Ol0000inions & Ideas
PAGE 4 - HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS - JULY 24, 2003
THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
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MIIlard B. Grimes, President
MIKE HALE
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CIJNT CLAYBROOK
As, )elATE EDITOR
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Is My Soft Drink
All I Think It Is?
A friend of mine sent me
an E-mail the other day. A
concern had arose over how
many soft drinks I partake
of. Anyone who knows me
can tell you I love soft drinks
and probably down about a
six pack or more a day. Well,
I used to. After reading the
E-mail I've slowed down
some.
Now I'm not sure all of
this is true, but it sure is food
for thought.
SOFT DRINKS VS. WATER
WATER
1.75% of Americans are
chronically dehydrated.
2. In 37% of Americans,
the thirst mechanism is so
weak that it is often mistak-
en for hunger.
3. Even MILD dehydra-
tion will slow down one's
metabolism as much as 3%.
4. One glass of water will
shut down midnight hunger
pangs for almost 100% of the
dieters studied in a
University of Washington
study.
$. Lack of water, the #1
trigger of daytime fatigue.
6., Preliminary research
indicates that 8-10 glasses of
water a day could signifi-
cantly ease back and joint
pain for up to 80% of suffer-
ers.
7. A mere 2% drop in body
water ! can trigger fuzzy
short-term memory, trouble
with basic math, and diffi-
culty focusing on the com-
puter screen or on a printed
page.
8. Drinking 5 glasses of
water daily decreases the
risk of colon cancer by 45%,
plus it can slash the risk of
breast cancer by 79%, and
one is 50% less likely to
develop bladder cancer.
And now for the proper-
ties of SOFT DRINKS:
1. In many states (in the
USA) the highway patrol car-
ries two gallons of soft drink
in the truck to remove blood
from the highway after a car
accident.
2. You can put a T-bone
steak in a bowl of soft drink
and it will be gone in two days.
3. To clean a toilet: Pour
a can of soft drink into the
toilet bowl and let the "real
thing" sit for one hour, then
flush clean. The citric acid in
the soft drink removes stains
from vitreous China.
4. To remove rust spots
from chrome car bumpers:
Rub the bumper with a
rumpled-up piece of
Reynolds Wrap aluminum
foil dipped in soft drink.
5. To clean corrosion from
car battery terminals:
Pour a can of soft drink
over the terminals to bubble
away the corrosion.
6. To loosen a rusted bolt:
Applying a cloth soaked in
soft drink to the rusted bolt
for several minutes.
7. To bake a moist ham:
Empty a can of soft drink into
the baking pan, wrap the ham
in aluminum foil, and bake.
Thirty minutes before the
ham is finished, remove the
foil, allowing the drippings to
mix with the soft drink for a
sumptuous Brown gravy.
8. To remove grease from
clothes: Empty a can of soft
drink into a load of greasy
clothes, add detergent, and
run through a regular cycle.
The soft irink will help loosen
grease stains.
9. It will also clean road
haze from your windshield.
FOR YOUR INFO:
1. The active ingredient
in a soft drink is phosphoric
acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dis-
solve a nail in about 4 days.
Phosphoric acid also
leaches calcium from bones
and is a major contributor to
the rising increase in osteo-
porosis.
2. To carry soft drink
syrup (the concentrate) the
commercial truck must use
the Hazardous material place
cards reserved for Highly
corrosive materials.
3. Distributors of one of
the nation's well known soft
drinks have been using it to
clean the engines of their
trucks for about 20 years!
Now the question is,
would you like a Coke or a
glass of water?
Of course you can see how
quickly I decided that maybe
all of those soft drinks aren't
so good for me. Then I real-
ized something, I've drunk
soft drinks for the past 46
years and as far as I know
have no health problems due
to my soft drink habit.
So I sat and pondered all
of this for a long time, while
I ate my Little Debbie cake
and drank my Coke. I real-
ized that habits are hard to
break and I'm too old and set
in my ways to really care. So,
have a Coke and a smile.
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Hope, Marriage and
Written in 1979 ernor who is the first man in
ELLIJAY - The day has
grown old gracefully in
Ellijay, where the mountains
are about to begin, and as is
the custom in such settings,
men with nothing better to do
have gathered around the
courthouse. In this case, it is
the Gilmer County court-
house. There is a tree in front.
And benches.
I still love a courthouse
because it was on the steps
of one I learned to play check-
ers and dominoes, and I
learned about the Book of
Revelation, which is what the
old men would talk about
after they tired of checkers
and dominoes.
"Gon' be an awful day
That Day," one old man would
say at the courthouse.
"Gon' be a lot of folks
caught short That Day,"
another would reply.
I even tried to read
Revelation once. I stopped. It
spooked me. Standing with
the men under the tree in
front of the Gilmer County
courthouse, I noticed the heat
again - it remained stifling
despite the approaching dusk
- and perhaps that is what
brought back Revelation's
fiery warnings so vividly.
I am in Ellijay to watch
the campaign tactics of Mary
Beth Busbee, wife of the gov-
our state's modern history to
seek a second consecutive
term to that post.
I watch her closely and
decide she loves her husband
deeply or she wouldn't be
working with such fervor.
That feels good to me. He is
campaigning south. She is
campaigning north. Mary
Beth Busbee says to people,
"I'm Mary Beth Busbee, and
I hope you will vote for my
husband."
As I watch her, I think
about marriage and how it has
failed me - or how I have
failed it -and I wonder ff there
is hope for those of us who
have seen only marriage's
bad side.
EARLIER, Mary Beth
Busbee had walked into a
book and magazine store on
the Ellijay courthouse
square. "I'm Mary Beth
Busbee," she said to the
woman working there, "and I
hope you will vote for my hus-
band."
