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"Comments by the editor are opinions, reasons, or recommendations...
;end your written and signed opinions to the Editor, P. O. Box 480040, Linden,
Alabama 36748
Obama care is full of hteral bull manure and the
Republicans who can read did not bring this out in
the presidential election. The Democrats in Congress
only follow the lemmings' lead over the fiscal cliff.
This appears more and more like a muslim plot to
wreck America.
Mitt Romney was too shy or too afraid to address
this and that's why more Republicans than ever didn't
vote. Or, we maybe in error. Maybe Mitt didn't
know. which is all the more reason not to vote.
After talking with Dan England, the Republican
who was elected to the Marengo County
Commission, we have determined he knew little
about county politics and was abruptly surprised to
find out what really works in this county.
He vowed he would not take Freddie Amlstead's
Word for anything, nor would he support any motion
by Armstead until he got a complete and full under-
standing of all the ramifications of what Armstead is
promoting.
Look for the other Democrats to close in on him
and pressure him to do something against his princt-
pies.
We say it is shnply too bad Newt Gingrich didn't
get the Republican nomination for president. He
would have fought hard against the Democratic
Party's give it all to the voters who cast Democratic
ballots.
Romney knows nothing aobut this because he is a
Democrat at heart.
That, too, is Why the Republicans lost the White
House. You betcha Sarah Palin would not have let
Obama sleep at night with her common sense
approach to g0vemment.
Soon, we all .will have to document bowel move-
ments to satisfy the Democrats. So, folks, give them
your best.
What some call tree huggers don't want people to
use wood fiber in making paper. They are in favor of
plastic bags.
Jut a few days ago on the National Geopgraphic
channel showed a dead whale which had washed up
on a beach and fishery people opened it up and found
hundreds of plastic bags, bottles, and jugs inside the
dead mammal.
Our oceans are full of plastic that we throw from
car windows into the ditches which mn into the
streams which run into the rivers which run nto the
oceans.
Tree huggers want to save the forests by using plas-
tic while killing off all the sea life.
This shows what one radical group causes when it
goes all out on a limb to promote its agenda.
We have a bunch of 'em running Washington, D.
C,
So far, they have us on the brink of World War 1]I;
financially bankrupt; racial hatred nationwide; free
sex and murder; faux self esteem for non-Euros; an
entitled mind-set; But Light that costs over a dollar a
can; gas that costs over $3.50 a gallon; and that
doesn't matter to anybody, apparently.
Sarah Palin would be outfront demanding cheap
beer and gas, at least. For those who don't work, she
give them a position counting money in banks, run-
ning toll booths, or teaching school.
Mario Rubio would teach them how to cut cane,
make rum, and work like he did.
The rest of the Republicans don't show us much.
No charisma, no spark, no guts, no spine, and no
common sense. They should return to the Democratic
Party with its sweet attitude toward boys.
The strongest man in the Democratic Party is
Nancy pelosi. She, however, loses her charm when
would give them a healthier outlook ontife as they she raises her ann .......
begin their diets. For flieqi -dicappe-d, she would
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Letter to the Editor:
Fire Fighters Association
District of Columbia
2120 Bladensburg Road, N.E.
Suite 210
Washington, D.C. 200i8-1440
November 29, 2012
Thank you for sending Local 36 the latest
chapter in the adventures of Fire Chief
Ronnie Few.
As you are aware, Chief Few sewed as
Fire Chief of the District of Columbia Fire
Department from July 10, 2000 to July 31,
2002. He resigned after members of the
news media discovered an alleged falsifica-
tion in his official resume.
Chief Few was afforded with a once in a
lifetime opportunity to be the Fire Chief of
the Nation's Capital.
Unfortunately, for the members of the
D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services
Department, Chief Few, like others, squan-
dered his opportunity.
Instead of be'rag remembered as a leader
and protector of the citizens, workers and
visitors to the Nation's Capital, Chief Few
will be remembered for purchasing of
"sleepwear" for fire fighters and calling off
duty fire fighters collecting monies for the
families of the 343 FDNY fire fighters who
perished at the World Trade Center, "pan-
handlers" or in the case of the Demopolis
Fire Department, "ice cream."
Thanks again for the update on Ronnie
Few. He always makes for interesting con-
versation.
Sincerely,
Edward C. Smith
President
OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES
ORIGINALLY PUBUSHED APRIL 22, 1937
in
In the lonely hills of a deserted neighborhood, that was
once thickly settled with prosperous farmers, but no sign of
the old inhabitants except a few shade trees that were around
II,'
their homes. In this now forest is a graveyard with stones
erected to many of the graves, and one of them is to the mem-
ory of a man who was mobbed, and the epitaph on it reads a
part, "Here is the spot where the boss lies, To see it no one
cries, Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust, God would not take him
so the Devil must."
