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Observations
By ELBERT FORESTER
Editor, The Dade County Sentim
l-2-3-JUMP!-Just happened to think, (possible), a ;
while back 1 heard a new twist to the old story about how :
to kill a frog. You can’t kill a frog by dropping him in •
boiling water, the speaker said. He reacts so quickly to the !
sudden heat that he jumps out before he is hurt. But if you ;
put him in cold water and then warm it up gradually, he :
doesn’t decide to jump until it is too late. By then, he is '
cooked. •
Men are just as foolish, the speaker continued. Take i
away their freedom over night, and you have a revolution. !
But steal it away from them gradually-under the guise of ;
security, peace or progress-and they will not wake up until :
too late. :
The story came to mind while reading a portion of ;
retired Chief Justice Earl Warren’s dedicatory address of the :
Seeley G. Mudd Law Building at Washington University in ;
St. Louis. Warned Mr. Warren:
“The right of the press is being attacked; the rights of ;
association and of dissent are being questioned; detention :
without a warrant is being advocated; the rights of privacy ;
in the home and in communications are being disregarded; ;
the right against self-incrimination is being restricted; and
the words ‘due process of law’ and ‘equal protection of the
law’ for millions of minority citizens are in jeopardy.”
Trouble is, it’s all being administered in small doses, i
one tranquilizing pill at a time. In the interest of self- ;
preservation, we will omit the moral. There isn’t time. All ;
together now, 1-2-3-JUMP!
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WELL-Right off on something else. Those who !
haven’t taken a vacation, have decided not to or are ■
planning to. So in any event, here’s bit of advice passed ;
along by The Catoosa County News: “When on a trip, and :
you’ve forgotten your rouge, a dab of lipstick blended with •
a little baby oil on your fingers is a fine substitute.” :
Wouldn’t want to just plan out disagree with Editor :
“Miss” Juanita, and fool around here and create an ill-feel- ;
ing- no indeed. However, instead of a dab, 1 would suggest :
a tad. It just seems to me that a tad would fill the bill, (that J
fill the bill is just an old saying), much better than a dab. Os ;
course, every fellow to his own notion-might just settle the i
whole thing by taking along a tad and dab both. On the j
other hand, come to think about it, while looking for the {
baby oil, etc., might remind a person NOT to forget his or J
her rouge. (What about it, Cuz. Charlie-you ought to know i
about such as this.) j
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WHOOPEE-Or something like that. Down in Chat- j
tooga County, a bunch of gals, 12 years of age and under, •
brought home the bacon, (brought home the bacon is just :
an old saying). What they actually did do was win the state ■
championship in softball. Now, I think that is something to :
crow about-Right, Woodrow? Right! My opinion, Ordi- !
nary Weems would go along with us on that. Os course the ;
girls had a few coaches, and we’d sorta have to include :
them in the Congratulations, too, you know. Yeah, and 5
while “in Summerville” I say big congratulations to Mrs. ■;
Margaret Hayes-She’s passed her 78th milestone . . . And <
in The Summerville News appeared this: “If work-dodging j
paid dividends we would have a few hundred millionaires in ■:
town.” I;
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MUCH OBLIGE THERE-Mrs. H. A. Pahmeyer, Chat
tanooga; and Jerry Smith, Rising Fawn-and several others, J
for the mighty good word-kind of does something to <
us-Yeah, will put Morris Rutledge, LaFayette, in there too. :•
Morris and son sell automobiles over there, and I just J
thought of something. Horace used to sell cars-Olds and ;■
others. 1 drive an Olds, and what I had in mind was to go :■
over and make a deal with Morris on a brand new 98 Olds, •:
and then after we £ot everything fixed up and 1 started to J
drive off, I’d just tell Bro. Rutledge, “Charge this to •;
Colonel Collett and Horace Shattuck.” Os course, he would •:
send them the bill and they’d have to pay it, cause iffen :•
they didn’t, they’d be taking away my constitutional £
rights-you know what 1 mean. Plan to do that right away ;!
before I forget it. I’d bring in a bunch of witnesses, in the :•
event the matter came before Judge Painter, and of course, ■:
the Judge would follow the law. By doggies, 1 just thought •!
