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Hail To Summer!
Every season of the year has its special feat
ures—blossoms in spring, autumn colors in fall,
the magic of Jack Frost in winter and the azure
skies of summer. However, summer, which be
gins its tour of the Northern Hemisphere on
June 21, also features the full blooming of our
national curse—the litterbug. And this year,
as on each succeeding year, there will be more
evidence of this blight than ever before.
Those who value and respect natural beauty
can but watch in helpless outrage as the veritable
scum of the human race strikes swiftly and
usually unseen--throwing beer cans and pop bot
tles from speeding cars or vanishing without a
trace from ravaged campgrounds and picnic
sites. Often this creature we have dubbed the
A new idea for relieving the serious blood
shortages that plague many parts of the country,
especially in the summer and after Christmas,
is proposed in an article, “Why Is It Tough To
Get Blood?,” in the April issue of the American
Legion Magazine.
Mr. Tom Mahoney, author of the article, sug
gests that every eligible person celebrate his or
her birthday by giving a pint of blood at their
local blood bank or collection center.
“If only one or two additional persons out of
100 would give one pint of blood a year,”
says Dr. Frank Coleman, president of the Amer
ican Association of Blood Banks, “the shortage
C’ lem would be relieved at least for the near
e.” . , x ...
The demand for blood has been rising steadily
Wage hikes without a compensatory increase
in productivity are tending more and more to
become an exercise in futility as higher produc
tion costs force prices up. For this reason,
Secretary of Labor Shultz has made it clear that
the Administration does not favor further mini
mum wage increases at this time. Thus it 1s
more than a little surprising to learn that a
three-man Wage Board in the District of Colum
bia has before it a proposal to increase the
wage rates for retail employees in the District
to SI.BO an hour at once and t 052.00 on February
1 1970. This Wage Board has the authority to
order these wage rates. No approval by Con
gress, by the Mayor of Washington, or by the
City Council is required.
Experience has shown and experts have test
ified that increases in minimum wages cost job
Conservation And Lumbering
By the early 1900 s, lumber manufacturing had
been in progress in the South for three centuries
and the incidence of cutover lands was increas
ingly and disturbingly evident. It was then general
ly believed that the Southern Pine forests were
on the verge of extinction.
Amid this atmosphere of gloom, a group of
far-sighted lumbermen introduced the practice
of forestry to the region. These fathers of fores
try were convinced that cutover areas could be
reseeded naturally if brush fires were con
trolled. They also felt that if trees were
thinned as they grew rather than left in an
overcrowded condition with only mature and small
defective trees removed from time to time to
make room for younger trees, a vast new forest
would replace the old within sixty years.
Those dreams have since materialized. During
the past quarter century, nearly 48 million acres
of tree farms have been developed in the South —
Like many pioneering ventures, the space pro
gram has had its share of critics who point to
the billions of dollars that are being spent to put
a man on the moon as an unjustified waste of
resources. They say why send a man to the moon
when we have so far failed to even solve rudi
mentary earth problems. The truth is, of course,
that the space program and many of our earth
problems are interrelated.
By sending a man to the moon, we are paving
the way to solution of earth problems. This
was made dramatically clear by Mr. Robert
Anderson, president, Commercial Products Group
of the North American Rickwell Corporation. He
declares, “There is a growing realization that
in the stored-up and developing technology of the
aerospace and defense industries there is an as
set of tremendous potential value to the Ameri-
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litterbug passes unobserved in the night, leaving (
in his wake whole boxes of garbage, as well as
cases of cans and bottles. Laws are becoming
increasingly stringent but to little avail. What
is threat of a SSOO fine to these despoilers of
the countryside that no law can catch, except
in the rare instances when their brashness
overcomes their natural cunning.
The scourge of the litterbugs will get worse
each summer, judging by recent estimates that
put the production of 12-ounce containers by
1982 at a possible 900 million gross. Since a
gross is 12 dozen, it is not hard to figure out
what the landscape will look like in the summer of,
say, 1985, if litterbugging continues uncurbed.
because of advances in surgery and therapy and
has now passed 6.5 million pints a year, the
article reports. Blood needs are increasing 10
per cent a year at many hospitals, and work
of the blood clearing houses is rising at about
15 per cent a year. They shift blood about the
country to meet shortages and enable blood given
locally to be credited to distant patients.
But, our population is increasing only about
one per cent a year and while nearly 105 million
Americans are qualified by age and health to give
blood only two to three per cent of them do so.
If you are between 21 and 60, or even older if
your doctor approves, you can help by donating
at your local blood bank or collection center.
