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its This Way
By Doyle Jones Jr.
Jest of the Week: Think You Had Troubles! I’ll tell
you what kind of a day I had. The car broke down going in to
work. I had an argument with the boss. I lost my biggest
account. The mechanic charged me $143 to fix the car. I got
home, dropped into my favorite chair, and located the one egg
we couldn’t find at Easter.
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NO FAIR
A married deaf-mute couple could communicate with
each other only by the use of sign language.
One night the husband stayed out very late and his
wife waited for him, growing angrier and angrier by the
minute. Finally, the husband came staggering home and the
wife let him have the full effect of her anger, her. fingers
flying at him a mile a minute.
She berated him until she had spoken her piece; and,
then, when he was about to make reply, calmy reached up and
turned off the light.
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THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE
We are always glad to see Nelson Andrews of Center
Hill. Florida, come walking into the office for he always
surprises me —most pleasantly. Tuesday afternoon about
2:45 he sauntered into the office only minutes before I had to
report back to the courthouse for grand jury duty. After our
greeting, he said, “Doyle, I’ve got something for you.” He
walked out to his car and came back with a striped green and
white 30 pound round watermelon on election day, November
sth. What about that! Local watermelons made their last
appearance here about two months ago. We thanked Nelson
profusely upon which he said, “I’ve got something else.” He
.disappeared again and was back in a minute or so with a large
box of oranges, tangelos, and other citrus fruits. We’ve
already sampled the oranges and they are delicious but we’re
going to cut the watermelon this week. Nelson always
remembers us around Christmas with a basket of assorted
citrus fruits, and on some occasions, twice, and we look
forward to these goodies from our former neighbor.
Thanks, Nelson, and I hope that watermelon is as good as it
looks .... Tickets to the Tech-Georgia blood letting in
Athens on November 30th are about as scarce as four leaf
clovers in a pea patch. When the Techs invade the hedges,
records count for naught and past performance can be
forgotten. Folks who see only one game a year invariably
want to make it Tech-Georgia. Although Sanford Field has not
been full to date, you can count on standing room only when
the two ancient rivals collide. By actual count, I’ve had nine
requests for tickets and the game is still 17 days away. It’ll get
hectic the last few days. Folks will worry Vince Dooley and
Dan Magill to death, not to mention Mrs. Virginia Whitehead,
in charge of the ticket department. All ducats have long since
been gone and those remaining for sale are probably in the
hands of scalpers. Those willing to pay their prices can get
them. Otherwise it’s the trestle or the bridge .... I was
always a great admirer of Van Brocklin as a player and a
most caustic critic as a coach, which is definitely not his
profession. Though I do not know him personally, he
undoubtedly is one of the most complex personalities in
sports. I could not help but feel sorry for him when I read of
his firing. I feel a piece of his life was excised when he was
fired as Falcon coach. In my eyes the real culprit was owner
Rankin Smith who allowed the Falcon situation to deteriorate
to such an extent that it will take more than a year of
rehabilitation and new players to restore the team to a
productive record. Smith appeared far more interested in
filling Atlanta Stadium than in filling the Falcons’ desperate
needs with players on the field and anew coach on the
sideline. In short, Smith was too money conscious and could
not see the fans for the dollars that evidently blinded him to
the extent that the Falcons were the laughing stock of pro
football. We wish Marion Campbell well. The old Georgia
tackle, a great one, and an all-pro lineman, will need the best
wishes and prayers of all devout Falcon fans if he is to turn
the team about. The unfortunate thing is that no one can fire
Rankin .... We had anew slant on the Pet of the Week
the other day. Mr. Wade Hammond was parked in front of
Mclntosh State Bank last Thursday and called me over to the
car. “Doyle’,” he said, “I want you to come out and see my
cat. I’ve got the ugliest one in the world.” About this time,
Mrs. Hammond returned to the car and I told her what Mr.
