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syllable
38 Footed vase
39 Useless
41 Carpenter’s
a spike
45 Vegetable
46 Bind
47 Anger
48 Fissures
51 Downpour
. 52 Greek letter
54 Repeated.
56 Arabian
seaport
57 Weird (var.)
58 Collection
of quotes
59 Knot
60 Endure
(Scot.)
61 Pigpen
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2 Beast
3 Happened
4 Stir
5 Books of
hours (eccl.)
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1 Fairy queen
4 King of
Israel (Bib.)
(King who
signed Magna
Carta
12 Number
13 Medicinal
quantity
14 Part of iris
15 British queen
17 Warble
18 Moslem
priest
19 Grownups
SI North
America
(ab.)
22 Self-esteem 1
23 Painting,
for example 1
26 Narrow
valley
28 Customs
29 Hint
30 Possess
32 Became
aware
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33 Grab (slang)
34 Eat evening
meal
35 Before
36 Made into
law
40 Epistle
42 Lariats
43 The East
44 Stippling
process
(2 words)
49 Narrow way
50 Withered
51 Egyptian
sun god
52 Forbid
53 Taro root
(var.)
55 Grain
6 Stage
whispers
7 Graceful
gesture
(2 words)
8 Impartial
8 Egg cases
10 Pullet
11 Scold
16 Thulium
(symbol)
20 Unlucky
gambler
24 Regret
25 Spread
for drying
27 Negative
word
28 Not improved
morally
31 Alice’s——
‘Quotes’
By United Press International
SAIGON—A Marine official,
commenting on an unsuccessful
attack by North Vietnamese on
the Marines’ Quang Tri base
below Vietnam’s Demilitarized
Zone:
“They must have been crazy
to think they could get in
there.”
NEW YORK—Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller, expressing his be
lief that the United States
should abandon unilateral con
trol of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization:
“President de Gaulle (of
France) was surely right when
he pointed out the need to
change the pattern of American
dominance.”
ATLANTA—Dr. Bruce Dull of
the National Communicable
Disease Center, announcing the
expected effect of the Christ
mas season on the nation’s
outbreak of Hong Kong flu:
“There’s no question that all
the movement of people during
the Christmas holidays who are
ill or who likely have the virus
will cause a spread of the flu.”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today i/s Thursday, Dec. 12,
the 347th day of 1968 with 19
days to follow.
The moon is in its last
quarter.
The morning stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1792, Ludwig Van Beethov
en. then 22 paid 19 cents for his
first music lesson.
In 1901, a wireless message
was sent across the Atlantic
Ocean for the first time.
In 1947, John L. Lewis
withdrew his United Mine
Workers Union from the Ameri
can Federation of Labor for the
second time.
In 1955, the Ford Foundation
gave SSOO million to the nation’s
private hospitals, colleges and
medical schools. It was the
largest single philanthropic act
in world history.
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71 Years
Without Hope
The papers reported the death of a 90-year-old patient
at Central State Hospital at Milledgeville the other day.
She had been there for 71 years.
The tragedy of the account was that in all that time no
body visited her. Nobody.
She was by no means the only forgotten person stored
away at the hospital awaiting death’s release from loneli
ness. But she had been there longer than anyone else. So
the story pointed the accusing finger at this great problem
of forgotten people shunted away from love and hope,
hidden as it were a skeleton in the family closet conven
iently provided by the State of Georgia.
Hundreds of other patients, thousands probably, have
suffered a similar fate. It is awful to the people at the hospi
tal who take care of the patients. They wonder aloud why
some families never come for a visit. They cannot under
stand it.
Sometimes there is no one left at home to care for the
elderly forgotten who have outlived those who did. There
are other valid reasons, too, but in some instances those
who should simply do not.
We wonder about the 150 patients at the hospital who
were admitted from right here in Spalding County. Are
some of them forgotten? Have some never had a visitor?
We hope that their situation is better than that of the 90-
year-old woman.
Today there is one huge factor at the hospital which it
lacked just a few years ago. It is hope. Modern treatment
and drugs, better facilities and more doctors and nurses
and attendants have done so much for the mentally ill.
The new concept at the hospital is to treat, cure and re
store the sick to society. Recent results have been excel
lent. How difficult it is, though, to cure someone who lacks
hope because there is no place to go when cured.
Much has been accomplished in improving conditions
at the hospital; much remains to be achieved. The state
alone is due much credit, but not all of it. Individuals who
care, such as those who participate in Mayors Day at the
hospital at Christmas time, have contributed much.
People like those in the Spalding County Mental Health
Association have helped tremendously. But the state and
the associations and strangers can not take the place of a
loved one’s visit. How tragic that a woman could die there
after 71 years and never once have a visitor.
Jingle Bells May
Bring Snow Job
Sooner or later this Christmas season, chances are some
body’s going to try to sell you a gold brick.
