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“WHILE beautiful legs are common among women, it is
beautiful hands that are rare,” noted Ed Durling. “Only one
woman in 5,000 has a pair of really beautiful
hands." .... GIRLS REMAIN ticklish until a later age than do
boys. So contend scholars at Wayne State University who
insist their research on the matter has been both serious and
scientific.
EVER HAVE TROUBLE with your speech? Consider this.
What follows is a paragraph from “Pirate’s Treasure” that’s
said to contain all our vowels, consonants and dipthongs. If
you can read it aloud correctly, it’s believed you’re capable of
pronouncing every word in the English language: “The
lodgekeeper had found an old chart written in peculiar gibber.
He was able to make it out, however, and learned from it that
a choice and rare old treasure was buried four or five feet
under the ground on the very spot where the new schoolhouse
stood. He was sure he could find it, if he obeyed instructions.
And after several trials, at last he did unearth it. But as he was
lifting it out, the box fell all to pieces and its various contents
tumbled back into the pit.”
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Q. “How many times does your
heart beat in 24 hours?” A. Mine? Just 103,689 times,
presumably. That’s average. And the blood travels 168 million
miles. Breathe 23,040 times, inhale 438 cubic feet of air, eat
3.25 pounds of food, drink 2.9 quarts of liquid, speak 4,800
words, move 750 muscles, and exercise 7 million brain cells,
hopefully.
OUR LOVE AND WAR MAN says no husband wants his
wife to trust him completely. “Men like to be regarded as a bit
dangerous,” he says. “A wife who announces publicly that her
husband would never stray errs. However true, it’s insulting.”
A 100-WATT LIGHT BULB is said to last an average of 750
hours. A 60-watt bulb, 1,000 hours. A 15-watter, 2,5000
hours. Or so say the testers of same .... HORSES, AT LEAST
some horses, talk to one another. Such is the dubious claim of
a German scientist. He insists his studies reveal six
distinguishable words in horse talk.
WHAT COLOR is Friday? Ask grownups that, and they’ll
look at you oddly. Ask children, and they’ll tell you. I’ve tried
this experiment on numerous occasions. It always works.
Grownups raise their eyebrows and smile sardonically.
Children answer red. orange, purple, whatever. That color
children most often mention for Friday is orange, incidentally.
Saturday is red, they say, usually.
RAPID REPLY Quite true, Mrs. T., it's a sad statistical fact
that just about 1,000 women a year are shocked to death by
their electnc toasters.
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Your questions and comments are welcomed and will be
used in PASS IT ON wherever possible. Please address your
letters to L.M. Boyd, P.O. Box 170'6, Fort Worth, Texas
76102.
((c) 1971, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Wednesday, July 14,1971
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For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, July 14,
die 195th day of 1971.
The moon is between its full
phase and last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry and Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Cancer.
Swedish film director Ingmar
Bergman was born July 14,
1918.
On this day in history:
In 1789 the French stormed
the Bastille Prison in Paris, a
day now commemorated as a
national holiday in France.
In 1798 Congress passed the
Sedition Act, making it a crime
to publish any “false, scanda
lous and malicious” writings
against the government, Con
gress or the president.
In 1965 U.S. Ambassador to
the United Nations Adlai
Stevenson died of a heart
attack in London.
In 1966 eight nurses were
found murdered on the South
Side of Chicago. Drifter Rich
ard Speck later was convicted
of the crimes and sentenced to
death. On June 28, 1971, the
Supreme Court overruled the
death sentence.
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THOUGHTS
“For many are called, but
few are chosen.’’—Matthew
22:14.
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Most of us can, as we
choose, make of this world
either a palace or a prison.
—John Lubbock, astrono
mer.
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Jackson Lake in danger
People from Griffin and all this part of
Georgia have enjoyed recreational facili
ties in nearby Butts County for genera
tions. There is Indian Strings and its first
state park in America, and which the
Indians utilized and enjoyed before
Europeans came to America. Also Butts
County has High Falls and its more recent
state park. Generations ago, Captain Sea
ton Grantland of Griffin ran a power line
from High Falls to Griffin, quite an ac
complishment in the days before Georgia
Power Company was so extensive. Then
there is Jackson Lake which Georgia
Power built about 1910. It has a shoreline
of 130 miles, and we have no idea about
bow many millions of gallons of water are
impounded behind the big dam at Lloyd
Shoals.
AH three are important recreational
facilities. Whole books could be written
about any of them. Right now, Jackson
Lake is the focal point of editorial concern
because after more than three fifths of a
century from its birth, it is in danger of
(lying from pollution. If it does die, its
demise will be so utterly unnecessary.
Robert L. Williams, Jr., of Jackson is
chairman of a group called “The Coalition
for Pollution Control, Inc.*’, formed
recently to save the lake from pollution.