Wade had said. She laughingly admitted it was true and said,.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
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DEALING WITH EMOTIONAL DEPRESSION
(Part Four Clip and Save)
Finally, in dealing with emotional depression, learn
to trust in the goodness and greatness of God. It does our mind
good to get it off our weaknesses and to think of God’s
greatness. When you are ill and you let your mind constantly
dwell on your illness, you are doing the worse possible thing
you can do.
The Scriptures are full of verses which, if we would
make them a part of our working vocabulary, would be of
tremendous help to us. Verses like these. “The eternal God is
your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” Or,
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want . . .” Or, “For
God so loved that world that He gave His only Son . . .
Can you remember that Jesus healed so much that He
became known as the Great Physician? In fact, the words of
Jesus contain the most effective medicine for dealing with
emotional depression known to mankind. Several years ago
Dr. James Tucker Fisher, a well-known psychiatrist who was
a student of Freud, had some words about the teachings of
Jesus in a book he entitled “A Few Buttons Missing.” Here is
what Dr. Fisher wrote:
“What was needed, I felt sure, was some new and
enlightened recipe for living a sane and satisfying life —a
recipe compounded from all the accumulated scientific
knowledge acquired through study and research.
“ I dreamed of writing a handbook that
would be simple, practical, easy to understand, and easy to
follow. It would tell people how to live what thoughts and
attitudes and philosophies to cultivate, and what pitfalls to
avoid, in seeking mental health. I attended every symposium
it was possible for me to attend, and I took notes on the wise
words of my teachers and of my colleagues who were leaders
in their field.
“And then, quite by accident, I discovered that such a
work had already been completed ....
“For a specific illustration, I believe the following to
be true: If you were to take the sum total of all the
authoritative articles ever written by the most qualified of
psychologists and psychiatrists on the subject of mental
hygiene if you were to combine them, and refine them,
and cleave out the excess verbage if you were to take the
whole of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to
have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge
concisely expressed by the most capable of living poets, you
would have an awkward and incomplete summation of the
Sermon on the Mount. And it would suffer immeasurably
through comparison.”
The finest help for dealing with emotional depression
we have is contained in the fifth, sixth and seventh chapters of
the Gospel of Matthew.
The Christian has available for himself, and for the
world, a practical and workable method of dealing with'
emotional depression. FIVE STAR.
FPRiIRRI
By Mrs. Cindy Brown
NO SANTA IN
BETHLEHEM
For those of you who’re in the
know
We have just forty days to go.
Now these are not all
shopping days,
Just extra time for Christ
mas craze.
I wonder if we shouldn’t see
That December 25th needs to
be
A day for thinking of godly
things
Instead of dolls and diamond
rings.
There was no Santa in
Bethlehem
Only love and faith undim.
And the poorest shepherds
and richest men
Who came to cast away their
sin.
Forget the tinsel, lights and
trees.
“the cat's so ugly we ve named her “Booger.”’ So be on the
lookout for Booger soon in the Pet of the Week column. She’ll
be featured as the “Ugliest Cat in Butts County” ....
Seldom has a state-wide political race in Georgia been
characterized by two such sterling men of integrity and
capabilities as that between Zell Miller, Democrat, and Dr.
John Savage, Republican. My only regret was that one could
not vote for both and I suspect that opinion was shared by
many thousands of Georgians. Congratulations to winner Zell
and also to John, not for losing but for the manner in which he
lost and for the campaign he conducted on such a high plane.
Both parties gain when they are represented by such
candidates .... Christmas is only a short look around
the corner and after Thanksgiving it closes with the rush of an
express train. Those wise in the way of the Yule season do
their shopping early and smart merchants begin their ad
campaigns even before Thanksgiving. Christmas is a season
where the spirit reigns and those who wait until Christmas
Eve deprive themselves of much of the joy and true meaning
of Christmas .... The Jaycees are already hard at
work on their Empty Stocking campaign and an
announcement may be made even before this column is read.
