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Law Enforcement Big Task
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover recently stated
that as A RULE, MEN who have no respect
for the law have nothing but contempt for those
charged with enforcing it Thus, the law enforce
ment officer’s task becomes harder and his
personal safety diminishes as more crimes are
committed and less criminals are brought to jus
tice.
He continued:
Last year. 76 police officers were killed in
the line of duty. This is 19 more than the num
ber slain in 1966. Since 1960. 411 law enforce
ment officers have been murdered, an average
of more than 51 per year. Os the 539 offenders
involved in these killings, 77 percent had been
previously arrested and 67 percent had been
previously convicted. Two-thirds of the police
killers previously convicted had been granted
parole or probation, and 3 out of 10 were actively
on parol or probation when they killed a police
officer.
Along with the ever-present danger of death,
the enforcement officer faces personal injury
with increasing frequency. Encouraged, no doubt,
by judicial leniency and public indifference, more
and more suspects resist arrest and resort to
violence when approached by officers. In 1967,
almost 14 of every 100 police officers were as
saulted, an increase of 11 percent over 1966.
The rule of law is in jeopardy when law en-
Many of the civil rights activists claim that
the phrase "law and order" in the context of
political campaigning is really a cover-up for an
appeal to the racist element. This theory is so
faulty that to list its flaws would take several
columns of news space. We have, however, seen
many such phrases used recently by a wide
variety of speakers and columnists that do appear
to have hidden meanings.
Here’s your opportunity to indulge in a word
game to find the hidden meaning. Here are a few
to give you the idea:
concerned citizens-Those in accord with the
speaker’s position.
meaningful dialogue-You listen to my demands,
follow up on them and I’ll think of some more later.
a peaceful protest-Only half the building was
sacked; less than ten policemen were hospitalized;
only rocks were thrown, and damage was less
We noted an editorial in the Becker County
Record in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, that we be
lieve is worth duplicating. It included a list of
questions that might be found on the test given
to immigrants desiring to become naturalized
citizens.
Here are some of the questions. The answers
are below. What is your citizenship LQ.?
1. Our form of government as guaranteed by
the Constitution is: a. Democracy. B. Re
public. c. Monarchy.
2. What is our national motto?
a. In God We Trust, b. E Pluribus Unum.
c. Liberty and Justice for All.
3. When was the Constitution adopted?
a. July 4, 1776 b. Mar. 4, 1789. c. June 14, 1777.
4. How are amendments to the Constitution rati
fied? a. By popular vote of the people, b. By
state conventions or legislatures, c. By U.S.
House and Senate.
5. Article I of the Constitution prohibits a levy
of tax on income. How then is the income
tax legal?
a. It isn’t b. Constitution was amended.
90th Anniversary of 5-1 Oc Stores
Like the nickel cigar, the five-and-dime store
has disappeared into limbo. Many of today’s
youths have, very likely, never heard of the five
and-dime since today a five-or-ten-cent piece has
about as much purchasing power as the famed
wooden nickel. But, it is also a safe bet that
today’s youths are among the best customers
of the descendents of the "Great Five-Cent
Store,” which first introduced the low-priced
variety store.
The company that gave birth to the five-and
ten celebrates its 90th Anniversary in 1969.
The F. W. Woolworth Company has today grown
into a chain of 3,381 stores, with sales in
1968 totaling $1,906,479,895. The company’s
operations currently extend into 10 countries.
In the U. S. alone, it employs over 62,000 people.
Long ago, the five-and-ten cent ceiling price for
merchandise carried in its stores was abandoned.
Today, these stores are highly diversified, carry-
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MABEL SESSIONS DENNIS
Editor and Publisher
LEO S. MALLARD
Assistant to Publisher
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AND THE
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forcement officers are regularly attacked and
slain in the line of duty. Our concept of self
government is endangered when policemen must
frequently win a physical struggle while making
arrests. And our democratic processes are weak
ened when officers are publicly condemned and
ridiculed for protecting the peaceful against vio
lence and disorder.
In 1967, policemen were slain on the average
of one every 5 days. This is a disgrace. It is
particularly shocking when officers are gunned
down by convicted criminals who, after exhaust
ing all possible legal relief, are still on the
streets. In one such instance, a convicted robber
remained free more than 3 weeks after all of
his appeals and petitions had been denied by the
courts, a process requiring nearly 2 years.
On the 23rd day after the date that he should
have been jailed, he murdered a police officer.
Is this balanced justice?
Ours is a government of law. Our Nation’s
survival depends on effective enforcement of the
law. But law enforcement, to be fully effective,
must receive more public support.
