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BARBS
By PHIL PASTORET
There’s no room in this
organization for a person
who commits a mistake.
We’re fully staffed with folk
busy committing errors in
judgment.
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A person moves in his
sleep about once in every
seven or eight minutes.
Oftener, if the frau has
cold feet.
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The way to tell a boss is
very, very diplomatically.
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The amount of money
paid out in local, state
and federal levies taxes
the imagination—and
they’ll get around to that
one of these days, too.
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QUICK QUIZ
Q —Which are the most
numerous insects?
A —Ants, which may be
found in all parts of the
world except near the North
and South Poles.
Q — Which is the only U.S.
coin still being produced
with any silver content?
A —The half-dollar. The
halves now being produced
are 40 per cent silver.
Q —What is the flight
speed of the Canada goose?
A—Famous for its long
migrations, the Canada
goose can fly at a steady
pace of 55 miles an hour. It
usually flies in a V-shaped
formation and at consider
able elevations.
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Saturday, July 26,
the 207th day of 1969 with 158 to
follow.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Mercury.
On this day in history:
In 1847 Liberia, the only
sovereign Negro democracy in
Africa, was declared a republic.
In 1941 Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur was appointed comman
der of the United States forces
in the Philippines.
In 1956 President Gamal •
Abdel Nasser of Egypt issued a
decree nationalizing the inter
nationally owned Suez Canal.
In 1917 four days of racial
rioting ended in Detroit, Mich,
with 36 dead.
A thought for the day: Irish
playwright George Bernard
Shaw said, ‘"The test of a man
or woman’s breeding is how
they behave in a quarrel.”
mupoint;
Will Mars
be next?
Worldwide excitement over the amazing saga of Apollo
11 will hardly have begun to ebb when earthlings will be
presented with another space spectacular — actually, a
double feature.
On July 28, only eight days after the first manned land
ing on the moon, the first of two planetary probes will be
gin televising pictures of Mars from a distance of nearly
three-quarters of a million miles. Mariner 6 will continue
snapping pictures and taking measurements until, two days
later, it sweeps around behind the mysterious red planet
at a close approach of about 2,000 miles.
Then on Aug. 1, the trailing Mariner 7 will be switched on
by ground command from earth and begin transmitting its
first “far encounter” pictures. It, too, will curve behind
Mars at about 2,000 miles, on Aug. 4, to join Mariner 6 in
an endless orbit around the sun.
The twin, 850-pound spacecraft were launched from Cape
Kennedy more than a month apart—Mariner 6 on Feb. 24
and Mariner 7 on March 27. Because the speedier earth has
been catching up with Mars in its slower moving orbit,
however, Mariner 7 will have traveled a “mere” 197 mil
lion miles in 130 days as against the 241-million-mile, 156-
day journey of Mariner 6.
Straight-line distance between earth and Mars at the
arrival of the Mariners will be 59.5 million miles. This will
mean a time lag of 5% minutes in electronic communica
tions with the spacecraft (compared to 2*4 seconds in
earth-moon transmissions).
Prime objectives of the Mariners, says NASA, are to
study the atmosphere and surface of Mars in order to es
tablish the basis for future experiments in the search for
extraterrestrial life and to develop technology for future
Mariner-class missions in 1971 and 1973.
The spacecraft will not be able to detect the actual
presence of life on Mars but they may reveal whether or
not some kind of life is possible on that planet.
Two principal experiments are to measure the gases in
the Martian atmosphere and to determine if the famous
polar ice caps are frozen carbon dioxide or frozen water.
If there is water and oxygen, the chances of life are good.
In 1965. Mariner 4, the first Mars probe, found moonlike
craters on Mars, but it could see nothing smaller than two
miles in diameter. The cameras of Mariners 6 and 7, able
to resolve surface features as small as 900 feet across,
could reveal the remnants of a long-lost Martian civiliza
tion so dear to science-fiction buffs—ruins of cities, roads,
canals—if there are any.
The scientists involved in the Mariner ventures don’t
really expect so startling a discovery. They will be shaken
up if the Mariners just suggest the possibility of the most
primitive forms of plant life.
