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4 & Free Press-News & Farmer, Thurs., Dec. 21, 1967 iFmat Park Jme (And dhytnn (Unmtty Nema and Jantwr (And Rarest ^ark ^efos JACK TROY, Editor GUY BUTLER, Adv, Mgr, MRS. FREDERICK LEE, BUS. MGR. Forest Park P.O. Box 47—Jonesboro P.O. Box 458—Phone 366-3652 and Jonesboro OReen leaf 8-6*4l—Office: 1007 Central Ave.. Forest Park, Oa. Second Class Postage Paid at Forest Park, Ga. "Associated Georgia Newspapers, Inc." MB 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 Anot he r Christmas is coming on apace midst the mad assaults of the last minute shoppers while the merchants and their armies of clerks seek to fulfill the craving of Ameri c a n s for the toys, the gadgets, the gowns, the furs, the perfumes, the candies. et cetera, to bring some- body happiness on that very special occasion. Some think Christmas is vastly overplayed and that people completely lose sight of the main objective in the observance of the Holy Day marking the birth of the Lord. They prefer to blame it upon the manufacturers, the stores, seeming to think that if they didn't offer so much and such a variety of goods ranging in prices from a pittance to a fortune there would be less emphasis on the “vulgar" phase of the picture Too much commer cialism. they say. And the inevitable answer is. of course, commercialism is there, to a very large ex tent But is the company that made the items o' - Hao merchant who offers them iL * akJbu ■/ j £1 The 72 hours of Christmas That's how long Southern Bell's low Long Distance Christmas rates will last. 72 full hours. Saturday, Sunday and Christmas day. This means you can call out-of-town friends and family early and avoid the Christmas day rush. And dialing your own Long Distance calls direct will make holiday calling even more economical because you get the low station-to-station rate. So start celebrating early this year. On Saturday. And have a merry Long Distance Christmas! Southern Bell P.S. The same low rates apply over the New Year's weekend. 4 Neiva pa per Os Integrity in Fn»t-Moving Clayton OFFICIAL COUNTY LEGAL ORGAN to the shoppers, really to blame. The public demands something new, different, expensive, medium priced and cheap, and the suppliers are only meeting that in satiable demand A preacher I heard last Sunday touched upon that subject to his congregation. “There may be much to be said about, commercialism of Christmas" he said, “but the joy of giving, mixed with the joy of receiving, and the motive behind the giving, to gether with faces lighting up with happy smiles are well worth it all. They re move the so-called curse of commercialism.” “Didn't Jesus preach about the great joy and sat isfaction of giving?" Indeed, it is emphasized throughout the Bible and this Christmas idea of giv ing has snowballed to the point that it shall remain forever a part and parcel of us. And that is good. The color of lean beef comes from a protein sub stance, according to Miss Nelle Thrash, Extension Service home economist at the University of Georgia. Meat from older cattle is darker in color due to the increased amount of this protein substance. A Pris-Winning Ntwapaper 1961 WSK&f Better Newspaper Contests NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Cone Completes Study Wayne Cone, 1055 East Pineridge Drive, Forest Park, claim representative for the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Com pany, has returned home after completing three weeks of technical study at his firm's home office at Bloom ington, Illinois. Cone works at the firm’s service center, 2631 Buford Highway N. E„ in Atlanta. State Farm maintains the school on a year-round basis so representatives may be informed of the latest meth ods, policy contracts and procedures in claim servic ing. This year some 500 claims people will attend classes there. Sensing the News The Quality of America When the “Census Clock” reached a count of 200 million in recent days, Americans understandably took pride in the growth, size and wealth of their na tion. In population and territory, the United States exceeds the wildest dreams of anv of its Founding Fathers. . But there is a danger in a people thinking about their country simply in quantita tive terms. It is marvelous, of course, that this once almost empty continent has become the home for so many peo ple. Nowhere else on earth are there so many material rewards and so many oppor tunities for personal de velopment. Nevertheless, Ame r i c ans have to be concerned about the qualitative aspects of the republic in the final third of the 20th century. They owe a duty to their forebears and to their descendants to ask about the quality of pa triotism and the strength Os constitutional government in this land. The American her itage is not simply one of living space and material wealth. It is a spiritual her- THOUGHT FOR TODAY Our forefathers sought the truth and built a nation on the foundation of God's word. May we always celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ, humbly, with reverence and as free men. Merry Christmas L GOLDWATER | ON WALLACE JOHN J. SYNON It is pretty well known, 1 take it. that Barry Goldwater is no mental giant. That’s all right; few of us are. But it is another thing to flount one’s ignorance; that is un forgivable. And that is precisely what the erstwhile Republican nominee did in a recent newspaper column. I say he did it in ignorance; ig norance is the kindly word. His piece, ostensibly, dealt with George Wallace but, in actuality, it was an appeal to vote Repub lican good, bad, or indifferent — vote Republican. "Wallace cannot by any stretch of the facts I’ve been able