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Men Rarely Recall
Their Proposals
BY L. M. BOYD
PROPOSALS— Most wives remember the moment of the
matrimonial proposal. Most husbands do not. Pollsters have
established this fact, but they have not explained the why of it.
Our Love and War man believes he understands this mystery.
Women remember, he says, because what women say at the
moment they generally say on purpose. Men don’t remember, he
says, because what men say at the moment they usually say by
accident.
ANOTHER rarely reported fact is the average woman’s hips
measure 42 inches. ... A SURVEY of druggists indicates the
women who take tranquilizers far outnumber the men who do so,
and the older they get the more they take. ... IF YOU PARK
your car regularly under a maple tree, sir, odds are the paint
will get pitted. ... TV WEATHERMEN are fairly accurate in
the winter, spring and summer, the record shows, but their
predictions are much more frequently wrong in the autumn. . . .
AN ESTIMATED 200,000 abortions were performed on high
school girls last year.
LAND VALUES — Price of rural real estate in the northerly
states is expected to jump sharply in the next several years.
Particularly the mountainous land. That is what an expert told
me today. He bases his prediction on the booming sales of
snowmobiles which he says are opening up numerous spots
heretofore closed by the winters. He foresees a snowmobile
highway network along the Canadian line to be made up of
nothing more than flagpoles over fenceless rights of way.
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Q. “If a woman divorces her
husband and takes back her maiden name, does she have to use
‘Mrs.’ with it instead of ‘Miss’?” A. She's supposed to. . . . Q.
“IS AN ARIES WOMAN apt to make a good secretary?” A.
Pretty good, certainly. However, our Planet man says with
training they would do better as radio and TV announcers, were
such jobs in sufficient supply. He says that’s the main reason
Aries girls talk so much, just that they're so good at it. . . . Q.
“WHAT’S the average salary now of the country's Protestant
ministers?” A. About $136 a week.
A BOY OUGHT to be about nine years old before he can be
fitted with contact lenses, but a girl can be so fitted at the age
of seven Such is the claim of an eye specialist. He does not ex
plain what makes this peculiar difference. . . . STATISTICIANS
report the Russia Moskvitch automobile has a life expectancy
of 6.1 years. If true, that means said make of machine winds up
in the boneyard quicker than any other on the world market.
PUZZLE— So you can stand just one more puzzle, can you?
All right, examine the following numbers carefully: 8,5, 4,9, 1,
7,6, 3, 2. What order are they in? No, I can’t do this to you.
Matter of conscience. I’ll tell you the answer and you spring it on
the family’s puzzle fancier at the dinner table. They’re in
alphabetical order.
SIDE GLANCES By Gill Fox
C IM> H HU. Im. TH 111 M. M.
“At least a half-dozen people were kind to me today.
Look, Doc: is there something you aren’t telling me?’’
CHECKING
• UP •
X. /
QUOTES
By United Press International
CHICAGO - U.S. District
Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman,
addressing the jury after Abbie
Hoffman, one of eight radicals
on trial for conspiracy, blew a
kiss toward the jury box:
“Ladies and gentlemen of the
jury, you are directed to
disregard the kiss that was just
thrown at you.”
WASHINGTON—Sen. Fred R.
Harris, D-Okla„ on President
Nixon’s handling of the Viet
nam War so far:
“I’m afraid Mr. Nixon is
rapidly losing the advantage he
had in saying he did not start
the war and could get us out
without losing face. And I’m
really alarmed there is no
plan.”
WASHINGTON— Attorney G
eneral John N. Mitchell, defend
ing the school integration
activities of the Nixon adminis
tration:
“Our concept is to move on
both fronts. Our concept is that
you are cutting off your nose to
spite your face when you cut
off needed funds. We favor a
rounded approach ... to keep
educational processes going as
well as integration.”
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, Sept. 29,
the 272nd day of 1969 with 93 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1789 the U.S. War
Department set up a regular
Army of 700 men to serve three
years.
In 1923 Great Britain began
governing Palestine under a
league of Nations mandate.
In the 1936 presidential
campaign between President
Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Kansas governor Alf Landon,
both major political parties
used nationwide radio networks
for the first time.
In 1941 the United States and
Britain agreed to send supplies
to Russia to help the Soviet
Communists resist invasion by
Germany.
A though for the day: Henry
Vollam Morton said, “One
drink of wine and you act like a
monkey, two drinks and you
strut like a peacock, three
drinks and you roar like a lion,
and four drinks ... you behave
like a pig.”
THOUGHTS
but I will stay in Ephesus
until Pentecost, for a wide
door for effective work has
opened to me, and there are
many adversaries. —I Cor.
16:8, 9.
« • *
Things don’t turn up in
this world until somebody
turns them up.—James A.
Garfield, 20th president.
■ viewpoint
State and local
tax explosion
The attention of the tax-minded public is currently fo
cused on Washington, where the reconvened Senate has
taken up the controversial House-passed tax reform bill.
But the real action is, and has been, on the state and local
level, where spending and taxation have registered a string
of uninterrupted increases since the end of World War 11.
This year, predict economists with the Chase Manhattan
Bank, state and local spending will total about sl2l billion,
representing 12 per cent of the Gross National Product and
more than double what it was as recently as 1957.
Americans paid an average of $338 in taxes to state and
local governments in fiscal 1968, reports Commerce Clear
ing House. This was a jump of $29 per person over the pre
vious period. Only one state did not increase its average.
Indiana actually dropped by $3, to $305.