all that up myself. I;
By the way-I can just hear Mouzon -after he reads the £
above, say something like this: “Well, I knew Elbert could
act mighty silly, but now he has capped the stack.” J
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TIS THE LAW-They say. In Topeka it is illegal for a !•:
waiter to serve wine in a tea cup-probably a holdover from
Prohibition days. And, in Gary, Indiana, it is against the law $
to ride any street car or attend any theatre within four $
hours after eating garlic. S
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HAD YOU THOUGHT The national debt limit is now
$450 billion, or for all practical purposes, the sky . . . The :J
year 1972 will surely be remembered as the year of locusts $
and candidates for public office-(there is a difference, you
know) . . . One way to reduce the incidence of crime is to J
make it as dangerous to be a criminal as it is to be a :•
victim ... A girl may wear a golf outfit when she can’t play •:
golf and a bathing suit when she can’t swim, but when she •:
puts on a wedding gown, she means business. !;
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UNCLE ED-Says: “If we encounter a man with rare :•
intellect, we should ask him what books he has read.”
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PA DAVE-Suggest: “Always put off until tomorrow $
what you shouldn’t do at all.” (I go along with that.) $
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ADCOX ADDS-“One good way to forget the faults of $
others is to remember your own.” 8
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BE SEEIN’ YE-With this thought -from the pen of $
George Jean Nathan: “Bad officials are those elected by
good citizens who do not vote.” So, vote as you please
August 29, but please vote! 8
Area Scout Council to Begin Improved Program
The Northwest Georgia
Council, Boy Scouts of
America, will soon begin
an improved Scouting
program to provide a rele
vant, educational plan that
is sensitive to the real
needs of youth.
For boys 11 through 17
years of age, the program
will be launched in early *
September and will help to
provide the skills, atti
tudes, and knowledge
required for tomorrow’s
citizens.
Since 1968, the Boy
Scouting Committee of
the Boy Scouts of America
has supervised research
projects, experiments, and
evaluations to provide for
boys an effective program
designed to build desirable
qualities of character, to
train in the responsibilities
of participating citizen
ship, and to develop per
sonal fitness. The im
proved program was
approved by the executive
board in May, 1971.
In the Northwest Geor
gia Council-which encom
passes scout groups in
Chattooga County there
are 86 troops and 797
scouts participating in the
scouting program in 86
partner organizations.
The three objectives to
be achieved through the
new program are. 1) Citi
zenship growth experi
ence and participation in
the community by which a
scout learns his responsi
bility and makes a prac
tical application of group
skills; 2) Character
growth experience by
which a scout will acquire
desirable personality traits;
and 3) Personal Fitness
opportunities for a scout
to develop and improve
himself in the area of
physical, mental, moral,
and emotional Fitness.
The improvements
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Linda Black, president of the Sum
merville Homemakers Club, con
gratulates Evelyn Greene for having
been selected Chattooga County
CHATTOOGA RAISES »4,300
Georgians Exceed
Heart Fund Quota
Georgians contributed a
record $964,200 to the 1972
Heart Fund Drive, breaking the
Georgia Heart Association’s
statewide goal of $950,000 and
giving the largest amount of
funds in the state’s history for
support of heart programs, ac
cording to George E. Smith,
president of J. M. Tull In
dustries and GHA board chair
man.
Smith paid tribute to At
lanta attorney Kirk McAlpin,
state Heart Fund chairman,
pointing out that this year’s
returns represent more than a
10 percent increase over last
year’s campaign, which was
also headed by McAlpin.
Os the state’s total Heart
Fund returns, $428,578 came
from the five-county metro
politan Atlanta area, and every
field territory and metro
politan area in the state
showed increases over the
previous year, according to
Smith.
This year’s Heart Fund drive
saw 97 counties gain over the
previous year’s campaign, 87
counties topped individual
county goals and 70 reached
new highs in their efforts to
provide support for the Heart
Association’s statewide pro
grams.
Five counties reached more
than 200 percent of their
PROGRAM DESIGNED TO MOLD TOMORROW’S CITIZENS
identify scouting’s tradi
tional strengths and
provide ways of making
these more effective.
Among these are: the
patrol method; the boy
man relationship, with the
scoutmaster acting as a
coach-counselor to boy
leaders; the adventure
provided for introducing
boys to the world around
them and help them to
find their place in it, both
through indoor and out
door experiences; and the
use of the scouting ideals
as a personal challenge to
boys.