While law enforcement officers seldom mention
the fact, all are keenly aware that the specter
of death rides at their side during most of their
duty hours. Brave, dedicated men are not deterr
ed from worthy public service by danger alone.
But how long can we ask officers to risk their
lives when they and the law are not respected?
than a million dollars.
mild confrontation-See "meaningful dialogue’’
but add threats of violence.
eyeball - to - eyeball confrontation - All
parties were eager not to meet and relieved when
it was finished.
civil disobedience-Breaking laws that don’t suit
your needs.
civil rights-The right to trample on the rights
of others.
judicial leniency-Rights granted to criminals;
never to be confused with the victim’s rights
which are non-existent.
police brutality-Failure of a law enforcement
officer to excuse himself for being in the way
of a criminal breaking the law; too much em
phasis on enforcement of the law by policemen.
Care to add to the list? Send them along.
c. Congress passed a law making it legal.
6. What is the Bill of Rights?
a. The first ten amendments to the Consti
tution.
b. A treaty with our allies, c. The preamble
to the Constitution.
7. U.S. Senators have always been elected by
the people.
a. True, b. False.
8. How many Justices on the Supreme Court?
a. 9 b. 7 c. 12.
9. How many Senators are there in the Congress?
a. 80 b. 100. c. 196.
10. How many Representatives are there in Con
gress? a. 435. b. 572. c. 280.
11. How many U. S. Senators has each state?
a. 1. b. 2. c. 3.
12. A biU passed by both houses of Congress
may become a law without the President’s
signature.
a. True. b. False.
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ing more than 50,000 different items with price
tags that occasionally go over SIOO. Although
emphasis is still placed on quality at a mini
mum price, the modern retail outlets of this
company have become a broadly-based complex
offering fine jewelry, television sets, refri
gerators and fashions for the entire family. As
one of America’s great merchandising institutions
observes its 90th birthday, the greatest lesson
to be found in the history of its growth is in
the fact that it is a product of the competitive,
free market system. As such, its success
through the 90 years of its existence had de
pended upon one factor more than any other—the
ability to keep abreast of the changing tastes and
demands of customers.
Here is a perfect illustration of how a free
market and consumer choice have led to the
development of a mass merchandising system
in the United States that has no equal.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advertising Manager
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at Covington. Georgia
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With A School This Beautiful You’re
Certain To Be Well Educated
OUR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
DEVOTIONAL READING: Ps
alms 97.
Memory Selection: I will give
you as a light to the nations, that
my salvation may reach to the
end of the earth. Isaiah 49:6.
INTERMEDIATE-SENIOR TO
PIC: People and Places of the
Bible.
YOUNG PEOPLE-ADULT TO
PIC: Geographical and Cultural
Backgrounds of the Bible.
A lesson dealing with the geo
graphical and cultural back
grounds of the Bible may prove
to be rather difficult for the
modern mind to comprehend. The
land in which the Bible arose is
quite different from ours. People
and customs were different. The
age was so different that we look
in horror at many things done then
which were considered essential
for the establishing of the one
true religion and its continuance.
The scene of this lesson is
laid in Samaria. Because the
splendor of Solomon’s building
program had been achieved at the
cost of forced labor, the people
were restive under his rule. His
son, Rehoboam, refused to relieve
the people of their burdens. Ac
cordingly, the ten northern tribes
(comprising about 80 percent of
the entire membership of the He
brew race) cut themselves off
from the two tribes to the south
(Judah and Benjamin) and set up a
kingdom of their own called the
kingdom of Israel.
Jeroboam I, who wanted to
separate himself and his people
as much as possible from Jeru
salem and its influence, departed
from the worship of Jehovah and
turned to Idolatry. Jeroboam
made golden calves, which he bade
the people to look upon and wor
ship as the deities that had led
them out from the land of Egypt.
Under such degraded religious
ideas the nation fell into every
variety of individual and social
evil. The rich became exces
sively rich, and the poor sank
into degradation. At last, in the
year 722 8.C., Assyria, the cr
uelest of all ancient nations, over
whelmed the northern kingdom
and so obliterated the people and
their Institutions that these ten
tribes disappeared from the pages
of history. They are now known
only as the Lost Tribes of Is
rael. Assyria moved unwanted
people in their own country into
this land, which came to be cal
led Samaria, and these, mixing
with the degraded population
which Assyria had not thought
worthwhile to carry off into cap
tivity, became the Samaritans.