It is one of the most worthwhile of all charities and deserves
the support of every citizen in the county financially able to
help his fellow man and those less fortunate. The Jaycees
have sponsored this project for many years and have always
done a most creditable job. In this year, more than ever,
filled with talk of depression and despair, they need our help.
Let us help the Jaycees as they seek to help others.
‘Whatsoever
Things'
By Donald E. Wildmon
Fall so humbly to your knees.
Remember what you really
should
How to you, He’s been so
good.
CHOW CHOW CHOW
My favorite TV commer
cials might not be the same
as yours, but I think we can
all agree that they’re
becoming better all the time.
Morris the Cat and other
felines who are either highly
particular or who chow-chow
-chow madly across the
screen, have become so real
to most of us that if they
actually paraded into our
living rooms from their
electronic worlds, we
wouldn’t be at all surprised.
Then there is Mother
Nature, the lady you must
not fool after all, we all
know by now that its’s “not
nice to fool Mother Nature.”
Have you ever stopped to
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1974
think what would happen if
Mother Nature married the
Jolly Green Giant? Why,
then no one would dare to try
and trick her. (Of course,
there is a Father Nature now
who advertises tobacco and
he just might not like that
idea.)
There are all manner of
beautifying and health items
advertised on the set now,
especially deodorants. I
never can remember if Ban
is drier than Arrid or
whether Dial beats both of
them. I tried Dial soap AND
deodorant one time, but when
it didn’t make me walk three
feet off the floor, I gave both
away. Then I turned to
Secret. I didn’t have a Daddy
living at home to keep it a
secret from though, so some
of the fun seemed to be
missing.
I like the man in the
elevator who says “he feels
good all under.” Can you
envision what would happen
in Atlanta if someone really
did that? Maynard’s vice
squad would probably rush
quickly to the scene, stop the
elevator and spray him with
Lysol, which eliminates all
unpleasant things.
Oh, we mustn’t forget the
Hamm’s beer commercial
you know, the man with
the bear. If my crew thought
I could get a bear by drinking
Hamms, next week’s grocery
allotment would be spent at
the local package store. As
you probably realize, Schlitz
Malt Liquor produces a bull
upon the opening of its flip
top. Said bull charges angrily
through the house and causes
the brew lover to perch atop
the highest piece of furniture
available. Sometimes I wish
the bull and bear would
meet: maybe the most
chronic beer guzzler would
turn to Coke and teach all the
rest of us how to sing.
I have tried Emeraude, an
18 hour Playtex item and
Leggs hosiery. But the
Emeraude didn’t rpake him
more of a man, the Playtex
item became tiresome after 8
hours and when I wore
Leggs, nobody said, “Wow,
Mrs. Brown, you’ve got
Leggs.” Well, you can’t win
all the time. Maybe I’ll try
something different next
week. I know Certs. No
telling who’ll be waiting for
me when I get off at the next
stop.
A BABE’S FIRST
CRY
Listening to a babe’s first cry
Is just like striking gold:
It gives you grace to live to
be
1,000 and 1 years old.
It’s sort of like discovering
That Spring has come at last;
That all the cold the winter
brought
Is something in the past.
When new life comes and
makes its way
Into a world of strangers,
It makes you want to swing
into
A course on human dangers.
Yet you must let this new one
go
His own way like the rest.
With hopes in all sincerity
That he turns out for best.
PERSONAL
Mr. Asa O’Neal, who
celebrated his birthday last
Sunday, and Mrs. O’Neal had
as guests their children and
grandchildren, including Mr.
and Mrs. Ennis O’Neal,
Beverly and Bob, Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh O’Neal, Lee, Alan
and Brian of Forest Park,
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin O’Neal of
Forest Park, Steve O’Neal of
Georgia Southwestern Col
lege, and Nancy O’Neal of
Clayton Junior College.
People once believed that
fern seeds would make them
invisible.
things were bad enough, but now...
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On behalf erf the Butts
County Parents-Teachers Or
ganization, t would like to
express our appreciation to
the many parents, teachers,
students and merchants who
contributed to the success of
our carnival. Also the
Jackson High School Key
Club for handling the door for
the dance.
