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X Free Press-News & Farmer, Tues., Feb. 14, 1967 |
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Arthur Godfrey Praises FFA |
Address Given by Arthur
Godfrey—39th National FFA
Convention—Oct. 14, 1966
How wonderful it is to be
in a room containing this
many promising young
Americans, all of whom have
been to the barbershop.
1 have been cognizant of
the great work of the FFA
for many, many, many years.
In the early days of my
radio career I had the great
honor to be assigned the
programs of the FFA out of
Washington, D. C., on the
N.B.C. Network many, many
times. I have known of the
work of the FFA long before
any of the present members
of the FFA were even gleams
in their granddaddy’s eyes.
The work you have done I
only wish we could duplicate
in our cities. We need or
ganizations like this among
our city folks to accomplish
the same wonderful things.
1 want to take a couple of
minutes, if I may, to pass
along something to you
which, I think, you might
very well be interested in,
because in your hands lies
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Phone 478-7252 Jonesboro, Ga.
Member F. D. |I. C.
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CITIZENS BANK
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Hapeville, Ga. Phone 767-8213
Member F.D.11.C.
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Hail to the FFA
Best Wishes
JONESBORO FFA MEMBERS
the future of -this country,
men like yourselves all over
the country.
I don’'t feel quite so hor
ribly alone out here, as an
American, I mean. And if
there is any distinction in
the world to which I can
proudly lay claim, it is that
I am an American, I mean,
one of the corny, old-fash
ioned patriotic kind. And I
have met a great many of
my ilk right out here in
Kansas City. Honestly, I was
beginning to wonder if those
ot us who love America were
not soon going to have to go
underground.
I don't know what has
happened to so many so
called American citizens in
the past decade or so. I
think it must have started
not too long after World War
II when our former allies in
Europe began to taunt us
with cracks such as Ameri
cans are “over-paid, over
sexed, and over here.” Those
words are an over-simplifi
cation, of course, of the rea
sons why modern America is
not too well loved abroad.
Over -paid, naturally
stands for envy. The world
envies a prodigy so fabu
lously rich and strong. Over
sexed stands for fear, fear
that America will overcome
the gentler strains thus
Americanizing the world in
its own brash image. Over
here stands for resentment,
the feeling that America in
trudes into everything, im
posing her views, her policies
and her shareholders upon
everybody else.
What bugs me is that this
is no longer just the for
eigners’ thoughts about
America, too many so-called
Yankees have been mys
teriously brainwashed into
believing it themselves. And
do you know, of all the anti-
Americans in the world, no
body is more violently anti
than an anti-American
American.
That is one of the big rea
sons I am so happy to be
here in Kansas City.
I haven’t seen a single young
person on the street, in the
Muehlebach Hotel, or at the
American Royal about
whose sex I have the slight
est doubt. As a beloved
young lady said to me, “The
young men here look like
young men used to look,
healthy, proud, clean,
friendly. How refreshing it
is.” Yes, and people here
look like Americans, they
look like Americans proud to
be Americans.
People I meet here seem
to realize that, while the
conduct of too many Ameri
cans, at home and abroad,
brings the blush of shame to i
the cheek, the deep down
core of the country, which is
the priceless heritage so
hard-won by our fore
fathers, is not only good and
great, it’s the greatest in the
world.
There are many things of
which we Americans are and
should be heartily ashamed, I
beginning with our conquest
and subsequent bestial treat
ment of the Indians, but
there are also many, many
things of which we can and
should be proud. Never, for
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, FFA MEMBERS!
HERBERT'S
FOOD STORE
GROCERIES AND MEATS
PHONE 478-6585
251 N. Main St. Jonesboro, Ga.
Forward, FFA!
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Hardware Co.
1900 RIVERDALE RD. 766-8633
COLLEGE PARK
Hardware, Paints, Gifts, Toys
Electrical and Plumbing Supplies
instance, in the history of
the world, has a power pos
sessed of so much muscle
flexed it so moderately.
American power, after World
War 11, for instance, spilled
over half the earth like
foam over the brim of a beer
mug.
American arms saved all
of Western Europe. Ameri
can money rescued whole
continents from insolvency.
American Strategic Air
Power kept Stalin, and, sub
sequently, Kruschev on the
right side of the Iron Cur
tain.
We of the U.S.A. were in
dispensable, omnipotent,
into everything, everywhere.
But so lightly did we lay our
authority upon the prostrate
world, that most of the na
tions we helped have never
stopped thumbing their
noses at us.
The alliance we so care
fully fashioned in Europe
seems destined to come
apart because of the whim
of a crotchety old gentleman
who, as Oscar Levant puts it,
seems to be laboring under
the delusion that France
rescued America in two
World Wars. Even our sort
of-special relationship with
the British has degenerated
into a sporadic, wan and un
convincing exchange of neo-
Churchillian sentiments.
Our different policies
toward South America have
earned us little but burned
down information offices
and rude editorials. Our ef
forts to impose a Pax Ameri
cana in the Far East have
kicked back so ironically
that we find ourselves in
volved in the most vicious
of wars for which half the
world abhors us.
The dollar, once almighty,
| now fluctuates moodily
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| beautiful flag, once so cov
eted, is now often spat upon,
torn up and burned.
The erosion of our soil, the
pollution of our streams, the
extinction of so much of our
wildlife, the contamination
of the very air we breathe,
the frustrating hopelessness
| of our nationwide traffic
jams, the frightening inva
sion of our personal, private
lives and liberties by count
less cancerous do-gooder
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State Convention Highlights
Walter Lundy, representing the Atlanta Journal, presents the State
Roadside Beautification award to Donald Pollock and.the Pelham
FFA. T. O. Gurley, advisor of the Joneshoro FFA, accepts the
seccnd place award for his chapter.
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I.L. HUIE & SON, INC.
Lumber - Builders Supplies -
Hardware - Etc.
130 MILL ST.
JONESBORO, GA.
478-7257
THE F.F.A. PRODUCES FUTURE LEADERS
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SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
CLAYTON COUNTY
Tel. 478-8802
Congratulations, Jonesboro FFA
Members, on Your Work!
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FORD, INC.
3418 Stewart Ave. Phone 761-0671
HAPEVILLE, GA.
“Service |s the Heart of Our Business"’
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Advisors and Future Farmers of the four area Chapter Achievement
Award winners are (I-r) Mac Balkcom and R. E. Balkcom, Early
County; Oswell Smith, Patterson: T. O. Gurley and Billy Nelms,
Jonesboro; Bill Usher and H. J. Fitzpatrick, White County. %
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THE FFA PROIDES TRAININGV IN
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES
SWINT'S FEED
& GARDEN SUPPLY
Jonesboro, Georgia
478-7034
Feeds, Seeds, Fertilizer, Lawn Supplies
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INSURANCE AGENCY
1169 Main St. Forest Park
Phone 366-5311 ;
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85 Highway P. O. Box 67
One of the Largest Stocks in Georgia :
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NEW AND USED '
BATTERIES . . . $6.00 UP
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