THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
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Millard B. Gdmes, President
Mlr HALE
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JOHN KUYKFDALL
A.socIAI: PUBUSHER/EDrrOR
BRYAN GETER
A&SOC[ATE EDITOR
JAYNE GOLDSTON
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Phone (700) 846-3188. Fax (706) 8462206
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The Perfect Gift
For Father's Day
• This past Father's Day I
received one of the greatest pre-
sents anyone could hope for. A
worn-out, old pistol.
To anyone else that old pistol
would mean much, but to me it
was the greatest gift I could have
received. That old pistol holds a
number of memories and a lot of
sentimental value for me.
Without going into a lot of
detail, allow me to explain.
MY FATHER passed away
when I was young and still a stu-
dent at Harris County High
School. One of his possessions I
always loved was his Cowboy
Anniversary edition Smith and
- Wesson 38 long- barrel pistol with
, bone handles. As a boy, my father
would let me take target practice
! with it occasionally.
While out shooting at tin cans
and pretending they were bad
i guys, my father and I shared
some of our best times together.
We would Stand out there and
shoot that pistol and talk for hours
on end sometimes .....
He lovedthat piatol and that
made it specfal for me. So, when
he passed away, one of his belong-
ings I wanted most was that pis-
tol.
I kept it for years, and with-
out going into a lot of detail, the
pistol disappeared one day. It
broke my heart. For several years
now, I've prayed that old pistol
would be returned to my posses-
sion. I had finally given up hope
of ever recovering it.
HOWEVER, this past Father's
Day it was returned to me. It's a
little worse for ware now. It has-
n't been oiled in quite some time.
The handles need bleaching and
the pistol will most likely have to
be recoated. To people it would
look like a rusty old pistol worth
nothing. To me, it looked like a
million dollars.
The looks really didn't mat-
ter that much anyway. I'm just
grateful to have it back in my pos-
session where it belongs.
I'm sure it will take me sev-
eral hours of work just to get the
pistol back into fair condition.
That doesn't matter either.
Because when I sit down to work
on that pistol, I'll remember those
days my dad and I spent togeth-
er.
Once the gun is reconditioned
and back in tip-top shape, I will
put it back in its rightful place,
in my memory collection of my
mother and father.
OPINION
PAGE 4 - HOGANSVII200 HOME NEWS - JUNE 29, 2000
Enjoy Holiday, Remember
Independence Day, or the
Fourth of July as many folks call
it, will be celebrated Tuesday.
Even though we are a free
nation, this freedom didn't come
easy. We should thank the Lord
everyday for what He has done
for us and for the pilgrims who
wanted to come to the New World
at whatever cost to be free and be
able to worship God.
• I'm thankful for the strong
leadership of George Washington
who got on his knees in the snow
at Valley Forge and prayed for his
small hungry army and America,
the new land he now loved so
much.
It seemed the British were
going to defeat us but God heard
and answered Washington's plea
and brought the victory.
THE UNITED STATES
observes no national holidays-
those mandated by the federal
government. The United states
Congress and/or President can
only establish an "official" holi-
day for the District of Columbia
and federal employees. Federal
employees, didn't start getting a
"day off" until the 20th century.
A public holiday can only be
issued at the local level. This can
be accomplished through the
enactment of a law issued by a
state legislature or by an execu-
tive proclamation by the state gov-
ernor.
It is also possible that a city
may enact an ordinance regard-
ing the celebration of the Fourth
of July.
THE FIRST "official" state
celebration of the holiday as rec-
ognized under resolve of a legis-
lature occurred in Massachusetts
in 1781.
Boston was the first munici-
pality to officially designate July
Fourth as a holiday in 1783.
Alexander Martin of North
Carolina was the first governor
to issue a state order for cele-
brating Independence Day on the
Fourth of July in 1783.
The Declaration of
Independence, unanimously
declared by the thirteen United
States of America, was adopted
by the Continental Congress in
Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.
THERE IS NOT MUCH dif-
ference in the way we celebrate
Independence Day today than
they did back in 1776.
