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Veterans Day, November 11
November 11 is Armistice Day or, as it is
now designated, Veterans Day. Armistice Day
is the anniversary of the end of World War I
in 1918; and while, sincel9s4, it has been celebrated
as Veterans Day, its purpose remains the same,
It is a day devoted to honoring armed forces,
Originally it was a day of speechmaking and
resurging patriotism, Every family displayed
the American flag with pride and humble gratitude
for all that it represented--the freedom
and security of our homes, the protection of
the individual against oppression from whatever
Don’t Conglomerate The Conglomerates
One of the most prominent of all American ch
aracteristics is pride in individuality, It hardly
seems fair, then, to lump together all the so
called “‘conglomerate’’ corporations, It is im
portant that we recognize each for its individual
economic and competitive practices, We certainly
should not censure them just for their size or
success, If we do that, weare like the dentist who
pulled all his patient’s teeth because one or two
needed filling, When a corporation is tagged a
“conglomerate,”’ it does not automatically mean
that it is in any way guilty of unfair or anti
Easing out of the headlines is Hurricane
Camille,
Soon it will be only a memory to most of us,
But not to the American Red Cross.
For days, for weeks, for months, possibly for
years, the American Red Cross will be concerned
and active,
Everybody is aware of the work done by the
Red Cross as emergency measures, With our
own eyes we see lost children returned to their
families, food appearing mercifully for the hungry,
clean sleeping arrangements for those who are
without shelter, medical attentionlavished loving
ly on those in need.
What most of us are not aware of— indeed,
what many of us havenever known =—is that the
Red Cross is the agency chartered byk;C'ongreisv
not only to take care of temporary needs but to
acl)lnt.inue its work as long as the suffering con
ues,
A statement attributed to California Governor
Ronald Reagan in an editorial in the Morning
News-Gazette of Martinez, California, deser
ves repetition, The statement was in referen
ce to Hire the Forty-Plus Worker Week, the
idea being to encourage industry not to over
look the qualified men and women available
for employment who have passed their fortieth
birthdays.
The governor said: ‘‘To have able, qualified
and willing workers on the unemployment rolls
simply because they were born before 1929 ma
kes no sense, It’s a waste of our resources,
it’s bad for the economy and it hurts the tax
payer unnecessarily,”’
We agree. The statement that youth must be
served should not be interpreted to mean that
serving youth should be a means of avoiding any
responsibility to the over-forty generation, A man
over forty is in a tough position, He still theo
retically has more than thirty years of life ahead
of him, In most instances, he still has a family
to support. And he is still quite capable,
At one time or another, most people have oc
casion to sell something, and whether it is a fa
mily heirloom} a car, a home or what have you,
they quickly find that to locate a buyer, they
must expend considerable effort — and often
money — to create interest in what they have to
sell, In other words, they must use promotion
and advertising, just as does the merchant who
must seek buyers for the thousands of items
on his store shelves,
The function of promotion and advertising is
simply to bring buyer and seller together. Un
less this is done the whole business of trans
ferring goods in the marketplace would grind
to a virtual halt insofar as the mass distribut
ion system of this nation is concerned. That is
why it makes so little sense when those who
allegedly seek to protect consumers foment leg
islative attacks against promotion and advertis
ing which produce volume sales and thereby have
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by all nations,
There are those who are inclined to view the
flag and patriotic observances as anachronisms
and somewhat juvenile, These cynics may have
had their eyes opened to the fact that the flag
is far from a dead symbol when they
looked about them following the death of former
president Eisenhower, Flags flew from millions
of homes and public buildings. Mr. Eisenhower
symbolized the greatness of a natio% just as
does Veterans Day. On such occasionsdisplaying
the flag is an instinctive act of all good citizens,
competitive practices, As a matter of fact,
using the definition of ‘‘conglomerate —a com
pany operating in two or more areas — most
cgrporations today would find themselves includ
e o
We have to be discriminating in our judgments
and wait until all the necessary facts are in be
fore coming to any conclusions. Let’s not con
glomerate the conglomerates before we decide
what is good or bad about the individual corpora
tions so labeled.
