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The Summerville News
The Official Legal Organ of Chattooga County Georgia
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Our Opinion
Country Deserves Honor
Some prophets are without honor in
their own country.
That Biblical adage is true, as a general
rule. But in the case of Ralph “Country”’
Brown, it falls by the wayside. About three
dozen Chattooga Countians paid SIOO
each to attend his induction into the
Georgia State Sports Hall of Fame
recently.
That’s dedication and love.
The 72-year-old chief magistrate is the
only resident of Chattooga County to be
inducted into the hall of fame. His long
past due honor also provides positive im
age for the entire county.
“Country,” as he is known to everyone,
started playing professional ball in Tam
pa, Fla,, in 1946. He wound up his career
with the Louisville, Ky. Colonels at the end
of the 1957 baseball season and came back
home to Summerville.
His greatest fame, however, came while
he was playing with the beloved Atlanta
Crackers from May, 1948 to 1952, when he
was traded to Chattanooga, Tenn.
His 13 hits in 13 times at bat still
stands as a world record. No minor or ma
jor league player has ever topped ‘“‘Coun
try’s’ record.
His speed was legendary. He ran the
100-yard dash in 9.9 seconds. This was at
Senator Nunn Is Right
A cultural erosion has been occurring
in the United States for decades.
U. S. Sen. Sam Nunn outlined that ero
sion very succinctly during the annual
banquet of the Chattooga County
Chamber of Commerce. When former Vice
President Dan Quayle did essentially the
same thing in 1992, he was crucified by the
liberal news media. We hope that doesn’t
happen to Senator Nunn. Because he and
Mr. Quayle are both correct.
Crime isn’t caused by poverty. That old
liberal shibboleth has been totally
discredited. Crime is caused by people who
have no respect for the lives and property
of others and who won’t accept respon
sibility for their own actions.
Two parent families are better than
single parent families. As was the case
with Senator Nunn and Mr. Quayle, we
recognize that there are many homes with
single parents who are struggling to do
their best, often in circumstances not of
their own making.
But the fact remains that children rais
ed in single parent homes don’t generally
do as well in school or in life as those
reared in a stable, two-parent home.
Divorce is too easy to cbtain. Marriage
is too easy to enter into without a thought
that it is supposed to be a lifetime com
mitment. No-fault divorces need to be
halted. Instead of a waiting period for
firearms, there ought to be a six-month
waiting period for marriage and divorce.
Perhaps by then, logic and common sense
will be able to overcome emotions and rag
ing hormones.
The government should stop suppor
ting women who have children out of
wedlock.
Men who father children out of wedlock
and abandon their children and ostensible
wife should be hunted down and forced to
work to support their legitimate and il
legitimate children.
Drug pushers should be sentenced to
life in prison without parole. It might take
a couple of years, but that would stop drug
abuse cold. Prisons wouldn’t be over
crowded once criminals found that the
Thursday, February 24, 1994
a time when those running 10- and
11-second dashes were considered “fast.”
He regularly made it from third base to
home plate in a blazing 3.3 seconds.
“Country” perfected the drag bunt,
which got him on first base almost every
time he used the maneuver. It worked
because of dedication. He practiced it for
a year before he got it like he wanted.
Throughout his baseball career, he bat
ted .297. His two best years were in 1948
and 1949, when he hit .338 and .313,
respectively.
He came along before multi-million
dollar contracts. The most he ever made
was $1,500 a month, which was a respec
table sum at that time but a far cry from
today’s mega salaries.
Chattoogans younger than 55 may not
remember much about “Country’s” ex
ploits or realize that they have a quiet,
unassuming baseball star among them.
That relative anonynimity ended when he
was inducted into the Georgia State
Sports Hall of Fame.
We're proud of him and it is obvious
that the entire community is gratified that
“Country’’ Brown has finally been
recognized for his contributions to sports
in Georgia and the Southeast.
criminal justice system meant business.
Parents and business leaders should
take Senator Nunn's advice and contact
advertisers to complain about violence,
nudity and illicit sex on television pro
grams. Censorship won’t work for long.
But sustained public pressure and paren
tal involvement will work. Movies that
promote violence and sex should be re
jected. Hollywood runs on money. Movies
that don’t make money aren’t copied by
other producers.
Senator Nunn suggested that more
people become volunteers. An excellent
idea. We would also suggest that all
charitable donations or time spent to help
churches and charities be given tax credits
— not just deductions — on the federal and
state income taxes.