Williamsburg celebrated the
"It wouldn't be
the Fourth with-
out the grill get-
ring.fired up..."
holiday on July 25, 1776 with
demonstration of joy as the
Declaration of Independence was
read. A military parade and the
firing of the cannon and musketry
were on tap.
In Trenton, N.J.,
Independence Day was pro-
claimed and received with loud
acclamations by the militia and
the citizens.
In New York, the Declaration
was read and louJauzzas and
utmost demonstrations of joy was
received. The "equestrian statue
of George III" in New York, was
torn down. The report
lead from which the
was made was to be
bullets.
Most of the elaborate
tions in 1977
Philadelphia. Cannons
charged, one for each
union, the ringing
ner, the use of music
ing of toasts. A
and the use of the
helped dress up
and gallies" in the
WHEN I DIE, the pistol will
be given to my son, Brarmon. I
hope he will cherish it as much
as I do. When he reaches a ripe
old age, I hope he will then pass
it along to another member of the
family.
The return of this pistol does
prove something. It proves that
God still answers prayer. He
knows when a prayer needs
answering.
The pistol was returned to me
at the perfect time. The week
prior to Father's Day I thought
about my dad a lot. You never
know how much you will miss
your mother or father until they
are there anymore. While on
Father's Day, my dad was not
there for me to tell him I love him,
the pistol was there to remind me
of those times we spent together.
I'm so thankful for the return
of my father's pistol. It had to be
one of the best Father's Day gifts
ever.
We welcome your ideas...
If you would like to give us some suggestions about your week-
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TUESDAY,
guzzle more beer and
eat
the year.
A splash in the po01
relaxing or just resting i
lazy-boy will be nice.
Others will
while many will
poles to the lake.
It
out the grill getting
the ribs melting
Fresh peach ice
tasty while
down so the
Whatever you do, b
and enjoy the Fourth
forefathers fought and
our freedom.
NEWS WEEK MADE the
whispering its lead article in its
July 20 issue. The article was
rebuttal and rebuke. It showed
a healthy Roosevelt swimming
on the first page, then 11 pho-
tos of his face taken between
June 1932 and July 1935. He
appeared vibrant and fit. He had
aged not at all. (In 1936 Anne
O'Hare McCormack of the New
York Times noted that of all the
heads of state she knew, only
Roosevelt had not noticeably
aged during the years of the
world depression.)
Time magazine also report-
ed that Washington correspon-
dents "have been plagued by
queries from editors and pub-
lishers back home" concerning
"tales roaring through the coun-
try in whispers [that FDR] had
grown mentally irresponsible."
.'New York Times
Washington correspondent
Arthur Krock wrote a column
about the rumors, concluding
that the truth was Roosevelt was
as mentally alert as ever, but
that it was hot in Washington,
some New Deal programs were
being thwarted and Roosevelt
was displaying "administrative
and political weakness ..... But
he is still the same old
Roosevelt." Stanley High of
NBC broadcast that his own
investigation showed the
President was in no way dis-
abled.
HOW HAD IT all started?
Some attributed it to a lone
advertising man, E.P. Cramer
of Plainfield, New Jersey. On
March 28, 1935, Cramer had
written a letter to C.E.
Groesbeck, chairman of the
Electric Bond and Share Co.,
suggesting some ways the util-
ity could protect itself against
"political attack" and destroy
"Fast in rsuit
chased a contradic-
tory yarn: the Pres-
ident's infirmity had
wholly left him; his
lameness was just a
fake to get the
nation's sympathy."
"the New Deal, which is the
motivating force behind the
attack."
He suggested a six-point
program, most of which was
simple public relations and lob-
bying. But point three was "A
whispering campaign, designed
to create popular suspicion that
the New Dealers, and especial-
ly the New Dealer-in-Chief, are
either incompetent or insane."
There is no evidence
Groesbeck or any other execu-
tive there put the
campaign into motion.
likely that a
have gotten the
ensued.
