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Editorials
Change Anti-Trust Laws
The Reagan Administration has pro
posed numerous changes in the nation’s
anti-trust laws. The motive behind the ef
fort is to make U. S. business more com
petitive in the international market.
One can understand the need for giv
ing U. S. firms support, especially in view
of the huge negative trade balance of re
cent years.
On the other hand, mergers don’t
always make for better service or lower
prices to the consumer and one certain
result of weakening the anti-trust laws is
more and more mergers.
Congress should very carefully in
vestigate possible results to be felt by the
American consumer as a result of any
weakening of anti-trust laws. Rewording
anti-trust laws which have been on the
books for decades may be in order — so
Hungry
The debate on the question of how
many adults should be fed and housed by
the federal government is infinite. Since,
caring people differ on where to draw the
line.
Many have little sympathy for loafers,
winos, the lazy who won't work and others
without ambition — who choose to sponge
off working taxpayers (the government).
Others are convinced there are millions of
adults out there trying with all their power
to find work, who can’t find it. (Is it often
a case of not being able to find the job they
prefer)?
Most Americans, however, feel the
same about children. Claims are being
made today that one of every five
American children live in poverty. It's said
the number of poor children has increased
in the last 15 years.
One source claims that a smaller pro
portion of poor children today receive food
stamps and other aid under the Aid to
Families with Dependent Children pro-
_@l}"rom QurEarlyFiles
39 YEARS AGO '
The following are excerpts from the May 8, 1947 edition of The Summer
ville News. T
COLLECTIONS HIGH BUT STATE TREASURY STILL HARD
PRESSED — Georgia's financial status takes on the complextion of a crazy
quilt these days. While a new record was established in April for revenue col
lections, Revenue Commissioner Glenn S. Phillips is still faced with a problem.
It is this: Where to raise an extra $2,000,000 during May and June with which
to pay school teachers their promised 50 percent salary increase.
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LEGISLATORS NOT UNDER PARTY BAN; BOLTERS BARRED —
Members of the General Assembly who voted for Herman Talmadge on the
night of Jan. 13, 1947, when he was unlawfully “elected” as governor are not
barred from the Democratic party. Many of them did so under the belief that
their action was legal and required by the Constitution of the state. The
Democratic convention's rule barring bolters from party affairs, either as can
didates or party officers, applies to those who took part in the ‘“November bolt,”
by which an independent candidate was entered against the Democratic
nominee for governor.
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AD: PARK THEATRE, TRION — Big Shows — Little Prices — Monday,
May 12: SONS OF PIONEERS Radio, stage and screen stars, Plus Screen
Show. LTI 3
AD: FULLER JEWELRY COMPANY — Watch for opening of FULLER
JEWELRY CO. Jewelers at Charles Esserman & Company Fine Diamonds,
Watches, Costume Jewelry. Limited amount alarm glocks available for open
ing day.
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NOTICE: JIM'S AUTO SUPPLY AND SERVICE STATION: We are now
located south of Trion, next door to the Green Top Sandwich Shop. We are
at. your service and will appreciate your business, large or small. Thanks, Jim
reeson.
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long as the U. S. consumer is fully pro
tected and the effect is to strengthen U. S.
firms for overseas sales.
The suspicion is strong in some circles,
however, that some in the business world
would use reform to erase present-day bar
riers to mergers not in the public interest,
mergers which would drastically reduce
competition in this country.
Conglomerates are not invariably im
provements. They can create much debt,
and even two classes of employees. Com
petition in the U. S. domestic market has
provided Americans more products at a
better price than in any other society. Our
anti-trust laws are one of the reasons.
Thus any weakening should be limited,
with few exceptions, to areas which would
enhance overseas sales.
gram than were aided a decade earlier.
Congress, so inclined to overspend, has
been persuaded to cut most federal pro
grams by the Reagan Administration. The
administration believes only the fat, the
unjustified aid, has been reduced. Un
doubtedly, there was some cheating in the
massive program.
Also, the federal government, statistics
show, is currently helping a surprisingly
large percentage of American households,
with one aid form or another.
Nevertheless, the plight of hungry
children disturbs most Americans. In a
country such as this, there should be some
way to see that fewer children go hungry.
Some children have always gone hungry
in this country and in every country. The
federal government can't care for every
family.
