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Editorials
Best Pledge Yet
Best Manufacturing Co., Menlo, has
made a pledge of SIOO,OOO to the City of
Menlo when it completes its planned
sewerage and wastewater treatment plant
development programs.
The system will, of course, benefit the
company. But it will also boost Menlo's
economy because Best will be able to ex
pand and hire another 90 to 100 people
when the system is complete.
The system will also be available for
other industry looking at the Chattooga
County area.
Best Manufacturing's generous offer
Blood Drive
Chattooga Countians let themselves
down in late December when they didn't
show up in adequate numbers to reach the
Red Cross blood drive goal.
The Red Cross had initially set a goal
of 80 pints for the day-long effort on Dec.
30. But that was lowered to 64 pints.
However, only 48 people showed up
and the Red Cross was able to collect on
ly 40 pints of blood — 40 short of the
original goal and 24 pints short of the
Red Chinese Imports
The American Textile Manufacturers
Institute sent a release to The News
recently pointing out that imports of
slave-made textiles from Red China (it is
neither a “republic’’ nor does its dictatorial
regime represent the people) were up 69
percent during the first 11 months of last
year.
The Communist Chinese imports total
ed nearly 600 million square yards more
last year than during the comparable
period in 1985.
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The following are excerpts from the Jan. 20, 1938 edition of The Summer
ville News.
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HOUSE PASSES THOMAS WHISKEY BILL TUESDAY BY MAJORI
TY OF 12 VOTES — The Georgia House of Representatives Tuesday passed,
103 to 91, a bill to legalize manufacture and sale of liquor in 16 counties. Should
the bill become law, it would remove Georgia from the list of five dry states
in the nation —the others are Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Tennessee
— and repeal a bone dry law adopted in 1917. The bill, by Rep. Ross Thomas
of Chattooga County, would set up a system of state-supervised warehouses
from which wholesalers must buy. It would legalize sale of liquor in the follow
ing counties: Bibb, Brantley, Bullock, Chatham, Coffee, Doutherty, Evans,
Fulton, Glynn, Lowndes, Mclntosh, Muscogee, Richmond, Ware and Wayne.
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WORK STARTED ON BAPTIST CHURCH — Several months ago a
disastrous fire destroyed the large and well-equipped Baptist church here. But
all the members and their friends of other denominations have pledged very
generously and a lovely new modern church is going to be erected on the same
site, where the church burned.
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CONVICTS ESCAPE SUNDAY MORNING — Seven convicts escaped
from the Chattooga County convict camp early Sunday morning. In some way
they secured a brace and bit and bored a hole in the wall of the prison camp
large enough to crawl through. Two of the men have voluntarily returned, but
the other five are still at large.
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OLD ALPINE CEMETERY TO BE BEAUTIFIED SOON — Another
dream for the Alpine group of churches is about to become a reality. For over
a year it has been planned to beautify the churchyard and cemetery of Old
Alpine Church, which has stood for almost a century in the community. At
last, definite plans are under way to complete the work begun a year ago when
the entire church building was renovated. At reduced prices and with the in
terest of interested friends it is now possible to secure enough suitable shrub
bery to shrub both the immediate grounds of the church and the cemetery in
an appropriate way.
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will help the city finance the planned
system since the apparent low bid was
some $677,000 over the amount of money
available. The city is seeking additional
funds and loans from several more sources.
However, the Best pledge will go a long
way toward helping Menlo reach its goal.
Best Manufacturing and its employees
have always been excellent citizehs and
members of our community. The latest
pledge is yet another concrete example of
that responsible and progressive
citizenship.
lowered goal.
The holidays always find the Red Cross
and local hospitals in almost desperate
need of blood. Fewer people donate blood
but the demand doesn’t diminish. In many
cases, it increases.
A recent drive at Trion surpassed the
goal but the one in Summerville for the en
tire county during the holidays was a
failure.
We can do better. And we must.
The figures point out, once again, the
folly of former President Richard Nixon
“opening the door™ to ““dialogue’ with the
tyrants in Peking. They also emphasize
that even under a supposedly *‘conser
vative' president, nothing has changed in
regard to U.S. policies toward our
enemies.
If yu don’t think these figures hurt
Chattooga Countians and the residents of
Northwest Georgia, just ask a few textile
employees.