You don’t need to wait for your birthday.
opportunities, primarily for the disadvantaged
and for young people. An arbitrary increase '
such as that proposed in Washington, D. C. 1
by an autonomous Wage Board can perpetrate
a cruel hoax on those who most need help. A 1
representative of the retail distribution industry
observes: "This disruptive proposal would be
most unfortunate for D. C. residents and bus
inesses, but because it is our nation’s capital,
the ripple effects are likely to be felt through
out the country. Breaching of the $1.60 per hour
rate and establishing $2.00 an hour has serious
consequence for all.. .Congress should close this
loophole.”
The minimum wage law can create unemploy
ment among the people that business, industry
and government are bending every effort to help
through training and job opportunities.
many by lumber companies. Tree farming nas
proven that with proper care of land and trees,
permanent timber supply can be maintained.
Not only does the Southern Pine lumber in
dustry grow, protect and otherwise manage trees,
but it has also developed manufacturing techniques
which are conservationist in character.
For example, sawlog debarking permits the
conversion of slabs, edgings and other leavings
of the saws to pulp chips for paper mills, About
20% of the South’s total raw material for pulp
wood production now comes from the leftovers
of lumbering.
Sawdust may also be used for pulpwood or
for wood flour—a primary ingredient of plas
tics and explosives. Bark may be used for soil
conditioners, planer mill shavings for particle
board . With each harvested sawlog yielding
many products in addition to lumber, fewer trees
need be harvested for these various essentials.
can economy it is our space program that
is providing the greatest stimulation to the best
scientific minds in our country. . . . They are
finding far broader applications today than the pri
mary mission of putting a man on the moon.”
SpecificaUy, Mr. Anderson points out, there is
a new and rising trend in the United States to
make use of the technological resources of the
large electric- electronic-aerospace corporations
to find solutions to such public problems as poor
housing, congested mass transporation, air pollu
tion and inadequate health, education and welfare.
Under the stimulus of the space effort, science
and technology have opened the door to advances
that may literally tip the scales in the struggle of
man to keep ahead of the problems that have
rushed in on our civilization with the approach
of the twenty-first century.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Associate Editor
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God’s Continuing Encounter
with Men
Devotional Reading: Psalms
19 ;7-14.
Memory Selection: Whatever
was written in former days was
written for our instruction, that
by steadfastness and by the en
couragement of the Scriptures we
might have hope. Romans 15:4.
Intermediate-Senior To
pic: The Bible speaks to Me.
Young People-Adult Topic; The
Bible, a Personal Book.
The theme of today’s lesson
is God’s continuing encounter with
individuals through their use of
the Bible. Our communication
with God through prayer re
freshes our lives and puts us
in tune with the Most High and
with heavenly powers. But the
Bible is a compendium of the
law of God, the setting forth of
God’s will for men, the promis
es God makes for his continual
support of our sincere efforts,
and the record of Christ’s minis
try and the life of the early
church as reflected in the Epist
les and other New Testament
books.
We can scarcely imagine re
ligious experience as we have it
today without the support and gui
dance of Scripture. Many areas
of knowledge remain undevelop
ed and many questions remain
unanswered as we read the Bible,
but in that Book we find all we
need to know in our endeavor to
live a good life and in the hope
we may entertain regarding God’s
eternal plans for our lives.
We meet God In prayer. We
meet God In the sense of gui
dance we have as we try to do
his will. We meet God in that
overwhelming sense of Presence
which becomes our privilege as
we learn further of his will for
our lives.
But the Bible holds a unique
place in our religious experience
and constitutes one of God’s most
important encounters with men
and his confrontation of them.
We must approach the study
of the Bible In a mood of sin
cerity, and this sincerity invol
ves, above all else, a desire on
our part to live a better life.
In this passage of Scripture the
question is asked as to how a
young man shall cleanse his way,
and the answer is, “By taking
heed thereto according to thy
word.”
“Blessed are the pure in heart
for they shall see God” (Matt.
5:8). We should note the fact
that uncleanness of life and th
ought is designated as a wander
ing from God’s commands. Few
people set out resolutely and In
a spirit of perversity to do some
evil act. We “wander” into
’ most of our evil. Little by
J little we give in here and there
, until at last we find that our
weaknesses have Involved us in
actual sin.
The Word of God from beginn
। ing to end teaches us how to
। live pure and sincere lives. The
recommendation set forth in this
passage of Scripture is that we
hide the Word of God in our
hearts, thrusting its commands
into the very center of our th
ought and action. If we do this, we
come at last to know the satis
factions of clean and upright liv
ing. Old and sinful ways In the
past may have seemed wonderful
sources of satisfaction, but if
we come to know God’s truth we
see that greater than all earth
ly riches is a heart cleansed
by God’s forgiveness, sustained
in purity by his presence, and
dedicated to the doing of his will.