And speaking of income taxes, the
state of Georgia and the federal govern
ment should provide an automatic SIO,OOO
tax credit to every married couple. For
every child they have, married couples
should receive another $2,000 tax credit
with a limit of SIO,OOO.
Medical “IRAs” and educational
“IRAs" should be allowed for families by
the state and federal governments.
The federal government should also get
out of the education, housing, and health
arenas. Such programs are run with the
compassion of the IRS and the efficiency
of the post office.
As a nation, we have allowed liberal
government, entertainment, and education
to dominate our culture. That’s the real
reason it is eroding.
News Clips-
ALONG LIFE’'S WAY
Experience is what you get when
you're looking for something else. —
Philadelphia Sky Supply.
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TIME FOR THOUGHT
When politicians agree, the angels may
rejoice but the voters just wonder what’s
cocking. — Boston Globe.
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Scoffers Wrong
THE DOUBTERS and scoffers turned
out to be wrong. It’s probably galling their
gizzards, too.
Image Industries Inc. is doing quite
well, thank you. The Summerville and
Lyerly facilities are on the cutting edge of
the recycling revolution. More jobs than
first anticipated have opened up at the two
local plants and capital expansion is pro
ceeding apace.
The City of Summerville gambled, to
be sure, on Image. But it has paid off in
spades for the community.
MAIL DELIVERY is getting worse
and worse. An envelope was mailed in
Rome on Feb. 2 to an address in Lindale.
It ended up being postmarked Feb. 4 and
delivered on Feb. 8. Another envelope was
mailed on Feb. 4 in Rome; it was
postmarked Feb. 7 and delivered to Lin
dale on Feb. 12. Lindale is five miles from
Rome. Absolutely ridiculous!
COMMISSIONER Jim Parker may
have hit on the best imperfect solution to
disposing of our solid waste: have it haul
ed out of the county by a private hauler
to a regional landfill. With the constantly
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By Rev. Willie Womble
Jesus’ Black Roots
DID YOU KNOW that Jesus Christ
had black ancestors, that is, people of
Hamitic origin in his family line? This can
be demonstrated quite simply. The
genealogical information about Jesus
Christ in the two Gospels (Matthew 1:1-16
and Luke 3:23-38) gives us two views held
by Biblical scholars concerning these
genealogical tables. One view has it that
the genealogical table in Matthew gives
Joseph’s family tree and the one in Luke
gives Mary’s family tree.
The other view has it that the
genealogical information in both gospels
gives only Joseph’s family tree line. As
such, Matthew’s information provides the
line of official succession to the David
throne, and Luke's information gives
details of the actual physical ancestors of
Joseph back to David. Whichever view of
the gospel’s information is accepted, it will
become evident that both genealogical
tables have a significant bearing on the
fact that Christ Jesus had black African
ancestors.
* * *
BEFORE WE give the simple details,
let us first establish the ancient family tree
of black people as recorded in the scrip
tures. It is accepted by both biblical and
nonbiblical scholars that Hamatic people
(descendants of Noah’s son Ham) of the
ancestors and originators of an explicit
line of black African people all over the
earth.
Ham became the father of Cush,
Egypt, Put and Cannan all black descen
dants of their black father (Ham). At this
point we are now in a position to further
appreciate the black ancestory of Christ.
changing environmental regulatory
climate, that may be the most attractive
and relatively least expensive solution.
I hope the Chattooga County Hospital
Authority and Commissioner Parker, and
perhaps the health department, can figure
out a way to work together on a new small
medical-hospital complex. While exercis
ing common financial sense, we must also
be visionary in looking to our future
medical needs and make plans now, not at
the last second. A new building would, in
the long run, be less expensive to main
tain, be more attractive to patients, and
encourage more doctors to locate in Chat
tooga County. It is an idea whose time has
come.
* * *
CHATTOOGA County is very for
tunate to have a new library building. It
is functional and beautiful inside and out.
The new and existing services it plans to
offer will make it of tremendous benefit to
local businesses, industries, students, and
researchers, especially in the coming elec
tronic age.
* * *
We still live in the best county in the
entire state. Don’t ever forget that.
This information is anchored in the
geneaiogical table of Matthew, and to the
surprise of some, it concerns no less than
three of the four women who are noted as
being ancestors of the Lord.
THE FIRST woman is mentioned in
Matthew 1:3, RVS, and is named Tamar.
