OPINION
PAGE 4 - HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS - JULY 8, 1999
THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
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Teenage Violence
I read with interest an arti-
cle in the Columbus Ledger-
Enquirer Friday that remind-
ed me how violent our society
(especially in teens) is today.
According to the article, a
Dale City, VA. woman and her
two children, ages 4 and 2, left
home on their way to church on
Sunday. Apparently two teen-
age girls had parked their car
and in some way blocked the
road.
From reading the article, I
could only assume the woman
complained about their block-
ing the roadway and the two
teens and the woman got into a
fight.
The article was not clear
who started the fight or threw
the first punch.
However, the woman was
thrown to the ground by the
teenagers, ages 18 and 16, and
they began pounding her head
on the pavement.
The woman was hospital:
ized after the fight and died on
Thursday, July 1.
I could not imagine what
was going through the minds
of the two youngehildren as
they saw their mother being
brutally attacked in this man-
ner. It must have beer a horri-
fying experience for them.
In that same issue, was a
front page story about
Columbus school violence. The
article stated a 14-member-
panel made up of parents and
local residents has recom-
mended that the schools begin
using uniforms and longer class
days as possible solutions to
reducing violence in schools.
It seems that every time I
pick up a newspaper, there is
some article in it related to teen
violence.
The fact is, teens are more
violent today than ever before.
All you have to do is read the
newspaper or watch the
evening news to know this.
State Rep. Carolyn Hugley
spoke at the meeting held in
Columbus and according to the
article, she told the approxi-
mately 50 residents in atten-
dance that communities ignore
violence in teens and then begin
discussing how to deal With it
after someone has been seri-
ously injured or killed.
"Violence is everywhere
now," Hugley said. "Children
are reaching out, and if we don't
hear them, they'll make us
hear."
The fact is, we will proba-
bly never find out why teens
are so violent today or pinpoint
why the violence happens.
However, I tend to agree with
the Columbus parents and res-
idents.
John
Kuykendall
We will probably never be
able to determine the cause of
the violence and we certainly
can not predict where it's going
to happen. Schools use to be
safe, but they are even danger-
ous now. When I was attending
high school, a medal detector
would have been unheard of in
a school. Today, they could be
as necessary as textbooks and
pencils.
The Columbus group may
be on the right track. If stu-
dents were kept in school
between the hours of 3 p.m. and
6 p.m., until parents were home,
maybe some of the violence
would not occur.
Extra curricular activities
has proven to be a pretty good
way of halting crime and vio-
lence.
Most children involved in
extra curricular activities have
pretty good grades and usual-
ly stay out of trouble. They are
usually practicing between
those hours.
Year round school is anoth-
er thought, when you consider
how much time teens have dur-
ing the summer to find things
to get into.
All of this probably sounds
harsh to some degree.
However, I for one would rather
have my child dressed in uni-
forms, have longer school days
and attend year round school
than to have him wearing a
striped uniform issued by the
correction department and
spending 24 hours a day behind
bars.
I don't have the answers. I
really wish I did. However, I do
know that we must take some
type of action to deter violence
in teens.
If we don't, the problem will
not get better, it will only get
worse
While our schools appear
not to have the problems of the
big city schools, we could be
playing Russian Roulette by not
taking steps now to deter vio-
lence.
I agree with Sen. Hugley, we
often wait until something dras-
tic happens to try and correct
the problem.
Maybe a better approach is
to address the problem before
we have an incident.
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A Party Line on the Cellular Coconut Telegraph
Back in the late 60s, early
70s, you could look at a car on
the highway and tell if the driv-
er was practicing up for
"Woodstock." Nowadays folks
who are driving thirty miles per
hour in a 70 mile per hour zone
are either inconsiderate or talk-
ing on a cell phone, which in
itself is inconsiderate.
I see this every day driving
to and from work, and most of
the time these people don't even
know I'm there. They prove it
by Slowly meandering over into
my lane or just plain pushing
me out of the way. They never
skip a beat on that phone though.
I don't know if Georgia, like
some of the other states with
large cities, will ever ban using
phones in moving vehicles, but
it probably won't affect other
use of cell phones. I've never
quite understood why people
need to call so much.
I've never noticed that I need
to use the phone that much,
except at work and there is one
on my desk. Come to think of it,
I get up and leave, hoping I won't
have to answer it.
I find it easier to use e-mail,
that way whoever you are talk-
ing to can't yell back at you if
they don't like what you are
telling them. Oh, they can cap-
italize words, but it's not the
same as yelling.
Besides, it leaves the phone
open for someone else to call
you that may not want to yell.
But, usually, when I get into my
car the last thing I want to think
about is work. And if I need to
talk to my wife there are plen-
ty of places to stop and phone,
without me running the guy in
the next lane up an exit he has-
n't anticipated taking.
