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Watching for a week the oncoming talk about make predicting the path morn
Hurricane Florence aimed the coast of the accurate.
Carolinas gave us a preview of what we may There were millions who evacuated the
need to copy in the future, hopefully far dis- coastal area in the Carolinas with eight lane
tant future, highways closed to incoming traffic.
Hurricane Fredrick hurled 85 mph winds Which leads one to think of Alabama's
at Marengo County for eight hours in 1979 gulf coast. The only major out mute is the
or 1980 -- that's too far back to remember Interstate 65.
exactly. We have advocated for years that the four
Folks from the coast flooded through this laning of Highway 43 would aid greatly in
county during the winds and rain. One any evacuation of the coast in the event of a
restauranteur was feeding folks for only a major hurricane. There are some ears that lis-
promise they would send payment, ten.
Forecasting is more accurate today with Were our mayors, council members, and
the satellites looking down on top of hurri- county commissioners, and probate judges
canes. Also, computerized tracking with the from Thomasville north join the chores, a lot
effects of cold fronts, warm fronts, jet more ears would listen and we could make
streams, and all that stuff that meteorologists Alabama safer. ,
Some female tennis payer cussed out the you disagree with a 5% or more descendan-
referee and got fmed$17,fl ii " Australian cy of a slave, you are a racist.
cartoonist drew a carieat, g the We see scores and scores of cartoons
player stomping on her racquet (a pacifier depicting the honky president we have now.
was drawn in, too) and hordes of people Most of them are mean spirited and are deft-
who do facebook and twitter, etc call it nitely racist, using the same strandard.
racist. No liberal uproar here.
It seems not to matter what the facts are, if
Tribal chanting while Democrats try to
disembowel President Donald Trump
through any means was highlighted last
week during the hearings to confirm Brett
Kavanaugh as a justice on the U. S. Supreme
Court.
The party has become rabid, not unlike
the communists in Russia and China last
century.
Common decency and respect means
nothing to Democrats anymore.
Only getting elected!
Reading commentaries on high school
and college football games attendance drop-
ping lets us know for sure that the adults are
trying to get so greedy for money that killing
off or maiming the young athletes in the
summer heat will bring in more money.
Attendance, you mongers of death and
mayhem, is not based on your desire for
more money. It is based on a pleasant atmos-
phere in which to watch these football
games.
The third week in September will be the
time to start football season for high schools.
If you want a bunch of play off games,
then limit regular season to eight games and
play offs to three games.
Get rid of daylight savings time and start
the local games at 8:00 p. m. when the tem-
perature has cooled off.
Sure, it will be 10:00 or 11:00 when the
games are finished, but all the young boys
will still be alive and healthy.
Fans will be happy or sad, depending on
who won.
Some of the young male alums will get
feisty and try to knock somebody down for
extra entertainment for the fans. Fans rash to
make a tight circle so the dirt bags can punch
each other out.
's funny how people love a fight unless
they are in it and lose.
So, you adults, instead of chastising fans
for not supporting your team, chastise the
adults who make football a religion with
human sacrifices.
Gentiles trying to act like Jews is ridicu-
lous. Let kids play the game and you make it
pleasant for fans.
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Please see the attached guest
editorial offering from Pam
Swanmr, Direetor of the Ahbama
Black Belt Adventures
Association, on the upcoming
10th annivemary of the non-profit
oganimfion and the slmng rela-
fionsh~ it has built to pmmo~
outdoor tourism in the area
According to the Outdoor
h&L~ Association's 2017
report, outdoor recreation :ount-
ed for $14 billion in consurmr
spending in Alabama. Of that, at
least $4.87 billion was spent in
Black Belt counties. Our state
reaped the benefits of outdoor
moeation spending in the collec-
tion of $857 ton in ~a~ and
local tax revenue. Outdoor recre-
ation generates 135 900 direct jobs
in Alabama and $3 9 billion in
wages and salaries.
Alabama's Black Belt region,
as defined by ALBBAA, is made
up of 23 counties that span the
south-central section of the state
from Mississippi to Georgia. The
region makes up pare of four of
Alabama's seven congressional
districts. As of the 2010 census,
just over 500,000 residents -of a
total Alabama population of 4.78
million - live in the Black Belt.
The Alabama Black Belt
Adventures Assodation promotes
these counties as part of the Black
Belt: Barbour, Bullock, Butler,
Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh,
CrensMw, Dallas, Greene, Hale;
Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo,
Monroe, Montgomery, Pemy, :
Pickens, P~, Russell, Sumter, "
Tuscaloosa and Wtlcox. :
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OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JULY 29, 1943
Dread, shun slavery of debt;
honor fiches above sociely
The destiny of future generations -- their educa-
tion, morals, social training, and intellectual ability
- are and always have been in the hands of the
motlem and fatl, . Especially is the mother
respousa'ble for the early training of the children, as
she is constantly associated with them and teaches
the innocent rogues to flame their first words. The
parents are the sources from which v~ons reams of
information branch out, and their children naturally
look to them for insa~on. Let all the advice and
example be pure and conect so they can safely fol-
low in your path. The action and thoughts of your
children will be the channel of your conduct and
teaching led thereto believe is right.
