The Forest Park free press and Clayton County news and farmer and the Forest Park news. (Forest Park, Ga.) 1967-1969, December 14, 1967, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 Free Press-News & Farmer, Thurs., Dec. 14, 1967 Stye Unrest fork Jta (And (Slayton ®ounty Nms and Jarawr ^ntl ®f|e forest ^arfe ^efos JACK TROY, Editor GUY BUTLER, Adv. Mgr. MRS. FREDERICK LEE, BUS MGR. Forest Park P O Box 47—Jonesboro P.O. BoX 456—Phone 366-3652 and Jonesboro OReen leaf 8-6841—Office: 1007 Central Ave., Forest Park, Oa. Second Class Postage Paid at Jonesboro, Oa. ‘ Associated Georgia Newspapers, Inc.” MEMBER News and advertising matter for the current week must reach the Jonesboro and Forest Park office not later than Monday noon to assure publication in the next issue. The Pub lisher will not be responsible for errors in advertising beyond the cost of the ads. Classified advertising rate: $1.50 minimum, for 20 words or less; extra words 5c each. Card of Thanks, $2 00. Display advertising rates furnished upon request. Communications invited. All articles for publication must bear the writer’s signature. The right to edit or return articles without publication is reserved. Subscription Rate $3.00 Per Year Guy Lines By GUY BUTLER The Great Heisman It took 47 years for John W. Heisman, one of the great all-time football coaches long dead, to make the Georgia Hall of Fame. Either that proves it’s an awfully exclusive club or that not too many people around re member the sch o 1 a r 1 y gentle ma n who drove Georgia Tech to the pin nac 1 e in Sou t h e r n football and into the select grouping of the nation during the 15 years lie directed the Techs. After winning 103 games, losing 18 and tying 6 over his sojourn at the Flats Heis” left and turned over the reins to Bill Alexander, ills top assistant, for the 1920 season, the bespectacled John W. moving on to Penn sylvania, his alma mater, where he remained for some years. This writer was a young ster but he recalls vividly the man who created the “jump shift” and used It tell ingly at Tech. He did so well with it, in fact, that other coaches banded together and voted in a rule that blunted the shift, forcing players who jumped to come to a positive halt for two seconds instead of hesitat- Christmas Discount Sale! $4.00 Ladies' POCKETBOOKS Now $2.99 ELKINS Dept. Store 625 Central Ave. — Hapeville Clayton Finance Co. 0 Fl ° NI I N e s Y “ -mA I °F d x— / । T A N 0 A LC & r E * r : N \ ■ u □ :: A W G MARION WHALEY Telephone 366-4787 1151 Main St. Forest Park A Newspaper Os Integrity in Fast-Moving Clayton OFFICIAL COUNTY LEGAL ORGAN Ing momentarily before the snap. Yours truly staretd out on the old Atlanta Georgian- American and Heisman and the paper had an arrange ment whereby the coach would write three articles a week for publication. The man was an able writer and his comments were very in formative and widely read. When he brought his col umns into the office he gen erally sat around and chatted awhile with Bill Farnsworth, the sports edi tor, or Harry Lewis, who succeeded him. And we got well acquainted. I learned a lot of football from these discussions and from reading his pieces. Heis was pretty stern with his players and hardly pop ular with the masses but he was a master gridiron strat egist and he developed some great names at Tech, among them Everett Strupper, Jusy Harlan. Tommy Spence. Bill Fincher. Red Barron. Buck Flowers. Six Carpenter, Al bert Staton and he applied the finishing touches to In dian Joe Guyon, who trans ferred here from Carlisle Indian School in Pennsyl vania. Heisman’s 1917 and 1918 teams still rank among the finest ever produced in col lege football. Heis was boss in 1916 when Tech rang up that record score of 222-0 against little Cumberland. Every player on the Jacket team scored a touchdown except clumsy Canty Alex ander, the giant tackle, and he would have but his mates played a trick on him and every time he was given the ball they blocked him in stead of for him. A Prixß-Winning Newspaper 1961 wSSS/ Better Newspaper Contests NATIONAL EDITORIAL In Heis’ heydey Tech was the kingbee in the South land and Pittsburgh in the East. Supporters of the two schools kept on arguing their team was No. 1 so fin ally they worked up a match between the pair. The Pitt Panther with Pop Warner at the helm proved a little too strong for the Pride of the South and won out. 21-7. I believe it was. I remember a halfback named Tom Dav ies led the Panther offense with a couple of touch downs. ♦ ♦ ♦ Old Nap Makes It Four others besides Heis man were admitted to the Georgia Hall of Fame last Saturday night, all richly deserving. Nap Rucker, the great old Dodger lefthander: Frank Sinkwich, who led Georgia to Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl triumphs; Spec Towns, one of the all time standout hurdlers, and Charlie Morgan of Macon, went into the hall of im mortals. My favorite in that group is Rucker, who probably lost more 1-0 games than any body in Dodger history. He pitched for the Flatbushers before they became consis tent winners. However, he was with them in 1916 when they won their first pennant, and again in 1920. when they won again. But Nap was about through even in 1916 after a brilliant career. He was Brooklyn’s mainstay for many years and John McGraw, the Giants’ famous leader, made a habit of sav ing his super-star, Christy Mathewson, to hurl against Rucker