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Editorials
Who Will Govern?
The American republic has proposed
for over two centuries since revolu
tionaries defeated the armies of the
English king. The constitutional form of
government has proved a remarkable suc
cess, the Constitution itself one of
history’s great, humanitarian watershed
documents.
But is the system still working well
enough in today’s complex, nuclear world
to be left unchanged? Some political
science experts feel reform, moderniza
tion, or refinement is now in order. They
have, for the most part, come to the con
clusion reluctantly with no eagerness to
tamper with the successful heritage of the
past.
The American governing system in to
day’s changed political climate, however,
seems stalemated, to them. The presiden
cy and congressional leadership is too
often in different parties. The president is
increasingly hamstrung in efforts to
carry out foreign policy by an opposing
congressional majority. Foreign countries
see this, take advantage of it.
Can the Reagan Administration effec
tively lead in negotiations, in Latin
American policy, in military policy, in for
mulating a budget? Increasingly, Con
gress — resurgent since Watergate — is
altering policy or blocking implementa
tion.
National parties have become less in
strumental in choosing national nominees
and in influencing administration policy.
Primaries and primary campaigns over
periods of two years now determine the
candidates. There's little discipline or
order in this trend; the last two chief ex
ecutives have reached the White House
after running against Washington.
The voter turnout nationally has
decreased for five consecutive presiden
tial elections. The people seem to sense
that there's a stalemate in Washington,
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77 YEARS AGO
The following are excerpts from the April 5, 1906, issue of The Summerville
News.
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LOVEMAN'’S NEW STORE. The D. B. Loveman Co. of Chattanooga has
just finished a five story addition to their store, more than doubling their floor
space — allowing for the enlargement of their various departments, and the ad
dition of a complete Shoe Section, and a men'’s Clothing Store.
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Place your order with the NEWS for strawberry tickets. $1.25 and $1.50
per thousand.
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“The Atlanta Evening News and The Atlanta Sunday News are being of
fered to the public at the remarkable low price of $2.50 from now until January
Ist, 1907. This special price is made as a means of introducing The Atlanta
Sunday News, which has already made a splendid impression in Georgia.
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WANTED — Young men from 16 to 25 to work in our furniture factory at
Rome, Ga. Steady employment and good wages. This is a good opportunity for
young men who are ambitious to enter the manufacturing industries of the
South. — Rome Furn. & Lumber Co.
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A PRECAUTION — A girl baby was brought to a Seattle clergyman, ac
cording to the Post-Intelligencer of that city, to be baptized. He asked the
name of the baby.
“Dinah M.,” the father responded.
“But what does the M stand for?"’ asked the minister.
“Oh, if she turns out nice and sweet and handy around the house, like her
mother, I shall call her Dinah May. But if she has a fiery temper and bombshell
disposition, like mine, I shall call her Dinah Might.”
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HELP WANTED — We can give employment to twenty or thirty more
families, of girls especially, in our knitting and spinning mill. Two trolly car
lines, cheap house rent, healthy location, good water, abundant amusements,
no commissary, steady work, highest scale piece work prices paid.
Apply to the RICHMOND HOSIERY MILLS, Chattanooga, Tenn. :
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AD: CHEAP Colonist Tickets to CALIFORNIA, OREGON,
WASHINGTON and the NORTH WEST — Will be sold February 15th to
April 7th, Inclusive. Chattanooga to California...s37.3o, Knoxville to
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that the division of power between ex
ecutive and legislative branches makes
for disorder.
Television further complicates the
problem. How can any president lead suc
cessfully if he is second-guessed on every
pronouncement within minutes, if the
media focuses mainly on the sensational,
protests and demonstrations? How can
the nation ever again fight a war, even a
justified, defensive war, if television ques
tions the administration’s motives and
pictures our forces’ mistakes in every liv
ing room?
Do we need a system more responsive
to the majority will? With a leader who
must have a majority in Congress?
Should administrations be required to
resign and hold new elections if defeated
in Congress on a major policy issue? Is a
single-six-year term preferable for
presidents? ’
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The Press
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If you don’t believe in Providence,
watch persons on the highways and try to
figure out what else saves them. — Buf
falo News
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IT ISN'T BEING DONE
About the hardest work for a man is
looking pleasant while his wife introduces
him to a fellow to whom she was once
engaged. — Los Angeles Times
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MODESTY
When a man hides his light under a
bushel, if someone doesn’t notice pretty
soon he begins to pound on the bushel. —
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‘The Georgia Peach’
When a mortal man compiles a
lifetime batting average of .376 over a
period of twenty-three years in the
American League, an amazing feat has
been achieved. When this same human be
ing — a man named Tyrus Raymond
Cobb — collects a total of 4,191 hits,
scores 2,244 runs, wins 12 batting titles,
steals 892 bases, it's certainly cause for
the baseball fan to pause in awe and
wonder ... So wondering why seems
quite in order.
