OPINIONS & IDEAS
PAGE 4 - HOGANSVILL, HOME NEWS - AUGUST 31, 2000
THE HOGANSVILLE HOME NEWS
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Let's Remember
What Football Is
When it comes to high school
football, this area provides some
of the best action in the state.
Local high school stadiums are
usually packed every Friday
night when the local team takes
to the field. Those fans are there
to show their support and love
for the local team.
While not many things bring
communities together anymore,
high school football certainly
does that. Men, women, boys and
girls all visit on Friday nights to
watch the hometown team play.
They will sit in the stands with
friends and neighbors and cheer
the team to victory or defeat.
ONE THING THE PEOPLE
of this area take serious is their
football. But it's not only this
area,:it everywhere football is
played in the good old United
States of America. One thing I've
learned over the years is not to
take the Friday night games too
seriously. Having played and
coached the sport, I realize it is
just a game and life will go on.
Somc people however, think if
the hometown team doesn't win,
life as they know it is over.
Bill Shanldy, a football coach,
once said it best, "Some people
think football is a matter of life
and death. I don't like that atti-
tude. I can assure them it is more
serious than that."
Man has never taken losing
well. As a matter of fact, histor-
ical records show that the
emperor of Rome won every
event in which he entered dur-
ing the Olympics held in A.D. 67.
In fact, when Emperor Nero on
one occasion fell from his char-
iot during a race, the other con-
testants politely (and prudently)
waited until he had remounted
and sped on before resuming the
race.
And don't forget the words of
Henry "Red" Sanders (misat-
tributed often to Vinee
Lombardi), "Sure, winning isn't
everything. It's the only thing."
How unfortunate that human
nature forces us to think that way.
When I look at a game between
"Try to look for
the great plays
made by individ-
What's Mainly Learned in
A friend whose son wants to
grow up and be a writer asked me
what courses the young man
should concentrate on in high
school.
To answer, I had to look back
to my own high school days.
Certainly biology hasn't
meant diddly to me as a writer. I
could dissect a frog with the best
of them in high school, but the
need hasn't come up since.
NEITHER HAS algebra or
geometry, and I knew they would-
n't at the time. I basically learned
everything I need to know about
mathematics in the third grade
when they taught me to multiply.
2Vqo times four is eight, which
is how many columns I need to
write today so I can take a cou-
ple of weeks off and work on my
upcoming novel.
Loarning about ancient histo-
ry hasn't benefitted me. Who
cares when Rome was sacked? It
should have had a better offen-
sive line.
And geography. There's a lot
of sand in Saudi Arabia. I could
have learned that later in life sim-
ply by watching U.S. Marines
wishing for a cold beer as they
wait for President Bush to decide
whether or not he's going to get
some of them killed.
History, when I was inter-
viewed for this job, nobody asked
me anything about Rutherford B.
Hayes.
They did teach me grammar
and punctuation, but that's why
we have editors.
What I finally decided was the
most important course I took in
16 years of schooling was typing.
I have used this skill practically
every day of my professional life.
Mr. Sheets, the basketball
coach, taught me tying in my
junior year of high school. Tying
teachers usually don't get a lot of
credit for molding our youth, but
in this case I am certainly behold-
en to Mr. Sheets.
I'M NOT CERTAIN how
many words I now have to my
credit, but I type each of them. If
you can't type, you're going to be
in a helluva mess if you want to
be a writer.
In the first place, you Can't get
a job with a newspaper if you can't
type. They're going to sit you
down at a computer and ask you
to produce, and I don't care how
much you know about computers,
if you can't negotiate the key-
board, nothing readable is going
to appear on the screen in front
of you.
Some authors, I am told, write
out their books in longhand. That's
because they never learned to
type. If they had, they wouldn't
be scribbling on a sheet of paper
for months at a time, which can
cause severe pain in the hands
Lewis
Columnist
"Who cares
when Rome was
sacked? It should
have had a better
offensive line."
and fingers.
That's why Edgar Allan Poe
wrote all the weird stuff. His
hands and fingers were always
hurting. The pain became so
intense he began to setalking
ravens.
SO I TOLD my friend to tell
his son to enroll in a typing class
as soon as possible.
"But what about foreign lan-
guages?" he asked.
tle Japanese," I said.
our
publishing industry
could happen."
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rather than the
scoreboard."
two teams, I don't see what most
people see. I don't see two teams
at all, but 22 athletes playing a
sport they love. I don't see the
game, I see the individual efforts
of each player. I don't see win-
ners and losers, I see hard work
and determination paying off.
THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, when
you visit the stadium to watch
the home team, try looking for
great plays by individuals rather
than the scoreboard. I believe
you will be surprised how much
more fun it will be.
Please try and think of the
hometown players and the oppos-
ing team's players as all being
young men. Let's treat them as
such. While the game is about
competition, it is also about build-
ing character, a team effort and
many other lessons the players
will use in their adult life. Let's
give all the players what they
deserve by displaying good
sportsmanship.
Mr. Millard Grimes,
President and CEO of this news-
paper says it best," Let's be kind
to one another."
Have fun at the game.
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The Hogansville Home News
are the expressions and ideas of each writer and do not
necessarily reflect the opinions of the management.
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Franklin Roosevelt had a spe-
cial attachment for the old
poolsinc, at Warm Springs because
he had a hand in designing its bath-
house. Toombs sent him his plans,
and got back a detailed memo and
sketch calling for changes.