But a Senate
investigating
Cramer before it that.
read him some of the
about the widespread
ing campaign and
he had any "secret
satisfaction." No, he
was ashamed of
done.
But, he told
tors, as if to justify
Democratic publicis
spread stories that
Hoover was insane.
There was at
tim of the whisper1:
paign. Cramer was
Edison Industries.
(Next week: The
Balls Begin)
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The Faithfulness of God Ins
There are times when we all
go through the difficult times of
life.
Those times may be times of
sickness, death, family problems,
financial reverses, or the every-
day temptations of life.
Someone has made the state-
ment, "You are either in a storm,
coming out of a storm, or headed
to a storm."
It is during these difficult
days of life that one of the many
tactics of Satan come to bear on
our lives, and that is his weapon
of accusation. The devil by name
means an accuser. From a care-
ful study of the Bible, one can find
that Satan has four targets for his
accusations. He will accuse man
to God, man to man, man to him-
self, and he will also accuse God
to man.
IT IS DURING the trials of
life that one will find Satan accus-
ing God to man. While in those
difficult days, the enemy of souls
will try to east a dark shadow on
the grace and mercy of God
Almighty.
He will bring things to our
minds, like, "If God really loved
you, then why did he let your
father die?" or he might say, "If
God is so great, then why didn't
he stop your child from having
that wreck?"
One of the goals of Satan is to
hinder and even try to stop peo-
ple from placing their faith in the
living God of glory. (2 Corinthians
4:4) But, John eight tells us that
Satan is a liar and the father of
lies. Dear child of God, when the
dark days of life come, rest
assured that God is faithful. There
has not been one promise of God
that has "fell to the ground."
HOWEVER, because we are
still living in this robe of flesh,
we often struggle in our faith in
God's control of things. Many
times we are like Job who said in
Job chapter twenty-three and
verse three, "Oh that I knew
where I might find himl That I
might come even to his seat." He
also said in that same chapter
beginning in verse eight, "Behold,
I go forward, but he is not there;
and backward, but I cannot per-
ceive him: (9) On the left hand,
where he doth work, but I cannot
behold him: he hideth himself on
the right hand, that I cannot see
him: (10) But he lmoweth the way
that I take: when he hath tried me,
I shall come forth as gold." Many
"Job said that
even though he
could not see God
working, he was
still worl00g. "
times in the trials we wonder
where God is and if he has indeed
left us. Look back to what Job said
in verse nine, "On the left hand,
where he cloth work,.but I cannot
behold him."
Job said that even though he
could not see God working, he was
still working.
All through scripture, we can
see where God worked behind the
scenes for the benefit of his peo-
ple.
There may be
when the people of
see God work in their 1
we can have confidence
ing that Hebrews
The Bible said,
I will never leave thee
sake thee."
Althoughwe maynot
him at times,
and for those who love
are the called
purpose, he is
for our good and
(Romans 8:28)
AS WE THINK
ject such as this, a
by A.J. Sims entitled
Hand comes to mind.
verse and chorus
"There"
see, While gomg
world of woe,
me as I go. I'm
unseen hand, That 1
this weary land, And
day, I'll reach that
guided by the
May we
that while in
Heavenly Father
his word and never
his children.
Hate-gossip about Roose-
velt's health had always been
present, but it stayed in the
background until the summer
of 1935. In June of that year,
Republican Sen. Thomas D.
Schall of Minnesota read his col-
leagues a business tipster sheet
that said Roosevelt's "inane
replies" to questions and "men-
tal vagaries" were "beginning
to fulfill our predictions."
The nation appearefli Be
awash in such private publica-
tions. News Week magazine
characterized typical gossip:
"The after-effect of infantile
paralysis has driven the
President insane! To relieve the
pain of his infirmity, he had
taken to drugs!!...The President
was a hopeless, helpless
invalid! ! !"
Fast in pursuit chased a con-
tradictory yarn: the President's
infirmity had wholly left him;
his lameness was just a fake to
get the nation's sympathy.
Foes Question FDR 's 'Inane' Rep