In 1912 Cobb killed a man in Detroit.
Three hoodlums jumped him in an at
tempted robbery. One of them cut Ty
very severely up and down the back.
Cobb’s gun failed to fire, but the three
thugs ran down an alley. Catching one of
them, Cobb pistol-whipped the would-be
robber until there was scarcely any face
left.
Through a total of 3,033 games he
played to his complete physical and men
tal maximum. He approached complete
effort more closely than any other
Dialogue . ..
Coat Hanger For The Road
The early pioneers were remarkable
people in the way they used the resources
of the land for their benefit.
Cut down a few trees, lay 'em together
and they had a log cabin. Grow a little
corn, ferment it, boil it and they had corn
liquor.
Let’s not forget the Indians. They pro
bably made better use of the land than
the pioneers.
Find a suitable piece of flint, chip it a
little and the Indians had a weapon. Raid
an enemy camp, knock a few heads and
the Indians would come away with some
new horses or maybe a new wife or two.
Those were simpler times.
Today we all have to be on the lookout
for new ways to use our environment. We
don'’t call it the ‘‘land’” anymore, we call it
the ‘‘environment.”” That's because it
sounds more sophisticated, and besides,
somebody else always owns the land.
We live in apartments and subdivi
sions now. No more tepees or log cabins.
Despite the changes, American in
genuity lives on,
Take the coat hanger, for instance.
It’s a neat little gadget used for hanging
coats, etc., up in closets rather than just
throwing them on the floor, the bed or
over the typewriter.
But the lowly coat hanger has another
use we all are familiar with.
Picture this scenario: You're in a posh
restaurant somewhere with a person
you're really trying to impress. You get
back to the car after dinner and almost
throwup when you see your keys glitter
ing inside your locked car.
At first you say to yourself, it just
can't be. You double check all the doors,
walking around the car like a hound sear
ching for a bone. Then you emit a word
from your mouth that even the pioneers
wouldn’t use.
The second reaction to this little
predicament. is to go directly to the
nearest place where, just maybe, there is
one of those neat little devices we take for
granted until we lock the keys in the car:
by James Budd
American athlete has ever done. Cobb
was more aggressive, dedicated, deter
mined, fierce and unafraid. He was truly a
demon who was possessed with the furies.
He was engaged in numerous fights
during his baseball career. No historian
has added them up, but the total would
bring awe to a peaceful-minded fan. Ty
Cobb was truly at war with the world.
Weighing 165 to 170 pounds, he would
stand up to anyone, day or night,
regardless of size or where it was. But he
eventually lost his final battle. No man,
not even Cobb, could overcome the worst
type of cancer. He did, however, fight it
with relentless fury for ten months.
Cobb didn’t play baseball in a dirty or
underhanded manner. Knowing that the
baselines belonged to the runner, he ran
them to a maximum aggressiveness, and
there were wounds when his opponents
got in the way. Ty was a vindicator, a
retaliator, a competitor who was deeply
determined to justify his life by ac
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A COAT HANGER.
In the scenario above, you walk back
into the restaurant to the lobby where
you ask the hat check lady if she has a
coat hanger. She looks at you like perhaps
you had one too many margaritas, at
first. But then she gives you an
understanding wink, ‘‘Oh, a COAT
HANGER,"’ she says. ‘“‘You musta lock
ed you're keys in the car.”
Everybody in the lobby kind of
snickers at you. ‘‘Hey, Marge, that guy
wants a COAT HANGER,” one rather ro
tund fellow says to his wife.
Everybody’s been there before. They
know what's next.
After leaving the lobby, you im
mediately start unraveling the wire
hanger until it kind of straightens out.
Coat Hangers NEVER straighten out,
but that’s OK.
At the end of the hanger, you make a
little fish hook loop at the end and then
you go fishing inside the car for that
elusive door lock. Despite what the car
salesman told you about ‘‘theft-proof’”
locks, you can usually find the lock after
fishing, bending and saying those words
the pioneers wouldn’t even use.
You eventually find the lock and loop
around the fish hook a la COAT
HANGER and pull, hopefully snapping
up the lock. That’s if you're lucky. /
If you're unlucky, the fish hook will
straighten out when you pull on the lock.