Later when Toombs designed
the residence hall, Roosevelt
asked for detailed €ges. ',Take
out linen closets betw'een wards
and restore passageway ... Put
hand basin in bath room... Put door
from West Ward into Chart Room
... Dark Room can be smaller... X-
ra room smaller and bath larger
... Toilet next to Waiting Room
should enter from Waiting Room
and not from Dr. Hubbard's office
... No connection from lower
kitchen and upper... Nurse' bed-
room taken out of Photograph
room and connect to toilet .. In
Indoor stair. Why not put outside
stair in middle of porch and let it
come into middle hallway of base-
ment..." All this was hastily
scrawled on official stationary in
the Governor's Mansion in Albany.
Roosevelt's interest in "archi-
tecture remained keen, but he bad
less impact on Warm Springs
buildings after he became
President. For one things, Toombs
and Arthur Carpenter conspired
against him. When Georgia Halls's
preliminary plans were drawn,
Roosevelt asked to see them.
The architect and the business
manager sent him instead a sim-
ple sketch, "having agreed
between ourselves that if we
showed him the detail drawings
he would surely be full of ideas
and probably upset our plans,
which were already far along,"
Toombs wrote later. "We had noted
that whenever ED.R. saw a draw-
ing, he always reached for a pen-
cil."
ROOSEVELT "reached for a
pencil" a lot. He and Henry Pope
conceived the master plan for
Warm Springs development in
1926 and 1927. Roosevelt wrote
Toombs in the latter year that he
favored "[no}" formal location of
buildings... In other words a sort
of haphazard spacing of the build-
ings in proper relation to the trees
and the three different hill slopes."
He had already by then
designed his own first home in
Warm Springs, with Toombs doing
the drawings and superrising the
construction. It was a very simple
frame house, based on a typical
"Southern Greek Revival" home
Roosevelt had seen in a nearby
town.
He suggested to Toombs that
its interior'take the typical "dog
trot central hall" and widen it so
:: my for others to follow.
self followed it.
i
"He had
already by then
designed his own
first home in
Warm Springs,
with Toombs
doing the draw-
ings and supervis-
ing the construc-
tion."
that it could serve as a dining-
room-living-room combination.
The house cost just over $7,200.
Roosqvelt hoped he was setting a
pattern of simplicity and econo-
IN 1932, he had
another house
to be called "The Little
House",
of history. The cost
it and a garage.
The,
influence others.
Carpenter had Toombs
$12,000 house for him
1934. Of course, that waS s
round home,
Pierson's Toombs-design €
cost $45,6000 in i935.
(Next Week: The
House).
'THE SQUIRE OF
OF WARM SPRINGS
TLE WHITE HOUSE.
TAINS ALL OF THE
PER DURING THE pAST
PROCEEDS FROM THI I
SALE ALL GO TO
SEVELT
CENTER.
Differentiating Discipline and A
Any one who has seen the
news in recent days had to be hor-
rified at the report of the thir-
teen-year-old boy who was beat-
en to death in the name of disci-
pline. There is no one who
believes the Bible teaches that
spanking is a legitimate form of
discipline more than this preach-
er does, however, no one believes
that child abuse is an abomina-
tion in the sight of God more than
this preacher either. The Bible
says in Proverbs 29:15 "The rod
and reproof give wisdom: but a
child left to himself bringeth his
mother to shams." But just as the
Bible teaches such discipline,
Jesus taught us in Matthew 18:6.
"But whoso shall offend one of
these little ones which believe in
me, it is better for him that a mill-
stone were hanged around his
neck, and that he be drowned in
the depth of the sea." Jesus teach-
es discipline, but he also con-
derrms abuse.
THE PROBLEM is that a lot
of parents do not know how to dis-
cipline using the 'rod'. Many times
a parent will reach over and slap
the child across the mouth when
they say something inappropri-
ate, or they will just lean over and
slap the top of the leg when they
feel like the child has done some-
thing out of line. Both of these
actions I feel are wrong and are,
in my opinion, a mild form of
abuse. When administering
spanking as a form of discipline,
there are several things that must
be kept in mind. The foremost
thing is: discipline must be admin-
istered with an attitude of love
and not anger. It is never appro-
priate or wise to spank a child
while angry. We must remember
that discipline is a way to show
our children that we love them.
The writer of Hebrews tells us in
chapter twelve and verses five
through seven,' And ye have for-
gotten the exhortation which
speaketh unto you as unto chil-
dren, My son, despise not thou the
chastening of the Lord, nor faint
when thou art rebuked of him: [6]
For whom the Lord loveth he chas-
teneth, and scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth. [7] If ye
endure chastening, God dealt
with you as with sons; for what
son is he whom the father chas-
teneth not?"
ANOTHER THING that must
be kept in mind is that spanking
doesn't have to be the first form
of discipline that is used to cor-
rect a problem. The verse previ:
"When adminis-
tering spanking as
a form of discipline,
there are several
things that must be
kept in mind. The
foremost thing is:
discipline must be
administered with
an attitude of love
and not anger."
ously cited from Proverbs also
refers to reproof. The word
reproof refers to rebuke or cor-
rection as a means of discipline.
When a child does do something
out of line, a parents does not have
to spank right off. It seems that
when a parent spanks:
the parents is
anger or j
real discipline that is
nurture and train a
are abused while the
the Bible as
also there are many
need the biblical form
ing who are not getting
world it is becoming
ly difficult to train up
ents need the
ance that only the HolY
give. Spanking is
abuse is abominable.
ciplining of our children,
follow the examples of
Father as he chastens
dren. He first
showing them the sin, l
suffering, but t
once causes his love to l
ed. Then when the time
discipline in a
is warranted, then He
ters it.
IT IS TRUE that
today sometimes need
but it is even more
children of today
that loves them and
up in
of the Lord. (EphesianS