to put together”, Goldwater wrote, “draw enough votes to throw the election into the House of Repre sentatives”. What votes Wallace will get would otherwise go to the Republicans, therefore, Gold water’s reasoning ran, all a Wal lace candidacy can accomplish is the denial of the election to the Republicans and the re-election of Lyndon Johnson. That argument is so fallacious as to be ludicrous. Here, let me do what Gold water failed to do, incorporate facts, “stretched” or otherwise. Let me, by example, demonstrate the shallowness of his thesis. Just 20 years ago, in 1948, Strom Thurmond and another Wallace (Henry, The Red), ran as Third and Fourth party candi dates. In that election, a switch from Truman to Dewey of 17,865 - popular votes (of 3,808,403) cast in California, and a switch of 7,107 popular votes (of 2,898,475) cast in Ohio, would have denied the Electoral-College majority to Harry Truman, and the election would have gone in to the House. ♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ That is, less than a quarter of one per cent of the vote in Ohio, and one half of one per cent in । California would have done it in । 1948. The razor thinness of the vote in those two States alone । spelled the difference. । A person wonders if, “by any । stretch of the facts,” Barry Gold water doubts that more people, । today, are prepared to vote for I George Wallace than voted for i Thurmond. Or, “by any stretch • of the facts”, that more people, < today, are prepared to vote for • Senator Eugene McCarthy or < By Thurman Sensing EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Southern States Industrial Council itage of individual freedom. And to many thoughtful citizens there seems reason to be troubled about the state of this heritage in our times. Certainly, patriotism is alive; it is vividly alive in the young Americans who fight so bravely in Vietnam, even when the political lead ership at home is grossly in adequate in spelling out the reasons for the conflict. But some of our institutions and part of our way of life are in difficulty these days. The Founding Fathers cre ated this republic as a bulwark against all forms of tyranny. In their time, they saw the tyrant at work through the agency of the British Crown. But threats to liberty also have their some other person of the New Left, Bobby Kennedy, say - than voted for the red-led Henry A. Wallace. If so, let me give him another fact: Strom Thurmond got but two per cent of the popular vote. At that, he garnered 39 Electoral- College votes. Henry Wallace polled about the same percentage of the vote but received no Electoral-College votes. Now, then: Last May, the Gal lup poll credited George Wallace with about 15 per cent of the popular vote, nationwide. Gallup said, in a three-horse race, Wal lace would sweep the South. The South, it should be remembered, carries about 110 of the 270 Electoral-College votes needed to elect. And while 1 have seen no reading on the popularity of the New Left, I would hazard it is quite strong, what with anti- Vietnam feeling rampant and ris ing. ♦** * * So, under the circumstances, how can Wallace seven times stronger than Thurmond in 1948 do other than throw the elec tion into the House. “By any stretch of the facts”, that is the minimum probability and to deny it reflects political ignorance. Moreover, the Republican par ty, it should come to understand, is no longer the “other” party in a two-party system. It is but a diminishing Third, after the Dem ocrats, and after the Independ ents. Gallup, again, is my author ity. He says, 42 per cent of the voters think of themselves as Democrats; 31 per cent as Inde pendents; and but 27 per cent as Republican. That set of figures, it seems to me. should devalue Republican ego by, let us say. 14.3 per cent. ***** Barry Goldwater won the ad miration and support of millions of Americans, not as a Republi can, but as a man of principle. Yet, here he is. through ignorance or otherwise, selling “Republi canism" good, bad. or indif ferent. I would suggest there are many of his admirers who would think better of him if he got away from that sort of politician-itis, stopped seeking to dissuade people from supporting a candidate whose stand offers a choice, not an echo. contemporary manifesta tions. ( Today, for example, we have the evil of Big Govern ment—a mammoth bureauc racy that inhibits the indi -1 vidual’s exercise of personal freedom and eats his sub stance through oppressive taxation designed to reward one segment of the popula tion by robbing another. The Founding Fathers could not have envisioned the emergence of Big Union ism—a virtual state within a state that often operates i as though it were not an swerable to the law or to the legitimate demands of the public. Today, American freedom Is restricted by the bold maneuvers of Big Unionism, which—like some robber barons of old—at tempts to stop transporta- i tion of people and goods. Americans have not : thought deeply enough about ' how their rights have been i eroded in the last 30-odd ; years by the government i that is supposed to protect I them. In the early days of this j country, the right to work i was unimpaired. A man ; could take any job for which I he was qualified. He did not I have to seek the permission j of any organization or I group. Today we find a j vastly different situation. In J less than half the states is j the right to work guaran- j teed by law. In the other j states, a citizen is not wholly free to get a job. The union ' power structure in effect j “owns” the jobs in many in- i dustries and lines of busi ness. An employer is not free I to select his employees; he i must adhere