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Viewpoints Your Opinion June is Beef Month Dear Editor: Beef production-the third largest cash crop in Georgia--affects the livelihood of many Georgians in a number of important ways. Aside from putting nutritious and delicious meals on our tables, beef production has a significant, positive economic impact on our state and contributes to our quality of life. Because of the importance of the beef industry to Georgia, Governor Zell Miller has proclaimed June as Beef Month. With over 25,000 beef producers in Georgia, ranching is not only a way of life but a business. A business which, in 1993, had over S3OO million in cash receipts, and added over $2 billion of related activity to Georgia’s economy. Everyday 66 million Americans eat beef. With over 24 billion servings of beef served & year it is our desire as an industry to produce the type of beef you as a consumer want. Our efforts include continually educating ourselves on genetics, herd health and feed conversion efficiencies so you can sit down to a delicious, nutritious beef meal. Many Americans are in agreement with us that beef is what's for dinner. Sincerely, Lane Holton Vote for His followers Dear Editor: Please allow me to address the abortion doctors and the women who do not want their babies, may they know that God hates what you are doing. You are murdering His little ones. He tells us in the Holy Bible, "thou shall not murder." You are working against God's Holy Will, and you will not escape the judgement that will befall you, and your vast fortunes built up here will not spend in hell. Many people are very disturbed over dance halls that are allowing nude dancing. The environment in which we have today is not what we need to bring up our children. We voters need to vote for the best men who fear God rather than vote for the party. Our morals are crumbling and it is high time for us to stop in our tracks and beg God to help us to straighten them out or we shall suffer the consequences. Yours truly, Geo R. Hunt, Kathleen Deadlines For Submitting New Articles and Photographs 5 pm Monday for Wednesday Edition 5 pm Thursday For Saturday Edition *76e 'Welc&mej tyuci Aettenj Ho- ScUtvi. “PUttee rfcUOiew, t£e*K. To: Editor Houston Times-Joumal P.O. Drawer M Perry, Ga. 31069 Houston Times-Joumal P.O. Drawer M • 807 Carroll Street • Perry, Ga. 31069 Phone: (912) 987-1823 Member Georgia Press Association-National Newspaper Association ±Sm9f. «V*V fn —I OA. <w *Sj*. tuoilA* (VMU, <w tX*. tiLc. pvop/*- os\Ar to- \sya, o(vu/wrya/ut po/y a, Your right to read this newspaper is protected by the First Amendment ol the United Stales Constitution. Our Goal The Houston Times-Joumal is published proudly for the citizens of Houston and adjoining counties by Houston Publications Inc., Perry Ga. Our goal is to produce quality, profitable, community-oriented newspapers that you, our readers, are proud of. We will reach that goal through hard work, teamwork, loyalty, and a strong dedication towards printing the truth. Bob Tribble Daniel F. Evans Julie B. Evans Mitch Tribble President Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Our Staff Brlgette Loudermllk Editor and General Manager Eddie Byrd Advertising Director Newt: Brenda Thompson, Pauline Lewis Sports: Veto Roley Advertising Jimmy Simpson Composition: Stacey Shy Classified Advertising: Me anie Bullington Bookkeeping: Judy Hubert Circulation: Donnie Forehand Our Policies •Signed Letters to the editor welcomed. Please limit to 300 words and include address and phone number. •Liability for an error will not exceed the cost of space occupied by the error. •We cannot be responsible for return of pictures or material unless stamped return addressed envelope is included. The Houston Times-Journal (USPS 000471) is published semi-weekly for SIB.OO per year by Houston Publications, Inc., 807 Carroll Street, Perry, Ga. 31069. Second Class Postage paid at Pe.ry, Ga.,POSTMASTER. Send address changes to the Houston Times-Journal, P.O. Drawer M.PerryGa. 31069. ISSN:IO7S-1874 t Perry Scrapbook In 1989, construction of the Georgia National Agricenter was captured In this pnotograph. Now, the center Is a major attraction for tourists to the Perry area, hosting agricultural events, horse and livestock shows, conventions and, of course, The Georgia National Fair. STREET TALK: “No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks ...” Hey, everybody, school’s out for the summer. This week, we asked six local school children what they have planned during this year’s upcoming vacation months. ,_- _ « ihh » m 1 jbßm Crystal Johnson “Me and my mama are going to Disney World and me and my dad might go to Crystal Lake again.” ■f ** C Ben Erwin “I’m planning to go swimming and on vaca tion with my family.” Are women really that oppressed? Forbes Magazine published an article in its March 14th issue titled "Gender Politics." It was written by Peter Brimelow and he used excerpts from a book written by Warren Farrell, Ph.D., titled "The Myth of Male Power." "If women are oppressed, how come they live much longer than men, go to college in greater numbers and have more attention paid to their diseases?" Brimelow asks in his story. Consider some of these unpublicized and hard to find facts that were published in Farrell's book and used in the Brimelow story in Forbes. •Male heads of households have an average net worth only 72 percent that of women heads of households. •Men lived on average one year less than women in 1920. Today they live seven years less. •Men aged 20 to 24 commit suicide almost 6 times as often as women in the same age group. Men over 85 commit suicide more than 14 times as often as women. •Men arc less likely than women to attend college (46 percent versus 54 percent) and less likely to graduate from college (45 percent versus 55 percent). •Men make up more than 95 Houston Tines-Journal Hi,a " r f. Michelle Vest "I’m going to St. Simon’s for a week and North Ge orgia for