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—Op. Ed. Page
Mayor Says Headline
Shows Editor’s Dislike
Dear Bobby;
Mercy! Will you never
cease to use your
newspaper as an in
strument to reflect your
personal dislike for me?
Headlines which you
assign to articles others
have written such as
HHJ Reader Levels
Charges At Editor
Dear Mr. Branch:
I would like to take this
opportunity to express
myself and state my
attitude toward an article
which appeared in
today’s paper.
It is amazing to me that
our own home town paper
would print an article
concerning ‘war on
crime’ in Perry and head
it, “Look Out Criminals
.... McKinley Will Get
You.”
I feel it is very evident
that the Mayor of our City
is trying to begin
something in order to
deter the crime rate that
has just recently oc
curred here. I cannot for
the life of me understand
why our paper would
ridicule and make fun of
such an effort, by heading
an article up with such
words. To me, if I were
the criminal, I would
laugh and say; ‘‘Gee, all
this business with the
Mayor of Perry trying to
stop the crime wave; it
must not be much, for the
Ga. Power’s Policy
Is Non-discriminating
Dear Mr. Branch:
The purpose of this
letter is to inform you of
Georgia Power Com
pany’s n o n -
discriminatory hiring
policy. The Company’s
policy is to hire, promote,
transfer, and otherwise
treat all applicants and
employees without
regard to their race,
color, sex, religion, age
Perryans M Assist
Law Enforcement
Dear Editor:
Its our city, Perry, it
can only be what its
citizens want it to be,
nothing more nothing
less.
During the past six
weeks our town has
suffered criminals doing
as they pleased,
burglaries, holdups,
vandalism, and a stab
bing. These activities are
a blot on our happy
existance in Perry. Our
HOUSTON
HOME JOURNAL
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Journal is published
semiweekly by The
Houston Home Journal,
Inc. Entered at the Post
Office at Perry, Georgia,
as second class mall
matter, under the Act of
March 3, 1879. Second
class postage is paid at
Perry, Ga.
Postmaster send ad
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31049.
The Houston Home
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legal organ of Houston
County and Perry,
Georgia.
Subscription rates:
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“Look Out Criminals ....
McKinley Will Get You!”
continue to reflect your
lack of professional
discretion used in the
publication of your
newspaper.
Those of us who are not
in the newspaper
newspaper to make such
a joke of it.”
I am thankful that I live
in a City, such as Perry,
which has a Mayor, who
is so conscientious about
doing whatever is
possible to make this
City a better and safer
place to live. I think it is
high time that our owner,
editor, or whomever, of
our paper, realize that
this type funny business
with heading up articles
and writing articles to
ridicule or make fun of an
individual is not only
immature, but
detrimental to any efforts
put forth by our peace
officers, as well as our
Mayor, to stop the wave
of crime, which has come
to rest so heavily upon us.
I would also, while
sounding off, like to make
mention of the heading of
the article on Page 2 of
the Friday, October 26,
issue; “Mayor’s ‘Two
Workers’ Request May
Get Axe.” Doesn’t some
one down there at your
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(40-70) or national origin.
The Company is also
committed to the
recruitment, hiring, and
promotion of qualified
applicants and-or em
ployees who may be
physically or mentally
handicapped, disabled
veterans and-or Vietnam
Era Veterans.
If you would like more
information on the
city officials have re
doubled their efforts to
prevent the cancerous
growth before it becomes
terminal. We can all help,
in fact and practice, we
must all pull together to
insure the police efforts
are not wasted, if we
desire peace and
tranquility.
If our citizens wish to
continue walking Perry’s
streets, day or nite, they
must learn to co-operate
Visiting Judge
Hails Perry
Dear Editor;
A few days ago I had
the pleasant task of
visiting Perry in my role
as a judge in the annual
Stay and See Georgia
competition of the
Georgia State Chamber
of Commerce.
The civic spirit of the
community leaders and
the general populace was
so outstanding that I am
moved to write this letter.
I travel the world in my
business are at a
disadvantage with
editors such as you
around. -
Sincerely,
James 0. (Ho Hum)
McKinley
Mayor
paper know what the
word TACT means ... just
in case, here’s what
Webster has to offer -a
keen sense of what to do
sr say in order to
maintain good relations
with others or avoid of
fense.