Until" a means of livelihood has been re
established and some sort of housing provided,
Red Cross concern for members of the destitute
family does not end, Professional and volunteer
workers by the dozens or by the hundreds as
long as they are needed — stick with the job
until it is completed,
All of these services are free to those who
need them, There are no loans or repayments
to face once the individual is back on his feet,
It is years before the Red Cross finishes its
task with victims of major disasters, many of
whom require prolonged hospitalizationand seem
ingly endless therapy, For this reason one can
only assume it will be yearsbefore the Red Cross
. . can call Camille a closed book.
Only in the wake of such disaster does one
recognize the full significance of Red Cross work
and the value of an agency which is always pre
sent and lastingly helpful.
We could cite accomplishments of a number of
famous people who did their best work after for
ty. Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer at the age of forty, Many of his other
classics follows; Huckleberry Finn came along
nine years later, Pasteur performed some of his
finest medical work after the age of forty, And
the list stretches on,
Equally commendable deeds may be attributed
to men and women below the age of forty, but one
point is not to compare the generations on either
side of this dividing line, Our feeling is that
both have their claims to fame, Age should not
be used as a line of demarcation; ability should
be the only criterion,
We hope that businessmen will not look at a
man’s birthdate for the answer as to whether or
not to hire him, There is much to say for youth
and much to be found, also, in maturity. As
Governer Reagan said: *“‘lt’s a waste of our re
sources, . .”’ to ignore our over-forty unemploy
ed for no reason other than age,
the effect of lowering prices. A favorite target
of this type of legislation has been one of the
oldest forms of promotion — the trading stamp,
Some 78 per cent of U, S, families are stamp
savers,
As Mr, James J, Nagle wrote in The New
York Times: ¢‘‘Sometimes it appears as though
everyone hates trading stamps except those pro
ducing them and consumers who save them,’’
And of course on the side of the stamps are the
thousands of merchants who have found that they
serve a twofold purpose, Theyattractcustomers,
and they give customers somethh;f extra, Ina
very real sense, they are tokens of appreciation
from merchants to consumers —a way of say
ing thank you for your business, Yes, trading
stamps and other forms of promotion that are
an integral part of the marketing system are as
essential as the advertising appearing on the
pages of daily or weekly newspapers,
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OUR WEEKLY LESSON
FOR
Sunday School
THE FAITH OF GOD’SREMNANT
Devotional Reading: Isaiah 10:
20-23,
Memory Selection: The stead
fast love of the Lord never cea
ses, his mercies never come to
an end; they are new every mor
ning; great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
Intermediate - Senior Topic:
The Faith of God’s Remnant.
Young - People Adult Topic:
The Faith of God’s Remnant.
The Hebrews are frequently
referred to, and rightly, as God’s
Chosen People. This exalted de
signation arises from the fact
that through the Hebrews, God
was setting forth the most im=-
portant truth man canever learn,
namely, the nature of Godand his
will and purpose regarding his
creation.
Today’s lesson is taken from
the Book of Lamentations, and it
is understatement to say that this
is probably one of the least read
portions of the sixty-six books
of the Bible. Jeremiah is pre
sumed to have been the author of
this book. He wrote it (a series
of dirges) at a time when the
city of Jerusalem was under
siege by the Babylonians and
its citizens later to be carried
into exile.
Jeremiah is weeeping and la
menting over the fate that has
come upon his city. The book
from beginning to end express=-
es the sympathy of the writer
in national sorrow.
Only generations that have pas=-
sed through excruciating sorrow
can fully appreciate the mood wh
ich prompted the author to write
these dirges.
The Bible pictures God as be=
ing interested in remnants. The
stone which the builders rejected
becomes the head of the corner
(Ps. 18:22). The Christian mo=
vement which occurred near the
end of Jewish national existence
was participated in by onlya sm=
all minority of the peoples living
in Palestine at that time. The
risen Lord appeared and reap
peared to individuals and small
groups. Christianity was arem=
nant movement and was destined
to remain so for several cen
turies.