The advancement
program in the Northwest
Georgia Council is one of
vital methods that aid in a
scout’s growth. Optional
routes encourage a scout
to accomplish a progres
sive series of learning ex
periences concerned with
the development of char
acter and improved per-
OUTSTANDING HOMEMAKER
established goal with Washing
ton County leading the state at
Outstanding Award
Listed for Trionite
Martha Scott Hayes, 11
Gray St., Trion, has been se
lected as one of the Outstand
ing Young Women of America
for 1972, the director of the
national awards program has
announced.
She is now being considered
for further state and national
awards. This fall, fifty of the
young women nominated for
the Outstanding Young Women
of America program-one from
each state-will be named as
their state’s Outstanding
Young Woman of the Year.
From the fifty state winners,
the national Ten Outstanding
Young Women of America for
1972 will be selected.
Now in its eighth year, the
program was conceived—and is
today guided-by leaders of the
nation’s major women’s organ
izations. The program’s board
of advisors, composed of the
national presidents of women’s
clubs, is headed by Mrs. Dexter
Otis Arnold, honorary pres-
sonal fitness.
Three new ingredients
in the improved advance
ment plan are: I) Skill
Awards-a scout needs
fundamental skills to
enjoy the program. They
provide earlier recognition,
retain a strong outdoor
emphasis, provide essential
skills for everyday living,
and give scouts options
and place them in a posi
tion to make decisions; 2)
Merit Badge Program this
program is offered to new
scouts so they can become
acquainted at an early
stage in scouting with one
of the major parts of the
advancement plan. New
merit badges will include
emergency preparedness,
personal management,
sports, environmental
science, general science,
and citizenship in the
world, and 3) Personal
Growth Agreement-this is
an appraisal by the scout
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Second Front
Homemaker of the Year. The winner
was selected for leadership and for
contributions in the fields of home,
community and civic activities.
284 percent of goal.
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ident of the General Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs.
The purpose of the Out
standing Young Women of
America program is to recog
nize young women between
the ages of 21 and 35 for their
exceptional contributions to
the betterment of their com
munities, professions and coun
try. Nominations for this
national awards program are
made by women’s organiza
tions, churches, alumni associa
tions and universities.
A complete biographical
sketch of each nominee is in
cluded in the annual awards
volume, “Outstanding Young
Women of America,” which is
distributed nationally as a
reference publication. The
1972 edition, to be published
in November, will contain
special introductory messages
by U.S. Rep. Martha Griffiths
(D-Mich.jand Amy Vanderbilt,
the nation’s leading etiquette
authority.
of his abilities, after which
he agrees to set personal
goals for accomplishments.
One of the major aims
of scouting improvements
is to provide many oppor
tunities for a scout to
make decisions and to
develop a sense of respon
sibility for his growth
development. While recog
nizing the limitations of
scouts in decision making,
it was felt the present
scouting program has
many restrictions that
prevent scouts from exer
cising their judgment.
Recognizing that in
scouting there is a strength
in the number of older
scouts who want to stay in
the troop, there will be an
optional program called
the leadership corps. Its
primary objectives will be
to complete the training of
scouts in leadership skills
and enable them to prac
tice these skills by helping
Economic Gain
Seen in County,
Report Shows
Net Sales
Increase
For Area
(Special to the News)
NEW YORK Chattooga
County’s economy moved into
higher gear during the past
year, according to a copy
righted report on business
activity, just released by Sales
Management.
The stronger showing was
due, in the main, to the fact
that local consumers had more
money available to them than
in the previous year, thanks to
rising incomes, and less reluc
tance about spending it.
They cut down somewhat
on their rate of saving and
returned to the market place to
purchase some of the big-ticket
items that they had been put
ting off buying.
The extent of this spending
and its effect on retail business
in the area are brought out in
the report, which is entitled
“Survey of Buying Power.” It
presents comparable data on
income and spending for locali
ties in all parts of the nation.
It shows that net earnings in
Chattooga County were rela
tively high in the year. Local
residents had a disposable
income after paying their per
sonal taxes, of $54,145,000, as
against the prior year’s
$51,570,000.
GAIN REPORTED
What this represented, for
the individual family, was
found by dividing the dollar
amount by the number of
households. The average was
SB,OBI, a gain over the 1970
average of $7,814.