If you are happy for the
crime wave; then I say
you are sick. Also, if you
are trying to throw a cog
into the wheel, which has
been set to rolling to stop
the crime wave; then
again, you are sick.
Hopefully, you will take
notice of the word TACT.
I am embarrassed for
you when I read such
articles as these which
appear every week
written evidently without
any forethought of how
they will appear to the
citizens of Perry.
A Concerned Citizen
Os Perry,
Mary Jo Cummings
(Editor’s Note: Ms.
Cummings is Mayor
McKinley’s secretary.)
Company’s equal op
portunity policy and
affirmative action plans,
please contact B.L. Lowe,
270 Peachtree Street,
N.E., Atlanta, Georgia
30303, telephone number
(404) 522-6060, extension
3356.
Sincerely,
Charles N. Eldred
District Accounting
Supervisor
with its law enforcement
agencies.
If you observe anyone
or anything of a
suspicious nature, call
the police immediately,
and be a good witness!
Let Atlanta’s lesson be
learned before we are
faced with the same
dilemma. Be aware and
concerned for all our
sakes!
C.A. Hague
317 Carroll Blvd
role as a travel editor.
This permits me to have
intimate views of
villages, towns and cities,
and to learn why some
are progressive > and
others are not, why some
are happy, congenial
places and others are the
opposite.
Perry indeed is a warm
and cheerful place.
Through this letter I want
to thank all of the men
and women who have
done so much for their
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‘How Bout Them Dogs ’
A Chevy van bearing an Athens license plate, and the slogans “Go
Dogs” and “Eat Gators”, cruised through Perry last Friday afternoon
heading for the annual Georgia-Florida showdown in Jacksonville.
Already sure of a Gator whipping, the 15 University of Georgia students
aboard yelled “How Bout Them Dogs?” as they passed the HHJ
photographer. Among the students traveling to Jacksonville for Satur
day’s game was Bess Tolleson of Perry, a junior at the University.
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Chapter Honors Hunter
Lyle Fineis, (right) treasurer of the Perry Chapter of the American
Cancer Society, presents a special service award to Kenneth Hunter for
his efforts in the recent fund-raising drive. Hunter is Industrial Relations
Manager of Pabst Brewing Co. and Fineis is a vice president of Georgia
Federal Savings. (Photo by Bobby Branch)
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First Baptist Church
“The tongue can no
man tame; it is an unruly
evil, full of deadly
poison.” -- James 3:8
The children’s retort
runs: “Sticks and stones
may break my bones, but
words will never harm
me.” That sounds very
brave; but, un
fortunately, it is not true.
As Frederika Bremer
wrote years ago; “There
are words which sever
hearts more than sharp
swords; there are words
the point of which sting
the heart through the
course of a whole life.”
In his excellent
autobiography entitled
All The Strange Hours,
community and who were
so kind and helpful to the
Stay and See Georgia
judges. They have done
much more than enter a
contest. Yes, they have
helped make their
community an enjoyable
place to visit but, more
importantly, a more
enjoyable place in which
to live and work.
Sincerely,
Gordon M. Quarn
strom
Words Can Hurt
Loren Eiseley tells of just
such an experience. This
man has served on the
faculty of the University
of Pennsylvania for years
and is one of the country’s
outstanding naturalists
and scientists. He tells in
his book that when he
took his first college
course in English, he had
a traumatic experience.
In his first theme
assignment , the teacher
called him after the class
and said: “You didn’t
compose this; it is
written too well.” He had
labored long and hard
over that assignment; it
was his own work. But
Eiseley was shy, and one
did not talk back to
professors in those days.
He simply turned away.
Eiseley has
distinguished himself in
the field of letters, books,
and articles since that
time. But he writes that
he was well into middle
age before he had the
courage to break through
the curse that teacher
had placed on him in that
freshman composition
class. He goes on to say
that: “Perhaps that one
belligerent sentence” had
something to do with his
turning from English to
science.
Sometimes one
belligerent sentence is all
if takes for a great many
of us. Taking the reverse,
if someone had not been
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patient, kind, and
sympathetic with our
scribblings, our
drawings, our ex
periments, one wonders
where we would be today.
