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Yardstick Os Fanaticism
The late George Santayana. American philoso
pher and poet, once said tnat fanaticism con
sists in redoubling your efforts when you have
forgotten your goal. Measured by this yard
stick, many of today’s most ardent professional
consumer protectors must be judged fanatics.
Intent on pushing laws through legislatures and
Congress in behalf of consumers, they never
look behind them to see if these laws are hurting
consumers or benefiting them. Very often, too,
the fanaticism of consumer protection leads to
repetitive use of cliches and misstatement of
facts.
Typical ol the latter was a recent repetition
of the threadbare charge that trading stamps
cost the average American family the equivalent
of a week’s worth of groceries each year by
adding 2 per cent to the cost of food. A large
stamp firm replied that stamps, in fact, “Add
the equivalent of more than a week’s groceries
to family purchasing power.” It said a family
As the Centennial celebration of transcontinen
tal rail transport reached a climax with re
enactment of the driving of a golden spike at
Promontory, Utah, on May 10. 1869, the entire
nation via news stories and press releases re
lived with a poignant sense of nostalgia those
dramatic days of 100 years ago. Transcontinen
tal rail service typified the coming of age of the
United States. While transportation in all its
manifold forms has held a fascinating attraction
to man since the invention of the wheel, pro
bably no element of transportation has received
greater homage than railroading. Dignitaries
traveled from afar to be present at the Golden
Spike Ceremonies in Utah. They included Dep
artment of Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe
who was the principal speaker.
Now that general recognition has been given to
the great impact of the railroads on the U. S.
during the past century, the important question
is where do the railroads go from here? An
(Reprinted From The Allendale County Citizen)
We withdrew, sir, over thirty thousand of us.
Remember how we came home, individually, or
in small groups, to lonely outposts on deserted
airfields, slipping by night into our home towns,
not for heroes’ welcomes, but for sad fare
wells?
Out of the mess, we really can’t care that
our job was never finished and that for all the
good we did we might just as well have stayed
home, quietly, or have fought the local police
in some illegal show of disapproval of our
nation’s conduct of a war which never quite
made it as a war.
But a lot of people do care, Mr. President
Our parents, who bore our loss, only because
they believed we died and came home, with
drawn from the fight for some good reason
having to do with the welfare of free men.
Our loved ones and our loving ones care,
The bear belongs to the carnivorous order,
but lives mostly on plants and fruit. This charac
teristic apparently also holds for the Russian
bear.
The Soviet Union was not reluctant to make a
deal with Hitler, as long as the deal permitted
the bear to tear some juicy morsels out of Po
land. After the Second World War started, the
bear swallowed whole three nations: Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania. At the end of that war,
the bear again grabbed some flesh. Carpatho-
Ukraine, for example, was torn out of Czecho
slovakia; Bukovina and Bessarabia were ripped out
of Romania.
But the steady diet of the Soviet animal has
always been the fruits of the labor of the peoples
under its control. The Russian people themselves,
have provided the bulk of this diet. But the hungry
bear has never been satisfied.
One after another of the small states along its
borders was subverted. Once their institutions
were destroyed, the economies of these nations
were fitted into systems which served Soviet
needs and designs. We need not wonder why the
Soviet Union insists upon complete dominance over
its satellite junior partners in eastern Europe.
The fact is that great earth-shaking plans have
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An Important Question
Withdraw, Mr. Nixon?
The Hungry Bear
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“redeemable for mercahndise worth $50.”
The main point, of course, is not whether this
form of promotion adds to or detracts from the
cost of living, but whether consumers should have
the right to decide for themselves through grant
ing or withholding patronage if they favor or op
pose promotional practices of merchants. So
far as trading stamps are concerned, the over
whelming majority of American families save
trading stamps. They do so as a matter of choice
in the free market Promotional programs and
advertising are as essential to mass distribution
in a competitive, free market as they are to the
perpetuation of a free press—the independence
and solvency of a newspaper depends upon adver
tising revenue. The greatest protection consum
ers can have is the right of choice in a competi
tive, free market system. Consumer protection
fanatics long ago lost sight of this fact.
official spokesman for the railroad industry, Mr.