Jeremiah was in many respects
a tragic figure. He would have
done almost anything — except
disobey the will of God —if he
could have been relieved of the
duty of proclaiming the destruc
tion of his nation. But he fore=-
saw their affliction and misery.
The wormwood and gall of this
experience ate away at his very
soul, humbling him but leaving
him also with the conviction that
there was hope in the future and
that his people, after the stern
discipline of exile, would return
to reestablish and continue their
nation.
Viewed now from the distance
of more than twenty-five hundred
years, we can see that the exile
was really the thing that rounded
INFLATION, HIGH INTEREST RATES, AND tight money
have caused a serious recession in the home building industry and
brought about a housing crisis worse than that of 1966.
Housing starts have fallen from an annual rate of 1.9 million in
January to 1.3 million in August. It is expected they will drop
below 1 million by the end of this year. This is far below the 2.6
million units a year called for in criteria set by the Housing Act
of 1968.
In short, the situation is very bad. Homebuilders are hurting.
Home buyers, especially those in the low and moderate income
levels, are priced out of the market by extremely high interest
rates. Veterans are particularly penalized. Few of them can afford
to pay the going rates of 8,9, or 10 per cent.
Along with all moderate and low income housing, the special
veterans housing program has also become a victim of inflation.
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I HAVE COSPONSORED A BILL to relieve this crisis by in
creasing the availability of guaranteed home loan financing for
veterans which, at the same time would give new life to the sag
ging home building industry.
It would allow the investment of up to $5 billion from the
National Service Life Insurance fund in mortgage loans for vet
erans. Under the bill, capital would be injected into veterans
housing at the rate of $1 billion a year for five years.
It would in no way jeopardize NSLI trust funds created by
premium payments of World War II veterans on their insurance.
In fact, it would boost the income of the fund because mortgage
interest would be higher than present revenue from government
securities.
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THE EFFECT OF THIS PROPOSAL would be to allow vet
erans to use funds they have paid on their insurance policies for
the purchase of VA-guaranteed housing.
The fund belongs to veterans and it ought to be made available
to better enable them to own homes. Time is short. The World
War II home loan program will expire July 25, 1970, and I
hope that the Congress will act to make this money available for
veterans and also assist the home construction industry.
The bill will be considered by the Subcommittee on Veterans’
Legislation, of which I am Chairman.
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out and established the kingdom
of Judah., Thetennortherntribes
had gone off into idolatry, had lost
their character and their reli
gious faith, and as a result had
disappeared from the face of the
earth under the cruel perse=-
cution of Assyria. But the king
dom of Judah was to live on and
produce the circumstances amid
which Christ would teach, heal,
meet his death and finally ex
perience resurrection. Then ab
out forty years after the resur
rection the Roman government
decided that they had had enough
of the restlessness and sedition
which had characterized life
within the kingdom of Judah. They
decided to wipe out this group of
people, hostile to any overlord
and bitterly resentful that they,
God’s people, were not free in
every sense of the term.
The exile was a period of se=-
venty years, from the time of
King Josiah, who was killed at
the battle of Megiddo about 608
B. C., and was terminated when
in the year 538 B, C, forty-three
thousand of the exiled Jews re=-
turned to the land of their fat
hers to rebuild the city and tem=-
ple.
The exile constituted a hard
lesson, but it was in many ways
one of the most fortunate things
to happen to the Hebrew people.
The patriarch Abraham had hat
ed idolatry, and undoubtedly one
reason that he left Ur of the
Chaldees was to escape the de
gradation of false belief and wor
ship. Living in close proximity
with people who were idolaters,
the Hebrews were constantly sub=-
jected to the temptation to forsake
their unseen God Jehovah and
prostrate themselves as their
neighbors did before idols made
of wood and stone.
