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PAGE 2 - WEST CRAVEN HIGHUGHTS - DECEMBER 21, 1989 (iail Winds Southern Seen llie following are some actual requests sent to Santa which wound up at the dead-letter ofTice: ‘Dear Santa: I only want one thing. Dynamite. Nothing exciting ever happens around here. Albert” ‘Dear Santa: My mother said if I don’t brush my teeth three times a day, you won’t come to see me. Are you a dentist? LLoyd* ‘Dear Santa: Please send me a dog. One that’s full of dog. 'The one I got last Christmas was full of sawdust. Junior” ‘Dear Santa Claus: For Christmas I would like a real doctor’s bag. I want to try some operations on my friends. Hilton” “Dear Santa: I haven't made up my mind. I haven’t seen all the commercials yet. Linda' ‘Dear Santa: My best friend Susan and I would like a bicycle built for two. Please leave the front half at my house. Beatrice” ‘Dear Sandy Klaus: I wannt put in a new order quick. Ijust found all the things I asked for under the spare room bed. Sonny" ‘Dear Santa: Don't forget the batteries this time. Mickey’ ‘Santa: My folks are getting the toys; you just bring the batteries. Matt” Adults don’t always have an easy holiday just because they don’t have to write to Sandy Klaus. One man complained that his wife’s parents didn’t like him. He explained: ‘On Christmas Day my wife said, ‘Who wants to carve the turkey?* and my father-in-law re sponded, “You carve him, you married him.” Most adults complain more about the cost of Christmas than any thing else. They’re certain that all the stores in town have put up mistletow so that they can kiss their money goodbye. Most people won’t only be home for Christmas, but they’ll be home all summer paying for Christmas. The older children have already learned that one of the customs of Christmas these days is running into debt. What the little children would really like for Christmas, however, is something that will separate the men from the toys. The purpose of why we celebrate this holiday has been thrown out with the crumpled wrapping paper. Few people take time anymore from the jingling bells and from juggling bills during December to pause and reBect on the real reason for the season. It reminds me of the joke called “horning in.” Two ladies stopped in front of a shop window on Fifth Avenue in New York City. TTie window dresser had fixed up a nice little nativity scene in the midst of the merchandise, and one of the women said to the other.. .“What do you know about that! Even the church is trying to horn in on Christmas!” So, along with the decorations, gifts, and platters of food this Christmas, perhaps we should also make room for something Steve Goodier has said... “We’ve arrived at Christmas, again. A strange time of the year. That's when we celebrate the Prince of Peace by buying toy battle ships, killer robots, ftghter planes, infantrymen, and armored supercharacters for our children. I wonder if the toys we buy don’t reflect our real feelings about the world in which we live.” Think about it. Then do something about it. And meanwhile, have a Merry Christmas. Health-Wise Stress can be the spice of life or turn into kiss of death if if s ignored I By LARRY MCGEHEE A significant legacy of the 1960’e ie the emergence of research and books about neglected aspects of American culture, not the least of which are better and better histo ries of black leaders and black life. Slavery, in the Old South, for ex ample, has long held the historians’ attention, but slavery in Texas—a “right” for which the Mexican War was fought and over which the Un ion almost split sooner than it did— hns been i^ored. To fill the gap Randolph B. Campbell has written An Empire for Slavery; The Peculiar Inilitution in Texae. 1821-1865 (LSU Press, 1989). Although slav ery was confined to only two-fifths of the state, the large num W of slaves and slaveholders made Texas more southern than western in its atti tudes and gave secession on inevita bility Sam Houston didn’t want and many even today foil to understand. The role of the black clergy in American culture has always been important, but scarcely studied. Re cent studies of the civil rights move ment have raised consciousness of this theme to new appreciations. David B. Swift provides us with six biographies of black preachers l^m the pre-War period of Black Pro phets of Justice: Activist Clergy Be fore the Civil War (LSU Press, 1989). All lived and preached in the Bassin* North, and their presence and activ ity there is important in correcting the impression that Frederick Dou glass was about the only black spokesman in that spirited period. Ihey operated newspapers and fugi tive slave networks, thundered from their pulpits and introduced legisla tion, opposed segregation in white churches of the North and the col onisation movement to ship freed blacks back to Africa, kept alive the African past and glorified the achievements of rising leaders, and were the ancestors for organized ac tivity such as that of the NAACP and SCLC in the next century. Their sermons ond organization reports are important additions to the scant black literature from that pre-War era. As