Thomas M. Goodfellow, president of the Associa
tion of American Railroads, has given his ap
praisal of the future. He believes the nation’s
future population growth and economic expansion
will require super-transportation, and railroads
have the greatest potential for the key role in
this system. “They’re making changes,” he
says, “that will gear them for tomorrow.... Rai
lroads are using all existing technology and are
looking to research for further advances.. But”,
he adds, “there’ll be no railroads, truck lines
or airlines as we know them today. All modes
of transport will be fully integrated into a trans
portation system....will be computerized and elec
troncially controlled....”
Concludes Mr. Goodfellow; “Railroads have a
great past but they can have an even greater fu
ture—not only for themselves, not only for the
nation, but for the world.”
Mr. President. Can you explain to put their
hearts at ease, that our deaths, our withdraw
als, were to some good purpose?
Is there something wrong with winning the
fight we got ourselves into? Is it wrong that
we turn in our graves because the job we could
not finish, though we gave our all to it, is now
to be dropped as not worth the try?
Are we, as a nation, any better off today,
for not winning the Korean "police action?”
Will we be any better thought of around the
world, for abandoning, pardon, withdrawing,
from the Vietnam incident?
A retreat is a withdrawal, Mr. President,
even the foot soldier, the contender out at point
sniffing danger, knows that, and though he’d like
to withdraw, he cannot.
Are we creating, by doubts, by fears, by
uncertainties, a nation, not worth defending,
not worthy of the withdrawal we. the more than
thirty thousand, have made from Vietnam?
been made in Moscow and that these plans con
tain the assumption that the Soviet Union will
ultimately—and inevitably—dominate the world.
Each step back from that goal is resisted fier
cely. Each step toward that goal is taken in
confidence.
The Soviet grand design calls for all nations
to be incorporated into the Soviet Union. Intran
sigent populations will be split up, shipped out,
decimated—just as innumerable Poles, Lithuan
ians, Estonians, Latvians, Romanians, Czechs
and Slovaks, Ukrainians, Georgians or other
“Russian” peoples have been. The final hour
of such Soviet fate may be very near for the
non-submissive Czechs and Slovaks.
Humanity’s interests are not served by feeding
the hungry bear. Very many Russians, perhaps
even most Russians, know this. The Free World
will hope that the Russian people will find away
to still the insatiable drive of their totalitarian
government Unless they find away to cope with
that monster, the chances are that one day he
will think to pluck a plant and in the doing scratch
a man who is prepared to deal with bears. On that
day each of us will have to choose to become a
hunter, or the hunted.
MARY SESSIONS MALLARD
Asiociafa Editor
LEO MALLARD
Advarthing Manager
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at Covington. Georgia
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THE SLEEPING GIANT AWAKENS
\ OUR WEEKLY LESSON I
I FOR I
( Sunday School \
GOD CHOOSES A PEOPLE
Devotional Reading: 1 Peter
2: 4-10.
Memory Selection: I will make
of you a great nation, and I will
bless you, and make your name
great, so that you will be a bl
essing. Genesis 12:2.
Intermediate - Senior Topic;
God Chooses a People
Young People-Adult Topic:
God Chooses a People
The title of the series of les
sons we are now beginning is,
we will recall, “God and His
People.” Today we are to study
God’s call to Abram, who be
comes Abraham, the progenitor
of God’s Chosen People.
Between our last lesson on
Adam, creation, and the fall and
our lesson today, a long period
of time elapsed. We are not
studying in our printed lessons
the great men and events re
corded in Genesis from the fou
rth through the eleventh chap
ters.
Among other things we pass
over the record of how Cain had
killed his brother Abel in jeal
ousy and we see that the dis
obedience of our first parents
had passed on to murder in a
single generation.
Then we have the account of
how mankind became so wicked
that the human race had to be
destroyed. Only Noah and his
family were found righteous and
saved with the animals in the ark
at the time of the great flood,
to perpetuate the life of man and
beast on the earth.
If we were studying the Book
of Genesis we should no doubt
have a lesson on Seth, the son
of Adam and Eve, and the good
line that he founded. We should
study about Enoch who walked
with God “and he was not, for
God took him.” Certainly we
would have a lesson on Noah
and the flood and the ark. Then
we would come to the account of
the Tower of Babel when men de
cided to build a tower that would
reach up to heaven. There was
the confounding of languages and
the spread of mankind far and
wide. Since the purpose of this
course is to trace God’s deal
ing with his Chosen People we
pass over all the above and go
directly from a study of Adam
to a study of Abraham.