Many beneficial effects un
doubtedly occurred from the se
venty years’ sojourn ir Babylon
known as the exile. One of these
was that the Hebrews decided
once and for all that they had
had enough of idolatry. They went
down to Babylon speaking the
Hebrew language and they re
turned using a language similar
to Hebrew but not identical with
it, namely, Aramaic. This Ara
maic became the vernacular of
the Jews and was the language
spoken by Jesus and his aposte
les,
Never again did the Hebrews
fall victim to idolatry. Today,
throughout the world, Jews are
loyal to their unseen God Jeho=-
vah. Their rejection of Jesus
was a tragic mistake. Their se
ditious movements against the
Romans in later years brought
them at last to national ruin.
But there was one thing on wh
ich the Jews never faltered, and
do not falter to this day, namely,
idolatry. The exile cured them of
what had been a national disease
for centures.
Herman Talmadge
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Marital Status
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Schooling, Income
WASHINGTON, D, C, — Men
with low incomes are less likely
than men with higher incomes
to marry before they reach age
thirty -five, reports FINANCE
FACTS, a monthly newsletter
on consumer behavior published
by the National Consumer Fi=-
nance Association,
Quoting a nationwide survey
based on Bureau of the Census
studies, the newsletter states
that men with a college educat
ion (who are usually the ones
earning the higher incomes)are
more likely than men with a
high school education to marry
when they are 25 to 34 years
old.
K they do marry, men who
have not attended college are
more likely than married men
with college training to discon
tinue living with their wife by
‘the time they are 45 to 54
years old.
The survey does not establish
whether the college educated
man’s wife stays married be
cause of his preferred income
status or because college train
ing makes him a more under=
standing mate. Either way, the
moral to the story seems to be:
If you want to earn more money
and keep your wife, get a col=
lege education.
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to do, are able to get out and go
to Church, and around wherever
we want to go. We are coming
to New Years Day before we
know it. ILets make our New
Year’s Resolution right now, to
remember those shut-ins. God
will surely bless us. . .for we
will come away more rewarded
by their joy in having us than we
could ever realize. Don’t forget
little children, whohave not many
to play with, or the ¢sSchool of
Care?’ young people. You cannot
know their joy at having you, un=-
til you visit them!
Baptists! Stop! Look! Lis=-
ten! Did you know there was a
Study Course at the First Baptist
Training Union Hour, . .one YOU
are supposed to take, if youarea
member of this Church? Your
Ppastor is proud of the ones who
show up. . .but he, and all of
them, would like to see YOU,and
YOURS there. o olt willhelp you to
be a better Christian, and to fill
places of importance in your Ch=
urch. YOU need to be there!
God has given us a beautiful
year. We have only the rest of
this month and December. . .
then 19701 How time flies! ILet
us round out this year with a de
termination to make a decision,
if we have not, to affiliate with
some Church. ¥ you have not,
you have missed a great joy, not
only in good fellowship with your
fellow man, but in serving in the
Church of your choice, . .and let
ting God have His way in your
life, your home, your business
and your future. Many hesitate,
but the longer we wait. . .theless
important it seems to be. Let’s
have EVERY person in Newton
County, or elsewhere, to know the
joy of fellowship with God, and
your neighbors, in God’s house.
It will make a different home
and a different life for you. The
ere is nothing like the sweet fel
lowship with God and your fellow
man. . .Start thinking today, if
you are not a Church member.
Go to some Church and becomea
member along with all your fa
mily. . .Then the New Year will
be the happiest you and your fa
mily ever had! We’ll all be ex=
pecting YOU! Opps here comes
that broom inno uncertain terms.
1 “gotter’” do the “SWEEPIN’
UP.”
