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PAGE 4 - HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS - APRIL 27, 2000
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Elian Removal
Demonstrates
Too Much Force
I mentioned in my column last
week that I felt the government
might decide to remove Elian (a
6 year-old Cuban refugee) from
the home in Miami by force. That
happened Saturday around 5 a.m.
when police officers armed with
semi-automatic weapons
stormed the home.
While I do believe the father
has rights and those rights should
be considered, I question using
force such as this to remove a 6
year-old child from a home•
The excuse of violence was
given as the reason for using such
force. What violence? As far as
I know there has been no violence
involved in this matter until now.
It was the police officers that
used violence in storming the
home and waving weapons in e
faces of the people living there.
They broke down doors and lit-
erally destroyed the home.
I WAS IN Fort Walton Beach
this past weekend and was able
to see the local coverage of the
event. It was the police officers
and government officials that
sparked the violence. Force
always ends in violence.
If the government wanted to
remove the child from the home,
they could have done so without
the show of force they used.
As far as I know, are still
living in America. Many of my
family members, including my
father, served in the US Armed
Forces. I don't think there is a
veteran alive that would agree
with force such as this being used
in the United States.
When the photograph of that
police officer waving that auto-
matic weapon in the face of that
child is seen around the world, I
shutter to think what other
nations will think of us.
WHEN CLINTON'S sex scan-
dal broke, I for one felt he should
have been impeached. Not for the
scandal, every politician has
something like that in his back-
ground, but for lying to the
American public. The old clich$,
"you can't trust a politician" cer-
tainly holds true for Clinton. He
Pig Polo Could Help Farm00:00
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to pig polo franc
Mr. Burre and. ,
who admittedly b'.
after a night of eF.
sumption, already 1 12
rules for pig polo. Hli
Palm Beach, Florida- Here at
the p:layground of the richin south
Florlda, you can pick up a news-
paper and find reports from the
polo matches on the front page
of the sports section where base-
ball ought to be.
Obviously, polo is very impor-
tant to the well-heeled of the area
who drive out to the matches in
their RoUses and then discuss
between chukkers how difficult
it is to find good help these days.
I have never seen a polo match
and neither has anyone I know.
A friend of mine, Glenn
McCutchen, says he was in Palm
Beach on business once and actu-
ally attempted to see a little polo.
"I read there was going to be
a match at the Palm Beach Polo
Club," Glenn reported, "and so I
asked somebody at the front desk
at my hotel how to get there."
"He looked over at me, turned
up his nose and said, "I'm sorry,
sir, but I am not allowed to divulge
such information to anyone from
the masses."
When I asked my hotel for
directions to the club, the man
behind the desk suggested I go
howling instead.
I was quite discouraged,
because the reason I wanted to
see a polo match in the first place
involved a humanitarian effort
on behalf of America's belea-
guered farmers.
THIS ALL BEGAN when I
received a letter some time ago
from one David S. Burre, who has
an engineering firm in Atlanta.
Mr. Burre pointed out that he
and a group of his friends were
drinking one evening in a place
called the High Horse Tavern and
came up with a way for farmers
to get out of their financial straits.
The idea goes something like
this: In every small town and vil-
lage in America, there should be
established a polo franchise.
Because polo ponies are so
expensive, Mr. Burre's idea is to
have the game played while
mounted on pigs.
I DIDN't make it to the polo "PIG POLO," said David
matches during my stay in Palm Burre. "Finally the layman, for a
few: r' "
A period is
No slopping
between lards, i lay
No rooting, for L:
"Because polo t00norothe00so,00
Umpires are
ponies are so VSDAinspectors.
expensive, Mr. iTHINK this
Burre's idea is to it,s time we helpedU
and it's time the restd
have the game bers of the great
played while given to oppo0000
great sport of polo,
m.ounted on have to ride pigs to @i don't know wht
pigs." types in Palm BeaCh
polo match is over, b '
Burre's pig polo, the K}
begun when the fi e
dred and fifty dollars, could own
a thoroughbred type animal - a
polo pig - and think of the money
sounded.
In pig polo, the
to celebrate by coo
Beach, either, small investment of three hun- farmers could make selling pigs ing the losers' mountS
Bureaucrats Stuck In The Bati
"I shutter to (Anotherinaseries) WhiteRepublicans, thatis.
think what Margaret Mitchen and other Though Camp had been
' Georgians were fearful that regarded as a"labor man" since
Sen. George and Talmadge his days in the legislature,
other nations would end up dividing the "con- labor's leaders in the state and
servative" vote. A number of nation were split, with George
will think of us." people believed this would getting muchopensulport.
occur to Camp's benefit.
However, it was clear to the
most astute observers, includ-
ing Roosevelt, that Camp was-
n't going to win anything.
Candidate Camp, Bill Flythe of
Augusta wrote Marvin
McIntyre at the end of August,
was as lackluster as Alf Landon
had been in the presidential
race of two years before. (Alf
Landon, the Republican nomi-
nee, won just two out of 48
states, in the worst American
defeat up to that time.)
Furthermore, he had no
organization. Roosevelt's hopes
that Gov. Rivers' organization
would work for him as it worked
to reelect (renominate, techni-
cally) Rivers were dashed.
Many elements of the Rivers
organization in fact, worked for
George.
i ii i i ii
over and over again and we have
allowed him to do so.
THIS TIME, I feel Clinton and
Janet Reno have gone too far.