when the clubs met. Those games usually re sulted 1-0 or 2-1 with the Giants winning a slight edge because they were the better team. It took a Rucker to hold in check such hitters as Larry Doyle, Fred Merkle. Fred Snodgrass, Art Devlin, Charley Herzog, Mike Donlin and Josh Devore. Nap is 83 now, lives in Roswell, which has always been his home, and he be longs in Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Too bad it will likely happen too late for the peerless Nap to enjoy it. New Church to Start Any person interested in having an Inde pendent Baptist church established in the Morrow-Lake City area please call 366- 1901 or write GENE DINGESS, 1580 Burkes Road, Morrow, Georgia 30260. HUDDLESTON CONCRETE COMPANY — Concrete Products — W. H. Huddleston, Manager Phone 474-7271-474-7272 Night: Charles Mundy 478-1019 — — W. H. Huddleston 478-8181. Sensing the News EBy Thurman Sensing EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Southern States Industrial Council The Lesson of Britain The international financial shock waves caused by the devaluation of the British pound are contin uing to be felt around the world. The socialist govern ment of Great Britain, by its irresponsible manage ment of the affairs of the British people, has struck a severe blow at all the capi talist nations. This is the second time that a Labor government in Britain has devalued the pound. The Daily Telegraph in London rightly has de scribed devaluation as an act that "involves the abandon ment of those who have en trusted this country with the keeping of their money.” Work and sacrifice mean nothing if a government de stroys the value of a nation’s money. By a single financial maneuver, the socialists in power in Britain have wiped out 14.3 per cent of the worth of all securities and savings held by the British. This devaluation has been long in coming. It is the fruit of the mindless welfare state that doesn’t under stand anything about the management of money or how wealth is created. In his blustering speech about the devaluation, Prime Min ister Harold Wilson of Brit ain talked about the evil of "self-seeking” people. Yet "self-seeking” is just what Britain needs and what the socialists won't permit. The profit system is self-seeking, and it is what leads to wealth for a nation. Mr. Wilson, like socialists in America, is bent on taking away the personal incentives that lead to the creation of wealth for an entire country. Indeed the socialist govern ment is riddled with hatred for free enterprise. Only days before devaluation was sprung on the British people, Miss Barbara Castle, the Minister of Transport, pro posed heavy new taxes on the privately-owned truck ing industry. The revenue from these taxes is to go to help support the state owned railways that con tinually lose money. This, in a nutshell, is why Britain is in trouble. In reviewing the tragic situation in which Britons find themselves under Wil sonian socialism, Americans should not imagine that Britain is the only free world nation in financial trouble. Britain is simply an especially horrid example of the evils of socialism. The United States, unfortunately, is not far behind. The Johnson Great Society engages in the same general type of activity that has caused Britain to devalue the pound sterling. Incen tives to investment have been reduced as a result of ever-mounting federal taxa tion of personal and corpo rate income. Big Labor has been encouraged by the po litical powers-that -be in Washington to ride high In the saddle. The emphasis on handouts instead of self reliance Is as characteristic of Washington as it Is of London. Like Prime Minister Wil son, President Lyndon B. Johnson has declined to tell the American people the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth con cerning the nation’s finan cial condition. More and more money has to go each year into servicing the U. S. national debt. The setback suffered by the British Is clear proof that over-spend ing on welfare and give aways like foreign aid have very real and grim results for the people. The govern ment that conceals this truth from the people Is committing a breach of trust. The U. S. is like Britain in that it always is borrowing instead of following the pay-as-you-go principle enunciated by the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd, America’s great modern fiscal states man. Borrowing, however, doesn’t solve any nation’s problems—Britain or the USA; it simply delays a lit tle bit the dreadful day of reckoning. When the time comes that a country can’t borrow any more, or when borrowing can be accom plished only on disadvan tageous terms, the result is a drop in the standard of living. It will be meaningless if Americans simply express shock at Mr. Wilson’s de valuation of the pound and fail to draw a lesson from the British tragedy—the les son that the same medicine must be applied to America as Britain needs. For both countries, the es sential requirement is a cut back in all public spending E. D. (DENNY) BURNLEY S* FOREST PARK SINCLAIR LET'S ALL GO NOW AND REGISTER FOR 1968 ELECTIONS NO. 48 |f |( new Q U|> f| ee( |' Would We Make It Profitable to Us? Our chance for ultimate profit depends on the answer we give, and the response we make, to the question asked, and answered, in James 1:14. