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X Some weeks ago, Bob Harrell, Camping Editor, The
•X Atlanta Constitution, took a swing through parts of North
;X Georgia, including Dade County. Later, Bob wrote a series
$ of interesting stories re: Dade and area-each of the four
X articles was used in what is generally known as my “Per
•X sonal Column,” (Sentinel), page 1, column 1. The final
X offering of Bob’s appears in this week’s edition of The
X Sentinel. All were very good and we’re grateful, to say the
X least.
x: Now, last week, (Friday), in The Constitution, Bob sort
•X of reviewed his note book, iffen he had one, and gave a
•X touch back on some of the spots included in his mountain
;> trip. Here is what he added to his too brief a stop over in
X Dade.
•X “TRENTON—Up here in this valley sandwiched between
$ Lookout and Sand mountains, Dade County native, news
paper editor, former legislator, farmer and full-time fiddle
player Elbert Forester has staked out a fair-size hunk of
X heaven on earth. I’m talking about his farm which meets
:> the lower slopes of Lookout Mountain.
•X The farm is where a man can go from one extreme to the
;•! other, relax completely or pitch hay until the hinges in his
x back squeak. To show you how completely fiddler Forester
relaxes, I’ll report how he fiddled without sawing the
X strings. Mr. Forester tapes his fiddle music, meaning that
X when he wants to hear the “Bob Douglas Special” he can
•X “play” it without moving a muscle.”
X Well, Noble Bob, my worthy, personal and warm friend,
X you went ’way overboard there, but nevertheless, I’m
•X passing along your climax to The Summerville News,
X Walker County Messenger, The Catoosa County News and
X of course The Sentinel. The half million readers more or
•X less of these four weekly newspapers added to those of The
X Constitution would be fantastic. (I just used the word
X “fantastic” ’cause it’s used a whole lot now, see.)
* As to my ability to wield a mean bow on the fiddle—l
•X wish we could all do that-Shucks. Be that as it may. But
X seriously, Bob, you promised that you, your lovely lady
Catherine and younguns were coming back for a visit and
slide around in the creek banks and enjoy things like that.
X If you don’t, then there just might be a classified ad in The
x! Constitution, reading: “Wanted: Camping editor, good pay,
X transportation furnished, etc. Understand? (Selah.)”
X> * * *
X Oldie—“ Oldie” means been around a while. Anyhow
X- could have been Mrs. Ralph Cook, Lyerly, who reminded
X me of the mother (not her), who was worn out from
X housework and a million or more other chores, who lay
g down on the sofa to take a brief nap. She felt one of the
•X youngsters patting her face and drowsily enjoyed the child’s
X affection.
* The doorbell rang. She hurried to the door and told the
X salesman she didn’t want whatever he was selling. He
X looked at her so queerly when she told him, however. Then
£ she glanced at a mirror on her way back to the sofa.
•X Her face was thoroughly plastered with green trading
X stamps! (That one is awful-agree Duran?)
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X Odds And Ends—ls you have an electric toothbrush,
X remember this: Brush regularly and see your electrician at
X least twice a year ... Pa Dave warns: “Be sure your mar-
X riage license is in a safe place because you can’t get a
divorce without it” .. . Adcox adds: A counselor’s advice
X that to have a happy and lasting marriage, you should help
•X your wife around the house. Why not try it? When she
X washes the dishes, wash them with her, and when she mops
g the floor, mop up the floor with her . . . Then Col. Collett
•X recalls the fellow who declared, “I didn’t say you were
X two-faced-I just said you needed four earrings” ... The
X very idea! Patricia tells of the mother who said, “I couldn’t
•X take it any longer, so I finally washed all the make-up off
X my teen-age daughter’s face, and pushed back all the hair,
X and so help me—l’ve been bringing up someone else’s
•X kid” . . . Horace contends-While most politicians stand on
X their records, President Nixon may be the only one who
$ plans to sit on his tapes . . . Cuz. Charlie says that kids these
■X days want everything they hear about—Recalling one who
wanted an inflationary cycle.
X* * *
•X Bottom Lines-It is reported that there is a wonderful
x: new baby food on the market. It’s made of wheat germ and
X garlic. The maker claims it’s not only healthier for the
v baby, but makes it easier to find in the dark.
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X Lt. Lyons-Suggests that iffen you find your seat belts
to be sort of uncomfortable like-might try out an ambu
:< lance stretcher.
* * *
X Harold Clements-Vows a certain youngster came home
•X from school and announced that this teacher had only two
X! rules: “Sit down and shut up.”
X * * *
•X Oh. Well Jim Caldwell, publisher, The Catoosa County
XI News, makes mention of the rather aisgusted old lady who
moved her chair nearer the TV and said, “And now, I will
X listen to the 10 o’clock news leaks.”