With more money at their
command, despite inflation,
and with a more optimistic
feeling about the economy,
local residents regained some
of their confidence and began
to spend more freely.
As a result, the year was a
good one for most local mer
chants. They chalked up a sales
volume of $29,142,000, beat
ing the previous year’s
$26,784,000.
The gain, 8.9 percent, was
greater than elsewhere in the
United States, 8.7 percent.
COUNTY RATED
Each community is given a
rating in the survey, based
upon the amount of retail bus
iness actually done as com
pared with its estimated full
capacity.
This is done through an “in
dex of buying power," a
weighted figure that takes into
account income, population
and sales.
Chattooga County’s index
rating is .0079, indicating that
it is believed capable of pro-
young scouts. There will
also be a greater oppor
tunity to serve the com
munity through participa
tion in more mature activi
tie's, and there will be a
continued fellowship in
activities that are challeng
ing and beneficial to their
future.
There are many routes
a scout may take for his
personal growth and devel
opment. The improved
scouting program to be
available to troops this fall
offers several ways to
bring this about.
Scouting’s improved
methods are designed to
develop desirable qualities
of character, to train
scouts in the responsi
bilities of participating
citizenship, and to develop
personal fitness.
The questions that were
considered in developing
the improved scouting
program related to chang-
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Mystery Picture
Entries Increase
The number of cards and
letters for last week’s Mystery
Picture was the largest we have
received in several weeks.
Apparently the pictured object
was easy for most of our
readers to identify. However,
two readers thought it was a
Chattooga Marine
On Puerto Rican
Training Exercise
CAMP LEJEUNE, N. C.
(FHTNC)- Marine Pvt. Earl T.
Lively, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Billy B. Lively, Route I, Sum
merville, has left Camp Lejeune
with the Second Amphibian
Tractor Battalion for a training
exercise with the British
Marines in Puerto Rico.
He embarked aboard the
amphibious dock transport
USS Ponce, homeported at
Norfolk, Va.
ducing that percent of the
nation’s retail business.
Since less than that was
done in the past year, .0074
percent, the conclusion is that
a fair amount of the local pur
chasing potential is yet to be
achieved.
ing demands upon people,
areas of knowledge,
specific skills, specific
values and attitudes,
specific experiences, inter
persona"! relationships,
challenges, and disciplines.
The traditional strengths
of scouting were retained:
the patrol method, the
boy-man relationship, ad
venture, and ideals, but all
were strengthened to
provide a better program
for scouts.
When the improved
scouting program is avail
able this fall, there will be
a re-emphasis on the
organization of patrols and
the troop to provide a
better quality of experi
ences for each scout.
The unique patrol
method brings the demo
cratic process, an oppor
tunity to work with
others, the practice of
leader ship-membership
skills, and an opportunity
pencil sharpener and one saw it
as a detergent bottle top.
For correctly identifying
last week’s picture as that of
the top of a lighter fluid can,
we are sending a free three
month subscription to The
Summerville News to: Mrs.
C. B. Miller, Jamestown, Ala.;
Mrs. Donald Christol, Route 1,
Summerville; and Mrs. Bill
Tate, Route 3, Box 1630, La-
Fayette.
Today’s Mystery Picture
should be as easy for our
readers to identify as the one
shown last week. It is an object
with which all-or most-of
you are quite familiar.
It is easy to join in our
weekly fun game. Look the
pictured object over carefully,
and when you think you have
correctly identified it, send
your guess to; Mystery Picture,
Box 310, Summerville, Ga.
30747.
Please send only cards or
letters. Telephone calls cannot
be accepted.
We appreciate your con
tinued interest in our weekly
fun game and urge you to send
in your cards or letters each
week. Join our many readers
who play this game each week.
Why not stop right now and
identify today’s object. You
might be selected for a free
three-month subscription to
The Summerville News.
to develop and practice a
concern for others.
Studies show that
scouts like the advance
ment program but they
want more immediate
recognition.
The improved advance
ment plan for scouts re
quires a new definition of
the part advancement
plays in the total program.
The scout advancement
plan is designed to en
courage scouts to accom
plish a progressive series of
learning experiences which
are concerned with their
growth in the development
of character, citizenship
responsibilities, and im
proved personal fitness.
In the improved scout
ing program, advancement
is retained but the term
"rank” will become
“progressive award,” to
better describe a scout’s
development.