These Samaritan people ack
nowledged only the first five books
of the Old Testament. They knew
nothing about the prophets and
psalm writers and writers
of the Book of Proverbs, and
cared less. It was their convic
tion that God had directed that
Mount Gerizim was to be the
place on which his altar should be
built. The tribes of Judah and
Benjamin believed that the temple
of God with its great altar should
be built on Mount Moriah, a region
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BY MRS. ROBERT I. BURALL
TENTH DISTRICT DIR.
GEORGIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS
AND TEACHERS
I think of the term Emotional
Health of Children, and realize
it indicates that children need
help as well as protection. I
wonder how many adults act to
remove or lessen the danger
for all children and work to pro
vide the necessary help needed.
For the unfortunate who suffer
disaster and whose troubles are
manifested as a danger to socie
ty or themselves, there must
be concern, care, and construc-
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lying near the hill on which Solo
mon’s temple was afterwards bu
ilt.
Samaritans and Jews hated each
other with cause. The Samari
tans carried on their worship on
Mount Gerizim, and the Jews to
the south built the great temple
of Solomon and centered their
worship on the hill on which the
city of Jerusalem was built.
Omri, king of Israel, had built
Samaria. The former owner’s
name was Shemer, and in def
erence to him the place, which was
a stronghold and a watch tower,
was called Samaria. It continued
to be the capital of the northern
kingdom while the Ten Tribes
held sway.
■Jesus and his disciples had been
in Galilee and were returning to
Judah. Most self-respecting Jews
would not even pass through Sa
maria but crossed over onto the
other side of the Jordan if it was
necessary for them to make a
journey going either north or
south. Jesus and his disciples
disregarded this ancient enmity,
and in going from Judah to Gali
lee they passed through Samaria.
Jacob’s Well, which is near
Samaria, is one of the best-auth
enticated locations in the Holy
Land today. While his disciples
were gone away into the city to
buy provisions, Jesus sat down
upon the rim of the well to await
their return.
We are told that he was weary
with his journey. In every way
Jesus showed himself to be hu
man-hungering, being capable of
temptation, dying at last when the
jealous church leaders of his day
decided that his influence among
the people must br brought to an
end.
While Jesus was seated upon the
rim of the well, a woman of Sa
maria came to draw water, and
Jesus said unto her, "Give me to
drink.” The woman was amazed
that Jesus, being a Jew, even
spoke to a Samarita - and espec
ially to a Samaritan woman-tor
the Jews had no dealings with
the "Samaritans.
In this scene we see our Lord’s
attitude toward intolerance and
the bitter enmity which separates
God’s children from one another.
Others of his contemporaries
might curse the Samaritans and
denounce their perverse ideas
and actions. But not Jesus. In
fact, in one of his parables he
gives the picture of a Samaritan
who took care of a wounded man,
when a priest, a Levite, and
others took a look at his pitiable
condition and passed by on the
other side.
The enemies of Jesus could
think of nothing worse to say of
him than that he was a Samari
tan. “Say we not well that thou
art a Samaritan,” they cried
when their hatred against him
reached its peak, “and hast a
devil?” (John 8:48). They could
think of nothing more devastat
ing and contemptuous to say of
this Jesus for whom they had a
mounting hatred than that he was
a Samaritan and was himself
possessed of the devil.
tive efforts to repair the dam
age. I feel that all five of our
PTA Objects must be involved
to achieve this end. The impor
tant thing is that the Emotional
ly disturbed child needs special
help, understanding,protec
tion and treatment.
The Emotional Health of Child
ren. will be discussed at our
Spring Conference, March 4th,
in the Main Chapel For All Fai
ths, at the Central State Hospi
tal. Make sure YOU are there.
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Third Os State
Not Getting
Health Care
SAVANNAH—“Large groups—
perhaps 30% of the state’s pop
ulation-are receiving no health
care, or poor health care,” State
Health Director Dr. John H. Ve
nable told conferees attending
the 40th annual meeting of the
Georgia Public Health Assoc
iation.
Regardless of the progress be
ing made, “there is still a ser
ious maldistribution of health
services throughout the state,’’
Dr. Venable said as he challenged
health workers to decide what
areas of health needs are most
important and then to become
motivated to meet those needs.
In discussing health planning,
the state health director stated
that “no amount of planning can
substitute for a lack of funds
and adequate health personnel.”
According to Dr. Venable there
is a serious need for ad
ditional hospital beds throughout
the state. He said that currently
only 77% of the state’s need is
being adequately met. “Hie con
struction or re-modeling of an
additional 4,306 beds is needed
at this time,” he pointed out,
yet, “we are building less than
500 beds a year. At this rate
it will take eight years to catch
up with current needs.’’
Dr. Venable commented on the
progress being made in many
health areas including air pol
lution, cervical cancer detection,
Medicaid, mental health and the
crippled children’s program.