Terah, the father of Abraham,
took his son and his son’s wife
Sarah and Arbaham’s nephew Lot
and moved out of the highly ad
vanced but grossly heathen city
of Ur and went up to dwell in
tents in the district of Haran,
a section of Iraq or Mesopo
tamia about 250 miles west of
Nineveh. Terah died there, and
then the call came to Abraham
to launch out toward the Prom
ised Land.
The emphasis in this course
will be on the choice of God of a
people who would serve Jehovah
and maintain his worship and
among whom the Messiah would
finally appear.
The Chosen People and their
history begin with Abram, later
Abraham. He is no doubt one
of the most important men who
ever lived. The names of kings
and rulers and generals of his
time are forgotten but the name
and fame of Abraham remain be
cause he was a great man of
God, a person of tremendous
faith, chosen to be the one with
whom God would make his co
venant. So we begin with Abra
ham what may be termed the
“genesis” of the kingdom of
God.
The final verse of chapter 11
in Genesis tells of the death of
Abraham’s father. Our lesson
then opens with the words, “Now
the Lord said unto Abram, Get
thee out of thy country . . .
unto a land that I will show
thee.”
Previously the family had left
their home in Ur of the Chaldees
to journey at the call of God,
but they settled temporarily in
Haran in the extreme north and
west of Mesopotamia. After
Terah*s passing, the Lord sp
eaks again to Abraham. By this
time the family had acquired a
great deal of property in live
stock and such other wealth as
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nomads possess. Haran is some
280 miles north of Damascus.
Abraham starts out in that dir
ection, not knowing where he is
to go, but relying on the promise
of Jehovah to show him the land
where he is to dwell.
Excavations at Ur have un
earthed from the time of Abra
ham very fine workmanship in
gold and musical instruments
now on display in the Iraq Nat
ional Museum in Baghdad. The
excavations have also shown that
human sacrifice was common
and many would be offered at the
burial of a ruler. Both Ur and
Haran, where the family stop
ped, worshiped the Moon God so
that the monotheism of Abraham
comes out of a very heathen back
ground.
When God called, it was a
moment of decision in the life
of this God-chosen man. Abra
ham could remain comfortably
in Haran and enjoy the prosper
ous life there. He could return
to the civilization of Ur, or he
could launch out in faith depend
ing only on the promise of God.
Such a moment of decision co
mes to us when we accept Christ
as Lord and Saviour and launch
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Georgia To Start School Os Environmental Design
^^inuvArsitv of Tech, through which a student can
tablished at the y gain a master’s degree in both
Georgia as of July 1, H" city p i ann ing and landscape ar
bert B. Owens, internationally chltecture> WIU be continued. Un
known landscape “^chit , s der the pro&rami a student hold
dean. University President j bachelor’s degree in land-
C Davison announced the Plans, 6 archlte cture, spends one
Lrd of Re- year at Tech’s Department of City
Sy® Planning and one more year at
“Thp now school will nermit Cieorgia.
ATHENS,Ga. —School of En
vironmental Design will be es
tablished at the University of
Georgia as of July 1, with Hu
bert B. Owens, internationally
known landscape architect, a s
dean. University President Fred
C. Davison announced the plans,
following approval by the Uni
versity System Board of Re
gents.
“The new school will permit
us to broaden the education of
landscape architects and others
concerned with the complex, cri
tical job of saving our environ
ment from decay or death,” said
Davison. “We are fortunate to
have a professional practtctoner
and educator of the stature of
Hubert Owens on our faculty and
pleased that he will head this
expanded program.”
Owens currently is chairman
of the division of landscape ar
chitecture and environmental de
sign in the university’s College
of Agriculture. He has been
a member of the University facul
ty since 1928 when he started
the undergraduate program in
landscape architecture.
Among the priorities of the
new school, according to Presi
dent Davison, will be an inten
sive research program on en
vironmental problems in the Sou
theastern United states.
“The school will intensify the
training of landscape architects
for their new role on the urban
design team of planners, archi
tects, engineers and social work
ers,” Owens said.
“Landscape architects have
both technical skill and aesthe
tic sensitivity. Their function
today is to design outdoor space
for the benefit, protection, use,
out upon a life of faith and trust
in God. Many of us have proved,
like Abraham, that God will keep
his promise.
