The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 180, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 25, 2002 Page: 4 of 16
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Saturday, May 25,2002
4A The Baytown Sun
Opinion
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David Bloom, Managing Editor
Wanda Gamer Cash, Editor and Publisher
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U.S. INTELLIGENCE
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the courts to intervene.
— St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
Excerpts from recent editorials
in newspapers in the United
States and abroad:
On safeguards
on student visas:
Most of the nearly 850,000 non-
immigrant foreigners who attend
embargo. Carter’s visit pointed
the way.
— The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
behave in a like manner.
They are only acting out what
Instead of pushing them to be
something we never were, let them
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Let us hear from you
The Baytown Sun welcomes letters of up to
300 words and guest columns of up to 500
words on any item of public interest. Guest
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recent problems in Little League,
directed at anyone personally.
Our editorial board
The Baytown Sun’s editorial board meets
weekly at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Individuals are
encouraged to visit the editorial board to dis-
cuss issues affecting the community. To
make an appointment, contact Managing
Editor David Bloom, (281) 422-8302.
Members of the editorial board include:
Wanda Gamer Cash; editor and publisher;
David Bloom, managing editor; Meredith
Darnell, news editor; Eric Bauer, marketing
director; and Dee Anne Navarre, business
manager.
On detained college
professor Mazer Al-Najjar:
Tuesday will mark six months
since former University of South
Florida teacher Mazen Al-Najjar
was imprisoned pending his
deportation. It is time for the
Immigration and Naturalization
Service to deport him or let him
out of prison. As the U.S.
Supreme Court recognized last
year, indefinite detention of state-
columns should include a photograph of the
writer. We publish only original material
addressed to The Baytown Sun bearing the
writer’s signature. An address and phone num-
ber not for publication should be included. We
ask that submissions be limited to one per
month. All letters and guest columns subject
to editing.
The Sun reserves the right to refuse to pub-
lish any submission.
Letters endorsing or opposing political can-
didates or issues will not be published within
two days of an election, except in direct rebut-
tal to a letter previously published in The
Baytown Sun. Please send signed letters to:
Wanda Gamer Cash or David Bloom, The
Baytown Sun, P.O. Box 90, Baytown, IX
77522.
Or, fax them to: (281) 427-1880. Or, email
us at: sunnews@baytownsun.com.
given year add greatly to the edu-
* cational experience of American
been able to show that in the past, students. They also bolster inter-
Then, last November, following
a final order of deportation by a
federal appeals court, Al-Najjar
was re-arrested and placed in the
Coleman Federal Correctional
Complex in Sumter County. He
has been there, held mostly in
solitary confinement for six
months, while the government
tried to find a country to take
him. If that hasn’t happened by
Tuesday, he should be released. If
the government refuses, Al-
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Cuba got a glimpse of freedom
they have not themselves enjoyed
in 42 years.
A former U.S. president, Jimmy
Carter, appeared on Cuban televi-
sion and openly bucked his own
country’s leadership by calling for
the United States to lift its eco-
nomic and travel embargo against
port of entry and the 70,000
schools and other institutions eli-
gible to admit foreign students.
Lawmakers need to keep estab-
lishment of that system on sched-
ule, making sure it is up and run-
ning by the Jan. 1, 2003, dead-
line.
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national relations by returning to
their homelands with a better
understanding of how this nation
works. Unfortunately, as Sept. 11
made clear, the system that over-
sees foreign students must give
priority to contending with the
handful who would take advan-
tage of this nation’s openness to
attack it.
Congress has belatedly ordered
the Immigration and
Naturalization Service to develop
Najjar’s attorneys will rightly ask “ electromcsystem to keep track
of foreign students.
The INS’ Student and Exchange
Visitor Information System would
On Carter’s visit to Cuba: “se dTbase
vn vat m » Tian iv vuuo. would link U.S. embassies and
On Tuesday night, the people of consulates abroad with every INS
often more healing than words of
advice.”
I expected to find St. Clair greet-
ing his congregation at the taberna-
cle door at the end of the service,
but he was nowhere to be seen. I
finally found him in the dining
room down the hill. He was pouring
lemonade in the cafeteria serving
line — not exactly where you
would expect to find the minister
that St. Clair stepped into the vacant after church.
But St. Clair isn’t exactly what
you would expect to find in a min-
ister. During the school year he vol-
gregation, “pray for me.” I think we unteers as a teacher’s aide at a near-
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daily walks at the mall, where he
strikes up conversations with shop-
The week before, he said, “I took
one young man to get a haircut and
bought another a pair of tennis
shoes. I needed a pair for myself
and the discount store where I go
had a sale — buy one pair and get
another for $1.”
Are you ready for some more of
St. Clair’s homely philosophy?
Sample these:
“Do you know that old folks are
worth a fortune? They have silver in
their hair, gold in their teeth, stones
in their kidneys, lead in their feet
and gas in their stomachs.”
“I like to see a player score or
make a catch, then keel briefly with
his finger pointed toward God.”
“Keeping a vegetable garden is
worth a medicine cabinet full of
had no intention of preaching on the insist on telling us about the state of pills.”
