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q -- c Comments by the editor are opinions, reasons, or recommendations... Serial your written (and signed oloinlons to the Editor, P. O. Box 480040, Linden, Alabama 36748 Documentary on block busting? 'Northeastern media outlets feed us a steady diet of how the South is racist while the North is, has been, and will in the future be compassionate to black peo- ple. It took the Irish more than 100 years to become normal people in New York. That is where they named the conveyance vehicles to the jails after the Irish• They called the vehicles the Paddy wagons after St. Patrick of Ireland. The most clientele were Irish or ol • Irish descent who had taken in too much Morgan's Dew. The idea of getting drunk on green beer on St. Patrick's Day, which is March 17, should conjure images of the paddy wagons running across Savannah, Ga., where the second biggest parade will be. The Chinese who,wre, etad by the railroad - barons to lay tl:, c'ks ar0sseca ha, d a bad mark against them from the northeastern media. Still do: Watch a movie or a television show and listen to them talk about C ,hina town. Our college friends who were of Chinese descent were the most polite coeds on campus. Maybe the guys were nice, too. Imagine the outcry if the big media called the feder- ally subsidized housing projects Africa town. Our best cooks are of African descent and so are our entertain- ers. Let's call police patrol cars Africa wagons. Try it, and see what happens. The more the layers of hypocrisy are peeled back, the more subtle the televisions and the magazines printed in the north become. There are limits to the human imagination and the publishers, writers, photographers, and news readers have about run the gauntlet of ways to trash talk the South. We Saw in the Black Belt Treasures gallery and in other cooperating projects where those of African descent excel are not only acceptable to all people but are prominent in their communities. Not because of their parentage but because of their work and contri- butions to society. That's what those various programs and projects across the Black Belt are all about. What to know where the outstanding places are? Try the Lannie's Barbecue in Selma, the quilts at Gee's Bend, the collards on County Road 47 in Marengo County where the voo doG woman puts her smoke on them: Kora's in Demopolis is good soul cooking for the soul. We recall Miller's Cafe behind the courthouse in the 1940s and up through the 70s. The most memorable day was when a brass band was there and was playing using jazz and blues on the frontporch. This must have been about 12 Link time. Then we remember in the 1950s when Look maga- zine exposed blockbusting in Chicago. White realtors would go into a white neighborhood and buy a nice home in the middle of a block in a totally white neigh- borhood. Next, they would move a black family into that home, property values took a nose dive and all the white people were trying to sell out before more blacks moved into the neighborhood. Then the real- tors went in and bought all of their homes and then moved the black family out and into another area where they had set up the same scheme. The once all white neighborhood became all white again and the realtors made huge profits on the scheme. Look magazine went out of business shortly after that. Have you ever seen a documentary on that? Split Alabama into four states Why and how the federal department of justice otti- cials have gerrymandered Marengo County is one of the ploys to divide and conquer the people. The federal judge declared we must have one man and one vote in our county commission districts. If you saw the map in the paper last week, you'll see the flaws. Th6 first and worst is the divisions to assure a black will be elected. First, there are no blacks or Africans in Mengo County. They are all Americans. This is the worst and cruelest hoax of all for the people. Second, instead of dividing the county where the commissioners have districts relatively easy for them to rid and inspect the roads, we have two huge ones, one lrge one and two little ones. This one man, one vote tripe is beyond comprehen- sion. Look at Rhode Island. It is about the same size as Marengo, Clarke, and Greene counties. It has two United States Senators and one member of the U. S. House of Representatives. If this is fair for Rhode Island, why can't Alabama split itself into four states and have eight U. S. Senators and the same ratio of represenatatives as Rhode IslfiL We'd cut the state up into the Tennessee River Alabama, the Iron Belt Alabama, the Black Belt Alabama, and the Coastal Plains Alabama. Our desig- nations would be just like North Dakota and South Dakota, ' These .four states would be larger than Rhode Island, about the size of Maryland in area. Football riuvalries ould be even more intense with Alabama in ttie Iron Belt Alabama state and Aurburn in the Black Belt Alabama state. I F uses lg00tJ8o' , l0 i t Edit0r-00blisher G0odl0e Sutton : 00ffid/0000nager' Barbara Quinney Sp0,rts , Jim DeWitt Producti0n Manager Henry Waiters Production Assistant Angela C0mpt0n ublished ever 3, Thursday at The Democrat-Reporter at 108 F.