It's hard enough for me to
listen to the radio and shift gears
at the same time. Most
Americans don't want to be
bothered with commanding
their Car by using a manual
transmission or being actively
involved in any way with the
process of driving it.
Our cars are appliances that
get us from point A to point B
while we concentrate on some-
thing else. Come to think of it I
don't even have cupholders, or
maybe I just haven't found them
yet. My attention is on one thing
when I'm driving my car: driv-
hag.
I follow the same rules when
I walk. You are probably famil-
iar with the well-worn clich6,
"You can't walk and chew gum
at the same time."
Well, that's me. So, it's puz-
zling when I see some guy car-
rying a baby in his back pac k
and pushing a bicycle that cost
as much as my first car, wear-
ing a fufir.y little helmet that
looks like it's too small for his
head, and yep, talking on a cell
phone.
Who is he talking to, and
what about? Usually, his wife is
right behind him, dressed in her
rubber pants and shirt and car-
rying ,their other kid in the same
mann/Jr, talking on her cell
phone and pushing her bike. Are
they talking to each other?
In the grocery store I have
to wait in the aisle for a woman
Jim Dale
Columnist
to make a call. Probably forgot
to ask her husband what he
wanted her to pick up for him.
I wonder, too, if he's just an aisle
over and they just can't find
each other except by phone.
Believe me, if I ever get sepa-
rated from my wife in the gro-
cery store or Walmart I just go
to the children's lost and found
and wait.
She eventually comes there
to find me. So, I'm thinking
maybe it's a good idea for me to
get us some of those phones so
we don't spend an extra half
hour ti-ying to find each other,
and causing all the frozen stuff
in the grocery cart to thaw.
Okay, you get my drift, I'm
sure. I've seen cell phones used
in a lot of places I'd just as soon
not think about.
I still don't understand why
today people need to talk to each
other so much and at such inop-
portune times. I can't think of
that many people I want to talk
to, especially while I'm walking
down the street, or on the beach.
You heard me, on vacation.
My wife and I were walking
down the beach last week while
we were vacationing on the
coast, looking for the ever elu-
sive sand dollar and Io
behold there was some
ging down the beach in his
ni swim suit, blond hair
ing behind him, with
around Ray Bans, and a
phone in his ear.
The wind was blowing
mph and my hearing aids
roaring like a tornado,
thought, "I'd be lost if I
to make a call on this
Then I thought, "Why
I'm on vacation."
Obviously, there are
people who can't even take:
vacation without their
phone. Telephones are one
the main reasons I take a
tion. I don't want to
going on at home and I
want anyone at home to
what's going on with me,
cially those I work with. !
the rest and peace and
and I also need to live in
er century I guess. I don't
it's cool to profile, and
what most of these
callers are doing, at least
opinion.
But my wife would say
why I'm buying a
old sports car, to profile. I
go there, because I can't
that argument. I guess each
his obut the day she
es me profiling with a cell
is the day she can have me
mitted to a
Hills Mental Institution for
lular phone abusers.
I don't need to be a
on the "Cellular
Telegraph."
Dreams of Upscale Resort Are Unfulfille
What Franklin Roosevelt
had actually bought in Warm
Springs was a somewhat run-
down summer hotel without
steam heat, but with naturally
warm mineral-water swimming
pools, over 1,000 acres of wood-
land on the side of a mountain,
a handful of dilapidated white-
washed cottages, a few cottages
of better construction, and a
dream of combining two unlike-
ly functions - therapy for crip-
pled individuals and relaxation
for well-to-do vacationers.
On April 27, 1926, just eight
days after the deed transferring
the property to Roosevelt's new
organization was signed, the
Associated Press reported that
"Mr. Roosevelt said he expects
to make the property an all-year
resort.
"He believes that the
Springs can be made a national
resort, and plans to that end are
being made. It is believed that
he will interest many prominent
Easterners and that the Springs
soon will rank with the most fre-
quented resorts in the country."
Easterners and Southerners
were in Roosevelt's sight, and
part of the operation would be
not just a resort but a club. He
explained that selected individ-
uals from North and South could
enjoy the benefits of Warm
Springs by sharing privately
built and owned cottages.
In his words: "The cottage
owners from the North would
be glad to turn their cottages
over to the members from the
South in the summer, and
Southerners would be glad to
turn their cottages over to the
Northern members in the win-
ter, as the club membership
qualifications would assure a
personnel which would take
care of all the properties and
maintain them properly."
It was Roosevelt, not the
newspapers, who was putting
the emphasis on the high-class
social-resort half of the project.