a month. Then, I might go to Six Flags and camping in Kentucky.” / Zack Yasin "I’m going to California to visit my grandparents.” percent of the work force in hazardous occupations such as construction and trucking. •Men, not surprisingly, account for 94 percent of occupational fatalities each year. •Men make up 99 percent of the one million volunteer municipal firefighters. ("We remember that heavy-weight champion Mike Tyson was a man tried for rape," says Farrell, "but not that the hotel in which the jury was sequestered caught fire and, while saving its occupants, two firemen died.") •Men work on average 61 hours a week, counting work inside and outside the home; women, 56. (Yes, women do indeed still do more housework-bul men do more workplace work.) •Men are more likely to die sooner from every one of the 15 leading causes of death. •Men and their health arc the subject of just one medical journal article for every 23 written about women. • Men arc only slightly less likely to die from prostate cancer than women trom breast cancer. But breast cancer research gets 660 percent more money. •Men and women, according to 14 separate studies comparing t*c sexes, arc equally likely to initiate- - Saturday, June 4,1994 "H0u5t0n Times-Journal Page 4A VWL Hr JmL ** bBS if ' Hr® T 1 Hanna Gentry "We’re going to the beach.” * r'M Dante Williams "My mama is getting us tickets to Disney World.” Bob j Y Tribble! domestic violence-at every level of severity. •Men are twice as likely as women to be the victims of violent crime (even counting rape). Men are three times as likely to be murdered. •Men arc the object of 9 percent of reported rapes outside a prison annually. •Men are the object of up to 1 million rapes in American prisons annually. About 120,000 women outside of prison are the object of rape or attempted rape annually. Rape in female prisons appears virtually nil. •Men convicted of murder are 20 times more likely than women convicted of murder to receive the death penally. Since 1954 about 70,000 women have been convicted of murder; almost 90 percent of their victims were men. But no woman has been executed for murdering only men. Antiochus walks the halls of U.S. justice On Dec. 7, 167 8.C., Antiochus IV Epiphanes, ruler of the Greek Seleucid empire, tore down the altar in Jerusalem built to God, replacing it with an altar to Zeus Olympios. Not content with what he had done, 10 days later Antiochus ordered his governor in Jerusalem to sacrifice a pig on the new altar built to Zeus. The abomination of deso lation had occurred. The temple in Jerusalem was the most sacred place in Israel. In the Temple, the Jewish nation found its identity, even in captivity. That is why Antiochus took the treasurers from the Temple, that is why Antiochus sacrificed the pig in the Temple. Just as the Temple was the sign of the Jewish nation, and Jewish law, so is the Supreme Court to the United States. We have often been described as a nation of laws, a nation that re spects and adheres to law. The law is deeply ingrained in our culture. And, although the reality is often different from the ideal, we expect the ground beneath the justice seat to be level, with everyone being held to the same standards. Just as the people of Israel held the Temple to be a sacred place, since God was said to reside there, so we, also, hold the Supreme Court as a solemn, almost sacred, place, since the ideas that form our nation are brought to life there. However, in recent years our na tional leaders have played the role of Antiochus, repeatedly sacrificing the swine of politics at the altar of the Constitution. The writers of the Constitution wanted the courts, and particularly the Supreme Court, to be free of political ideology, with judges judging cases solely on the law, not the prevailing winds of popular opinion. They knew that for law to be honored, to be respected, that law must grounded in the solid ground of legal precedent, pruned by judicial restraint. They, therefore, set up the Supreme Court with members indi rectly elected by the people, through the President, who ap points, and the Senate, who con firms. They gave the members of the Supreme Court lifetime tenure so that Presidents and Congresses could not replace them because of ideological differences. While Congress and the President played pork politics, the Supreme Court was to be held aloof. But, judicial activism has en tered the bench, and that threatens all of us. I have the fear that President Bill Clinton is about to enter the sanc tuary of the Supreme Court and sac rifice a pig on the altar with his nomination of Stephen Breyer. The first time I saw Judge Breyer was on CNN shortly after Clinton said he had found his man. Breyer said, at that time, that he wanted to make life easier for the middle class. That scares me. I see the abomination of desolation in his remarks. By what standard does Breyer want to make middle class lives easier? Is it a standard rooted in the shallow sands of popular opinion, or in the personal ideology of Breyer? Either is very dangerous. A judge's role is not to make life easier. A judge's role, particularly a judge on the Supreme Court, is supposed to interpret the law in light of the Constitution. It is the role of the other two branches of government to make lives easier, if they so choose. I have heard a lot of talk about Breyer's moderate stance. However, the rhetoric that I hear from him has all the signs of a judge intent on judicial activism. I think that we sometimes forget the importance to Perry of institu tions like the Supreme Court. Perhaps, at one time, the doings of the Washington crowd could have been overlooked by Perry. But, ju dicial activists have expanded the federal government's role to an ex tent where local and state govern ments arc losing their sovereignty. We have to be careful that we put people on the bench, especially the federal bench, who respect the Constitution, and especially the * federal nature of the Constitution.