They will also be shaken up if the opposite is indicated—
that Mars is too inhospitable for the existence of life. With
Venus too hot and Mars too dead and the other planets
either too close to or too distant from the sun, it would
mean that the earth is even more of a lonely oasis in the
vastness of space.
It would mean that even though man may someday make
the entire solar system his roving ground, nowhere within
it will he find a living link with himself or reassurance that
there may be life—possibly intelligent life—on some fav
oreduplanet elsewhere in the universe.
Only theory, speculation and hope would remain, weighed
against the present and, some say, permanent impossibility
of traveling to the stars.
In this sense, what the Mariners find—or don’t find—on
Mars could be as significant for mankind as the mission
of Apollo 11 to the moon.
In Interest Os Sports
THE MOULTRIE OBSERVER
The Namath-versus-Rozelle confrontation apparent
ly has ended just as nearly everybody but the Jets’
superstar figured. Joe is selling his interest in a New
York bar, which obviously has been frequented by a
number of “shady” characters.
Apparently Namath and some of his buddies—in
cluding the crowd which lounged around Bachelors 111
—thought Joe might out-bluff Football Commissioner
Rozelle or put enough pressure on him through various
means to force the grid czar to soften his charges.
Rozelle did just what any football commissioner
should have done. He laid down the law of pro football
with regard to such sideline activities, and he made
it stick.
Namath has learned a lesson, we hope, about the
name of the game. Others have engaged in various
occupations and associations with undesirables while
playing the different sports—all the way from baseball
to basketball. Some have been badly burned.
Joe Namath is lucky to have been accosted by the
football commissioner before things really got “sticky.”
Namath is a great name in professional football, but
even he is not bigger than football or the total national
sports program.
If there is one thing sports must be, it is above all
suspicion of “fix” and manipulation by undesirable
, characters. So sports have scored another victory, which
is likely to be a victory for Joe Namath in the long run.
He will benefit more, during his career, from having
buckled to the will of a football administration than
from continuing to associate himself in business or
pleasure with people who cannot be trusted to keep
sports clean and wholesome.
More power to sports leaders for having caught up
Namath while he could still disentangle hirfiself.
It will help restore and develop new faith in the integri
ty of the games.
BEHM'S WOULD
“Cuba!"
MY
ANSWER-
When I was a child my parents
made me go to church. I had en
ough of religion when I was yo
ung, and it sdems that 1 have no
taste for it now. Is it possible *
for one to get his quota of reli- 1
gjon and require no more? A.W.
1
The fact that you asked the
above question shows that you
are still searching for something
real and valid. I have heard '
many people say they got an
•‘overdose" of religion when
they were young, but I can’t help
but believe they were "fed” the
wrong kind, and they were re
pulsed by it.
If anybody ever had a full ra
tion of religion it was me. My
father and mother were keen
church goers, and they resolved
that their children should be the
same. There were moments
when I rebelled, but there came
a time when Christ became real
to me, and serving Him became
the most thrilling thing in t h e
world- You see, we never tire of
water, food, and air. And the hu
man heart hungers for God, and
when rightly presented. He is al
ways desirable. Jesus said,: ‘‘He
that drinketh of the water that I
shall give him shall have in him
a well of water springing up un
to everlasting life.”
In a secular society people are
inclined to allow Christianity to
be watered down and shaped by
materialism. Many professing
Christians axe reexamining their
faith and finding spiritual rene
wal. And like St. Augustine, af
ter sampling all the false gods,
they search and find the true
God. He said, "My soul was
restless until I found rest in
Thee."
THOUGHTS
Moses was a hundred and
twenty years old wh * n ™
died; his eye was not dim,
nor his natural force abated.
—Deut. 34.7.
\
When Sir Hans Sloane
left his “Cabinet of Curiosi
ties” to the nation in 1753,
the British Museum, the
first of the great metropoli
tan museums, came into
being, The World Almanac
notes. The Magna Carta,
Shakespeare’s autograph, ’
over seven million books, I
the world’s largest stamp i
collection, the Rosetta
Stone and the Elgin Mar
bles taken from the Parthe
non are a few of the items
in the museum’s collec
tions.