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away. This is as true an account of our physical life as we can give. Physical life indeed passes away as a vapor, but surely there is more to life than vapor vanisheth. Jesus taught men that they have a poten tial to be born again, and, with the passing away of the old (the entity they presently represent) an entirely new entity, in which all things have become new, can come forth. If we understood the significance of Jesus' words for our lives and his purpose when he said, "I am come that ye may have life, and have it more abundantly," we would believe that life has more meaning and pur pose than vapor that vanisheth. More than men have ever realized. Life has potentials that exceed the poten tial in the worm that crawls to become a butterfly, flitting about in the air. If we are living only in the flesh, we are living in the stage of the worm that crawls, but we can reach a stage above the flesh (regenerated), the Spirit of God directing our lives, and giv ing us a beauty of character that lifts us above the flesh. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Rom. 8:9. God's purpose is that men should not be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of the mind, the proof of what is the good, and acceptable, and per fect, will of God. Rom. 12:2. The degener ate worm emerges a new creature, showing forth the glory of God, and being filled with the love of God, rejoicing with joy unspeak able, and full of glory. 1 Peter 1:8. In our transformation we will have found the treas ure hid in a field, the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof, goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buy eth that field. Matt. 13:44. There are few men who reach full regeneration, it comes only by overcoming, by crucifying the flesh with the lusts thereof. Rom. 6:5-6 — Gal. 2:2o—Gal. 5:24. God gives fullness of life. To those who are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Let those who would rise above the flesh and in non-productive areas such as welfare. The emphasis of both governments must be on the fostering of produc tion and sales, not on give aways to politically demand ing minorities, including or ganized reliefers. The heads of governments who get their people deep into debt are betraying the people. They are allowing their nations to decline. One day the fall will come, if the spending is not arrested. This is the truth that needs telling as the British mess gets attention in the press. Local Students Enter Piedmont College According to the informa tion received from Piedmont College officials, the follow ing have enrolled as fresh man students at this Demor est, Georgia Institution for the Fall Quarter of 1967: Deborah Bartlett and Jimmy Wood of Clayton County. Piedmont College is a fully accredited liberal arts col lege located at Demorest, Georgia. Demorest is located in the northeast corner of Georgia some 85 miles north east of Atlanta. The enroll ment at Piedmont College for the Fall Quarter of 1967 consists of students from 33 different states. 511 Pegg Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30315— Telephone 766-3189 MAKE FOREST PARK CLEANERS & LAUNDRY YOUR SANTA CLAUS Headquarters for THE BEST IN SERVICE AND QUALITY AT REASONABLE PRICES! Ol Samtone Certified ’MastcrDrydeaner V— > at Forest Park Cleaners And Laundry 3 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS • 1036 Main Street • Grant City South • Drive-In Window • Clayton Plaza YOU WILL SAVE gain life that is not a vapor, "enter in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Be cause strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Matt. 7:13-14. A conception of life in which it appears to be a vapor that vanisheth away is no conception at all, it is because darkness reigns in the heart. Jer. 17:9 says "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." It is the things conceived in the heart of unregen erated men that leads to destruction. The things conceived in the heart of regenerat ed men leads to eternal life. Looking on temporal things is why it can be said that life is a vapor that vanisheth away. It is why it can be said that we are dead while we yet live. 1 Tim. 5:6 —James s:s—Luke 8:14. It is why it is said "they that have the Son have life, and they that have not the Son, have not life." John 5:12. Men are not in the way, don ot the truth and have only life that vanisheth away if they have not the Son. Our need is to discrimi nate between that which passes away, and that which is eternal, to lay up treasures in heaven, not on the earth. Our call is not to this passing world, but to the eternal. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. Eph. 5:30. Not a vapor that vanisheth away. By faith our allegiance is firmly established in things that are not of the world. By faith Abraham's allegiance was not to this tem poral world. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Ja cob, the heirs with him of the same prom ise, for he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God. Heb. 11:9-10. This world is not our home, and the things that it offers us are but vapor. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, so said Solomon in Eccl. 1:2. The city with foundations is prepared for those whose trial of faith proves them worthy of a place in it. This body will pass back to clay, but the treasures we have laid up in heaven in preparation for the advent of our souls will be ours unto eternity even as Abraham anticipated.