This is the only time a coat hanger is
known to straighten out, even partially.
The only option if you're unlucky is to
pull out the hanger and reshape the hook.
Then you have to go fishing again.
After you finally unlock the door and
get in your car, you let out a sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, the person you were try
ing to impress is really impressed by this
time. She, too, is saying words the
pioneers wouldn’t even use. She’s gone so
far as to use words the Indians never us
ed, even after they had their horses stolen
by enemy raiders.
F
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Facing Souvih
A Syndicated Column
Voices Of Tradition
In A Changing Region
OKRA: THE COMIC VEGETABLE
MONTEZUMA — Southerners don’t just casually en
joy their vegetables. They love them dearly and defend
them passionately. They would approve adding a fifth
verse to ‘‘America, the Beautiful”” in which the black
eyed pea, the collard and the butter LR
bean received their due share of choral
praise. P
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called Southern. By no means a “‘new”’ ' ‘gyuues |
vegetable, it arrived with the first 3 lfla
Africans to land on our shores. As they 'fl S ‘
struggled to recreate on their rough ““® ‘ea
new hearths something of the taste of home, okra became
a favorite (with some) in cabin and big house, lending
variety to the corn, potato, bean and turnip cuisine of the
farming frontiers. :
Okra is now working its way North. I have reports
from spies who say that in Chicago they have eaten
young okra pods battered, deep-fried and dipped in
mayonnaise. In Wisconsin you can get it dilled (as in
pickle) — and in New York City, much to the surprise of a
Greek-American Boy Scout visiting from Atlanta, it was
built into a moussaka. ‘‘Jeeze, Mom,”’ he protested, ‘‘eg
gplant and okra!”’
Like the egg and the avocado, okra comes in attractive
little packages. In France, according to Laßousse
Gastronomique, the pods are sometimes called ‘‘ladies
fingers.” The word ‘‘gumbo,”’ used for a sort of stew that
incorporates seafood, ham, chicken, tomatoes, onions and
peppers, is actually just another West African name for
okra. The plant belongs to the mallow family and grows
all over Africa and India, where, since earliest times, it
has been cultivated as a garden vegetable.
It is the mucilaginous quality of okra that, for some
choosy eaters, puts it beyond the pale. If boiled only a
minute too long it disintegrates into a slippery mess. In
gumbo this is a desired quality; it makes a thin stew into
fork food. But by far the most popular way of preparing
okra is to slice the pods into half-inch rounds, shake them
in a bag with salt, pepper and Southern cornmeal, and fry
them in bacon fat.
What fast food chains have done for the potato and
the cabbage, through offering French fries and slaw, they
may yet do for fried okra. In the Macon area several truck
stops near the Farmers’ Market sell ‘‘Fried Okra Snacks’’
by the paper scoopful.
Retired Southern executives tend to go in for kitchen
gardening, and invariably include a half-dozen okra
plants. Accompany such a hobbyist on a pea-picking tour
and he will always stop by the okra patch, take out his
pocket knife and carefully cut off a few tender young
pods.
He will reminisce, ‘“‘Mama always cooked a little okra
along with black-eyed peas — she said it gave them
flavor. Then she would lift the pods out and put them
down on Papa’s plate, along with his peas and rice and his
chopped onions and pepper sauce.” Now he is Papa and
his wife indulgently lays the okra over the peas when she
cooks them. So, in small ways, we reconstruct our per
sonal pasts.
It has always been a puzzle to me that some
vegetables are funnier than others. Take corn. Wheat and
rye and barley are never comic, but corn is hilarious.
Cucumbers are sober vegetables while squashes bring
chuckles. Rutabagas and parsnips are amusing. But, as
an ingredient of Southern ribaldry, okra takes the prize:
‘“Play that okra song — ‘Slip, Slidin’ Away!’ "’ Or, to a
child whose socks have fallen over his shoe tops, ‘“What'’s
the matter, kid? Been eatin’ too much okra?”’
One thing can be said for sure about this eccentric
vegetable.
No one will ever dump a can of cream of mushroom
soup over it and call it a ‘‘lady finger casserole.”
— VIOLET MOORE
writer & librarian
Montezuma
. FOR THE WISE
Wlse.people believe half of what they
hear; wiser ones know which half to
believe. — Denmark (Wis.) Press
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NATURALLY
The _man who thinks he knows
everything always irritates those of us
who do. — Columbia (S. C.) Record