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Higher Gasoline Prices
Gasoline prices in most of Northwest
Georgia shot up by around 10 cents per
gallon recently.
The increases came only a day or so
after an announcement that OPEC
(Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries) had reached an agreement to
reduce production in hopes of raising the
price of oil. Sure enough, the price went up
a few dollars a barrel.
But isn't it amazing that oil could be
pumped out of the sand in Saudi Arabia,
transferred to a tanker which had to sail
all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to
refineries and then be trucked to service
‘'stations in North Georgig jn little over a
day? How else can the immediate price in
creases at the pump be explained?
And isn't it interesting that an agree
ment by OPEC could be reached it all?
That cartel of largely anti-Western nations
had been in total disarray for years. That
is, until just after Vice President George
Bush was caught urging the oil producers
to raise prices. You see, Bush is from
Texas, a big oil-producing state. When in
ternational oil prices rise, so do prices for
domestic crude.
Texas oilmen have been complaining
about a depression in their business since
oil prices bottomed out due to production
increases and disagreement within OPEC.
Of course, you didn't hear them worrying
about the rest of the nation's economy
when gasoline prices at the pump jumped
to well over a dollar only a few months ago.
Want to bet that gasoline prices don’t
increase once again to more than $1 a
On The Funny Side
By Gary Solomon
In the offices and workrooms of folks
who make (or try to make) a living in the
writing profession, you'll nearly always
find a dog-eared copy of a publication com
monly referred to as the writer's ‘‘Bible.”
This 1,000-page book, known officially
as the **Writer's Market,”" is a comprehen
sive source of information for the aspiring
author. It includes sections on book
publishers, consumer and trade
magazines, and other publications which
accept articles from freelance writers. Of
particular value is a description of the au
dience each publication is seeking to reach,
and the type of article each is looking for.
For instance, *'The Evener'’ magazine
is written “'primarily for draft horse, ox
en and mule enthusiasts.” Two questions
come to mind. First, what is there about
mules and oxen that could possibly create
enthusiasm? And second, why not take the
first letter of the words **horse,” *‘oxen,”
“mule” and ‘“enthusiast” and call it
“H.O.M.E. Magazine? You'd probably
draw a thousand new subscribers who
figure it's about family life in America.
“‘Dialogue’” magazine is directed
toward visually-impaired readers, and two
things the editors don't want are ‘‘aren’t
blind people wonderful” articles and
“‘amazing blind people I have known"
stories. Apparently some articles submit
ted in the past have been, shall we say,
somewhat patronizing toward the
magazine's readers.
The magazine ‘4O Plus" is especially
for people 40 and older. It accepts cartoons
gallon within the very near future? If they
do, you can thank Vice President Bush
and the Reagan Administration in large
part.
Of course, a lot of the problems were
set up by former President Jimmy Carter,
who ran around like Chicken Little scream
ing that the sky is falling. Or, in Carter's
case, that we were running out of oil
worldwide. His restrictions on the
domestic oil industry and closing off of
areas with large oil reserves did a lot to
strengthen OPEC’s hand. His Administra
tion also wasted billions on ludicrous
research (such as for wind power) while it
also hampered the development of cheap
nuclear power.
Sometimes it seems like Carter was the
worst thing to hit Georgia since Sherman.
And then we sent him to the White House
so he could do to the nation what he'd
already done to us.
The oil price mess has a lot of villains
and very few heroes. But most of the
villains are bureaucrats and super-rich
monopolistic oil firms who want to gain
special favors by using governmental coer
cion against their competitors and against
consumers.
The villains aren’t local service station
operators. They are as much victims as are
motorists who have to ante up additional
money at the pump.
Free enterprise without government
restrictions or privileges can put OPEC
back in its grave. That's something
George Bush has yet to learn.
about people over 40 as long as they are
“not dumpy.” It perhaps goes without
saying that the magazine deals primarily
in fiction.
““Hot Water Living" is about spas and
hot tubs, but the title's a bit misleading
if you ask me. It could just as easily be
about people who are constantly in trou
ble, much like the magazine called ‘‘Dog
House Living" to which all married men
subscribe.