Sunday 1 visited the campgrounds, their liver, their kidneys and their “If people say unkind things
the scheduled speaker had to cancel heart. Nevertheless, we ought to lis- about you, live so that no one will
sportsmanship mean. It’s becoming Little League. Story too long to
more common than not that at any Parents need to learn to wnte but pertains to this person
given game some adult, (whether it . .. . .. h having his friends make a circle at
be a parent or a coach) will end up Reep Ine,r m0UHIS snm the ball field and jnsjst that my
acting in an unbecoming manner. I read in amazement the story of grandson and his son fight until he
Then we wonder why the children the Little League parents feuding at declared a winner. Very frighten-
, Just because we may not have
it’s most often the adults! It starts been good in sports, (or some other They love the sport. Hate is
in the home. The unfortunate truth area) doesn’t mean that our child taught at home and that is what
of the matter is we have so many has to make up for that. So, why these people are teaching their chil-
dysftmctional families anymore, don’t we just get back to the basic dren to do.
that we’ve lost sight of how chil- manners that were taught to us in I have a story about an incident
kindergarten and start acting like at the Highlands Pony League park
We live in a world where chil- responsible adults and let the chil- that my grandson was involved in if
dren be children. you want a real interesting story
Heather Dickens that involved a board
the islaffd nation. But Carter also
openly bucked his host, Cuban
dictator Fidel Castro, by calling
for political and economic free-
dom in Cuba and by rejecting
Castro’s bogus claim that the
island’s poverty is the result of the
U.S. embargo.
Castro will not be around much
longer, and when he goes, so will
his system. Cuba will be free
again and soon after, travel and
trade between the two nations will
exceed anything that existed
before Castro smothered Cuban
liberty in 1959.
- The groundwork for that happy
less illegal aliens is not an accept- j can be now by ending the
able option under the - .....
Constitution.
The INS has tried unsuccessful-
ly for the past six months to find
a country to take Al-Najjar, the
Palestinian father of three
American citizen daughters, who
overstayed a student visa. Now ...
Al-Najjar should be freed from _ ...
detention unless the government U.S. colleges and universities in a
can show that he is a danger.
The Justice Department hasn’t
I would like to make a few com- the adults that are involved in their These parents need to volunteer as
ments relating to some of the lives. Those who create the prob- coaches, take an umpiring course
lem need to pay attention to what and get involved in the sport they
First let me say that this letter is not the “Little League Creed” reads, have chosen for their children,
and start applying it to themselves. Coaches and umpires are not per-
I know a lot of good people who I truly believe in the saying, “more feet, they do make mistakes, but
are involved in organized sports, is caught than taught”! This applies the parents need to learn to keep
Unfortunately it seems that there in all areas, not just sports. Some of their mouths shut and not down
are more and more adults that are us need to stop trying to live these people that have given up
ruining it for those of us who enjoy through our children. their time to be mentors to their
seeing our community’s children Instead of pushing them to be children.
play sports. something we never were, let them While the parents are feuding at
I have attended many activities in just be a child. We push them to the ball park, the children are hav-
all different types of areas. The real grow up way too fast! ing fun. They don’t care what calls
problem is not usually the children, Just because we may not have are made.
They love the sport.
Commentary
Practicing what one preaches
He’s kind of the Edgar Guest of
-the pulpit, mixing whimsy with
homespun wisdom.
Now nearing 80, Rev. Robert B.
St. Clair is a retired United
Methodist clergyman who carries
on his ministry today by mail. His
monthly newsletter, with a mailing
list of about 100, is called the
Fireside Chat. A widower, he lives
in a cottage on the Methodist Camp
Grounds in Lancaster, Ohio.
He has just completed his
“Devotions Book 2,” (Lancaster,
1998), a collection of his Fireside
Chats through the years. Sprinkled
throughout the 100 pages is St.
Clair’s brand of gentle humor, much
of it directed at his largely elderly
following.
“You know you are getting older,”,
he says in the paperback volume,
“when you get winded playing
checkers.... when you sink your
teeth in a thick steak and they stay
there .., when you pray for a good
prune-juice harvest... when every-
thing hurts and what doesn’t hurt
doesn’t work... when you feel like
the morning-after and you haven’t
been anywhere ... when you look
forward to a dull evening.”
I first heard St. Clair preach sev-
eral years ago at the large open-air
tabernacle on the campgrounds
where the great evangelist Billy
Sunday once preached. He had had
a serious heart operation a few
years before, which caused him to
curtail his preaching. Though he
was not without some trepidation
pulpit.
“If 1 should go silent in the mid-
dle of my sermon,” he told the con-
all prayed for him at that moment.
His text was from the first chap-
ter of the book of James. That
makes a good text for a hot summer pers.
Sunday since the congregation does ,
not have to follow a complicated
line of thought. Each verse has its
own independent piece of advice.
Miss one admonition, you can pick
up on the next.
St. Clair had a lot to say about
verse 19: “Let every man be swift
to hear, slow to speak, slow to
wrath.”
He said, “The Lord has given us
two ears and one tongue.
Therefore we should listen twice
as much as we speak.....If you give
everyone a piece of your mind, you
won’t have any peace of mind for
yourself.... Be careful of your
tongue. It’s in a wet place and it’s
easy to slip.....We’ve all been to
‘organ recitals’ where the slick
Sunday I visited the campgrounds, their liver, their kidneys and their
dren are supposed to be raised,
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dren are not being brought up to
know what the words “integrity,” Heather Dickens that involved a
“morals,” “values” and good Baytown member/coach of the Highlands
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than not that at any Parents need to learn to
keep their mouths shut
1 read in amazement the story of grandson and his son fight until he
the Little League ball game. When ing.
are people/parents going to realize
they see being taught to them by that sports are for the children.
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