&st Coats Avenue, Linden, Mugo County, Alabama 36748. Postmaster, please send changes of addresses to: P O. Box 480040, Linden, Alabama 36748 Telephone 334/295-5224 bi'nden Reporter established 1879. Marengo Democrat established 1889• Consolidated 1911 as The Democrat-Reporter. Periodicals postage paid at Demopolis, Alabama. gubscription prices include sales tax plus postage and handling. In Marengo, Clarke, Choctaw, Sumter, Greene, Hale, Perry, Dallas, and Wilcox Counties, lnnuhl subscriptions are $35.00. z. Out.side these above noted counties in Alabama, $50.00. VISIONS AND VALUES Cotholic bishop fells Q bama, 'Go to hell' By Dr. Paul Kengor America's Catholic bishops are princes of diplomacy, highly educated, erudite, men of tact, propriety. They' re asked to shepherd the flock with a long historical timeframe -- like, say, eternity. They tend not to have knee-jerk reactioiis to issues of the moment. And so, it's not often When a paragon of decorum, namely, Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik. publishes a letter in his diocesan newspaper with a title like, "To hell with you." Gee, what could have provoked that? The answer is the Obama administration via its horrendous mandate to Catholic institutions to provide contraceptives, sterilization, and abortifacients -- that is, birth-control drugs that induce abortion. The Catholic Church defines these things as "evil." The Church and its members are now being told they must provide them• By fiat, the Obama administration has issued that decree• It sort of flies in the face of that old free- dom of religion thing we've always had in America. And it's certainly of concern not merely to Cathblics but all Americans. Here's what happened: Last August, the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HI-IS) issued guidelines for implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. also known as, "Obama-care." The guidelines mandated that by summer 2012 all health-insurance plans -- yes, all of them -- must cover any and all FDA- approved contraception, sterilization proce- dures, and pharmaceuticals, even those that produce or result in abortion. Every employ- er and employee must pay for these things, even if they violate the dictates of their con, science. The employers include all Catholic institutions, from colleges to hospitals to nursing homes to social-service agencies to charities -- to whatever else. "All" means "all." tumed, we Catholics will be compelled tO either violate our consciences, or to drop health coverage for our employees (and suf- fer the penalties for doing so). We cannot -- we will not comply with this unjust law." Also vowing non-compliance is Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay and Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati. LifeNews.com repo that 86 bishops (thus far) have spoken against the mandate. The Obama administration has forced the bishops' hands. President Obama and Secretary Sebelius are not backing down. They are true believers. Where are liberals on this issue? We know they support the so-called "right to choose," politically sanctified by Roe v. Wade in J .anuary 1973. But the Constitution predates Roe by a good 200 years. The First Amendment that begins the Bill of Rights starts with religious freedom. Are liberals so devoted to "abortion rights" that they will trump the conscience of their fellow Americans? Apparently so. They've already ensured that my tax dollars fund Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider. It was only a matter of time before they forced me to fund abortifacients, The direct funding of actual abortion procedures is no doubt next. It's amazing, when it comes to abortion, pro-choice liberals have everything they want, but it isn't enough. Now they want to force pro-lifers- and our churches -- to pay for their choices. Sadly, all of this was so painfully pre- dictable back in November 2008, when a majority of professing Roman Catholics voted Barack Obama president. Well, you reap what you sow. Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values. How's that for social justice? When ex-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a lifetime Roman Catholic. said that we'll learn the details of Obama-care after Congress passes the legis- lation, this is a perfect illustration. The Devil is truly in the details. In response to this screaming tram-wreck, Catholics sent letters to Kathleen Sebelius, HHS secretary, who happens to be Roman Catholic• When she was governor of Kansas, Sebelius was so terrible on abortion, and so defiant of Church teaching, that her bishop ordered that she be denied Communion. Catholics protested directly to Sebelius. On January 20, Sebelius and Barack Obama answered Catholics. As Bishop Zubik put it, "On Jan. 20, the Obama administration answered you and me. The response was very simple: 'To hell with you.' '" Zubik writes: "This is government by fiat that attacks the rights of everyone! At no other time in memory or history has there been such a governmental intrusion on free- dora! It undermines the whole concept and hope for heaithcare reform by inextricably linking it to the zealotry of pro-abortion bureaucrats. The mandate would require the Catholic Church as an employer to violate its fundamental beliefs concerning human life and human dignity!It is really hard to believe that it happened." All of the bishops are frustrated. Bishop Timothy Dolan of New York said that the Obama administration has basically told American Catholics that they have one year "to figure out how to violate our con- sciences." In Phoenix, Bishop Thomas Olmsted appeared to urge civil disobedience. In a let- ter read to every church in his diocese, Olmsted wrote: "Unless the rule is over- , OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JULY 16, 1936 'Roas'in ears." was taught by Indians ,to settlers as best corn I have a letter from a party wanting to know the origin of "Roasting Corn" or why corn in a certain state is called "roasting ears." Indians taught the hungry settlers how to make use of masting com. They took the e, ar.9,f, corn iq, jts.shuck, covered it. with hot ashes and coals, d promptlygoduced the best dish of corn possible to