noted earlier, Frederick Dou glass was for many years—prior to the coming of Booker T. Washington—the most prominant black spokesman, especially from the 1850’a through 1870^s. Most his tories, however, seem to end his ca reer with the CivI War. David W, Bright recovers missing chapters for us in Frederick Douglaes* Civil War; Keeping Faith in Jubilee (LSU Press, 1989). Even in his most visi ble years, Douglass struggled with balancing a politics of hope with a politics of principle. The struggle came harder, not easier, after the By Thomas Speros, M.D. Talbert’s medical dictionary de fines stress as follows: *In medicine the result produced when a struc ture, system, or organism is acted upon by forces that disrupt equili brium or produce strain. In Health care, the term denotes the physical (gravity, mechanical force, injury, pathogen (agent causing disease) and psychological (fear, anxiety, cri sis, joy) forces that are experienced by individuals. It is generally be- lie' ed that biolo^cal organisms re quire a certain amount of sti'ess in order to maintain their well-being. However, when stress occurs in quantities that the system cannot handle, it produces pathologic changes..." For this edition, we will present examples of how the mind and body interact to cither cause disease or make an existing condition worse, and we will present some sugges tions for dealing with stress efrec- Uvely. It is important to understand that stress in and of itself is not bad. However, when the physical and/or psychological forces influencing a person exceed his or her ability to cope with them, they become dis tressful. Physical ond emotional problems can result. The mind and body ere intimately related. Emotional problems can produce physical changes in the body just as some physical diseases can cause psychiatric illness. These effects are produced through nerves connecting the brain directly with the body’s symptoms and through hormones that are releasedby an in dividual under stress. These in turn have on effect on other body systems like the immur\e system which helps us fight disea^. One example of how this phe nomenon can occur is given by Tho mas Holmes, M.D. He describes a patient who was experiencing con siderable pain. The pain became worse when a relative he did not like paid him a visit. He could not tol erate her and he could not hght back. He was also unable to run away. Dr. Holmes measured the muscle tension in the patient’s back during discussions with Oio patient and found the tension ond pain to be greatly increased when they talked about this particular relative and other stressful situations. When they discussed non-stressful topics, the muscles relaxed and the pain lessened. Under stress, our bodies prepare for flight or fight just ns our ancestors did, but usually in our day to day lives, neither is an appropri ate response. Significant social change and/or prolonged stress can make one more susceptible to many illnesses. Hol mes and Rehe developed a scale as signing points to life changes and found that those scoring greater than 300 points had apprcocimately an 80 percentchanceofbecomingill, those scoring between 150 to 80 points had approximately a 60 per cent chance, and those scoring less than 150 points only a 20 percent risk. Examples of the events and their values are: (1) death of a spouse - 100; (2) divorce - 73; (3) marital separation - 65; (4) death of a close family member • 63; 5) vaca tion -13; (6) birth of a child • 39; (7) change in residence - 20; (8) Christ mas -12; and (9) minor violation of the law - 11 (the lowest ranking). Studies have shown that people who are under a lot of stress can be more susceptible to heart disease, hypertension, cancer, and infec tions. Patients with rheumatoid ar thritis, asthma, diabetes, systemic lupus, eiythematesis, and colitis, among other diseases often respond to stress by having their illnesses become worse. In summary, it is important to re member that one could not grow and change without some stress. Stress can ^ managed by increasing our ability to cope with it or by reducing our exposure. Curability tocopecan be improved by maintaining good physical health, mtting a^uate rest, eating properly, exercising and maintaining good social support systems. Mnjor life changes should not come close together if it is possi ble to plan them. Some symptoms that tend to de velop when demand exceed one’s ability to cope with them are loss of efRcience, interest, initiative, in somnia, fatigue, end physical tymp- toms like headache, beickache, and stomach pain. Almost every lake has some, and theyVe nearly always home to bass. Boat houses. Piers. Fishing docks ond marinas. *l^s amazing how many fisher men ignore l^at houses when theyVe fishing,” says Johnson Out boards Pro Staff member Ricky Green, "but I think they offer some ofthe best cover available for bass. 1 finished second in a national tour nament several years ago, simply by fishing boat houses for three ^y8, and 1 only lost by five-ounces.” Boat houses and similar struc tures like piers and even marinas provide cover and shade for bass, says Green. The water around them is often