The story of Tamar can be found in
Genesis 38. She was known to be a Ca
naanite woman by virtue of where she
dwelt in a city called Timnath, in the
vicinity of Adullam, a known Cannanite
town (Genesis 38:1, 2,6, 11, 13). Tamar
became an ancestor of Christ Jesus
through a child she mothered by her own
father-in-law Judah. The child was Perez
(Matthew 1:3).
The second woman is mentioned in
Matthew 1:5 and is named Rahab. The
story of Rahab is found in Joshua 2:1-21
and 6:17-25. Rahab was known to be a ca
naanite, and inhabitant of the city of
Jericho. She was a prostitute who helped
the two Israelite spies when they surveyed
the land of Canaan. The life of Rahab and
her household was spared during the
Israelite conquest of Jericho (Hebrew
11:31) (James 2:25). It was an ancestor of
Christ Jesus named Boaz who was the son
of Rahab the Canaanite (Matthew 1:5).
THE THIRD woman who was a black
ancestor of Jesus is mentioned in Matthew
1:6 as the wife of Uriah, Bathsheba by
name. The story of Bathsheba is recorded
in 2 Samuel 11. What is often overlooked
is the fact that she was married to Uriah,
the Hittite.
see GUEST COLUMN, page 5-A
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A Ridiculous Situation
POOR SHANNON Faulkner.
She’s been through so much.
She sued The Citadel because it rejected her admission
to the school, had to get a court order so she could attend
classes there, and then had to endure all the hassles and
high-profile publicity that go with being a quasi-media
figure.
g.uNow, Ms. Faulkner, the first woman to attend The
Citadel in its 151-year history, is having to endure
something else. -
Some of the male cadets are calling her names.
The nerve of some people.
Isn’t that shocking? Who would have thought she’d
receive such treatment?
Why, it’s an outrage that college officials haven’t
sought out the culprits, rounded them up, washed their
mouths out with soap, and ridden them out of Charleston,
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ANOTHER ABSOLUTELY ridiculous situation.
Shannon Faulkner claims to have what it takes to get
into and make it at The Citadel, a state-supported all-male
military college in Charleston. Obviously she has what it
takes to get in, since the college at first accepted her ap
plication, which made no reference to her gender. Her ac
ceptance was rejected when the school learned she's a
woman. \ %
But does the tough, brave champion of women’s rights
have what it takes to make it there? One has to wonder,
since she’s started whining about having to endure alleg
ed sexist abuse.
Call me sexist, too, and a sorry individual, but I feel
no sympathy for her.
Didn’t she see it coming? Did she expect to waltz right
into her classes and be accepted after 150 years of tradi
tion as if nothing were unusual?
* * *
ACCORDING TO Ms. Faulkner, the male cadets have
yelled obscene sexist slurs at her from the windows of their
barracks, and she has been called various names in her
classes and in the student newspaper.
She has complained that those who seek to “‘drive her
out” of the college have worked “in the shadows’ rather
than confronting her personally. “If they're not brave
enough to come up to my face and say it, then what kind
of character is that?” she asked of reporters.
Ms. Faulkner’s supporters have set her apart from such
cowardly individuals. -
“(She) is a brave young woman who already has en
dured a great deal in standing up for her rights and the
rights of others,”” wrote an Atlanta commentator. Yes, in
deed, now the throngs of young women everywhere who
have hopes of attending all-male educational institutions
have a hero, a pariah, a pioneer they can look to, one who
stood up for their righ: to any education anywhere.
* *
I'M STARTING TO make myself sick.
Ms. Faulkner is not a brave young woman standing up
for the rights of others.
Ms. Faulkner is a young woman out to make a name
for herself. That’s all.
It’s no different from student newspaper staffs suing
their principals for censorship and infringing upon their
First Amendment Rights, people who oppose voluntary
participation in prayer at public meetings, or those who
spend their resources suing government bodies.
It’s ridiculous that The Citadel should have to change
its policy by court order just so Ms. Faulkner could at
tend. If she was able to meet the academic standards the '
college requires, that’s *great. I’'m sincerely proud for her.
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BUT IT’S NOT like she can’t get into any other col
lege in the country. The Citadel is not a co-ed school, and
Ms. Faulkner should not complain about the treatment’
she’s received. That came with the territory.
Certainly, any harassment she has received is wrong.
Without question, it’s wrong. But that’s not the point. The
point is that there is a price for having what she wants.
And if she’s brave and courageous enough to sue the
college and challenge the system, she should be brave and
courageous enough to endure what comes with it without
complaint. =
Best Editorial Page
In Georgia - 1993