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• Wednesday, August 3,1994, m Houston Tkna a-Journal
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Your opinion
Reader shocked at books
Dear Editor:
Several weeks ago, I made a disturbing discovery at the Perry Library.
While walking past the reading tables in the adult section, I saw a tabloid
sized newspaper entitled “Southern Voice” at an unoccupied table. Being
interested in things Southern, it naturally caught my interest and upon
closer investigation I discovered what it really was: a homosexual
newspaper! Not knowing whether it belonged to the library or to a patron
who left it, I left the library rather stunned, deciding to investigate further
when I had more time.
Well, after additional investigation I discovered it belonged to the
library, with a place in the magazine and tabloid rack in the adult section.
In a reply to a letter I subsequently wrote to the library, I was told by the
library that this “gay “ paper was a gift donation and that the Houston
County Boards “policy is that it is the parents’ place to censor what their
child reads and not the public Library”. Since then, I have discovered
another homosexual publication in the magazine and tabloid rack: “The
Advocate”, a magazine. And sitting nearly in the adult section near the
rack was a boy 10 years old or maybe a little older, reading a magazine.
He may just have easily picked up “The Advocate” or “Southern Voice”. I
hope you will publish this letter in order for parents to be informed and
have the opportunity to investigate and do their own censoring.
Placing this poison in the adult section can not prevent it from falling
into children’s hands. I ran upon one of these degenerate rags by accident
and so can an impressionable child. I have enjoyed our library in the four
years I’ve lived in this area. It’s been an asset to the community. But
risking the exposing of innocent young minds to the godless propaganda
of perhaps the most evil social movement in America today is
irresponsibility on the library’s part And if Bible believing parents who
love their children sit idly by and do nothing, this cancer can become
firmly entrenched in this area and cause great harm.
Sincerely,
Phillip Bonine
Glad to have editor return
Dear Editor:
On behalf of the Perry Kiwanis Club, I want you to know we are happy
to learn that you will be Editor of the local Times-Journal. We missed
you and are glad you made this decision to return to Perry. You bring a
lot of savy and experience to this community. Your paper is a very
important part of our lives and enriches the town of Perry.
We appreciate the fact that you have continued your Kiwanis
membership. Please attend if your busy schedule allows you to do so.
We like your staying in touch and appreciate so much the coverage your
paper gives to Kiwanis events and participations. Pauline Lewis and Veto
Roley have been very responsive, also Brigette and Brenda.
Finally, I think your decision to publish only one paper each week is a
very wise move. It makes much more sense for your staff to scramble and
meet one deadline with a well put together, expanded paper than to do this
twice a week. You may want to consider a special second edition in a
week that some highly unusual event occurs, e.g. the 1994 Flood or some
similar newsworthy evenL That should come up only rarely.
We wish you continuing success and hope to see you at Kiwanis
meetings.
Sincerely,
Deryle T. Whipple, MD
Nation’s morals are falling
Dear Editor:
The morals of our nation are falling fast. We have already witnessed
many, ma'iy situations that prove that God is not pleased with our falling
away from His love.
It is certainly wrong to kill babies before they are bom. This is murder
of the first degree, and yet killing babies has been made legal. This is a
great sin in the sight of God.
It is a sin to uphold homosexuality. Our President endorsed
homosexuality to gain favor with them to get their votes.
The Bible teaches us to remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. So
many of our citizens act as if there is no such thing as the Sabbath Day.
God is long suffering but this does not mean forever.
Dear people, let me ask once again, that we mend our ways and try to
please our Lord. He has all power in Heaven and earth and he can bless us
or punish us. His blessings are far better, which do you want?
I am legally blind, and I am writing this using a magnifying glass. My
grandson, David, types it for me.
Sincerely,
Geo. R. Hunt
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Good to see great minds at work
After returning to the wort: place
in Perry, it’s amazing how things
change after just a few years.
On the streets, one can hear
everything from politics, to
romance, to who got arrested. Just
name it, someone you know has
been involved in some way or
another.
But there’s also a different side
to this city.
It’s amazing how many
graduates return to Perry to make a
name for themselves. I can’t
possible name them all, but all of
you know who you are.
When I was in high school (I
won’t reveal the year because I’m
getting on up in age somewhat), I
always said, “I’ll never live in
Cordele again.”
But if the opportunity presented
itself several years down the road,
I’d probably go back in a minute.
Not that there’s nothing wrong
with Perry, but like the old saying
goes, “There’s no place like home.”
Did you think of mom’s
cooking as just “ordinary stuff.”
You know, complaining that you
were having beef roast again instead
of hamburgers or hotdogs?
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STREET TALK:
Recently, Legislature discussed the possibility of extending the school year to make
it mandatory for students to attend year-round. We asked people on the street, “Do
you think Houston County students would benefit, or do you feel students’ schedules
are already demanding enough?”
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David Lester
“I don’t think students
would benefit. They need
a break. School is
tiresome and worrisome.”
Tim Knight
“They need some kind of
break. They’d probably
lose some intensity. I’m in
school, and it gets tough.”