Newton Junior Football League
Winners 0f Candy Sale Contest
winners of the Newton Junior
Football League Candy Sale were
announced Saturday, November 1,
The WINNING TEAM who will
be treated to an Ice Cream Party
was the “Packers?’ of Division
1. Candy Sale Chairman for the
Packers was Mrs, Billy Banks,
Packers Head Coach is Gerald
Curtis,
Individual awards were as fol=-
lows:
Ist place - $20.00, Jimmy
Croft - Jets
2nd place - 15,00, Monty O’-
Kelley - Outlaws
3rd place - 10,00, Butch John
son - Red Devils
Tied for 4th & sth - $7.00
each - Linda Osborn and
Mike Strange
6th place - 5,00, Billy Walden
7th place - 4,00, Allen Cooper
Bth place = 3,00, Jody Lynch
9th place - 3,00, Ron Hayes
Tied for 10th place = $3,00
each - Tommy Banks, Jeff
Autry
Lions Cheerleader, Lorri Las
ter, won a $25.00 Savings Bond
in a special drawing where all
who sold 12 boxes of candy, had
a chance to win, The ones who
1 read yesterday that $13,000
per year is now considered to
be the medium income bracket
in America. This may be in
New York or California, but I
know a lot of ¢‘medium income
Americans” in Georgia who make
a good bit less than the above fi
gure each year.
There is a new rule being ap
plied these days: The more you
make, the less it buys, and what
you buy isn’t worth what it costs.
The economic term is inflation,
but a more appropriate name is
round=-robin pool.
The situation brings to mind
the saying: *The faster I go the
behinder I get.’”” During these
inflationary days a raise doesn’t
mean much because it’s followed
by higher prices which put us back
in the same position we started.
About a month ago I read that
plumbers in California are strik
ing for $21,500 a year. Now I
know I’'m in the wrong business.
This year’s automobiles are
beautiful, but the space age pri
ces are rediculous. Causing this
situation is the demand by labor
for higher wages which in turn
cost the manufacturer more to
produce the product. The wage
.earner then grumbles about the
price of the product and contin
uously seeks more money in his
pay check.
In addition to the husband, wife,
and children, there is another im=
portant, if not blood related,
member of the family, . he’s the
banker. A big part of his busin
ess is loaning money to help fa=-
milies get what they want.
By Rev. John B, Tate, Pastor
Allen Memorial Methodist Church
¢And they departed from the
council, rejoicing that they were
counted worthy to suffer shame
for His name. And daily in the
temple and in every house they
ceased not to teach and preach
Jesus Christ”’(Acts 5:41-42)
There is no substitute for the
Christian home. This recorded
word about the early Christians
needs to be remembered and re
captured in our day. The break
down of respect for authority
and the law; the disregard for
property and the increase in the
crime rates in our nation can
be traced to the failure of the
families across our land
to demonstrate these qualities
of strength which make character,
There are PERILS tothe home.
So many that only a listing of a
few are mentioned here:
both parents working, high
divorce rates, invasion of the
home by TV and radio and trashy
literature and scores of other
insidious influences. I am a
member of the Board of Trustees
of The Methodist Children’s Home
in Decatur. Practically every
child in that home is not only
from a broken family but has
psychological problems which
create situations which require
expert attention. This is a
symptom of what is happening
in too many homes.
But there are POWERS which
if used can still salvage some
of the damage done to the homes
of our nation. The family remains
the best hope to validate God’s
way of life. The home is a God
created institution where parent
and child can become the pattern
whereby the nation can be
strengthened,
When Jesus began His earthly
ministry he used the phrase ‘The
Kingdom of God’ as a vehicle
to carry the message. Rtisbased
sold 24 boxes, will receive a
Junior Football pin.
Mrs, C. C., Evans and Mrs,
W, W, Laseter announced 2 total
profit of $1,601.32, to the league
from the Candy Sale.
League President Clyde Webb
expresses gratitude to the en
thusiastic players, cheerlead
ers, parents, and the general
public who helped to make the
sale a success,
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Kid’s View Os Dentist
Influenced By Parents
PARENTS who, albeit in jest,
talk about the trauma of dental
treatment in front of their child=
ren, can unwittingly affect the
child’s lifetime approach to den
tal care.
