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Additional Highway Safety
The president of the Georgia Safety
Council has praised the action of the
1972 General Assembly as the strongest
steps ever taken by Georgia lawmakers
for the benefit of highway safety.
Council President Joseph A. Myers
commented: “Passage of four of the five
bills sponsored by the council to save
five hundred lives a year on Georgia
highways is the biggest indication ever
that Georgia is ready to improve its
miserable traffic-death rate. As the im
pact of these bills are felt, we look
forward to the saving of hundreds of
Georgia lives on our highways.”
The four key safety bills called for
reexamination of vision for driver license
holders every four years; driver license
classification by type of vehicle for
which the holder has demonstrated pro
ficiency (automobiles, motorcycles,
trucks, or buses); stern treatment of
Three- Year Colleges
A growing number of educatorsand
legislators are eyeing three-year college
degrees. The president of the Florida
Senate. Sen. Jerry Thomas, a proponent
of more flexible college education, re
cently commented:
“There’s nothing magic about four
year degrees. Someone a long time ago
must have arbitrarily decided to set a
college education at four years and the
educators have been content to keep the
status quo.”
Legislators and educators in various
colleges and universities across the
nation are proposing in growing numbers
that students be allowed to earn degrees
Smaller American Families
The Census Bureau recently re
ported Americans are planning smaller
families today4han they did a few years
ago. The national birth rate has already
dropped to one of the lowest levels in its
history.
The trend is of great importance
because it indicates a stable population
might be achieved without drastic
governmental programs Many ecologists
have warned in recent years that unless
the nation’s population is stabilized, the
inevitable result will be a lower standard
of living for everyone, eventually.
The experts say to stabilize the pop
ulation women of child-bearing age must
Is Population Leveling Off?
Recent Census Bureau investigations
reveal the possibility the United States
population growth may be slowing,
perhaps enough to enable the nation to
avoid severe population-explosion prob
lems.
But the picture for most of the rest
of the world is not hopeful.
A major computer study done by
the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo
gy to be publicized this month indi
cates the population of the earth is
increasing so rapidly that resources are
likely to be totally consumed unless
radical changes in population growth
alter the prospect.
I he timetable, which some refer to
as a doomsday timetable forecasts a dis
astrous collapse of society within a
hundred years unless steps are taken
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(I nduslr.al Press Service)
Analysis of the President's budget
for fiscal 1973 shows that there will be
an expected deficit of $38.8 billion this
year and $25.5 billion next year. The
government is engaged in alarming
budgetary brinksmanship.
What is needed is a firm ceiling on
expenditures (the President suggests his
budget estimates of $246.3 billion),
greater budgetary control of credit and
lending activities, and establishment of
spending priorities based on need and
effectiveness
Another long-overdue reform would
consolidate all appropriations into two
measures one for defense and national
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habitual violators, including automatic
jail sentences for “habitual offenders”
caught driving with their licenses under
suspension; and minimum standards of
training, equipment, and operating pro
cedures for Georgia ambulance services.
In praising the General Assembly.
Myers was quick to point out that there
are still many areas of highway safety
which demand legislative action: stricter
drunk-driving laws, driver education, and
help for enforcement agencies, among
them.
“We feel that this year’s progress has
developed a strong core of supporters for
safety legislation across the state,” the
council president added. “Without the
help of hundreds of Georgia service and
civic organizations, these bills could not
have been passed. We hope to call on
their support again next year.”
in less than four years. Much of the
average four-year stay on college cam
puses is wasted time, according to some
of these spokesmen.
Considering the shortage of class
rooms, overcrowding at many colleges
and universities and other current acute
educational problems, a trend to allow
students to complete college work in less
than four years, according to ability and
industry, is desirable.
This can lower college costs for
those who can earn degrees in a shorter
period, reduce overcrowding and allow
many to become productive citizens at
an earlier date.
bear an average of 2.1 I children. In light
of this, the recent Census Bureau report
is highly significant for it shows women
of child-bearing age questioned expect to
have an average of 2.40 children.
While this is a higher figure than
ecologists hope for, it is down sharply
from the average expectation of just five
years ago. which was 2.90. In other
words, the expectation has sharply de
clined in the last five years, and if this
decline should continue for another five
years, at the same rate, the nation’s
population might be stabilized, or close
to stabilization, as a result of the natural
course of events.
relatively soon to avoid the coming pop
ulation explosion.
The study at MIT was ordered by
the Club of Rome, and its detailed find
ings are being published by Potamac
Associates under the title “The Limits of
Growth.” It is suggested in the study
that the world must find away to
population equihbrum away from con
tinuous. expanding growth.
Those who have traveled around the
world and have seen the growing conges
tion in the cities, on highways, in over
crowded countries, and who have objec
tively studied statistics showing the
rapidly increasing world population will
appreciate the implications of the latest
Ml 1 study.
They affect every American.
security, and one for all other federal
expenditures.
Also, the President now has the
choice of accepting or rejecting an entire
appropriation bill. He should have a
limited power to veto particular Heins.
Five-year cost projections should be
required and used to discourage Congress
from approving programs costing modest
amounts the fust year, but committing
future Congresses to spending billions.
Washington now budgets for a push
button economy with quill-pen tech
niques As a result, the country is in a
serious budgetary bind and Congress
should move quickly to adopt needed
reforms.
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I WISH 1 COULD be more optimis
tic about results from the President’s trip
to Red China. However, the realities of
world Communism dictate caution and
skepticism instead of optimism.
I had no objections to the President
going over there. In any event, it was his
decision to make as Chief Executive.
Red China is a nation of about
800,000,000 people, approximately one
fourth of the world’s total population.