It may be in the form of an “expensive” perfume mark
ed down to ridiculously low cost, or a similarly “bargain
priced” watch. It may come through the mails, as mer
chandise you haven’t ordered but are made to feel you
should pay for. Or, in the shabbiest trick of all, it may be
an appeal for some “charity” which actually benefits only
the promoters.
These are among the four favorite schemes of Christ
mas-season swindlers, according to a nationwide survey
of Better Business Bureaus reported in the December Read
er’s Digest. The fraud-peddlers count on two human
qualities to abet their rackets: the Christmas-time mood of
benevolence generally prevalent, and the universal desire
for a bargain.
In the perfume swindle—which annually extracts several
million dollars from victims you might be offered “a $25
bottle” for say, $8.75. The bottle may look like the real
stuff. But once you get it home, you’d find it contained, at
best, a cheap cologne.
The watch trick is almost identical in style. A stranger
offers you a “$59.95 watch” for about S2O, explaining
that he needs cash immediately due to unforseen circum
stances. If you’ll pardon the pun, watch out. For the only
accurate timing involved will be your almost immediate
discovery that you’ve bought a fake.
To guard against the perfume and watch swindles, ad
vises the Better Business Bureau, never buy these items
from strangers or at locations other than reputable shops.
Another favorite holiday swindle is sending you mer
chandise — greeting cards, cheap pins, keyrings, etc. —
that you haven’t ordered, at prices far higher than the
stuff is worth. Your best protection in such cases is to real
ize you’re under no obligation to pay for unordered mer
chandise. You can either return it unopened, or toss it on a
shelf and wait for the sender to come and get it.
One final caveat: Don’t respond to any charity appeals
unless you know the organization or check it. Christmas
is a favorite time for schemers to collect money in the name
of philanthropy.
Taking these simple precautions may dampen Christmas
cheer for the swindlers and schemers. But it will help as
sure that as you practice the art of giving, you don’t get
taken.
Chuckling
With Ye Editor V
Politicians who always want to do everything “bigger
and better” might try a bigger break for the taxpayers or
they better hunt new jobs.
• • • • •
“To size up a man, add what his mother thinks of him
to what his mother-in-law thinks of him.” — Olin Miller,
Thomaston Free Press
“We are informed that about 120 million days of work
are lost in the U. S. each winter because of the common
cold.” That is about as many as are lost by coffee breaks.
BERRY'S WORLD
“Sorry, madame, we do not
seat women wearing pants
— and that goes for skirts,
too, sir!”
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ANSWER Fj
Fish Bowl
Because of financial limitations
we are forced to live with my
husband’s father and mother.
As you can imagine, this is far
from ideal for newlyweds. We
have little privacy, and although
his .parents are nice, I feel like
we are living in a fish bowl
with our every action seen by
all. What is your opinion of such
an arrangement? I.W.
When life was simpler in the
U.S. many couples lived with
one or the other of their parents.
It was almost a necessity. The
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company says that 20 years ago
almost 10 percent of all newly
weds lived with their in-laws, but
today that figure is down to 1.7
percent. This is no doubt due to
the higher standard of living,
and the increased capability of
couples to strike out on their
own.
There is no doubt about it: ev
ery couple should sit under their
“own vine and fig tree,” to use
a Scriptural figure. The first
year of marriage is the roughest,
for the couple is really getting
to know each other, and are call
ed upon to make many adjust
ments.
Surely the Bible was right
when God said: “Therefore
shall a man leave his father and
mother, and shall cleave unto
his wife: and they shall be one
flesh.” (Gen. 2:24). Perhaps this
refers to living with parents or
in-laws. It is far better to live on
your own. . . but for some it is
impossible at first. Then ask
God to help you make the best
of it.
M
ro« TODAY HOM
Cbe Upper
What have you that you did
not receive? If then you receiv
ed it, why do you boast as if it
were not a gift? (I Corinthians
4:7, RSV)
PRAYER: Be patient with us,
our Father, as we come hum
bly into Thy presence. Dwell in
our hearts, helping us to be like
Thy Son in thought, attitude,
and decision. In His name we
make our prayer. Amen.
TftougZir For Today
A thought for the day:
American humorist Henry
Wheeler Shaw said, “It is better
to know nothing than to know
what ain’t so.”
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
ill
Natty Bump po, also
called Leatherstocking,
Deerslayer and Hawkeye,
was the hero of James Fen
imore Cooper’s quintet of
Sioneer novels known as
le “L eat h e r-Stocking
Tales,” The World Almanac
says. Natty became for
Europeans a portrait of re
sourceful American frontier
character and even the em
bodiment of the ideal of the
natural man who opposes
anything “agin nature” or
“agin reason.”
Copyright © 1965,
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
Thursday, Dec. 12, 1968 Griffin Daily News
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