Verse 8 of the llth chapter
of Hebrews says, “By faith Ab
raham, when he was called to go
out into a place which he should
after receive for an inheritance,
obeyed; and he went out, not
knowing whither he went.” Th
ere are times when we too have
been called to launch out into the
unknown with God.
Missionaries of the Christian
faith when they receive a call
from God must leave their nat
ive land and kindred and go off
into a new culture and a land that
will be strange, much like Abra
ham of old.
Abraham was indeed a true
pioneer and pioneers have been
the glory of our race. They
laid the foundations of the land
we love and conquered the wil
derness. Even greater than the
pioneers that have built nations
are the great pioneers of faith
who have blazed the way for us
to follow. Abraham is claimed
as the pioneer of three great
religions: Judaism, Christian
ity, and Islam.
North Covington United
Methodist Church
Jerry Horton
Pastor
“Decisiveness is a must in
Christianity” Scripture; Luke
6:46.
“Why call ye me, Lord, Lord,
and do not the things which I
say?”
First of all, let me say that
my family and I are happy to
be a part of your city. lam
sure that all of you are very
proud of Covington. The people
at North Covington Methodist Ch
urch as well many of you have
given us a warm welcome to your
city.
Today I would like to say a
few words to you about this ques
tion Jesus asked: “Why call ye
me Lord, Lord, and do not the
things which I say?”
This same question is address
ed to the undecided. In speak
ing to you on being decisive I
am speaking on a subject of major
importance. This is an essen
tial for successful living. If you
know where you are going and are
determined to get there, almost
any conveyance will serve the
purpose. But if you cannot come
to a definite decision as to your
goal, what hope is there for you?
A ship that is bound for no cer
tain harbor cannot have a favora
ble wind. Is it any wonder why
Jesus is constantly calling us
to be decisive? “Let your lan
guage be. ’Yes, yes,’ or ’No,
No.* “(Weymouth).
So often our “Yes” has in it
a tincture of “No,” and our “No”
a tincture of “Yes”. It is said
that it Is difficult to get people
to think, but it is even more dif
ficult to get them to be decis
ive in their thinking.
Now let us remember our
scripture, and try to see the kind
of people Jesus was talking to.
Our Lord Is not speaking to those
who are out and out against Him.
He isn’t speaking to His enemies,
Thursday, July 10, 1969
The establishment of the School
of Environmental Design brings
to 13 the number of schools and
colleges comprising the univer
sity of Georgia. Others are Ag
riculture, Arts and Sciences,
Business Administration, Educa
tion, Forest Resources, Home
Economics, Journalism, Law,
Pharmacy, Social Work, Veteri
nary Medicine, and the Graduate
School.
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nor to those who ignore Him.
Neither is He speaking to those
who are wholeheartedly for Him.
Who then is He speaking to? He
is speaking to people very like
many of us. People who admire
Him, who honor Him to the point
of calling Him Lord, and yet
who are not fully persuaded to
follow Him. They give Mm an
intellectual assent, but have fail
ed wholeheartedly to give Mm
themselves.
Not only does this company of
the undecided include vast num
bers who are outside of our chur
ches, but it also includes vast
numbers who belong to our ch
urches as well. Attendance on
any given Sunday proves this to be
so. Our tragedy is not that we
are out and out against Mm;
it is rather that we are not out
and out for Mm.
Jesus asks for our all. To
Matthew Jesus said, “Follow
me.” This publican was deci
sive. He rose up, left all, and
followed. Jesus is asking what
Paul urged in these words; “Pre
sent your bodies a living sacri
fice.” He is asking for our com
plete and unconditional dedica
tion of life. Nothing less than
that will meet Ms demands. He
is never pleased with half-heart
ed devotion.
It is only by our wholeheart
ed loyalty that we can find satis
faction for ourselves as well as
usefulness. There is no peace
for the undecided. The most
wretched hours of our lives are
those spent in indecision. Inde
cision also takes away our use
fulness and gives weakness.
We ought to decide definitely
for Christ, because by refusing
to do so we decide against Mm.
What is the way to victory?
Make a wholehearted decision.
God longs to give you the best,
but He cannot without your co
operation. Remember that God’s
one plan of salvation is for a
surrendered heart. Is your heart
surrendered?