She is now a nuclear power. In short, we
cannot just pretend she doesn't exist.
The United States has been on a
collision course with Communist China
for about 25 years. We have had no
diplomatic relations and virtually no
contact whatever. Yet, policies largely
dictated by Red China in the past two
decades have gotten us involved in two
shooting wars, in Korea and now in
Vietnam
Moreover, the Red Chinese have
sworn to destroy us. Communist
watchers sometimes point out differ
ences that have developed between the
Soviet Union and Red China. These are
primarily ideological, however, and they
don’t disagree on “what” they should do
about the United States and the free
world. They do part company though
over “how” to best bury us. I for one
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find little comfort in that.
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THE PRESIDENT’S VISIT was
largely political in nature and primarily a
fishing expedition. Only time of course
will determine its value.
But it will be in our national interest
if the trip does anything to thaw rela
tions between the United States and the
Peking regime, or if it brings the war in
Southeast Asia closer to an end.
The possibility for increased trade
seems remote at this time. We of course
have many commodities the Red Chinese
would like to have. But they have little
in the way of gold or goods with which
to purchase American products. Also, we
certainly do not need their low-wage
textiles. We have far too many of those
in this country already.
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IN GENERAL I don’t know what if
anything will be gained from the Presi
dent's trip. I don’t believe it hurt us, but
I cannot yet see how it will help much
either. There have been no indications of
any great change in Red Chinese policies.
And. based on the President’s con
cession that the United States will with
draw our forces from Taiwan, it appears
that the Communists have scored the
most points so far.
ARE AMERICANS LESS HONEST?
The Terre Haute, Ind.. Spectator recently came up
with this interesting item:
“We’re only about half as honest as we used to be.
Recently, the editors of Liberty magazine conducted a
test similar to one run nearly a half century ago. The
results were quite illuminating . . . and embarrasing tor
the current generation.
“Back in 1924, Liberty sent out 100 letters to
people selected at random across the country, ex
plaining that a dollar bill enclosed was ‘in adjustment of
the error you complained of in your account, which, of
course, did not exist. Os the 100 people contacted, 27
returned the dollar, announcing that a mistake had been
made .. .
“(This) was in marked contrast to the results in
1971. In (that) year’s test, only 13 of 100 people
returned the money.”
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A WOMAN BESTED?’ DON’T COUNT ON IT
The U.S. Supreme Court last week seems to have
delivered a temporary setback to the women s liberation
movement in holding that married women do not have a
right to be issued drivers’ licenses in their maiden names.
Without elaboration (perhaps wisely), the court
unanimously agreed with a panel of federal judges in
Alabama who tossed out a suit brought by an Anniston
woman. They also agreed with state officials that
married names should be used for identification pur
poses.
The woman and her husband, whom she married in
1970, had agreed that she would use her maiden name
in personal and business transactions.
Her lawyers told the court it is arbitrary, unreason
able, and a violation of the U.S. Constitution for states
to insist that licenses be issued under the married name.
The Alabama woman may have been influenced by
Lucy Stone, who probably started it all back in 1855.
when, after marrying Henry B. Blackwell, an Ohio
abolitionist, she refused to use her married name and
was known until her death in 1893 as Lucy Stone.
At the time of their marriage, the couple issued a
public protest against the “unequal laws” applicable to
married women, and agreed that Lucy would retain her
own name and be known as Mrs. Stone.
Deciding early in life that she did not like what she
described as the inequalities then imposed upon women,
and deciding to try to do something about it, she
attended Oberlin, then the only college open to women,
graduating in 1847.
She was later instrumental in organizing women’s
rights conventions in the 185 O’s, including the first one
that might properly be ranked as a national event at
Worcester, Mass., in 1850.
We’ll bet the women have the last word, yet.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
“We live in a fast-moving world, and few are able to
retain the simple, fundamental values in dealings with
their fellowmen.
“The dollar is tremendously important. The urge to
follow the crowd is often almost irresistible, the urge to
deviate from the truth, powerful.
“Yet, the great men and women of achievement are
usually those who retain simple, basic virtues. They dare
disagree with the crowd. They speak the truth when it’s
unpopular.
“How about you?”
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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
“The latest method discovered by fanners to in
crease egg production is to post a sign in the henhouse:
‘An egg a day keeps Col. Sanders away.’ ”
THIRTY
Grace
Good News
By George Westbrook
WHERE ART THOU?
It is good to know where
you are. There is nothing
funny about being in a state of
confusion.
It was after the first nun.
Adam, and his wife sinned that
“the Lord God called unto
Adam, and said unto him.
Where art thou?" It the Lord
God were to ask you the same
question at this minute do
you know where you are spiri
tually'’ It is hoped that you
will know after reading this
article.
Every person that is old
enough to be accountable to
God. (only God and the indivi
dual know when this is), is in
one of these three spiritual
conditions right now. I. Lost
in sin and headed to Hell 2
Saved by grace and walking
with God 3. Saved by grace
but straying from God Where
art thou?
Are you in condition
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number one? Are you still lost
in sin and Hell-bound? If so
then you are without peace
with God. The wicked are like
the troubled sea, when it
cannot rest, whose waters cast
up inire and dirt. There is no
peace, saith my God, to the
wicked. (Isa 57:20, 21)
If you are still lost in sin
then you have a desperately
wicked heart. The heart is
deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked who can
know it? (Jer. 17:9)
Lost Sinner Friend, you are
in great need of salvation. It is
so good to be able to inform
you that salvation is available
for you. Christ, the Son of
God. died for your sins He was
delivered tor your offenses, but
was raised again for your justi
fication Ah. isn't that good
news? Why certainly, it is the
best news that a lost, thirsty
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