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Absence Is to Love
Like Wind to Fire
BY L. M. BOYD
LOVE AND WAR—Her husband of two months has just been
drafted. That is the complaint of a San Antonio girl. She is afraid
her soldier's absence will shut down his affection for her. Our
Love and War man says this young lady ought not fret. If he
returns in high desire, that’s true love. If he doesn’t, it isn’t. You
know what old Roger de Bussy-Rebutin said, of course: “Absence
is to love what wind is to fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the
great.”
LAST REMAINS—A gentleman who describes himself as
slightly over 6 feet tall, weighing about 200 pounds, writes: “I’ve
sometimes wondered how much my ashes will weigh after I’m
cremated. Can you find out?” Can indeed About 8 maybe 9
pounds.
GET IT RIGHT CLUB—Did I say one of identical twins can
never be a father? Boy, what a dumb mistake! That’s just flat
out wrong. Let’s change the subject. It’s a scientific fact the
average man’s brain catnaps for a total of approximately 1 hour
15 minutes during an 8-hour shift, but said man is rarely aware
of it. With some columnists, these naps run longer.
OPEN QUESTIONS—I. Can you think of a single Chinese
dish that calls for the use of milk? ... 2. Is there any reasonable
explanation for the fact that more babies are born between 5 and
6 a. m. than at any other time of day? 3. Why is it all the
really good car mechanics are lean and wiry men?
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Q. “How many times did that
infamous old girl Lucrezia Borgia get married? How many men
did she poison? A. What men did she ever poison? Know of none.
In the matter of matrimony, she married four times. At ages 11,
12, 16 and 22. As to what happened to her husbands and lovers,
either her father Alexander VI, the Pope, kept shipping them out,
or her brother Cesare, a tough customer, kept killing them.
Incidentally, she was a blonde . . . Q. “IS IT STILL against the
law in Communist China to wear a necktie?” A. Not anymore.
LANGUAGE MAN—Here's a fancy sentence. Each word in it
starts with the same letter but the initial sound of each is
different. It goes: “Pseudepigraphous pneumatics produce
phantasmagoric phthalic phthisic.” This moving quotation was
created by R. Adm. W. V. Combs, our senior Language man in
the Pacific, in humble tribute to typesetters and proofreaders
everywhere.
MILKING TIMES—A cow will give up to 25 per cent more
milk if milked three times a day. That is the claim of a collegiate
agriculturist. Maybe that’s good news. But when I was a lad on
the farm, we milked at 4:30 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. That was all.
That was enough, too. If the dairymen start milking three times
a day now, they’ll have to look for another milker. I won’t go
back under those conditions. Nor under any other conditions,
either, come to think of it.
SIDE GLANCES By Gill Fox
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"You can tell your ballad-singing suitor that thee he
may not wed till he turns to a life of fruitful toill"
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TIMELY
QUOTES
There has never been any
evidence that the Soviet
Union could be forced to the
conference table or to agree
ments by superiority of
force. In fact, the contrary
appears to be the case.
—Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy,
D-Minn.
The 1969-1970 school
guidelines will remain in
force. There will be no re
negotiation of agreed plans.
There will be no concessions
granted except for compel
ing, bona fide reasons.
—Robert H. Finch, secretary
of health, education and
welfare, on school de
segregation.
In this administration the
demands of the poor, of
minorities — and of b lack
people in particular — are
falling on deaf, insensitive
ears.
—Rep. William Clfiy, Negro
Democrat of Missouri.
The greatest problem be
fore us is not the war in
Vietnam, but the bringing
about of a dynamic set of
international relation
ships which guarantee peace
and progress.
—President Nixon.
Our leaders are struggling
with difficult problems
which they will not totally
solve. Tomorrow these prob
lems will be ours. We now
have the chance to start
building ourselves.
—Charles Hart. 16, in a
speech at the 7th annual
National Boy Scout Jam
boree.
Almanac
For
Today
The Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Aug. 11,
the 223rd day of 1969 with 142
to follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry. Mars and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1909 the first radio “SOS"
was received when the liner,
Araphoe, messaged for help off
Cape Hatteras, N.C.
In 1954 the formal peace
announcement in Indochina
ended the seven-year war
between the victorious Viet
minh forces and the govern
ment of France.
In 1962 a Soviet astronaut
was launched into space on a 4-
day trip.
In 1965 Negroes began rioting
in the Watts section of Los
Angeles. During the six days of
violence that followed, 34
persons were killed and 856
injured.
A thought for the day—John
Stringer said, “Our bitterest
wine is always drained from
crushed ideals.”
THOUGHTS
MONDAY
“For he adds rebellion to
his sin; he claps his hands
among us. and multiplies his
words against Goa.” —Job
34:37.
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The sins ye do by two and
two ye must pay for one by
one.—Rudyard Kipling, Eng
lish poet.