Many publications listed in ‘‘Writer's
Market' are slanted toward particular sex
ual preferences. One magazine whose title
makes me giggle is *“The Stallion."" T won't
go into detail about the kind of articles this
magazine prints, but suffice it to say
they're nothing like those you'll find in
“The Evener."
And finally, there's ‘““High Times,” a
magazine for drug users. The editors say
they want absolutely no articles on ‘*‘How
I Got Busted.” Hmm, I wonder why not?
Too close to reality for comfort, perhaps?
Ironically, the editors themselves use the
word ‘‘dope’”’ several times in describing
their magazine, which at least shows they
know the audience they're writing for.
Thanks to this insider's view, you'll
quickly realize that an author intently stu
dying the pages of his ““Bible” isn't always
seeking markets for his work. Instead, he
may simply be trying to get the creative
juices flowing by perusing the unusual, off
beat, and sometimes inexplicable appetites
of today’s modern reader.
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Guest Column
By Franklin H. Littell
Religious Liberty
For more than a century the Salvation Army has been
one of our outstanding service agencies. Founded by
William Booth (1829-1912) in the slums of London in 1878,
the Army spread rapidly throughout the English-speaking
world. Like their parents, the children of William and
Catherine Booth were noted for their programs of aid to
the poor and in rehabilitation of criminals. One of them
founded Volunteers of America. Another was a founder
of the Parent-Teachers Association. Their commitment to
selfless service inspired and attracted people of many chur
ches and faiths, creating a model of simple living and high
devotion that is admired and imitated to the present day.
In recent years, the Salvation Army has been having
trouble with the bureaucrats and the secularist ideologues.
Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Army is involved
in a tug-of-war with the City of New York because they
refuse to employ persons avowing and practicing homosex
uality. And the Army is in court with the federal
bureaucrats because the latter, who would not themselves
dream of engaging in selfless service to anyone, claim the
Army is ‘‘sectarian’’ because it requires a certain standard
of behavior of the staffs running its homes for the poor
and elderly.
When they started up, the movement was criticized
because it was said to pay too little attention to Christian
dogmas and doctrines. The Salvation Army leaders felt
service to human persons was more important than
theological disputes. Today, with the doctrinal drive of
militant secularism so strong, they are attacked because
they are too “‘Christian,” too ‘‘sectarian.”
Another case in point, one that has attracted media at
tention, is the recent decision of the City Attorney of
Fresno, Calif., to ban from the city buses the traditional
holiday greeting of the Salvation Army: **Sharing is car
ing — God bless you.” The bewildered Army spokesman
in Fresno protested that the message was certainly
“nonsectarian and nondenominational.”” True, but not the
point: the point is that highly vociferous little minorities
take pleasure, these days, in challenging any traditional
references to God, religion, church, synagogue, shrine or
pious belief. The Army sign is attacked because it men
tions God.
What has happened, we may ask, to the idea that
freedom of religion begins with ‘‘the free exercise of
religion?”’ What has happened to the idea that a court’s
intervention on behalf of justice begins with the question
“Is anyone hurt?"
Our basic liberties, including Religious Liberty, are in
deep trouble in America today for two reasons. First, a
very vocal minority of anti-religious ideologues is trying
to re-write American history, to interpret American
“‘separation of church and state' along the lines of hostili
ty to organized religion. The simplest answer to this
ideological rigidity is to emphasize that the American
Revolution was different in style and in kind from the
French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. *‘Separa
tion” in America has never been absolute, and where
adopted it was undertaken for the good of religion as well
as for the good of government. By contrast, ‘‘separation’
in France and in Russia was forced through by anti
religious elements in anticipation of the speedy death of
religion altogether.
Second, public officials such as city attorneys, at
torneys general and judges are scuttling the principle that
going to law is necessary only when someone is done a
wrong. The judiciary is not supposed to make itself a
forum for debating philosophies, ideologies, religious opi
nions. The damage done to interfaith understanding and
public accord when the judiciary makes itself a tool of anti
religious ideologies cannot even be estimated.
Franklin H. Littell represents The H“amlin Institute,
Philadelphia, Pa.
News Clips
WISHFUL HEARING
Some people will believe everything you tell them, if
it's bad enough. — Sioux Rapids (Iowa) Bulletin
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: EXPENSIVE
The cost of everything has risen markedly in recent
years, and the cost of making history probably heads the
list. — Cincinnati Enquirer