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What could we have possibly
been thinking?
A substitute for mom’s food is
like a Cadillac in place of a
volkswagon.
Nothing against the wife (just in
case she gets ahold of this), but
returning home also offers some of
the finest cuisine that this world
could offer.
My mom usually calls once a
week to see how the family is
doing. I always anticipate that
question, “What are ya’ll going to
be doing Sunday?”
“Nothing, mom,” I reply.
“Well, we’re going out of
town...”
My mouth drops open. I just
knew that she was going to invite
us to lunch.
What a letdown!
After a long pause, I suddenly
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-I think they would benefit.
(The year-round proposal)
would keep them out of
trouble and off the streets.
J. Wienand
“Yes, I think they would
benefit. It would keep
them off the streets. It
would do them good.”
respond so as not to make her think
that we were expecting an
invitation.
You know that line... “Well, we
were probably going to go off
anyways.
Yeah, right. And Elvis just
delivered the lady’s baby across the
street...
That brings me to my true
confession. I am practicing to be
the world’s greatest cook. That’s
right, C-O-O-K.
A trip to the local bookstore
helped me tremendously. Peggy
Boswell, who purchased the store a
few months back, is truly my
inspiration. If anyone has faith in
me, Peggy does.
She’ll call me once in a while
and say, “Jim Bob (that’s my other
name), I’ve got this great new book
in. It’s low fat and I think you
would love it.”
I don’t know if I’m a wannebee,
or just a pretender, but I try my
best to act like the last recipe I used
was one that President Clinton
requested at the White House.
After all, why waste the time to
cook it, if you can just picture it
and then run out to get a burger...
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Teresa Hawk
"No. I know my kids need
a summer break. They
probably wouldn’t make
as good of grades.”
Jeffery Bloom
"No. I think everybody
needs a vacation. Most
people get (a vacation), so
why shouldn’t students...”
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Staff Writer I
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Thoughts on a
Pensecola
sidewalk
A man comes out of a building.
He sees another person holding a
gun on someone. There is no doubt
that there will be a murder in just
fractions of a second.
The man coming out of the
building has a gun. The only way
that he can save the man who is
about to be shot is to kill the
shooter. A shout of warning will
not suffice, a warning shot would
be useless, pleading with the
shooter would fall on deaf ears, in
juring the shooter would only result
in the shooter's taking renewed aim
and killing the man he was intend
ing to shoot. The only way the
man exiting the building can stop
the murder is to kill the shooter.
The question is simple. The
question is not a question of legal
ity, but a question of ethics. Does
the man exiting the building have
the obligation to kill the shooter?
It's 1939. You are in Berlin.
You, who are blond and blue eyed
and of obvious Aryan descent, are
watching a procession going down
the railroad station.
Nazi soldiers are herding a group
of families to a ramshackle railway
car. The families have on their lapel
a bright yellow Star of David.
Tension rises from the ground
like heat waves on a hot day. There
is also the aroma in the air of smug
certainty, of racial superiority. Al
ready, there are those of your coun
trymen gathering around, yelling
insults at the helpless families.
You know where they are going.
A group of your friends are in the
nascent resistance movement. You
know that these families’ lives are
now measured in hours and days in
stead of years and decades.
You know because you have
been asked to join the group, to
possibly give up your life to pro
tect others, to possibly take life so
that others might live. What do vou
do?
It's a Friday afternoon. You are
standing in front of an office of
death. For days you have watched
two people go into this office,
while only one came out alive.
The man responsible for the
butchery drives up, parking his car.
Beside him is his body guard. In the
back seat is his wife. You have the
chance to end the genocide in the
office. It's in your hands. What are
you going to do?
Please do not get me wrong at
this point. As much as I am against
abortion, considering the act to be
the taking of human life, as much
as I deplore the what Dr. John Brit
ton did for a living, what Paul Hill
did in Pensecola was an atrocity on
the level of what Britton did in
Pensecola.
Yet, I think that we need to
come at this from Hill's perspec
tive. For it is from this perspective
that we can gain some understand
ing of what the issues are in the
abortion debate.
Hill looked at abortion as being
murder. He saw the clinics as being
similar to the gas chambers oper
ated by the Germans during World
War 11. And, so he acted.
To me abortion comes down to
whether man is no more than an an
imal, or if he is, as we state in the
Declaration of Independence, a spe
cial product of a Creator.
If man is no more than what
Stephen Gould and others like are
saying, then anything goes, since
we are no more than intelligent an
imals.
But if there is a Creator, and if
man is created in His image, then
men is special, and abortion is the
destruction of this special life.
The case of Hill, however, dif
fers from the first two cases. In the
first two cases, violence might have
been the only way to stop the
genocide. Hill had other choices.
We, in America, live in a
democracy, a nation of laws. If you
do not like the law, work to change
it. Since we still have the right to
protest, to vote, to assemble, to
print, etc., there were other options
available to Hill to change the law.
"'Justice is mine,’ says the Lord,
'I will repay.'" (Romans 12:19,
NEB) If nothing else, Hill should
have waited for the God he pro
fessed belief in to act.