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X- Leo Aikman-Atlanta Constitution, asks, “How was
X spaghetti invented?” His answer: “Some Italian used his
$ noodle.” (Ah, shucks.)
X * ♦ *
X Batch of Thanks-To John Price, Frances Bolt, Corine
X Hertz! More on ’em later. Deadline.
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X Judy Mahle-Contends that a stalk of celery contains
A five calories, but-you use up 25 calories chewing it.
X * ♦ *
•X Martin Palmer-Summerville, reports hearing: “I’m tired
X of Watergate, the energy crisis, inflation and the troubles of
Spiro. Can’t we move on to the next crisis?” (What about
X that, Fred Stallings?)
Press Freedom: People’s First Line of Defense
(Editor’s Note: The follow
ing article was written espe
cially /or National Newspaper
Week by Albert Blank of The
Evening & Sunday Bulletin,
Philadelphia.)
The approach of this
nation’s 2OOth anniversary in
1976 reminds us of the fore
sight of the men who made the
concept of a free press a foun
dation of this free country.
The concept of a free press
was laid down before the
American revolution by Sir
William Blackstone as follows:
“The liberty of the press is
indeed essential to the nature
of a free state, but this consists
in laying no previous restraints
upon publication, and not in
freedom from censure for crim
inal matter when published.”
The Founding Fathers knew
some had a fear of democracy
as well as a fear of despotism.
Observations
By ELBERT FORESTER
Editor, The Dade County Sentinel
The best cure they found that
disposed of these fears was
guarantee of freedom of speech
and freedom of the press which
was incorporated into the First
Amendment.
James Madison drafted the
First Amendment:
“Congress shall make no law
abridging the freedom of
speech or of the press.”
Freedom of the press is
guaranteed in order that the
people may have sufficient
information to participate
intelligently as self-governing
members in a democratic
order.
Thomas Jefferson cautioned
us when he said “Our liberty
depends on the freedom of the
press and that cannot be
limited without being lost.”
The American press sees
itself as not only having a con
stitutional right to print, it also
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CHATTOOGA HIGH HOSTS DISTRICT FBLA MEETING OCTOBER 14-20
A large delegation of state and district officers of
Future Business Leaders of America were in Chat
tooga County Saturday to attend a fall planning
conference of District V. The Chattooga High chapter
was host for the meeting. Left to right: Shirley Price,
Hart County, District 111 vice president; Nancy
Wilkey, Lowndes County, District I vice president;
Cheryl Brown, Cobb County, district supervisor;
Mental Health Association
Begins Drive in Chattooga
By MARY JO LOGAN
‘Caring is Curing’ was
chosen for the theme of the
Mental Health drive, which is
currently underway in Chat
tooga County.
At a meeting held at the
Chattooga County Library on
Monday, plans were laid for
the event, which has a two-fold
purpose—financial and infor
mation.
Financial support will go
toward the activities of the
Northwest Georgia Mental
Health Association, which will
come back to Chattoogans in
the form of benefits from the
Mental Health Clinic at
Hutcheson-Memorial Tri-
County Hospital at Fort Ogle
thorpe. This clinic now in
cludes services to Chattoogans,
along with residents of Walker,
Catoosa, and Dade counties.
Facilities at the clinic,
which is located in the south
wing of the hospital, include
counseling, marriage counsel
ing, alcoholism clinic, therapy,
and psychiatric care.
OPEN EVENINGS
For the convenience of
those who work in the day
time, the clinic is now open
evenings on Mondays. Hours
are: Mondays, 8:30 a.m. to 8
p.m.; Tuesday through Friday,
8:30-4:30 p.m.
The staff includes a direc
tor, psychiatrists, other trained
professionals in the field of
mental health including office
assistants.
The history of the area
Mental Health Clinic is an ex- ■
citing one that developed in
the minds and hearts of a
number of interested indi
viduals, who were familiar with
the needs of this area.
At first there were trained ।
“listeners,” then later citizens f
has a duty to print which
means seeking out information
that bureaucrats may or may
not want to divulge.
In this schizophrenic,
nuclear era the spokesmen for
sanity should be the calm jour
nalistic voices, but in spite of
the unhappiness with our
society the press owes the
people absolute intellectual
honesty.
It must continue to tell
them how it is, painful as it
may be for them as well as the
press. If given the truth the
people can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring
people the truth. Public
opinion based on misinforma
tion will put our country into
great trouble. The truth can be
like a sleeping giant, slow to
rouse, but magnificent in its
strength. In arriving at the
donated money to pay for
psychiatrists to come. Then
later help came from county,
state and federal sources to
meet the needs.