While working in the forest, locating log roads, I came
across this graveyard and copied the above epitaph in my
notebook. I knew the family of this man, and they were a fine
set of people, and I do not think the epitaph should have ever
been put on the tomb, but I was
informed that it was done by his
enemies.
I see the following in the
Mobile Register of April !1,
1937. "30 Legislators Now on
Alabama Pay Roll. All voted for
Administration Measures."
I quote the Register as to what
it had to say about our
Representatives from Marengo.
"Representative Sybil Poole of
Linden, Marengo County, second
woman member in the history of
Alabama's Legislature, istax
agent at $200.00 per month. Miss
Pool also works as manager of the
Marengo County Exchange
Office, but her father, B. F. Pool,
a Farm Bureau employee, said,
the County Exchange job is a
commission one." "The woman
legislator also has a brother and a
brother-in-law on the state pay
roll and another brother on the
federal pay roll." "Miss Poole
voted for all administration mea-
sures m the recent special session
of the Legislature." "She was, in- Joel
previous sessions, a legislative
clerk, but was named to fill the
vacancy of Representative Clint Harrison, who got a public
service job."
"Representative J. Dudley Carter of Linden. Marengo
County, has a job as field representative, unemployment
commission, at $150.00 per month."
I did not know this when I wrote last week; or I would not
have said what I did about our representatives having no
interest in jobs.
We note from the Register, that the 30 representatives are
now drawing over $4,000.00 per month from the State trea-
sury. None of them get less than $125.00 except
Representative John P. Posey of Winston County, a
Republican only draws $100.00 per month as tax agent. Mr.
Posey voted for the administration tax measures, and of
course, it was nothing but the right to give him a slice of the
pie.
You will not find a single representative on the payroll.
except the ones that voted for the Administration tax bills. It
requires tax to pay these job holders. Alabama's cost of gov-
ernment is rapidly mounting through huge increases in pay
rolls of various operating departments, bureaus and agencies
of the state.
Meanwhile, the increase m income for state purposes (not
including social security, federal highway aid and other
funds) for the first six months of the fiscal began
October 1. 1936, shows the Graves administration has col-
lected more than twice as much money as did the Miller
administration in its entire last year of 1934. The state tax
commission pay roll for March listed 352 employees with a
total of $40,006.70.
This compares with 132 employees and $15,824.60 during
December, 1934, Miller's last month. The tax commission
expense has shown an enormous gain since October, the
month before the recent special session of the Legislature
opened. October's payroll sheets showed a salary total of
The late
Desaker Jones
$28,221.59.
. March was the first
Many legislators were
month after the Legislature adjourned.
given jobs by the tax commission. The
figures of this department would
indicate in this agency alone that
the cost to the tax payers for pas-
sage of the Graves' legislative
program was $11,785.11 per
month.
Although a bill was passed by
the Legislature designed to cut
accounting costs of the unem-
ployment compensation, and
Malcolm Harper, chief of that
bureau, said he would be able to
trim the pay roll, his department,
during March, had 131 employ-
ees, with a salary total of
$13,633.98. That compared with
61 employees last November.
In December 1934, the
comptroller's office had 39
employees and a $6,101.62 pay
roll. Figures today showed during
March there were 121 persons on
the pay roll of this department,
and their salaries totaled
$17,054.52.
Other typical increases of state
departments: Convict department:
December 1934, $28,363.04 pay
roll; March, 1937, $33,184.28;
Public welfare, December, 1934,
$3,017.47; March 1937,
$8,978.55.
Is there any way to stop this increase? The answer is stop
this increase of jobs, unnecessary jobs, simply to gain politi-
cal help. If I were a candidate and promised everybody a job,
I might be elected. If I had to promise jobs to get votes, I
never would be elected.
I guess I had better return to "Old. Times" before I say too
much about the present times. Back in 1879, John E. Hecker,
founded, and on the 31 st day of October, of that year printed
the first copy of the Linden Reporter. If you had looked into
this printing shop at that time you would have seen presses of
the type invented by Benjamin Franklin, operated by hand
lever, into which one sheet of paper at a time was slowly fed
by manual labor. Later the Linden Reporter and Democrat
joined, and became the Democrat-Reporter, which was for
some time operated under and by the same old slow method
of setting typeand printing. If you look into the plant of The
Democrat-Reporter today, you will see a very different pic-
ture, modem typesetting machines, fast automatic presses and
other such machinery in keeping with the times.
Many changes in machinery and methods of producing
printing have occurred since Mr. Hecker printed the first
copy of the Linden Reporter back in 1879.
So long until next time.
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