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Special Report from Washington
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the NIXON VEEP GAME
WASHING TON—The
Dump Agnew Movement is
picking up steam-apparently
with the blessing of President
Nixon himself.
Deliberately hedging, the
President said last month that
he would announce his deci
sion about his 1972 running
mate sometime before the Re
Where To Go -
V What To See -
In Georgia
July
28 - Callaway Gardens Flower Arranging
Workshop - Lenox Square, Atlanta.
Project Education Theater presents “Cinderella”
- Bell Auditorium, Augusta.
Plantation Supper - Oceanview Grove, Sea Island.
Concert, Band of Atlanta - Lenox Square, Atlanta.
Rock and Roll Revival - Civic Center, Savannah.
Concert, Summer Music Festival - Emory
University, Atlanta.
28 & 29 - Square Dance, Golden Isles Swingers,
Aquarama, Jekyll Island.
29 - Country Music Show - Lanierland Country
Music Park, Gumming.
29 & 30 - Southeastern Lightning Invitational
Yachting Regatta - Wilmington River, Savannah.
30 - Snipe Fleet Sailing - Frederica River, St
Simons Island.
Auto Race - Forsyth County Speedway, Gumming.
31 - Savannah Southland Invitational Tennis
Championship - New Chatham Tennis Club,
Savannah.
Virginia Slims Women’s Tennis Tournament,
Country Club, Columbus.
AUGUST
1-3 - Savannah Southland Invitational Tennis
Championship - New Chatham Tennis Club, Sav.
1-6 - Art Exhibit - Drawings by New York Artists
- Ga. Museum of Art, Athens.
Theater of the Stars presents “Sound of Music”,
starring Barbara Eden - Civic Center, Atlanta.
1-25 - Tobacco Auctions Hazelhurst.
1-26 Performances by LaGrange College
Summer Theater - Callaway Gardens.
1-31- Tarpon Derby - Coastal Area, Brunswick.
Water Ski Shows, daily except Friday - Callaway
Gardens.
3- Golden Isles Invitational Swim Meet -
Casino Pool, St. Simons Island.
4- - Georgia Mountain Fair- Towns County
High School, Hiawassee.
5 - Jackson Five Show - Civic Center, Savannah
6 - Auto Race, Forsyth Co., Speedway, - Gum
ming.
Snipe Fleet Sailing, Frederica River - St. Simons
Island
Strikes Hurt Country
Most Americans - including a large majority of
union members themselves - feel that strikes and
labor disputes have seriously hurt the country.
This was the major finding of a recent survey by
Opinion Research Corp. of Princeton, N. J. The
survey cutting across population subgroups (age,
race, region, education, etc.) was one of a con
tinuing series of inquiries into public thinking on
unions and labor legislation sponsored by the
Labor Law Study Committee.
In this latest survey, a key question was: “In
your opinion, have recent strikes and labor
trouble seriously hurt the country as a whole, or
haven’t they had that much effect?”
Os the general public, 68 per cent said that
strikes have hurt, 20 per cent believed that they
have not and 12 per cent had no opinion. Among
union members, 61 per cent felt that strikes have
hurt.
The Labor Law Study Committee notes that at
each interval since this question was first asked in
1967, there have been increases in the proportion
of people who feel that strikes are harmful. The 68
per cent figure represents a 4 per cent increase
since 1970,
This does not necessarily indicate a growing
“anti-union” bias in America. On the contrary, it
could mean that unionism has proved itself and
has won its biggest fight and that in a time of
inflation coupled with high unemployment, and
especially in the face of rising foreign com
petition, more and more people are coming to
believe that there must be a better way to solve
labor disputes and achieve economic gains than
through strikes. _
The LaGrange (Ga.) Daily News
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1972
publican convention next
month. In the meantime, he
has done nothing to dis
courage rumors that he might
dump Spiro Agnew.
As the President continues
to deliberate, operatives for
John Connally, Nelson Rocke
feller, and Ronald Reagan
have been busy wooing the
inner White House circle. At
this point, the favorite among
the three to replace Agnew is
the former governor of Texas
and Secretary of the Treasury,
John Connally.
The President himself has
been dropping hints that he
would like Connally as his
running mate. Nixon has
worked hard to keep Connal
ly’s name in the news. While
Connally was Secretary of the
Treasury, the President gave
his favorite Democrat full ex
posure. to the media. When
Connally quit the Treasury,
the President sent him on a
trip around the world as his
personal ambassador.
The President continually
brings up Connally’s name in
interviews. At his last live,
televised press conference,
Nixon went so far as to refer to
Connally as the Vice Presi
dent. The mistake caused a
stir among newspapermen,
but drew only an enigmatic
smile from the President.
The latest boost for Connal
ly came after the Democrats
named George McGovern as
their presidential candidate.
The next morning, it was
Connally— not Agnew —who
was photographed at the Pres
ident’s side.
Not surprisingly, such re
buffs have caused rumblings
from Agnew's camp that the
Vice President may not want
to run again in 1972.
Does all this add up to a
dramatic change in the Repub
lican ticket this August? Per
haps so. But more likely, the
President is merely trying to
stimulate interest in what
would otherwise be a dull week
of sunbathing at Miami
Beach.
Meanwhile, President Nixon
is working hard to take votes
away from George McGovern
among union members.
The labor vote has tradi
tionally been Democratic. But
crusty old George Meany. The
AFL-CIO chief, has an anti
pathy for McGovern. This
stems originally from McGov
ern's support of Right-To-
Work laws, which the unions
oppose.