In addition to meeting the
current needs for mental health
in the area, the facility also
serves the needs of patients
who have received treatment at
Central State Hospital in Mil
ledgeville and keeps them from
having to make the long trip to
the hospital for medicine and
continued supportive care.
PUBLIC MEETING
More information on the
facilities and plans at Tri-
County will be made at a meet
ing in the Fort Oglethorpe area
on Monday evening, Nov. 5.
This is a public meeting and all
interested citizens are urged to
circle it on their calendar and
County Schools to Observe
National School Lunch Week
“You Are What You Eat” is
the theme of the National
School Lunch Week slated Oct.
14-20.
Hannah Hammond, super
visor of lunchrooms for the
Chattooga County school
system, has recently received
four certificates of praise from
the State Department of Edu
cation for planning for the four
schools, which have 94 percent
participation-Summerville
Junior High, North Summer
ville Elementary, Summerville
Elementary and Pennville. She
also received a certificate for
the whole system, having 91
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK OPINION
Second Front
Kathy Mitchell, treasurer, Chattooga High Chapter;
Kathy McGraw, president, CHS Chapter; Angela
Moses, Stockbridge, state president; Sharon Palmer,
Whitfield County, state treasurer; Agnes Bowen,
Dodge County, state secretary; Patricia Dial, District
IV vice president; and Harriett Jones, Taylor County,
state parliamentarian.
plan to attend. Program for the
annual meeting of the Mental
Association will be given by
representatives from the staff
of the Clinic who will form a
panel to give information and
air plans for the future.'
Among the things going on
at the Clinic right now are
making additions to the staff
and making the offices and
waiting rooms more attractive.
The NW Ga. Mental Health
Association has recently made
a gift of carpeting to the Clinic.
Also, forthcoming plans for the
future, according to Bill Rhyne
of LaFayette, vice president of
the Association, include pro
viding current magazines for
the waiting room, furnishing
books on mental health to area
libraries and supplying schools,
clubs and other interested
percent participation last year.
Lunches are 35 cents and 40
cents, which is way below what
they would ordinarily cost.
The county lunchrooms are
serving more than 3,000
lunches each day.
“Anytime during the week
of Oct. 14-20, anybody is wel
come to come by and have
lunch with us,” Mrs. Hammond
invited. Hours of serving are
between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
On Monday, each local
school will plan their own spe
cialty.
On Tuesday, a systemwide
menu will be planned by the
truth the press should not
inflame the public purposely,
but neither should it lull the
public into a false sense of
security. Our press is not a
tenant of political power and
that is why almost nothing
goes on in government that is
not examined, re-examined,
plumbed, analyzed, guessed
about, criticized and carica
tured by the media. All this
affects the American people, as
it should. But that doesn’t
mean that they necessarily
accept it as revealed truth.
The virtue of liberty, and
the ground on which we may
best justify our belief in it, is
that it will tolerate errors in
order to serve the truth.
The liberty exercised by the
press belongs to the people and
not the press alone.
The jailing of reporters for
refusing to reveal their sources
groups with exciting and infor
mative visual aids and educa
tional films in the field of
mental health, job oppor
tunities in this field. Also,
plans are underway to obtain
speakers for interested groups
and publicizing mental health
more widely in area news
media.
HEADS GROUP
Local thrust for the drive
will come from a telephone
campaign headed by Margie
Love, well known Chattoogan,
who is employed at the Oak
View Nursing Home, here. Her
work will be coordinated with
Rev. George K. Preston, Sum
merville chairman, and a corps
of volunteers.
Personal calls will be made
on businesses and industrial
plants.
systemwide staff.
On Wednesday, a national
menu will be served consisting
of barbecue beef on bun, corn,
Popeye salad, yellow cake with
cherry sauce, and milk.
On Thursday, Georgia Day
will be observed with Southern
fried chicken accompanied by
sweet potato souffle, green
beans, hot rolls with butter,
chilled peaches with peanut
butter cookie and milk.
On Friday, the district
menu which will be sent out by
the district consultant will be
served.
does not mean an end to
freedom of the press. The tra
dition of courageous reporting
is done in the knowledge that
reporters are willing to suffer
for it. Not special legal protec
tion but their ethics and prin
ciples have kept them from
revealing sources. To each
reporter, there is a sacred com
mandment : never violate a con
fidence. When he accepts the
information for his story and
assures his sources anonymity,
he is bound by that command
ment. To yield would be an act
of surrender of a free press.
Consistent with the freedom
of the press and the people’s
right to know, the press should
continue with pride to state
that it will not reveal its
sources, and damn the con
sequences.