The woman spoke up
quickly, "I lost my husband,
you know. A year ago. He had
a massive heart attack."
Mrs. Busbee listened. The
woman's voice cracked with
emotion. A Year later, her
voice still cracked with emo-
tion.
The governor's wife intro-
there," Grady said
looked and saw a
in a print dress, sitting
of the benches
drank water from a
drink bottle. There
dence she dips
too.
ried?" I ask Grady.
duced herself to the group "Twelve
standing at the courthouse, answered. "She's
A man in a t-shirt said, "If woman." "
I was running for office, the As I drove from
last person I'd want out try- looked back at the
ing to get me votes is my house. Grady and
wife." were walking away.
Mrs. Busbee wanted to have been my
know why.
"'Cause," the man went on, hand.
"She ain't never said nothin' Only one thing
good about me at home, and more than
I know she ain't gonna say Marriage. But
nothin' good about me out in loves Georgia, a
public." store grieves a
That brought a laugh all
around. A good marriage and a
needs a little levity, I was still feels the spark.
thinking." There is hope.
Grady was there, and he hope.
met Mrs. Busbee, too. Grady
is wearing overalls. His hat BY
is twice my age. Remnants of
the day's snuff encircle his EO COLUMNS BY
mouth. For every courthouse 6mZZARD, WHO GREW l
BY MORELAND, AND
there is a Grady. MOST WIDELY READ
"Grady's 93," somebody
said.
"He still gets up and PRODUCTIONS, P.O. BOg
preaches over at the Holiness ATLANTA, GA aln8-12
BOOK AND MUSIC STORES
Church," somebody else said. WIDE.
"That's my wife over
Don't Forget: Take the Time to Lau
I heard about a man on
the verge of a nervous break-
down who had been going to
see a doctor for several
months. Finally, the doctor
called in the patient's wife.
After a few minutes of talk-
ing with her he said, ','Your
husband must have some
peace and quiet. I'm going to
prescribe these sleeping
pills." "Thank you Doctor,"
said the wife. "When do I give
them to him?"
"Oh," the doctor said,
"They're not for him. They're
for you."
The Bible says in
Ecclesiastes 3:1 and 4, "To
every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose
under heaven. Iv.4] A time to
weep, and a time to laugh..."
I would like to take this oppor-
tunity to clear up a misun-
derstanding that some have
about what being a Christian
is all about.
OVER THE YEARS, I
have come in contact with
those who think that being a
Christian is a dull, boring,
solemn, and somber life that
is void of any fun. Nothing
could be further from the
truth. While there are times
when trials come, there are
times when we are to sit still
and be quiet before God, but
as the Bible says, there is a
time to laugh. I personally
do not see the fun in getting
drunk, throwing-up and
enduring a monstrous
headache. However, there is
real joy in being a child of
God.
A careful study of the
Bible will bear out that joy is
a vital part of the Christian's
life. I do not realize that many
times we see those who claim
to born again in foul, ill and
grumpy moods, but that is not
what God intends.
John 15:11 says, "These
things have I spoken unto you,
that my joy might remain in
you, and that your joy might
be full." Instead of a life filled
with grumpiness, it is the will
of. God that his children be
filled with joy. There are
those who never laugh in
church (within reason, of
course), never laugh at home,
never laugh at work, they just
never laugh. Take time to
laugh.
The book of Proverbs was
mostly written by the wisest
man who ever lived, King
Solomon. Solomon tells us in
Proverbs 17:22, "A merry
heart doeth good like a med-
icine: but a broken spirit dri-
eth the bones." May I submit
to you that there is healing
power in joy. One man made
the statement, "A religion
that wears grave clothes
should be buried." Joy can
help heal the heart while sor-
row and sadness can make
the heart sick.
PROVERBS 12:25 says,
"Heaviness in the heart of
man maketh it stoop: but a
good word maketh it glad."
The absence of joy in the life
of a believer can do more than
cause us not to have a smile
on our face. The absence of
joy in our heart will cause our
soul to be burdened, our spir-
it to be ,broken (Proverbs
25:13) and will cause our bod-
ies to be buried. (Proverbs
17:22) Dear friend, God the
Father is not some old ogre
sitting way out in space some-
where wanting to see how dif-
ficult he can make it for
human beings, but a
Heavenly Father who
to fill his children's
with joy.
There must be an
standing that there is
ference between the
joy and
Happiness is
results from
happens.
cumstances.
circumstances are
pie are happy. But if
take a turn for
the happiness is gone.
joy is a virtue that
come from without,
within.
It is not based
cumstances, but
condition of the heart.
it is good to laugh, a
heart is more than
or mere fun
means a deep
joy. Jesus told his
in Luke
"Notwithstanding
rejoice not, that the
are subject unto
rather rejoice,
names are written i
en." True joy and
that comes from a
heart can onl]
know Jesus as your
sonal Savior.
50 Years
In the
Hogansville
Pmtkltmftol
*BAD WEATHER - Front page
age of the 'Torrential Rain' bringing a
of flood' to Hogansville 50 years
ed a photo indicating the
U.S. Rubber facility 'looked like
pool?
• CINEMA- Movies showing at the
Theatre included the 'Beast from
Fathoms,' 'Jack McCall Desperado'
steamy-sounding 'Pickup on
• IN STORE - Hines Motor
benefited from a half-page
heralding the 'Thrift King' engine w tll
hp.
• WANT AD STANDOUTS:
cow with half-white face. Gives five
of milk per day."
*THE 50s SCENE: Kulrs Drive-It
an ad touting 'Plenty Parking and
Service ?
• WAS OPINION DIVIDED? In an
headlined 'notes and comment,' the r
paper stated, We are in favor of
oWHEWl A front page headline
claimed, 'Mr. Mask Believes That
Fishermen Can Be Trusted.'