Dr. Kenneth Aycock, South Ca
rolina state health officer, in a
keynote address, said there is a
national commitment to provide
the best possible health care for
all people.
“Health needs,” Dr. Aycock
stressed, “do not mean medical
services alone but must include
environmental factors. These
needs can only be met through
comprehensive health planning
in which consumers are also
involved,” he said.
Alcovy Drainage To Cost Taxpayers
SBOO Per Acre, Game-Fish Comm. Says
Draining controversial
swamplands on the Alcovy River
will cost the federal tax payer
more than the land is presently
worth, the State Game and Fish
Commission says.
Figures released by Game and
Fish Commission Director
George T. Bagby indicate that
the federal government will pay
$807.77 per acre to make drain
age of lands possible that the
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
says are now worth only S3OO
per acre.
Bagby said that the figures
were taken from the work plans
for the Alcovy and Cornish
Creek-Flat Creek Watershed
Projects prepared by the U. S.
Soil Conservation service, an
agency under the federal Depart
ment of Agriculture.
"Ibe plans indicate that the SCS
plans to finance 80.8 miles of
channeling on the three streams
to facilitate the drainage of 4,326
acres of privately-owned swamp
land at a cost of $3,494,432 in
federal tax funds for construction
and engineering costs. The figure
of $807.77 per acre was obtained
by simple division of the total
cost of channelization by the
number of acres of swamplands
to be "benefited” by the two
projects, as shown in the work
plans prepared by federal
agricultural engineers of the SCS.
Soil Conservation technicians
have also stated orally that land
owners would have to spend from
S3OO to S4OO per acre on add
itional private drainage ditches
to take full advantage of the SCS
stream ditching. However, land
owners can obtain up to 40 per
cent of the cost of such ditches
from another federal agricultural
agency, the Agricultural Sta
blization and Conservation Ser
vice (ASCS).
SCS cost justifications for the
federal project are based on the
assumption that all 4,326 acres
will be drained and placed into
agricultural production, creating
an economic "benefit” to the
local community, which will off
set the costs of the construction
of the channels and the upstream
floodwater retention structures
(dams).
However, because of the high
cost of completely draining such
lands for low profit agricultural
uses and the only diminished
threat of floods ruining any
investment in seeds, fertilizer,
plowing, etc., few landowners
actually take advantage of the
large federal expenditure to in
crease their crop lands. When
this occurs, the potential eco
nomic, "benefits” that were used
to justify the project never occur.
"When landowners do create
additional cropland as a result of
these projects, they are in con
flict with other federal crop pro
grams designed to keep land out
of production to keep prices of
farm products high,” Bagby said.
"At the same time, another
federal agency is trying to pur
chase and preserve all of the wet
lands for waterfowl that it can,
before agencies like the SCS can
have them drained.”
Bagby and biologists of the
State Game and Fish Commission
have steadfastly opposed chan
nelization of the Alcovy and its
tributaries above Lake Jackson,
a popular middle Georgia fishing
reservoir, on the grounds that
heavy siltation from the chan
nelization, especially during the
construction period, would harm
The Comprehensive Plan for
Newton County that is now in the
hands of the Board of Commiss
ioners contains recommen
dations for our county in many
areas, it is impossible to carry
the plan in its entirety, but here
are some of the condensed high
lights.
Concerning utilities and ser
vices the plan notes that these
systems are one of the most ef
fective planning tools for not only
attracting new development of all
levels, but also directing the qua
lity and location of that develop
ment as well.
Extension of water service sh
ould be limited to the high prio
rity development, delimited in the
future land use plan. Extension
of services to scattered or leap
frog developments Is undesirable
because:
Unduly long extensions burden
public expense and are advan
tageous to a few; development
is encouraged which may never
be served by a sanitary sewer
age system; and the “pressure”
for development in high priority
development areas is lessened,
but only to a degree that demand
for other public services is split
to mutual disadvantage.
“The Town of Oxford and se
veral areas outside of Coving
ton have developed a dependence
on the Covington Water Depart
ment. hi view of the increasing
demands for water placed upon
the system by new and expanding
industries, a comprehensive
county - wide study is recom
mended to determine the feasi
bility of continuing extensions
outside the city.
Os special concern is the ra
pidly growing area west of Cov
ington for which sanitary sewer-
fishing in the lake. But the wild
life agency has registered no
opposition to the portions of the
watershed plans calling for the
construction of 15 small dams
and reservoirs.