For the first time, no state had a per capita tax load un
der S2OO. There were four such states in 1967. Also for the
first time, the SSOO level was reached—by New York, with
$503.
The reasons behind this nationwide phenomenon are not
hard to find.
A major factor, if not the basic factor, is population
growth.
The U.S. population, now 203 million, has grown 18 per
cent since 1957, with the largest gains taking place in the
groups requiring the most services—the school-age popula
tion and those over 65. Moreover, the entire increase has
been concentrated in urban areas, and people in cities re
quire many services—sanitation, police and fire protection,
transportation, welfare, health and hospital care, pollution
control, urban renewal and recreation facilities—not as
necessary to their rural counterparts.
By far the largest sum goes for education. In 1968, the
state and local outlay for education reached $43.4 billion,
more than 40 per cent of their total spending. Growth in
this field—over 10 per cent a year—reflects not only popu
lation pressures but pressures for improved schooling.
People talk about more aid to education—and everything
else —from Washington (where the money, supposedly, is
plucked off trees). But the passage of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965, which brought greatly in
creased federal aid to the schools, sharply stimulated state
and local spending.
Building and maintaining the nation’s 3.7 million miles of
highways runs second to education in financial require
ments. Nonfederal highway outlays were $14.2 billion in
1968 and are going up some 5.8 per cent a year. They are,
however, declining as a proportion of state and local spend
ing, down from 18 per cent in 1958 to 13 per cent in 1968.
The third major category, and one that is growing in
relative importance, is public assistance. Welfare pay
ments reached sll.l billion in 1968, or 10.3 per cent of total
state and local spending. Even so, only about one in three
of the 22 million Americans classified as poor received
public assistance payments.
A substantial share of soaring state and local spending in
all three areas can be attributed to rising prices alone.
Governments have simply had to pay more for everything,
from paper clips to highway rights of way to salaries. The
simple word is inflation.
There is no prospect of a letup in the pressures for ex
panded state and local services. They guarantee that
spending will continue to increase at a pace at least com
parable to that of the past decade.
But something can and must be done to bring inflation
under control. Government must be made more efficient,
with the accent on consolidation and co-operation among
the nation’s 81,000 separate state and local units. Tax re
forms that more equitably distribute the burden of climb
ing revenue requirements must be instituted. Every pro
gram must be scrutinized in terms of benefits and effec
tiveness and priority.
This is the challenge of the 19705.
Nosing Around
The government is sending a “Sniffmobile” around
to ask people in certain cities, starting with San An
tonio, to tell federal researchers what their town
smells like. It’s an open secret that the crew hopes to
collect a cluster of evil odors traceable to air pollution
—and hopes further to evolve standards of permissible
levels of stink.
The “Sniffmobile” shouldn’t expect to have any
bouquets thrown at it. People of keen olfactory percep
tion may sniff and answer “Attar of Bureauracy,”
“Nosey Posies,” “Fumes of Federalia” and even “Es
sence of Impertinence.” (Dallas (Tex.) Morning News)
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(Dutch
painter)
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42 Naught
43 Particle
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spouse
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49 Best
50 Measures
51 Amounts of
medicine
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name)
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4 Biblical weed
5 Spanish cheer
6 Warmth
7 Hospital
employes
8 Coin of
Palestine
9 Compass point
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philosopher
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lavishly
13 Shade of red
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15 Long-handled
spoons
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17 Make joyful
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(pl)
21 Rector (ab.)
25 Greek fable
writer
26 Syllables of
song
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(sister of
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capital
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dess of fields
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practices
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philosopher
43 Man’s
nickname
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45 Word of
contempt
47 Offer
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in
Mesopotamia
13 Fasten
18 Treats as a
celebrity
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pins
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nobleman
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symbol
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25 Pupil of
Socrates
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. Just remember, my dear constituents, TODAY
THE MOON—TOMORROW THE WORLD!"
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ANSWER', JR
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Saved From What?
Why is it necessary to be a
Christian if one is capable of
living a good life without
Christ? If I am not dishonest or
unethical, what do I have to be
“saved” from? P.W.
Christ did not come just to
make people ethical, honest and
good. He came to give people a
new quality of life and to
redeem them for eternity. He
did not come to reform them,
but to transform them. He said:
“I am come that they
might have life, and that they
might have it more abun
dantly.” Os course, right con
duct is an outgrowth of the new
life He gives.
In fact the Bible teaches that
it is impossible to behave as
we ought unless we are
possessors of His Life. The
Bible makes a blanket judg
ment upon all men. “All have
sinned and come short of the
glory of God.”
You ask: if one can be ethical
without Christ, what need is
there of being saved? First the
Bible says that sin has so infil
trated the race, that no com
pletely ethical person exists.
But even if some rare person
approximated such perfection,
there would still be another
reason for accepting Christ: to
receive the quality of life
which He alone can give. “As
many as received Him to them
gave He power to become the
sons of God, even to them which
believe on His name.”
I know it is hard for us to
acknowledge our need of a
Savior. But don’t let pride rob
you of the most exciting
relationship in the world: union
with Christ.
WORLD ALMANAC
Rasputin, the robust Rus
sian monk, was assassi
nated by a group of Russian
aristocrats on Dec. 16, 1916.
The World Almanac recalls
the tale of his death as a
particularly grim one. In
vited to the home of Prince
Yussupoff for a party, he
was served large quantities
of wine treated with potas
sium cyanide. The poison
proved ineffectual, and his
hosts were forced to shoot
him several times to
achieve the desired effect.
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