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Religion Today ’ I
Churches and
real estate .
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By LOUIS CASSELS
United Preus International
Churches In the United States
own about $lO2 billion worth of
land and buildings.
The figure comes from a
recent study by Martin A.
Larson and C. Stanley Lowell.
It is frankly an estimate and
may be off by a few billion
either way. But it gives an
indication how deeply churches
are Involved in the real estate
business.
The edifice complex of
contemporary Christianity is a
stark contrast to the example
of the early church. During Its
first and most dynamic centu
ry, the church was too busy
spreading the Gospel to worry
about building programs.
The world “church” In those
days denoted a body of people,
not a place. Christians met for
worship in private homes, In
catacombs, In open fields.
Today, the first thing on the
agenda for most new congrega
tions is to put up “a building of
our own.” No matter how well
a congregation may be getting
along in temporary quarters,
its members can hardly wait to
take on the burden of a big
mortgage and the upkeep of a
building that may be in use
, only two or three hours a week.
This is a woeful situation.
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PRESIDENT NIXON IS INSISTING on the extension of the
10 per cent income tax surcharge before consideration of mean
ingful tax reforms. As a member of the Senate Finance Com
mittee. which has held hearings on the proposed extension, I
have not been totally impressed with the Administration’s posi
tion that such action is necessary to stem inflation.
Certainly something is needed. In the past five years, the tax
payers’ struggle just to break even has gotten completely out of
hand. An American who earned SB,OOO in 1964 will need to earn
more than $9,747 in 1969 merely to maintain the same standard
of living. Inflation, the “silent tax,” is especially cruel to retired
persons and those with fixed incomes.
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BUT THE SURTAX ALONE cannot do the job. It has been
over-sold. It has been in operation for longer than a year now,
and the inflationary spiral has steadily steepened, bringing a 1.5
per cent increase in the first quarter of 1969 alone.
A chief cause of this is that Government outlays are still far
in excess of what we can afford and of what even a full-employ
ment economy can provide.
Unfortunately, the 1970 budget continues this trend by calling
for outlays of $195.3 billion, compared to $183.7 billion for fiscal
1969. A first step toward controlling inflation must be cuts in as
many areas of government spending as possible.
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MOREOVER WHAT WE REALLY need are not increased
taxes but an improved tax system. As long as our tax structure
contains as many loopholes as it presently does, there is no way
the tax burden can be borne equitably by all citizens.
We must close these loopholes which allow large businesses,
foundations and nonprofit groups to enjoy tax advantages un
available to the average citizen.
Another way in which the tax load can be spread more evenly
is by raising the unrealistic S6OO personal exemption. This 20-
year old exemption has not kept up with the 48.5 per cent rise in
the cost of living.
Extension of the surtax already has been shown not to be an
inflation cure-all. It will of course help some. But it is not enough.
Congress must exert every possible fiscal restraint and federal
domestic spending must be cut so long as the Viet Nam war
continues to drain our economy dry. At the same time, the
American people are more insistent than ever that effective tax
reforms must accompany any extension of the surtax.
Griffin Daily News
according to Dr. uonaid. L.
Houser, executive secretary of
the Board of American Mis- <
sions, Lutheran Church in
America. He is urging Luther
ans to recover the outlook of
the early church by emphaslz- «
ing mission and ministry rather
than structure and facilities.
In the future, Houser con
tends, building a church should ,
bo considered “a last resort.”
A few brave and Innovative
congregations already are de
monstrating that it can be «
done. In Lombard, Hl., *
suburb of Chicago, a Lutheran
congregation called the Com
munity of Christ the Servant is
using a renovated barn as a •
base for a ministry that
includes a youth program, a
theater program, operation of a
coffee house and a weekly fine «
arts festival.
1 Similar congregations -with
out-churches can be found in
! New York, Washington, Los (
’ Angeles and many other cities.
If they are the pioneers of a
1 major new trend in American
■ religious life, as Houser be-
• lieves, the public image of the
* church may change from rich
■ landlord to humble servant —a
1 change most congenial to the
! teaching and example of its
■ founder.
(Herman Talmadge
REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
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