Did you ever think of your child's brain as being
like a fertile filed in which no seed has been blown,
and God, in allowing you to be parents,has entlUSt-
ed to you the cultivation of its mind and sowing of
the proper seed that will grow up and at maturity
bring forth an abundant harvest.
After you have implanted the germ of good, your
wo& of cultivation has just begun. It is not sufiident
just to sow the seed, but you must keep down the
weeds and thistles, and the ground in a soft yielding
con~tion, so ~ ~e seed sown rnany X~n its fi~
and yield an abundant mmm.
Mothers, teach your "daughters honesty, virtue, to
bridle their virtues, and to be domestic. Fathers
~,~h your sons ~fi~y, hon~y, and mdusay, and
watch over your daughters; see to it that they are not
allowed to go in company with men of doubtful
cha[aaer, better never wed than married to dissipat-
ed, reprobated wreck, for what is life without happi-
ness? Riches cannot make us happy. Happiness for
your girls in married life consists in love for their
husbands, their children, and the beautifying of their
homes, but if they are pennitmd to many blindly
what appears to be a man and a gentleman, when
your interference could have
prevented, you can be held
responsible for their misery.
After the mask wom by tbe
man in courtship is tom
aside, and he aplxars to her
for the firs~ time as he is, he
becomes revolting to the
poor girl that will have to be
to him a wife. She is disgust-
ed, mortified, and loses con-
fidence in him which means
the love she "had entertained
from him has fled and her
life is but a wreck.
Again we say, watch over
the lives of your sons and
daughmm, and to be to them
a staff on which they can
learn with safety along the
paths ofnfe.
We have known parents to protest against their
daughter's man~e when they were wrong, and the
&augh~ ~oved fight when she n~fied the one she
loved, and thereafter lived a happy life; on the other
hand, we have known parents to do all in their
power to prevent their daughter's marriage proved
to be an unhappy one and resulted in separation,
with the gift thrown out on the world and the hus-
band, probably, serving a term in prison. We cannot
know what is best.
The late
Joel Desaker Jones
There's an old saying that if a young man saves
his first lO dollms he will succeed, andifhe saves
his first hundred dollards he will be rich; and any
young man can save that much in a yeur if he will
leave whiskey and society alone. Sodety will
a young man poor. I am thinking of a married man
who is bowed down with debt while his family is
trying to keep on the ragged edge of society. A
milliner makes their clothes, and they are obliged to
ride in a new car when they go visiting.
They are compelled to go tlae ballgames and can-
not "afford to miss a picture show and must have
cold drinks every day, and attend all the dances, and
smoke the best smoke that can be bought. Such peo:
ple are the talk of tbe couna'y and don't know it.
There are young men in every community who
have been working for years who have not laid up a
dollar. They must take a young lady to every show
that comes along "and spend money on every "dance,
for those who dance must pay the fiddler.
Capital is very particular. When the capital wants
a young man it looks around for one who doesn't
smoke, drink, or gamble; one who saveshis money
and doesn't nan about every night. Family influence
isn't worth a cent now. A young man stands on his
own merits, his habits, his associations. There's no
excuse for a young man failing to get employment
in this age when there is a blue book in every com-
munity and your name is on it. If a young man can't
get rich fast he can go slow. If be began young and
worked hard and behaved well he will accumulate
a plenty for his old age.Age wants money. It wants
rest and should have it. "Pitium cure dignitate" is the
latin for dignified leisure. But I heard a circuit judge
say it meant"rest comes after digging" Dig fast and
rest afterwards. Old age doem't want to get up on a
cold morning and cook breakfast.
Youth are brought up to regard fleedom as their
gleatest blessing. They learn
from the lips of their leach-
ers; they breathe it in the
atmosphere around them.
Shvery would be to them a
degradation which even
would be preferable. Let
tbem be taught to dread and(
shun the slavery of debt; the
prize above the riches or
honor or luxury or pleasure
that independence which
owes no man anything but
love and good will. Such a
habit of thought of life
would make the crimes of
faulffulness and fraud
impossible. Character thus
purified and made whole-
some at its source would
continue to flow on in clear
unsullied streams for the m(nal health and vigor of
society.
A young man entered the office of a highly bred
man, and the man said to then young man, "have a
seat and make yourself at home" The young man,
having seated, himself comfoaably, but mislaking a
nice little table for a footstool, remadaxl, "I always
make myself at home" The man made a quick
response, "Then I pity the people at home"
So long until next time.