But few Americans would object to an
increase in food aid to hungry children —
whatever else must be cut to pay the bill.
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Guest Column
Insurance Crisis
Hurts Smaller Firms
By JOHN SLOAN
The Coney Island roller coaster won't
run this summer because of the insurance
crisis. TV ads suggest kids won't be able
to play high school sports any more
because of the high cost — or lack of —
liability insurance.
Smaller businesses are feeling the
pinch in much more serious ways:
— A small chemical company in
Hagerstown, Md., paid less than SI,OOO
for $1 million in coverage in 1985. This
year the same coverage cost SB,OOO.
— A plumbing and heating contractor
in Warren, N. J., received notice that his
policy had been cancelled without
explanation.
In fact, about five of every six business
owners surveyed recently by the National
Federation of Independent Business
reported significant increases in insurance
costs, many as much as 100 percent or
more.
The big losers in the insurance crisis —
and it is a crisis — are smaller-business
owners and consumers. Small firms have,
historically, paid higher rates than large
firms. Therefore, the larger percentage in
creases in insurance prices take a propor
tionately bigger bite out of the profits of
smaller firms.
Small firms are captive customers. Big
corporations facing massive premium in
creases can opt to “‘self-insure.” Small
firms can't. In fact, in 37 states, small
firms are prohibited by law from forming
self-insurance pools to insure themselves.
The consumer loses because the high
Another Holocaust
By EDWIN FEULNER
Although we said ‘‘never again’’ after
World War 11, reports indicate that
another holocaust is taking place — this
time in Ethiopia.
Under the Ethiopian government's
year-old ‘“‘relocation” program, more than
100,000 Ethiopians are believed to have
perished. They weren't gassed or exter
minated in ovens. The methods were more
devious than that. But the results have
been the same.
In arecent letter to The Times of Lon
don, Julian Amery, a British member of
Parliament, wrote: “Of human rights
violations in Ethiopia the most infamous
is the resettlement programme whereby
Soviet aircraft are forcibly moving
thousands of Eritreans and Tigreans to in
hospitable regions."
Accordinlfi to eyewitness accounts,
Ethiopian villagers are being rounded up
by the country’s military, often without
warning, and being held in collection
camps until they can be transported to of
ficial ‘“‘resettlement” areas. Harvested
crops are being destroyed and livestock
abandoned. Tens of thousands of the
refugees, already weakened by famine and
war, have died.
To make matters worse, say officials of
Medicins Sans Frontiers, a voluntary
French relief agency, Western aid efforts
may now be hastening the death march.
The French humanitarian organization
cost of insurance (or unavailability of it)
will put many firms out of business. That
means fewer shopping choices. It also
means higher prices: The owner who can
pass along increased costs will do so. The
Product Liability Alliance says product
liability insurance costs alone have added
sls to the cost of the average step ladder.
Lawyers taking cases “‘for a piece of
the action” are cited by insurance com
panies and others for bringing frivolous
cases and driving up the cost of set
tlements. The insurers say the crisis can
be solved only by reforming the civil
justice system. However, trial lawyers and
some consumer groups blame the crisis on
mismanagement and greed in the in
surance industry and say more regulation
is the solution. :
NFIB thinks both sides are right. Its
small-business members are calling for
civil justice reform, including caps on
awards for non-economic damages and
limits on contingency fees for lawyers.
They also want reform in the insurance in
dustry, including a stronger regulatory
role for state insurance commissioners,
especially with regard to notification of
cancellation and even in the area of asset
management and policy rate-making.
There will be no quick fix in the in
surance crisis. State and federal
lawmakers will have to deal with this hot
potato step-by-step. But don't look for
lower insurance prices any time soon.
John Sloan is President of the National
Federation of Independent Business,
representing more than half a million small
business men and women.
was expelled from Ethiopia, according to
Julian Amery, for predicting that 400,000
deaths would result from this program.
In addition to grain and other foods the
West has been providing the Ethiopian
government heavy trucks to move the
food into famine areas. The trucks are not
being used to transport the food. And the
food is not being used to feed the hungry.
Instead, the trucks are being used in the
politically motivated relocation program.