In a press release issued at this
time, he spoke of development
that would "first get the famous
Warm Springs baths and swim-
ming lools" back in operation.
Second will be the erection, pos-
sibly this fall, of a health resort
which will accommodate
patients suffering from infan-
tile paralysis and kindred afflic-
tions, which have been relieved
by the waters there."
To those brief matter-of-fact
statements was added this:
"Third, the building of a cottage
colony around the magnificent
country club as a community
center which will be available
to people who are willing to
maintain their part of the colony
on a scale in keeping with their
resources and their positions in
life."
And on and on about plans
for an eighteen-hole golf course,
bridle paths, shooting pre-
serves, a fishing lake, a 'mag-
nificent' clubhouse.
Roosevelt envisioned a first-
class resort for first-class peo-
ple, somewhat in the style of
what he imagined the place to
have ,,been in its early days
before the Civil War, or as Jekyll
Island had become. Years later,
when that dream had proved
empty, replaced by the greater
dream of an internationally
known treatment center for
polio patients, Roosevelt liked
to remind the patients there,
many of them from middle- and
lower-income backgrounds,
that Warm Springs a century
before had been "a famous
place," where the likes 6f Henry
Clay and John C. Calhoun had
cavorted.
Roosevelt kept emphasizing
this aspect in 1926 - perhaps
because of two friendships he
was developing in Warm
Springs with two wealthy indus-
trialists, Henry Pope of Chicago
and James T Whitehead of
Detroit, each of whom had a
daughter with polio. Or perhaps
because he believed financial
stability demanded a success-
ful nontherapeutic side for the
project.
His explanation that fall to
an Atlanta Georgian reporter
led to another newspaper story.
It read: "The new Meriwether
Reserve (the official title given
the corporation that ran both
the polio and the nonpolio-relat-
ed commercial activities) will
rival Pinehurst in the North
Carolina Mountains." The
amenities would include,
Roosevelt now said, two eight-
een-hole golf courses.
In fact, there would eventu-
ally be only one nine-hele golf
course, and Roosevelt probably
knew or had begun to suspect
even in the fall of 1926 that his
Warm Springs would be a dif-
ferent sort of spa than the
Pinehursts of the world.
That first season opened in
May of 1926 amid contradicto-
ry omens. Here is how an
observer who was there
described the hotel in May: "It
looked like an old-time hostel-
ry in any quiet mountain resort
of the Eastern states.
Porch chairs, a great dining
room, with Negro
paraded automobiles with
licenses from far and near,
trees of oak and pine,
them a midget
after a first look did you see
fleet of wheelchairs, filled
the most part with
and the crutches, canes
braces. But nothing
seemed like a hospital or
torium. It had the spirit of
country club."
There were about twice l
many 'able-bodied'
in 1926 as polios, and each
complained to
about the other. The
ers were worried about
ing infected from sharing a I
with the polios, and the
they got.
Separate exercise
been dug near the larger
and a dining room was set
the basement of the hotel
the exclusive use of the
but interaction was im
to avoid.
Roosevelt des
ed the income from the
difl
gotol
arate colonies. His
golf course was designed to
specification that '
who could play but not walk,
who could neither
but wanted to watdh others
would be able to drive along t
course from tee to hole
That meant, among
things, wide, strong
over the few streams on
course so that autos could
across.
The conflict betweeO
resort
not resolve.
(Next week: The
Springs Foundation is
What Every Woman Should Have
Lorin is on vacation this
week, so she took this opportu-
nity to share some "Internet
wit" recently e-mailed from a
friend. The author is one of her
personal favorites, "anony-
mous," and for that reason she
added a few personal twists.
Every woman should have:
--An old lover you still think
fondly of; and, several who
remind you of how far you've
come.
--Enough money to "move
out", even if everyone knows
that's an idle threat.
--Your own personal credit
rating and non-joint bank
account.
--At least one outfit you
know you look really good in.
--A youth you're content to
move beyond.
--A juicy, juicy past.
Peace with the knowledg
that you will grow old.
--A hammer, a set of screw-
drivers, a cordless drill and
something lacy and black.
--At least one nice piece of
furniture - never "previously
owned."
--A friend who always
makes you laugh; and, one who
Lodn
Stun-
Clad(
Columnist
lets you cry.
--Your grandmother's
favorite recipe(s); your moth-
ers, too.
--The knowledge that you
will survive - no matter who
tromps in and out of your life.
---Control of those part:
your destiny that you
sonably decide; and, a
faith in God for the rest.
Every woman should
--How to fall in love
out losing yourself.
--How to say, "I'm
honestly; "Thank you"
ciously; and, firmly,
bye".
--How to quit a job,
relationship and
friend, all with your head
high.
---When to try harder;
when to walk away.