No wonder James said
the tongue is the most
dangerous member of the
body. Words can hurt,
wound, and destroy; they
can also heal and refresh.
Let us make sure we use
ours well.
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There Must Be
Better Candidates
In one of my columns, I
suggested that our
democratic selection
process for presidents
absolutely guarantees
that the best people will
not have a chance.
The crop of candidates _
for the 1980 elections
seems to bear this out: a
president under fire for
poor leadership; a
senator with charisma
but whose conduct under
pressure is questioned;
an aging ex-movie actor;
a Texas wheeler-dealer;
and so on.
Out of 240-odd million
Americans, surely we
can muster better talent
than this.
The Democratic
process is not a matter of
finding the best possible
person for a job; it
amounts to choosing that
individual who has made
the fewest enemies.
The man or woman who
suits every taste doesn’t
exist. So the choice of a
leader becomes a
weeding-out exercise
until some innocuous
person who never did
much of anything and is
therefore not ardently
disliked by anybody is
elected.
Most voters use their
ballots against something
or somebody, not for
anything or anybody. We
vote by the dictates of our
viscera and emotions;
not by the guidance of our
brain.
A little over two cen
turies ago, our Founding
Fathers recognized this
human weakness and
contrived a system which
sought to insure that only
those citizens with
property and education
could vote.
All this, of course, has
changed. And there are
those who believe that
today’s practice of giving
the franchise to all
citizens 18 and over is a
grievous mistake that
will ultimately do us in.
In choosing a president,
we can usually be certain
that the person selected
will have little experience
with high-level decision
making. The days when
presidents were
automatically re-elected
are over.
Gerald Ford had about
three years of on-the-job
training and was fired.
Jimmy Carter seems a
likely candidate for the
pink slip after a four-year
crack at the White House.
When Carter was
elected in 1976, the main
thing going for him was
the fact he was outside
the Washington ex
tablishment; a fresh
face. He won primarily
because he had not had
an opportunity to build
significant national
opposition. Now that
people have seen him and
heard him, they’ve begun
tuning him out.
Being president is like
trying to run a top-rated
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TV show. It’s hard to tell
why people suddenly stop
watching a “Laverne and
Shirley” for example, or
a “Mork and Mindy.” But
politics and show
business are chancy
callings, and if you don’t
watch out they’ll cancel
you in mid-season.
Consider the highly
qualified presidential
candidates who’ve failed
over the years because of
their identification with
the wrong causes, Hubert
Humphrey, for example,
was"3efeated by Richard
Nixon in 1968 because
Humphrey was loyal to
Lyndon Johnson and the
continuation of the
Vietnam War.
History is full of tales of
U.S. senators, state
governors, and other
highly attractive men of
great integrity,
educational ac
complishments, and
strength of mind who
sought the presidency but
could never quite put it
together. Men such as
Henry Clay, Charles E.
Hughes, Robert
LaFollette, Thomas E.
Dewey, Adlai Stevenson
and so on.
Those who do become
president are usually
forced to grow to fill the
job; it’s seldom that the
man already has enough
stature to meet its
demands immediately.
Abraham Lincoln was a
hayseed politician from
Illinois who became
president because the
country was divided on
the slavery issue and the
opposition parties were
split beyond repair. We
were lucky on that call.
Harry Truman was
picked as a running mate
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
with few credentials
except that he was well
liked as a Democratic
faithful and had gotten
some publicity with his
wartime investigating
committee.
Truman felt the world
had caved-in when
Roosevelt died and left
him with decisions such
as whether to drop the
atomic bomb and what to
do about the Soviet
Union. Again, the Good
Lord was looking after us
--Truman was a good and
maybe even a great
president.
Jimmy Carter has
slipped in the popularity
polls because he has had
to make hard decisions
affecting the lifestyle of
Americans, especially in
regard to energy. His
success with Congress
has been relatively poor.
If he is replaced next
year, the person who
follows will be faced with
the same kinds of hard
decisions and will not
please everyone and will
probably be replaced in
1984, etc., ad infinitum.
Only during a national
emergency do we let our
presidents really lead.