■ viewpoint;
Some news
and views
Some news and views:
Al Hill of Griffin, tax assessor and presi
dent of the Georgia assessors association,
told the Tax Revision Study Committee
meeting at the State Capitol the other day
that the intangibles tax should be enforc
ed. As things now stand, it is evaded fat
too often, and if properly enforced it
would produce substantial revenue. Frorrt
where we sit, everybody ought to pay hit
fair share, and if some people have to pay
intangible taxes, everybody subject to
them ought to do the same. Either the in
tangibles tax law should be fairly and
equally and strictly enforced, or it should
be abolished.
• The Girl Scouts have filed suit against
some outfit which printed posters with the
motto "Be Prepared" along with a picture
of an obviously pregnant Giri Scout. W£
hope the Girl Scouts win their suit. Some
people's idea of humor is sick, sick, sick
instead of funny. Where on earth has good
taste gone?
• Merriell Autrey, native of Griffin, has
been promoted from vice president of the
Citizens and Southern National Bank, At
lanta, to president of the C and 5 Emory
Bank in DeKalb County. We are always
proud of a Gris finite's achievement a n d
congratulate Mr. Auttey and his family.
The word around Atlanta is that he is one
of that city's outstanding young men.
Those who knew him in Griffin are pleased
but not at all surprised.
• Students from Griffin High and Fair
mont High have formed a joint council to
decide upon common student goals for the
two senior high schools in Griffin for the
coming school year. This makes sense to
us. Sometimes it looks as if the youngsters
are way ahead of the oldsters when it comes
to common sense and understanding.
Fasten Your Bed Belt
So many people die from falling out of bed in West Ger
many that one physician is recommending that beds be
sold with safety belts, reports Science Service.
According to Dr. Wolfgang Littek of the Bavarian Cham
ber of Insurance Companies in Munich, 600 West Germans
were killed by falling out of bed last year. No less than 80
per cent of German adults fall out of bed several times a
year, a survey revealed, with most fatal falls being caused
by nightmares or drunkenness.
One can foresee difficulties in the doctor’s prescription,
however, if the lack of success in getting people to wear
safety belts in automobiles is any indication. The restless
Germans might better profit from the example of the
Japanese, who don’t have any bed-falling problem.
They just have lower beds.
Fall Colors
ACROSS
1 Yellow
leaves
7 Red
leaves
12 Form a notion
13 Glacial epoch
(2 words)
15 Narrow fillet
(arch.)
16 Northern
constellation
(gen.)
17 Grafted (her.)
18 Teleost fish
20 Gone by
21 Second
attempt
24 Himalayan
state
27 Optimistic
31 Stringed
instrument
32 Reply (ab.)
33 Gram mole
cule (var.)
34 Chinese
Communist
35 Light brown
37 Pastoral poem
(var.)
39 Argon, for
example
41 African
natives
42 Beautifier
4 ’• Gem
47 Coloring
agent
48 Opera by
Verdi
52 Sickness
54 Os the mind
56 Its capital
is Salem
57 Whole
58 Frighten
59 “ Fideles”
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2 Norse god
3 Nuisance
4 To the side
5 Goddess of
infatuation
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Nefarious Plot
I see where the Red Chinese
heirarchy has said: “Young love
and marriage are a nefarious
plot by the ‘class enemy’ to re
store capitalism In China.” Do
the Red leaders t n ink they can
stop love and marriage? A.F.
Even the Red leaders must
have made .such a statement
with tongue in cheek. Love and
marriage are, af‘er all, a decree
from God to perpetuate the hu
man race, and if there were no
people, the Reds would have no
one to rule and push around.
This tack by the Reds in China
only reveals how hard up they
really are. The big problem in
China is its exploding population,
and Chairman Mao’s pronoun
cement about love and marriage
is an act of desperation to dis
courage young marriages, and
the astouding birth climb in
communist China. They are,
even now, many millions more
mouths than they can feed.
But. historically, China is a na
tion with a great reverence for
family life, and I don’t think
will ever be swept away by a
few' quotations from Chairman
Mao. The communists make the
mistake of presuming that poli
tical ideology should be first in
the order of one’s commit
ments. But, human nature sim
ply isn’t built that way. Even if
they achieved an economic Uto
pia (which they have not), it
would be sterile, and boresome,
if there were no faith, hope and
love. Witness the present afflu
ency in the United States. Even
with the highest standard in his
tory, many are empty, restless
and bored, because they have
worshipped materialistic gods.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
ED
Gail Borden helped to
solve the problem of keep
ing food from spoiling, The
World Almanac notes. He
invented a meat biscuit for •
pioneers which won praise i
but lost money. He then de
veloped condensed milk
which achieved popular ac
ceptance because it was -
successfully used by Union
soldiers during the Civil
War. In addition, he worked
o n concentrating fruit
juices, tea, coffee and
cocoa.
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