Plans prepared by agricultural
engineers of the SCS for the two
projects in Gwinnett, Newton, and
Walton counties call for the chan
nelization of 243,000 linear feet
(46 miles) of Cornish and Flat
Creeks, two major tributaries of
the Alcovy, for a construction
cost of $1,595,401. Engineering
and other costs increase the
amount to $1,909,661 to make
possible drainage of 2,149 acres
of swamp land at SBBB per acre.
Plans for channelization of
184,100 feet (34.8 miles) on the
seperate Alcovy Project to make
possible drainage of 2,177 acres
of swampland will cost the federal
taxpayer $1,330,056 for con
struction. Adding engineering and
other costs, the total rises to
$1,584,771, an average cost of
$727 per acre.
Totaled together, both projects
include 80.8 miles of channeling
TERRIBLE THINGS are happening in America today. Crime
stories in the newspaper have become so commonplace that they
are buried on the back pages, and people almost fail to notice
them. Organized crime is virtually accepted as part of the Ameri
can way of life.
Now we have youthful crime in student rioting, rebellion, and
anarchy. Riotous students are encouraged by some professors,
and in many instances university officials kowtow to radical mi
nority demands, while the overwhelming majority of hard-work
ing, conscientious students are intimidated.
It is indeed a tragic day for the United States when the face she
presents to her people and to the world is covered with the grime
of these criminals, gangsters and malcontents.
♦ * ♦
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS have contributed to the law
lessness and violence we are now experiencing. In the Escobedo
case of 1964, the Court laid the groundwork for a series of later
decisions which have severely handicapped law enforcement.
People are beginning to question the Supreme Court’s claim
that it is protecting individual rights. They feel, instead, that the
Court is actually protecting the criminal to the detriment of in
nocent citizens.
The rights of the accused must be assured at all times and in
all circumstances. But the time has come for the Court to think
more about protecting the overwhelming majority of law-abiding
citizens, and to stop throwing back into society admitted killers,
rapists, and thieves who have been freed on some legal tech
nicality.
* * *
IN A NEW DECISION the Court has taken away still another
of the few remaining tools of law enforcement by declaring that
fingerprints taken of a suspect before he is arrested may not be
admitted in court. In two other 1969 decisions, the Court again
widened the scope of “free speech” to include threats against the
life of a United States President and the burning of the American
Flag.
In a nation already saturated with crime and criminals, we
need more restraints on lawbreakers —certainty not less.
It is high time the Supreme Court acknowledge it has gone
too far by taking necessary steps to put criminal law and the
right of free speech back into proper perspective.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
RECOMMENPATIONS
By: Leo S. Mallard
age has been proposed; such a
study will also reveal other Coun
ty areas where sale of water
service may be feasible.”
The construction of the pro
posed Turkey Creek Collection
System with a trickling filter
treatment plant to serve the Ox
ford - Almon - West Covington-
Porterdale area Is highly recom
mended. Additionally, construc
tion of collection systems with
oxidation pond treatment facili
ties is recommended for Mans
field and Newborn.
The plan also recommends the
replacement of existing open
dumps with sanitary landfills, and
also notes that arrangements sh
ould be planned at this time to
provide collection services in the
first priority semi-urban areas
of the future land use plan.
“Careful coordination of the
purchase of new fire fighting
equipment can assure a minimum
of duplicating and a maximum of
complementing equipment in the
five communities. The Covington
Fire Department, treated in its
own Comprehensive Plan, will
still need to supplement the ser
vices of the volunteer fire de
partments of the four smaller
communities.”
For adequate police protec
tion it is recommended that Ox
ford and Mansfield add an addi
tional officer, while Newborn sh
ould support a night watchman.
Since the semi-urban priority
areas west of Covington will
experience the bulk of growth
in the next ten years, an addi
tional officer and car should
be planned for at this time.
Next week we will look at the
Comprehensive Plan’s recom
mendations for Educational Fa
cilities.
to make possible drainage of
4,326 acres of swampland at a
total cost of $3,494,432 or $807.77
per acre.
The request for funds is ready
for presentation to Congress,
where it must be approved by
the public works committees of
both the House and the Senate.
There are no Georgia members of
either committee, but congress
ional courtesy traditionally gives
any Georgia congressman or sen
ator the right to delay granting of
funds for any controversial pro
ject, pending resolution of any
public complaints.
"I am writing aU of our Georgia
congressmen and senators with a
request for delay until we can re
solve these differences with the
Soil Conservation Service to pro
tect the Alcovy and Lake
Jackson,” Bagby said, "and I
am urging all concerned Georg
ians to join me in doing likewise.”
Georgia’s two senators and 10
congressmen may be written at
either the Senate or the House
Office Building, Washington, D.C.
Herman Talmadge
REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
Thursday, May 22, 1969