to conditions ] laid down by the union I bosses. This situation is one of the biggest threats to I freedom in America today. The United States also has within its midst a small j minority that seeks to pro mote a new kind of revolu tion that has nothing to do with the conservative Amer- j 11l Hymn Is Bent BY CLINT ^BONNER Joy to the World Neither Poet nor Composer Knew He was Writing a Christmas Carol Os the statues in Westminster Abbey, one is of Isaac Watts—frail, sickly, gentle mannered literary genius of the early 18th century. Another is of George Frederick Handel—massive, robust and hot-tempered master of the keyboard and opera. Both men lived in London; both knew each other. But neither suspected that their talents would be combined to produce one of the greatest of Christmas carols. It was in 1719 that pockmarked five foot Isaac Watts wrote a hymn based on the 98th Psalm. He was 45 years old and had written, among 600 other notable hymns, “Alas, And Did My Saviour Bleed.” “O God. Our Help in Ages Past” and ‘When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.” But the little bachelor’s health had broken while he was preaching at London’s Mark Lane Church and Lord Mayor Abdncy carried him out to his estate for a week’s rest. That was in 1712 and he was still there seven years later writing children’s verse, hymns and books on a dozen sub jects. Twenty-two years after Watts wrote his hymn on the 98th Psalm and published it in his “Psalms of David Imitated” a big fat theatrical producer knelt in prayer in another part of London. He was George Frederick Handel and he had written some of the world’s greatest operas. As a boy Joy to tho world! the Lord is come, Let earth receive her King, let every heart prepare Him room And heaven and nature ling. Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns; Let men their tongt employ, While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy. From the book "A Hvmn k Born." ' 1959 by Broadman Press, Nashville, Tenn. ican Revolution of 1776. This minority is bent on shatter ing the social order of the United States by campaigns of lawlessness, by riots in the cities, by sit-ins on the campuses, and by bully-boy tactics of intimidation against officials of the law and the government. As Americans take pride in their nation on reaching a population of 200 million, they must remember that the worth of a country's her itage always has to be proved by the actions of the living. This nation cannot live off the brave deeds of men in earlier times. Citizens of to day have to stand up and be counted against the forces of bureaucracy, labor to talitarianism and anarchism Christmas Discount Sale I NOW ON! ELKINS Dept. Store I 625 Central Ave. — Hapeville | I WILSON I 'PHARMACY & £% i $ Main and College Sts. - Forest Park ® 3 366-4211 I JSStFT ’ I' § i 11, I ALMAY CLAIROL | A FINE SELECTION MSMSMDMK | ? OF CANDIES • LIPSTICKS | g •ATOMIZERS i powders । | CANDY OF THE SOUTH • BILLFOLDS g — - • MANICURE sets g / 8 I Where Christmas 2 Gift Wrapped . » » J for you! Shopping Is Easy! « S in Germany, Handel had persuaded his father to let him study music instead of law and wound up playing a church organ in England. And when George Handel later cast his talents with the theater he carried his religious training with him. At 56 Handel wanted to do something really big. And he did. In 1741 he worked and prayed almost continuously for 23 days and nights and came up with his immortal “The Messiah.” It was such a masterpiece that for more than two centuries the piece has been drawn on as the basis for numer ous compositions. Little Isaac Watts died on the Abdney Estates in 1748 after his visit of “a week” lasted 36 years. He was buried in Bunhill Fields but a statue of him was placed in Westminster Abbey. Eleven years later big George Handel was laid to rest in the Poets’ Corner of The Abbey where a statue stands to the memory of the theatrical gen ius who never forgot God. It was in 1836 that Boston’s choir di rector-composer Lowell Mason rearranged a portion of Handel’s “Messiah” to fit the hymn Isaac Watts wrote in 1719. And so, while the big statue and the little statue stand in Westminster Abbey as mute re minders of two geniuses in their respective fields, tribute is paid both every Christmas to the resounding echoes of— No more let tint and torrowt grow Nor thornt infos) th* ground; He comet to make Hit blottings flow Far as the curse it found. He ruler the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness And wonders of Hit love. that would wreck the experi ment in freedom by action from within the republic. If citizens of today uphold the qualitative aspects of the na tional life they need have no fear about the material suc cess or security of the coun try. In the American Way of Life, freedom is the vital in gredient. Its protection, as our ancestors have told us, requires eternal vigilance. Israel’s population density per square mile is 320.7. This Is Your Invitation to Attend the CHURCH OF CHRIST 252 Phillips Dr. Forest Park Sunday Morning Bible Study 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship 11;O o a.m. 5 v e nin g w °rsh ip 7;30 p . m . Wednesday Bible Study 7;30 p.m MALCOLM L. HILL, Minister Stocking Accident It is the custom in Britain to leave toys under the tree until afternoon on Christmas Day. During the Christmas visit by Santa, the stockings are filled. It was an accident, according to British Legend, that the stocking custom was origi nated. The story goes that Saint Nicholas dropped some coins as he was going down the chimney. The coins did drop into a stocking, but the stocking had been hanging by the hearth to dry.