This requires renunciation, re
pentance, and perhaps a veritable
right-about-face in our lives.
But the pathway we are to fol-
I low and the spirit by which we
j are to be sustained are made
a clear and real to us as we medl-
tate on God’s precepts and try
sincerely to have respect unto
his ways.
When we really understand the
will of God we rejoice in it.
“I will delight myself in thy sta
tutes,” says the psalmist, “I
will not forget thy word.” The
soundest basis on which a good
life can be built is the basis
of religious faith. We get no
where until we take issue with
our sins and weaknesses and
attempt to thrust them out of
our lives. The Bible sustains
us in our endeavor. By reading
and pondering the divine word we
are able to distinguish between
right and wrong. We set up
God’s will as the holy purpose
toward which we look and aspire.
We come at last to delight in
God’s statutes and to see how
much more obedience to God has
to offer in the way of satisfac
tion than obedience to our selfish,
carnal, and wandering impulses.
A covenant is a promise. Sim
ply put, the promise of God is
that if we will give ourselves
to the doing of his will, the crea
tor and Sustainer of our lives
will make our sojourn on earth
truly significant and usher us into
an eternal destiny.
The Ten Commandments are
the basis of all morality. They
do not constitute the whole of
morality, but they constitute the
basis upon which a magnificent
superstructure rests. God made
a covenant with Moses greater
even than the covenants which He
made with Abraham and certain
of his decendants. The covenant
with Moses was that if people
would acknowledge Jehovah as
their God, take the basic princi
ples He laid down through his
commandments as the foundation
of their lives, and endeavor to
build thereon to his glory and their
eternal happiness, then we could
be sure of a life crowned with
victory and characterized by deep
and abiding satisfaction.
11-Million Vets
Have Received Gl
Bill Education
More than 11 million veterans
have received G. I. Bill educa
tion and training in the quarter
of a century since the World
War II G. I. Bill was signed into
law on June 22, 1944, the Vete
rans Administration reported to
day.
Under the World War n pro
gram, 7,800,000 veterans receiv
ed $14.5 billion In educational as
sistance from the VA.
Before that program ended in
July 1956, more than two and a
quarter million World War n ve
terans entered the nation’s col
leges and universities. Another
3,400,000 took below-college
level training.
On-the-job trainees numbered
1,400,000 while 690,000 received
institutional on-farm training.
The Korean G. I. Bill educa
tion and training program ran
from July 16, 1952, to Jan. 31,
1965.
During this period, 2,391,000
eligible veterans received $4.5
billion in VA educational assis
tance allowances.
More than half of the Korean
Conflict G. I. Bill trainees (1,-
213,000) entered colleges and uni
versities, 860,000 took below
c ollege-level training, 223,000
received on-the-job training, and
95,000 enrolled in Institutional
on-farm training.
The present Post-Korean G.
I. Bill education and training pro
gram began on June 1, 1966. To
date, nearly 1,150,000 eligible ve
terans and 83,000 servicemen
have entered training — 697,-
000 at the college level, 394,000
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New Orleans. WOW! we had
better stop reminiscing or we
will land right back in our old
home town for a visit!
Well, we love everybody in
those two towns and Americus
too, and hope to go back, before
all my friends die (me too) and
see them once more. There
are no friends, ever, quite as
dear as the children you grew
up with!
It really is a problem to get
lawns cut these days. . .most
husbands cut their lawns. . .
but when you are alone, well,
that is something else. We
have been shut in with a bad
throat for weeks (it seems) and
Monday P. M. we kept hearing
lawn mowers going, .they seem
ed so close because my head
was swimming or something. We
thought they had put extra work
men on the park across the str
eet, which is kept so beautifully
by the City. (They don’t come
across the street to my house)
But, finally we got up, and went
to the front door, .and there
were two of my neighbors with
their lawn mowers, mowing my
lawn and side walk. “Greater
love hath no man?” Well, we’ve
always said we had the finest
neighbors on earth. . .no we
know it! They shouldn’t have,
but I love them for it. . .You
know what I did. .1 stood right
there and cried!
So! I’ll bet I’ll be a better
neighbor in the future! And,
come what may, I will never
forget these neighbors who have
been so wonderful to me. God
has been so wonderful to give
me such fine neighbors, and we
trust we can in some way, or
many ways, let them feel our
love and appreciation of what
they have meant to me thru this
terrible throat trouble I have
had. Until we are well. . .all
we can do or say Is. .“Thank
You, and God Bless you!”