make. The Indians had no salt with which to season the corn, but they had a substitute in hickory ashes. The colonists came upon that treatment of the corn without the use of salt, pepper and butter. And so it came about that the nice, roasted ears selected for table use came to be called "roas'in ears," and as time went on they were more often boiled than roasted. The roasting process had pretty well gone out when the civil war came, when the "rebels" and "yanks" found it con- venient to revive it. The soldiers were near- ly always on the verge of starvation after the first year of the war, and over and over again they were compelled to supply them- selves with food from the growing corn, and some- times they ate it raw. Nothing could please them more than to have time to roast it. There was much simplicity in this process, all that was needed was a hot fire and the green corn. There are a lot of us old : stagers who cannot be made to believe that cook- ing is so good as that which was back in the old days done by the campfire ....... or in the open fireplaces. Certainly they were fine ._ for cooking hogs and fowls, for roasting corn and potatoes and for bak- ing ash cakes. These bills of fare do not include good dishes as the old time way of liv- ing. Flag that boy down who is running late at night smoking cigars and drinking blind-tiger whiskey and shooting craps• Flag that boy that lies in bed until late in the morning when his poor old mother asks him to bring in a little wood, which he would answer by saying that he has served his duty of bringing in wood• Flag down that boy that will beg, borrow, or steal every cent that he can get form his mother or father, who has labored hard to support him for sixteen years, in which time he has tried to get him to work, tried to give him an honest living and tried to make a man of him. Flag down that boy who roams the streets during the night and shoots craps at night and is never heard to say that he does not work for a living. Where God will send them where they should have went when they were a few days old. I wonder if there is anyone now living that remembers what happened one Thursday evening in October when Judge Hasty was married to Mrs. Mamie Westbrook at the Baptist Church in Nanafalia, with Rev. Langston officiating• Their attendants were Misses Sally Westbrook, Bessie Barr, Mrs. Williams, and Bettie Hasty.i The groomsmen were Messrs. J. L. Hasty, Norman Gunn, S. P. Harrison, and Joe Williams. Ushers: Professor Frazier, a Mr. Harper, and M. M. Hasty. The late Joel Desaker Jones Hasty was sheriff at that time and the bride was the daugh- ter of A. G. Westbrook, and a graduate of Judson and a leader in social work• Another pleasant event in the history of Nanafalia hap- pened Thursday morning January 31, 1901,. when M l". J. A. Moseley and Miss Willie Thomas were m avi:ed'aot.the home of Mr. W. K. Thomas. Mr. Moseley at that time was a mer- chant from Mississippi. The young couple accompanied by a friend left for their new home in Mississippi, after sad good- byes to their relatives and friends. Another marriage where Nanafalia gained was on Thursday, March 21, 1901, in the Methodist Church at Octagon where Mr, Ev. Everette and Miss Hortense Bradford married. At 3:15 the strains of the wedding march rendered by Mrs. W. L. Kimbrough of Linden, marked the opening of the ceremo- ny. The groom, accompanied by his best man entered into his posi- tion in front of the alter. Then came little Miss Maddie Ree Kimbrough and Henri Bradford, followed by the other attendants. Then came the bride leaning on the ann of her father, Mr. J. Bradford. At the head of the aisle she was met by the groom, and they then took their position in front of the altar, when Rev. BarrOw pro- nounced the words that made them man and wife• They left immedi- ately for their home in Nanafalia. Among the invited guests were Judge Prowell, Dr. W. L. Kimbrough and family of Linden, Mr. Jack Turner and sister, Miss Julia, and Mrs. C. C. Kimbrough and daughter of St. Stephens. There are very few people'now living in Linden Who refnember Dr. J. H. George. He was the first doctor that I can remember that ever gave me a dose of medicine, and he was a man that I always loved and had the highest esteem for. He was born at Hamburg in Perry County, October 28, 1841, and died at his home in Linden, on Monday morning at 12:20 o'clock November 11, 1901, after an illness of several months. He was buried by the Masons on Thursday afternoon, after funeral services at the church. A number of prominent Masons from various por- tions of the country were in the procession• He was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Linden, which he joined a short time before his death. He was not only a Mason, but a Knight of Pythias, and physician of ripe experience and great skill, whose death was a calamity to the neighborhood where he' lived. He graduated at Howard College in 1861, served in the Confederate Army, and in 1866 graduated in medicine at Charleston, S. C. He came to Marengo County in 1867 and began practice of medicine at Shiloh, where he was united in marriage to Miss Ida R. Melms in 1871. He moved to Linden in 1879 where he built up a large practice, and where he con- tinued to live with the exception of three years residence in Mobile and Demopolis. He served one term in the legislature and served a number of years on the Democratic Executive Committee as a member from Shiloh beat and also as chair- man of that body, and at the time of his death was president of the Pension Board. He was frequently Chosen presidentof the Medical Society of Marengo County. He left a wifeand seven children to mourn his passing• So long until next time.