A study conducted by a dental
student at Harvard University
has shown that positive attitudes,
minimized apprehension and kn
owledge of dental care were de
veloped after an early (pre=-
school) first visit to a dentist.
These may favorably influence
the child’s approach to dental
care for the rest of his life.
Thursday, November 6, 1969
MONEY
By: Leo S, Mallard
Today, most bankers are run
ning out of money to lend in the
tight money market. They are
more selective about which loans
they make, and even with the
8 1/2% interest rate they still
have all the business they can
handle.
The disturbing trend is that
people across the nation willbor
row money just as long as they
can get it, regardless of the in
terest rate, so long as they can
make the monthly payment. Some
are even content to make a mon=
thly payment from time to time
if they can get away with it.
Credit cards are used as if
money were going out of style,
and they don’t seem to be such
a bad thing until you figure you
are paying 189% interest on the
time payment plan for your bar
gains that were bought at a 10%
sale price reduction.
It’s interesting to watch the
¢¢fight inflation commercials?’ on
television. They tell us thatonly
we can curb or stop inflation.
Outside government spending this
may be so, but in our affluent
society we have come to expect
a certain standard of living. To
retain this standard we are will
ing to drain every financial sou=
rce, no matter what the interest
cost,
A bust like 1929 is not pre
dicted, but if the experts are
wrong and a bust does come, the
depression of 1929 will seem
like a bed of roses to the peo=
ple across this nation that ex=
perience the failure leading into
the 1970’5,
Words To i
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on the idea of the family at its
best. A place where LOVE is
known and felt. There is no.
animal which is as helpless at
birth as the human animal, Its
survival depends upon someone
who loves it enough to care for
ite It is no accident that this
is so. It is God’s way of teaching
us to make the home a place
where the power of love becomes
saal
Charles Swain has written a
poem which says this better:
Home’s not merely four square
walls,
Though with pictures hung and
gilded;
Home is where affection calls,
Filled with shrines the heart
hath builded!
Home!=go watch the faithful dove,
Sailing ’neith the heaven above
us:
Home is where there’s omne to
love!
Home is where there’s one to
love us,
The family is the place where
the power of prayer is establish~
ed. A home to be christian re
quires prayer; for Christ to be
the center of devotion and the
consistant loyalty. There is no
substitute for prayer in the
creation of christian homes. In
the practice of prayer the homely
cadences of faith are learned
and experienced in childhood and
are not matched anywhere in the
worlde Prayer will accomplish
miracles. Make it adaily practice
in your family.
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Pre-Leg. Forums
Sef In Georgia
The chairmen of the Senate
and House Appropriations Com=-
mittees will be the featured
panelists on the Georgia Cham
ber of Commerce Pre-Legis=
lative Forums scheduled to be
‘'gin November 13th in Toccoa.
The meetings will be held in
13 cities, ending November 21st
in Augusta,
Principal speakers will be
Representative James H, Floyd
of Trion, Chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee and
Senator Lamar Plunkett of Bow=
den, Chairman of the Senate Ap
propriations Commlt}ee.
The Forums are held each
year prior to the General As
sembly to afford businessmen
and legislators an opportunity
to discuss issues comingbefore
the lawmakers,
Chamber President A, W,
Holloway of Albany said thatad=-
vance reservations indicate this
year’s tour will attract thelar
gest crowds ever to attend the
meetings, now in their four
teenth year,
The tour:
November 13, Toccoa, 12:30
p. m,; Gainesville, 7:00 p, m,
November 14, Atlanta, 8:00
a, m,; Rome, 12:30 p, m,
November 17, Columbus,
12:30 p. m,; Macon, 7:00
p. m,
November 18, Dublin, 12:30
p. m,; Albany, 7:00 p, m.
November 19, Valdosta, 1:00
p. m,; Waycross, 7:00 p, m,
November 20, Savannah,
12:30 p, m,; Vidalia, 7:00
P. M,
November 21, Augusta, 12:30