of the finest our
organization has ever had.
Times are changing and we
are rushing to keep up with
them. The new name change
does not mean less work in
tuberculosis, for many thou
sands of Americans still are
infected with the dreaded
disease. What the change does
show is that we have become
more concerned about the
alarming rate of increase in
the other lung diseases. Last
year alone, 2.5 million persons
suffered from chronic respira
tory diseases and Social
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Security disability statistics
show that emphysema is the
second worst disabler in the
country. Our purpose is then
not to exclude tuberculosis but
to fight for more prevention
and control of all lung diseases.
If we ha ve been successful in
the past, it is because our
supporters believed in our
cause. Today, that cause is
greater and the problems far
worse than first realized. With
continued help from The Pro
gress-Argus and the support of
the Butts County we can lick
this growing problem con
fronting our lungs and our
country. I say “our country”
because a nation is only as
strong as those who live in it.
We believe that it’s a matter of
life and breath.
Sincerely,
Goodloe Y. Erwin, M.D.
President
Georgia Lung Association
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Bowers
Wouldn’t Rather Switch
Some people, especially those down in Mississip
pi. criticized the University of Georgia last year for
refusing to switch the date of a game in order to get
it on television. Now the Bulldogs’ athletic director,
Joel Eaves, is catching some flak about declining to
move this year’s game with Georgia Tech from the
traditional two weeks after the Auburn encounter to
Thanksgiving night.
Georgia agreed to this two years ago but it
only involved a move of two days then, from a Sat
urday to a Thursday the same week. This year it
would mean moving the game from Saturday, Dec.
1, to Thursday night, Nov. 22.
With the! game against Auburn slated for Satur
day, Nov. 17, Georgia would be taking quite a gam
ble by moving the Tech game up to the 22nd. Nobody
knows what lies ahead but there could be more rid
ing on the outcome of this year’s Tech-Georgia game
than the amount of money the Bulldogs would get
from TV could possibly cover.
It is true that Tech plays the week before
Thanksgiving too, but the Jackets are scheduled for
a Friday night engagement against Navy in Jack
sonville. This would give them an extra day of prep
aration after playing a much weaker foe in Navy
than Georgia will be facing in Auburn.
Naturally, Georgia’s refusal to switch was a dis
appointment to Tech. The Jackets, as an indepen
dent, would have been able to keep all the money
from TV. Georgia would have had to divide it among
Southeastern Conference members, which wouldn’t
have left the Bulldogs all that much.
Tech And The SEC .
Speaking of Tech and the SEC, Coach Bill Fulch
er commented on the matter last Thursday night
when he addressed area alumni. He said the Jackets
couldn’t very well get back into the conference even
if they wanted to because schedules had been made
so far in advance. He added that they liked being
able to keep all money from TV games and from
bowl encounters anyway.
Nevertheless, Tech alumni and fans are pretty
unanimous in wishing the school was back in the
SEC. There is a chance that they may get their wish
in the not too distant future. It won't happen until
Bobby Dodd retires as athletic director. For one
thing, he would never agree to applying for readmis
sion. For another thing, there are several schools in
the SEC that would never agree to let Tech back in
as long as Dodd is there.
But when Dodd retires and if the NCAA does
what it is rumored it may do regarding scheduling,
Tech could become a member again in short order.
The NCAA is studying the idea of prohibiting schools
from making schedules more than three years in
advance.
If this is done any problems regarding a league
schedule for Tech would be virtually eliminated.
Since the Jackets are already playing Georgia, Au
burn and Tennessee they could have the required
number of six league games within three seasons. It
would be even simpler in other sports.
Regardless of what anyone says about keeping
TV and bowl money, Tech would be a lot better off
in the SEC. And the SEC, despite what some people
say, would be a lot better off with Tech. It seems
rather ridiculous that a major university in the larg
est city in the Southeast isn’t in that section’s major
conference. The whole thing never should have hap
pened in the first place and the sooner something is
worked out for Tech’s return the better for all con
cerned.
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