slightly deeper, and in many cases food is more abundant. "For me, the most productive boat houses are those located on points or in the backs of pockets and coves,” explains the Johnson pro. *I don’t Uketofish along rowofboathouses. I’d much rather find one by itself^- cause it seems to act just like other types of isolated cover in attracting bass.” Green feels most bass using boat houses are suspended fish, so he of ten uses topwater or medium running lures like buzz baits and spinnerboits to bring them to the surface. If he uses jigs or plastic worms, he chooses lures that are light and fall very slowly. "Normally, outside pilings or cor ners hold the most bass,” says Green, "so I usually fish these first. Then, Fll make a long cast that brings my lure along the entire side of a boat house, in case the fish are further back or underneath the house. "Sometimes, flipping is the only way youll get fish to hit, and when that happens, you have to work very slowly and trv to hit every comer. Alter you fish two or three boat houses, you should know how the A Gift that remembers... 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' *n^e/re among the most reliable places I know to catch a bass.” war, when the Republican Party tried to use Douglass for political gain without appreciating the mes sage of political principle for which he was a ardent advocate. More and more, he had to cast his deep faith in American nationalism in the reli gious languages of millenninlism and deferred hopes. In the end, he kept abolitionist and Civil War hope alive, but was acutely aware that the harder struggles for blacks lay ahead. Afro-American literature is very much a creation of the 20th century. Because of restricted literacy and to printing presses prior to that, only the first of four volumes of Dlyden Jackson’s A History of Afro- American Literature is needed to cover The Long Beginning, I746J895 (LSU Press. 1989). The first known Afro-American writing was a little poem about a* fight be tween Indians and whites in Massa- chusetU, written by a 16-year-old slave from the West Indies, Lucy Terry. The slave narratives, sermons, reminiscences, spirituals, and novels that followed fall into two categories, according to Jackson. In the period from Lucy Terry to Nat Turner, from 1746 to 1830, the em phasis was upon learning the lan guage in which to write and speak, a period somewhat like the ghetto ex periences in New York for waves of immigrant Europeans. The second period, from 1830 to 1895, was one in which blacks began to turn their new language tools into weapons of protest. From Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley in the Revolution ary War period to the death of Fre derick Douglass and the success of Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Ex position speech in 1895, Jackson finds the overture to the black liter ary renaissances of this century. Pew more striking examples of that modem renaissance can be found than in a writer whose work and influences are memorialized in a edited ^ Quincy_^oupe^ James Baldwin: The Legacy (Simon & Schuster, Touchstone Book paperback, 1980). Friends such ns William Styron, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison assess his personal and his professional life, a number of interviews are collected from over the years, and a new interview, done by Troupe just before Baldwin died in 1087, is published. Cast in a somewhat different mold from Douglass the preacher and Baldwin the poet is the new type of black politician, of which there are few finer examples than the Alabamian studied by Jimmie Lewis Franklin in Back toBirming- ham: Richard Arrington, Jr., and His Times (University of Alabama Press, 1089), Franklin’s thesis is that Arrington’s story is set apart from traditional civil rights biogra phies because of the man’s deep and special "sense of place”, his attach ment to his environment. This book is heavy on dates and details, but be hind it all runs the theme of the difficult—not meteoric—rise and chronicle of a competent civic leader, a success story hardly known outside Birmingham pre cisely because it has been successful. The context for the rise of Arring ton and other black politicians of n new breed is the city. Robert D. Bul lard is the editor of n book on this context: In Search of the New South: The Black Urban Experience in the 1970s and 1980s (University of Ala bama Press, 1989). The case studies are of Houston, New Orleans, At lanta, Memphis, Birmingham, ond Tampa. The evidence is that, while legal obstacles have been removed, economic and political barriers, edu cational incentives and separatist cultural patterns still stifle progress towards a truly "New” South for blacks. The best results are being gained inch by inch at local grass roots levels in interracial commit tees and councils learning tenu ously but tenaciously, and often in visibly, how to move ahead together. Wurlitzer Pianos & Organs Selmer Band Instruments Guitar & Accessories Affordable Rental Programs Available on Pianos a Band Instruments, Excellent Service Fuller’s Music House, Inc. 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