Force such as that exhibited in
Miami this past weekend is unfor-
givable as far as I'm concerned.
It is high time the American
people stand up for what we
believe in and tell the people in
Washington to go to you know
where.
This is no longer the America
I grew up loving. Today, we accept
things so easily and having a
President without morals cer-
tainly doesn't help matters
I WONDER how Reno or
Clinton would like it if the
American people armed them-
selves with automatic weapons
and stormed their homes?
I certainly hope with the pres-
idential election ahead, we as
Americans consider what the
Clinton administration has' stood
for when we go to the polls and
cast our votes.
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REPUBLICAN officials in
the state came out openly for
THE ONLY GROUP Camp
had going for him was the fed-
eral bureaucracy. Roosevelt
saw to it that top officials of the
I.partment ,0f Agriculture
made speeches in Camp's
behalf. Officials in several New
Deal agencies in Georgia were
allowed or told to work for
Camp.
Before the Barnesville
speech, WPA wages were
increased in the South. Two
days after Barnesville, the WPA
announced $1.8 million in
Georgia projects; on August 23,
$1.7 million more. In
September there was a smaller
grant of $101,000 plus a PWA
grant of $819,000 plus an
announcement that the state
was going to get $990,000 for
highways.
There was negative aid from
Washington, too. Erie Cocke,
state director of the National
"Even lower-
level aides
were being
caught in the
crossfire... "
Dunlop, the state's
Reconstruction Finance
Commission attorney, was
forced to resign when he sided
with George.
Even lower-level aides were
being caught in the crossfire,
according to George support-
A SPECIAL SEN
mittee investigated
other charges and f
ing specific it could a'
Hatch Act, forbidd' i
employees to partici
itics, was the even
such behavior, howe
As far as Camp
cerned, the Rooseve
did not enforce erie
infg"3" Affdr- t.$.1
complained:that
ager of the RFC in
state director of t
Housing Administr !
regional director of
Deposit Insurance C
the Atlanta Federal
Board chairman, the
of the Port of SaY
other federal offiei
worked for George. !
was dismissed.
(Next week: Vind"
lisher is tired.)
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SP00NC00 IS ON
GIFT SHOP AT TI4
WHITE HOUSE. IT
ALL OF THE EXCEVI
George, with the goal of embar- Emergency Council and region- ers A secretary at th N.f TM w
rassing Roosevelt and dividing al director of the • • l'na-t,'h. e''"*h",:' ED IN THIS NEWSP
• -. fired, accor_l.., .... ,,, ,,,,,.,, ,,., ..........
the Democratic party in 1940. Reconstructmn Finance Charles Rounrro ,,Vl,, u, rmrn. x.
• . . . v, vv v v
Republicans cou!d vote m the Commission, was a George newspaper editor in FROM THE BOOKS S
Democratic primary since man. He was replaced m late Wrihtsvflle bee-s, h; ...... TO THE ROOSEVELT
there was no party registration. July by Clark Foreman. Edgar wouldn't sup'port-Camp --v,-- TATION CENTER.
What Is Revival, You Ask?
chosen people again.
Habakkuk specifi
ed the Jews to stop
would move in a mighty way in
the meeting. As all these things
go through my mind, I wonder
how many have lost the true
meaning of a revival?
To some a revival is simply a
special week of meetings where
a visiting preacher comes in and
preaches along with a few spe-
cial singers. But, as we consider
the Word of God, is this what
revival is really all about? In
studying the Old Testament, it
doesn't take long to understand
that the nation of Israel is God's
chosen people.
Anyone that is vaguely famil-
iar with church life has heard of
a revival. Listening to local radio
stations one can hear of an upcom-
ing revival or a revival in progress
during just about any given week.
I have childhood memories of
room and dad carrying me to
revivals at our church, memories
of my grandparents taking me to
tent meetings, and memories of
my uncle preaching until the per-
spiration (sweat) would roll from
his brow.
MY MIND goes back to the
times when young people would
bring their friends to revival
meetings, when parents would get
on their face in an altar and pray
for their children, and when God
BUT, BEING HUMAN and
subject to sin, often the Jews as
a nation would wander away from
God and serve and even worship
idols. When the Jets would do this,
prophets would preach with the
purpose of drawing the nation
back to.God. Several books of the
bible are the message of these
prophets. Tucked away toward
the end of the Old Testament is a
little book named Habakkuk.
Habakkuk sees the Jews facing
Babylonian captivity because of
their rebellion.
IN CHAPTER 3, the prophet
prays these words, "O, Lord,
revive thy work in the midst of
the years, in the midst of the years
make known, in wrath remember
mercy."
Habakkuk prayed for revival.
What does that mean?
For what does Habakkuk
pray?
In short, the prophet is want-
ing these Jews to act like God's
against God and for
mercy on the rebellingl
According to this,
revival is when Gee
return back to the livi
people.
ONE PREACHFfl
said that revival is red#
ing signs of life. Eve
a. ".m, Ha.om k's. daY, i
those who need to ret
shipping and serving C
many Christians 81'
beneath the privilege
intends for them to
Christians, God has c
be a peculiar people (J
him and are zealous of
(1 Peter 2:9). There is !
joy and no testimony
as Christian who live •
would have them to.
Real revival is more
a week of special pr
singing. Christ pro
can have abundant -
Christian and reviv
God's people once
new life they have ill
their Savior.