A special thanks to Buster
Duke and Herman Cawthon
for barbecuing the chickens.
Thanks also to the Ocmulgee
Saddle Club, George Gil
more, Darlene Goens, and
Dana Spivey for furnishing
the ponies for the Pony Ride.
I would like to publicly
commend our school officials
who support our P.T.O. Mrs.
McCormick was of great help
to the Primary Steering
Committee with their carni
val project and was present
during the carnival. Like
wise, Mr. Comer of the
Elementary School was also
present and stayed until the
dance was over.
One man we cannot
commend highly enough was
George Tate, Jackson High
School principal. On the
Saturday of the carnival, a
group of mothers went to the
Henderson Junior High Gym
to prepare for the carnival.
After several frantic phone
calls and many frazzled
nerves, Mr. Tate appeared
and pitched in, helping with
the cleaning; even mopping
water from leaking pipes
after the plumber had
repaired one of the leaks. As
this condition has existed for
some time, it was quite
messy, but with his help we
were able to open on time
without parents or students
having to walk through water
to reach the restrooms. Mr.
Tate continued to be of
assistance throughout the
evening and in fact after
helping us secure the
building was among the last
to leave. With cooperation
THE ELECTRIC ROCK
It takes a lot of workers to construct an
industrial plant or office building. A
school or hospital.
Workers who mix and mold con
crete blocks. Saw logs into timber. Forge
steel into nails. And a multitude of other
jobs that take millions of kilowatt-hours.
Electricity makes these and many
other jobs possible. Perhaps your own.
Georgia Power Company must
make sure there’s enough electricity, for
jobs and homes in Georgia.
Enough for now, and for
whenever you need more.
Thatrequirescostly
Guest Editorial
The Adel News
Discipline Is Large Part
Of Learning, Growing Up
Every so often it is well to take a look at our local
schools and see in what direction they are headed. With
schools having been open only for a month, this might be a
good time to take stock of where they are and where they are
going.
In the first place, it is not easy to find capable school
administrators and teachers. There is a great deal of
competition in this area and you are lucky if better than
average people in this area can be found. We are fortunate in
having some capable administrators and teachers who are
sincere in doing a good job —and generally they are doing a
fine job.
The job of educating children is a cooperative
venture, although some parents seem to be ignorant of this
fact. Parents of school children many of whom were
raised in another era with stricter values have an
obligation to cooperate with school authorities in every way
possible as they attempt to guide, train and educate the
children of this community.
Some parents have the mistaken notion that their
children are not capable of doing anything wrong and getting
into mischief. It is the neighbor’s child who is always in the
wrong and needs to be disciplined.
! Children must be disciplined, as well as educated, for
if they are not disciplined they cannot be educated. This is one
point parents must keep in mind.
It should also be remembered that proper
disciplining never hurt anyone, and is a prerequisite in
keeping order.
If there is anything that children need to'leam today,
it is how to take discipline and how to get along with his fellow
man. Without these ingredients an education is worthless and
a person cannot contribute much to society.
As this school year continues, we urge all parents to
cooperate with teachers and school officials, and encourage
their children to approach school with the proper attitude.
Discipline and learning should go hand to hand, and is a large
part of growing up.
such as this, it is a pleasure
for the parents to work with
their schools for the benefit
of our children.
Wilma C. Bridges
President
Butts County PTO
facilities to produce and deliver electri
city. So we must attract investors willing,
through loans and the purchase of our
stocks and bonds, to finance 80 percent
or more of the construction costs. For
every dollar earned last year, about $8
must be invested this year.
That’s why earnings must be main
tained at a sufficient level to attract
the necessary money. So our construc
tion can go forward to help provide
.ifeSi
In China, gongs were beat
en to cure children of
convulsions.
reliable electricity for
your needs.
Electricity makes pos
sible a lot of jobs. And a
better life for everyone.
Georgia Power Company
A citizen wherever we serve 9