All I know Is what I read In
the papers these days, .in Tues
days Constitution a letter to Billy
Graham sez: “We have had bad
luck with neighbors, in fact we
moved just because they were
quarrelsome and disagreeable.
Our new neighbors are worse,
as they gossip besides being
disagreeable. What can we do?
How do your neighbors quar
rel unless you quarrel with them?
How do you know your neigh
bors gossip unless you furnish
ears for their gossip? Life is
like a mirror. When we are
quarrelsome, others reflect that
attitude. Gossip begets gossip.
Likewise friendliness makes ot
hers friendly; kindness begets
kindness, and love begets love.
If every neighborhood seemed
quarrelsome or unfriendly, I wo
uld begin to examine myself.
Billy Graham’s Column is al
ways good advice.
Wow! Here’s that broom star
ing me right in the face. .I’ve
grabbed it and I’m at my job of
“SWEEPIN’ UP” to beat the
band!
The sonar ability of the dol
phin, or porpoise, distinguishes
between a BB shot of one size
and a second BB shot of larger
size when dropped into a darkened
pool 50 feet away, Marine bio
logists have found at the Gulf
arium, a center of marine life
at Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.
below-college-level, and 58,000
in on-the-job training.
The VA has paid approximate
ly $1.2 billion in educational as
sistance allowances to these
trainees, more than half of whom
had Vlet-Nam era service.
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It’s always hot on Jekyll Is
land, but this week aspiring pol
iticians with eyes on the Gover
nor’s chair in 1972 have started
the pot to boiling early before
the annual convention of the Ge
orgia Municipal Association.
The Maddox-Sanders spat rea
ched fever pitch Tuesday when
Sanders told the GMA a parable
about a king that was executed
because he tried to force a tax
levy on the people against their
will.
Governor Maddox then arrived
on the scene and predicted that
unless his planned record-break
ing budget proposal for 1970 is
passed by the Georgia General
Assembly he could promise that
he or his wife Virginia would
seek the Governor’s chair in the
next election.
Over the weekend Comptroller
General Jimmy Bentley, who
bolted the Democratic Party and
joined the Republicans, mingled
with delegates at the GMA con
vention and was reported to be
pleased with the encouragement
that he was receiving to seek the
state’s high office.
Meanwhile, Democrat Jimmy
Carter, who ran out of time while
maintaining a full head of steam
during the last Governor’s elect
ion, was well received by many
delegates to the convention.
This could very well be the
entire line-up for the contest: an
ultra-conservative, a moderate,
and a liberal-moderate fighting it
out in the Democratic primary to
face the presently unopposed
Jimmy Bentley, anew Republican
and a progressive conservative.
Former Governor Carl Sand
ers, from all indications, is lead
ing the pack at present, but it
must be remembered that “str
ange things happen in the Georgia
political arena.”
In his luncheon speech before
the GMA Tuesday, Governor
Maddox said that Sanders was
“running for Governor and he is
willing to lie for it or buy it.”
If this was any indication of
things to come during the next
election we can safely predict
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Thursday, June 19, 1969 ]
GOVERNOR’S RACE
By: Leo S. Mallard
that it’s gonna’ be a dilly.
Sometime soon in Georgia
there must emerge a leader who
can unite the varying political
factions of the state and once
again put Georgia on the road of
progressive harmony. Today our
state seems to be progressing
in spite of her split factions and
without any unifying force to guide
her expansion.
Governor Maddox has a good
program for the State, but the
way he wants to finance his pro
gram is entirely unacceptable.
No compromise is in sight and
therefore we can expect to see
either the Governor or his wife
Virginia running for office in
the next election.
Regardless, I believe that Ge
orgia will have another name
in the Governor’s chair next go
around. The people like to play
political ball, but they like to
see the ball rolling. When it
stops, they want a new hitter
at the plate.
Newspaper Ads
Reach New High
New York—(HK)—News
paper advertising has reached a
new plateau, exceeding $5 billion
for the first time in 1968 and
heading for higher ground.
The publication Newsprint
Facts points out that the $5,237
billion total is more than was
realized from all advertising in
1949, including newspapers, ra
dio, television, direct mail, and
all other media.
$1.9 Billion
In that year, newspaper ad
revenue was $1.9 billion out of
the all-media total of $5,202 bil
lion. Last year’s all-media total
was close to $lB billion and is
expected to go higher this year.
Newsprint Facts is issued by
the Newsprint Information Com
mittee, comprised of eight Cana
dian newsprint producers.