The public’s esteem of the
press will never decline as long
CHS Host
For 300
FBLA’ers
Chattooga Chapter
Is Saturday's Host
Some 300 young adultsand
their advisers gathered at Chat
tooga High School Saturday
for the District V fall planning
conference of the Future Busi
ness Leaders of America.
Registration began at 9 a.m.
in the high school lobby. By
the time all out-of-town dele
gates had been registered, the
parking area of the high school
was filled with automobiles
bearing tag decals from more
than a dozen counties.
The business session was
presided over by the state
FBLA president, Angela Moses
• of Stockbridge. Nancy Wilkey,
District I vice president, de
livered the invocation and the
salute to the Flag was led by
the District II vice president,
Jeannie Griffin. The introduc
tion of state officers and
special guests was made by
state parliamentarian Harriett
Jones.
Will Hair, CHS’ vocational
supervisor welcomed the hun
dreds of guests to Chattooga
County. The response was
given by Shirley Price, District
111 vice president.
GOALS LISTED
The FBLA organization
seeks to:
—Develop competent, ag
gressive business leadership.
-Strengthen the confidence
of young men and women in
themselves and their work.
—Create more interest and
understanding in the intelligent
choice of business occupations.
- Encourage members to im
prove the home and com
munity.
-Participate in worthy
undertakings for the improve
ment of business and the com
munity.
-Develop character, prepare
for useful citizenship, and
foster patriotism.
-Participate in cooperative
effort.
Encourage and practice
thrift.
Encourage improvement
in scholarship and promote
school loyalty.
-Improve and establish
standards for entrance into
office occupations.
GUEST SPEAKER
Kathy McGraw, president of
the Chattooga High FBLA
Chapter, introduced the guest
speaker of the morning, State
Rep. E. B. Toles of Rome.
Rep. Toles paid tribute to
the interest expressed by
I today’s youth in current events
। and laid down a number of
challenges for them to consider
as their goals. The state legis
lator projected the possibility
that a future President of the
United States, a future gover-
as the press never loses its taith
or esteem in itself.
There is no other institution
in American life as deliberately
open to criticism as the press.
It prints columns of attacks
upon itself by its opponents as
well as its letters to the editors
in which it gives the readers
views more space than its own
opinions. 'rhe Philadelphia
Bulletin Forum publishes four
columns of the readers’ views
leaving two columns for their
own views on its unique editor
ial page. The Phoenix (Ari
zona) Republic devoted a full
page opposite its editorial page
to the views of the readers on a
controversial freeway issue.
The sins of a careless
doctor, lawyer, or scientist can
long remain out of the public
eye, but the sins of inept jour
nalism arc flaunted before the
public instantly, and get
nor of Georgia, or a First Lady
of the nation or state was in
the audience.
Words of appreciation were
expressed by the state FBLA
treasurer, Sharon Palmer, and a
Georgia Electrification Council
tour report was given by the
District IV vice president,
Patricia Dial.
After the morning business
session the assemblage divided
into various groups for addi
tional meetings.
Mrs. Wylene Selman is ad
viser for the local FBLA chap
ter.
Edwards
Completes
Training
FORT LEAVENWORTH,
Kan.-Army Reserve Chaplain
(lieutenant colonel) John L.
Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Edwards of Menlo, re
cently completed the final
phase of the Command and
General Staff Officer course at
the U. S. Army Command and
General Staff College here.
The course is organized into
nine phases, and is given over a
five-year period either by cor
respondence or through the
U. S. Army Reserve school
system. The final two-week
phase is conducted at Fort
Leavenworth.
The training is designed to
prepare selected officers for re
sponsible positions at division
and support command levels. It
also provides them with an
understanding of the duties of
corps and field Army General
Staff officers, and of Army
participation in joint and com
bined operations.
Chaplain Edwards is minis
ter of the First Presbyterian
Church in Piedmont, Ala. He
received his A.B. degree in
1942 from Bob Jones Uni
versity, Geveland, Tenn., and
his master of divinity degree in
1945 from Columbia Theolog
ical Seminary, Decatur, Ga.
He and his wife, Loretto,
live at 504 Riddle Ave., Pied
mont.
instant reaction when they
come out in print. The Amer
ican people owe a debt of grati
tude to the soldiers of the press
who put their hand in the fire
covering the war in southeast
Asia and for the preserverance
they employed to make this
country aware of its unseemly
political behavior.
The news paper today is
more than a mechanical re
corder of news. It is becoming
a moral and intellectual institu
tion with a creed, a mission,
and dedication.
A great deal has been writ
ten and said about the impor
tance of a free press. The term
has almost become a platitude.
Lest we forget, however, many
so called platitudes are facts,
and this is the case with our
free press. Without such an
institution, freedom itself
would be on its way out of our
lives.