And the grain is often left to rot in ports
or taken from famine areas and sent to
camps in southern Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian government claims that
the massive plan to move more than
300,000 families from northern Ethiopia to
the southwestern part of the country is the
best way to help the people in famine
striken areas. In reality, the program has
nothing to do with fighting hunger — it's
simply the Ethiopian regime’s strategy for
depopulating the northern areas, which are
dominated by anti-Communist rebels.
Sadly, the world community’s silence
is reminiscent of the initial reaction to
other 20-century genocides —the Nazi
mass murders, the Khmer Rouge
atrocities in Cambodia, and the scorched
earth policies in Soviet-occupied
Afghanistan, where death and destruction
continues.
And the United Nations isn’t helping
a bit. While many humanitarian organiza
tions have refused to participate in the so
called resettlement program, the U. N.'s
World Food Program and the U. N. Food
see HOLOCAUST, page 5-A
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JASPER, GA. — On April 24, 1979, the song “Georgia
On My Mind"” with music by Hoagy Carmichael and lyrics
by Stuart Gorrell, was designated Georgia’s official state
song. It was performed on March 7, 1979, before a joint
meeting of the Georgia Senate and House of Represen
tatives by Georgia-born artist Ray Charles.
It is a good song which I like very much, but was it
written about the State of Georgia or about a girl named
Georgia? Some say it was about the girl and there isn't
much of an argument that the lyrics were meant to be for
anything else.
“Melodies bring memories that linger in my heart.
Make me think of Georgia. Why did we ever part?”
We speak of a man and woman parting and we speak
of leaving a state for some other place. The next verse
could be taken for a state rather than a girl, but it could
really go either way.
“Some sweet day when blossoms fall. And all the
world’s a song. I'll go back to Georgia where I belong.”
The song is such a pretty one that no one is going to
object to having it for the state song. Besides the song
is so well-known throughout the world it could help for
tourism among other things. In other words there isn't
any harm done.
“Georgia, Georgia, the whole day through. Just an old
sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.
Georgia, Georgia, a song of you,
Comes as sweet and clear as moonlight through the
pines.”
The next verse would definitely be about a woman.
“Other arms reach out to me. Other eyes smile
tenderly.
Still in peaceful dreams I see . .. The road leads back
gy
‘And for the last lines: “‘Georgia, Georgia, no peace I
find. Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia...on my
mind.”
The name Georgia for a girl always had a nice ring to
it, and I've known girls named ““Georgia” who were born
and raised in the state of Georgia. Either way, I like the
song, but I wonder what was wrong with ‘“Georgia Land,
My Georgia Land” for the state song. The word land
leaves no doubt as to what the song means.
With “Georgia on my mind,” the state that is, what
about this? Georgia is often bragged about being the
largest state east of the Mississippi River. It is, but not
by all that much. Georgia has 58,910 square miles and
Florida has 58,664.
Suppose the states of Tennessee and South Carolina
were right about state line disputes, Georgia would be
behind Michigan that has 58,527 square miles as well as
others: Illinois, 56,345; Wisconsin, 56,153; North Carolina,
52,669; and Alabama, 51,705. There might be others.
And with Georgia on our minds did you ever wonder
why the Stone Mountain carving doesn’t have a Georgian
on it? There were plenty of Georgians who qualified,
General James Longstreet lived and died in the shadow
of the big rock and there was General Walker who died
defending the place that would become the state capitol.
In 1937 the Live Oak was adopted as the official tree.
The representatives from North Georgia must have been
asleep while this was taking place. There are many North
Georgians who never saw a Live Oak, especially with all
that South Georgia moss hanging from it.
Remember the peach tags. Wonder why the North
Georgia apple growers don’t ask for equal time? But, this
is Georgia where the material for the state capitol was
shipped from a northern state. Georgia marble was offered
to the state free but no, this was done — by the same
ple who bought 200 spittoons to go in the new buflm
at SSOO each. The brass cuspidors from the same company
cost people three dollars for their homes ... Georgia,
Georgia, How long can it last? But Georgia would not be
Georgia without her past . . .
SILENCE
N eWS There is no wholly satisfactory
substitute for brains, but silence does pret-
Clips ty well. — Gar::er (I‘a.) Leader
.
SO TRUE
Today it costs more to amuse a child
than it used to cost to educate his father.
— Santa Fe Magazine