The Republicans have also
supported Right-To-Work
laws. But President Nixon is
seriously considering a dra
matic reversal. As a bid for the
support of organized labor, he
may soon come out against
Right-To-Work laws.
Narcotics Gateway-
Beautiful Vancouver boasts
that it is Canada’s gateway to
the Orient. It contains one of
the largest Chinese popula
tions of any city in the world
outside of Asia, Now, a secret
report prepared by federal
intelligence and narcotics
agents reveals that Vancouver
is rapidly become one of the
major narcotics centers of
North America. According to
the secret report, Chinese
heroin dealers are worming
their way into Vancouver's
ethnic Chinese community.
We have learned that many
of these drug dealers are Chi
nese seamen who jump ship.
They strap packets of heroin
around their waists and thighs
and slip into Vancouver as
virtual one-man heroin
centers.
The heroin —which is 90 per
cent pure—is then shipped
from Vancouver across the
border into the state of Wash
ington. From there, it goes to
major cities in the United
States including Seattle. Port
land. San Francisco. Chicago
and New York.
Zippies Zap Yippies
Last week, we reported
that Miami Beach police have
been in close contact with
Yippie leaders Jerry Rubin
and Abbie Hoffman in an
effort to avoid violence at the
Republican convention next
month.
Now we learn that the au
thorities may be talking with
the wrong leaders. Younger,
more radical dissidents are
trying to push Hoffman and
Rubin aside.
Radicals in the new, so
called Zippie movement are
claiming that Rubin and Hoff
man are more interested in
digging up material for a
forthcoming book about the
conventions than in heading a
radical insurrection. The Zip
pies have a point. Rubin and
Hoffman are among the high-
est paid correspondents at the
Democratic convention,
thanks to a $33,000 book
advance.
Washington Whirl-
Even in Braille —We
dropped by the Library of
Congress the other day to
check on the services offered
to blind Americans. We dis
covered that the Library not
only translates books but also
magazines for the blind. The
magazine most frequently re
quested in braille: Playboy.
Flag Wavers—We are al
ways looking for those rare
souls in government who do
more than merely shuffle pa
pers, We have uncovered a
number of ordinary folks with
extraordinary jobs. This week,
we salute James Reed, a mar
ried man with three children.
Heed's job is to haul hundreds
of flags up and down flag poles
on the roof of the U.S. Capitol.
This permits congressmen to
send their constituents flags
that —at least technically
have been flown over the Capi
tol. Reed and his colleagues
flew 27,659 flags last year.
“When 1 get going," he told
us, “I’ll be running them up
and down every three
minutes."
Sharing A.
Rev. Dick Reese jßgl
Crossroads Methodist Church 4fe jHHi
“Then Jesus told his
disciples, if any man would
come after me, let him deny
himself and take up his cross
and follow me.” (Matthew
16:24)
What is the cost of
following Christ? It is to
deny ourselves, take up a
cross and go after him.
Discipleship demands these
things. In our day we have
tried to rewrite these words
of Jesus to read, “Come
follow me and you will have
smooth sailing.” But Jesus
never said it would be easy to
follow him. He did say we
must be obedient, even to the
point of taking up a cross.
The meaning of taking up a
cross in our day may be
somewhat different than in
the day of Jesus, but the
commitment and obedience
needed to do so is the same.
We will very probaly never
be called upon to bear a
wooden cross upon which we
will be crucified, but we may
be called upon to hear other
crosses that are very dif
ficult to carry.
In the statement of Jesus
from Matthew chapter 16 we
find him calling upon his
followers to deny them
selves.
This is difficult in the day
in which we live. Every way
we turn, people are thinking
only of themselves. It may
be necessary to remind
ourselves of a teaching many
of us learned as children,
that we should think of God
first, others second, and
ourselves last. This kind of
thinking and living could
well change the world in
which we live today, if we
were willing to let it start
with us.
Jesus moves on from the
Tim Houston
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We must step out and pick
up a cross. Many persons
seem to have the wrong idea
about cross bearing. I hear
many talk about bearing a
cross when it seems that
they are not really doing so
at all.
Many of us bear burdens
or have a thorn in the flesh as
Paul did but these are not
always crosses. A burden is
the inevitable load which life
places upon every person. A
thorn in the flesh is some
affliction which some of
us must bear. There is no
way to get out of carrying
burdens or suffering the
thorn in the flesh except to
share the load with Christ.
But we must always deal
with these. To carry a cross
is something different. W. M.
Clow has written: “the cross
is not universal, and the
cross can be escaped. Many
men and women never bear
a cross at a11... Your cross is
something which you can
take or refuse.”
A cross then is not some
heavy duty you must face or
some temptation you must
endure, but a cross, is
something you deliberately
take up for the sake of Christ
and something which you
could avoid if you did not
wish to put Christ first in
your life. When you oppose
evil knowing full-well that
you may be criticized or
disliked for it, that’s taking
up a cross. When we witness
for Christ in an unfriendly
sitaution, this is taking up a
cross. When you stop doing
things primarily for self and
start doing them for Christ,
this is taking up a cross.
There is no discipleship
without cross bearing. This
is demanding, but it is also
rewarding. Jesus reminded
us that “Whosoever will save
his life will lose it; but
whosoever will lose his life
for my sake and the
Kingdom will find it.” This is
both the cost and the reward
of being a Christian.
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