Also Mr. Williams is administrative assis
tant of the Central Georgia Electric
Membership Corporation which is head
quartered in Jackson. In this month’s issue
of the association’s Newsletter he wrote:
“Here lies Jackson Lake, a dead body of
water that will never again know the
laughter of a child in swimming, the joy
ous moments of a father and son fishing,
the early morning croaking of frogs along
its banks, the plunging of the large mouth
bass or the weekend outing of a family
along its shore because Jackson Lake is
dying from municipal, industrial and in
dividual pollution.
Women’s liberation proceeds apace—if the number of
women combining motherhood with careers (or just plain
jobs) is a legitimate measurement.
In 1960, 15.7 million children under 18 had working
mothers, and about four million of them were under age
6, says the U.S. Department of Labor.
Ten years later, nearly 26 million children under 18 had
mothers who were working or were looking for work. Al
most six million of these were children under 6, who re
quired some sort of care when their mothers were away
from home.
The substantial increase in the number of children
whose mothers are in the labor force is a result both of a
greater population of children, says the department, and
the rising propensity of women to work, even mothers
with preschoolers.
Families with working mothers had fewer children, on
the average, than those with mothers who did not work
outside the home. This was true for fatherless families as
well as for two-parent families, and for black as well as
white families.
Families with working mothers also had, on the aver
age, higher incomes than families where the mother did
not work.
The statistics do not tell, of course, how many mothers
are working out of choice and how many out of necessity,
how many are in “meaningful” employment and how
many are not.
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“The industrial, municipal and indivi
dual pollution descards its brown, mulky
waste into the Yellow and South Rivers
moving slowly toward Jackson lake, thus
becoming the real culprit in the death of
Lake Jackson.
“How long must man wait before he
realizes the death and destruction of Lake
Jackson and the rivers which feed it will
not only affect the thousands of individuals
that live on or near this great body of
water but will deprive many, many thou
sands more than live countless miles away
the privilege of enjoying the beauty,
tranquility and fun that Lake Jackson
gives so freely of herself? If Lake Jackson
doesnot, in the very near future, receive a
“stay” from the death that the polluters
have given, she will become like Lake Erie
and Lake Apopka. If she dies, it will be a
senseless death; a death that will only be
followed by more lakes and rivers until the
problem of water and recreation will be so
acute that the public will demand that ac
tion be taken.
“There is action being taken now by a
group of businessmen and women to try to
save Jackson Lake. These individuals
have formed a non-profit organization
known as “The Coalition for Pollution Con
trol, Inc.” with their major objectives be
ing the prevention and alleviation of pollu
tion of any form to our environment.
“This non-profit organization, of which I
am fortunate enough to serve as chair
man, has dedicated itself to the alleviation
of pollution to Jackson Lake.
“If you have been wondering what one
person can do to help alleviate the problem
of pollution, now is your chance because
Jackson Lake’s life span is growing
shorter and shorter. If you are interested
in joining the Coalition, membership is
free and you may contact The Coalition for
Pollution Control, Inc., P.O. Box 3934,
Jackson, Georgia 30233, for further in
formation.”
Changing Looks
In Family Life
BERRY’S WORLD
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Politicians All crooked?
Many people say that all
politicians are crooked. In your
opinion, is this a fair
generalisation? G. V.
You might as well say, “All
doctors are quacks, all lawyers
are dishonest, and all preachers
QUOTES
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo.-Gov.
Tom McCall of Oregon saying
California Gov. Ronald Reagan
has used his Influence as head
of me nation’s most populous
state to exact federal conces
sions from President Nixon:
“I recognize that Reagan’s
differences with the President
are sincere, but the scrapping
and the clawing have to stop, f
resent any governor holding the
President hostage.”
YOSEMITE NATIONAL
PARK, Calif.-Park Ranger
Larry Quist saying the death of
a young couple who fell over a
375-foot waterfall ignoring a
“danger” sign climbing over a
fence was the latest in tragic
accidents at the Falls:
“There’s a limit to what you
can do to protect people against
themselves.”
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are hypocrites.” You can mark
it down that when you hear a
sweeping generalization, that it
is unfair and untrue.
Generalizations come cheap,
and are usually made by un
thinking people. Unfortunately,
however, there are no federal
laws against them, and there is
no known way of keeping people
from making them.
To be a national leader is not
an easy job. You live in a glass
cage; your life is not your own,
and you are open to every
carping criticism, justified or
unjustified. In my opinion, a
man who serves his dty, his
state, or his country well, must
have a definite dedication and
integrity. True, there are a few,
just as there are in other
professions, who are unworthy
of the name, “public servant".
Great pressures are put upon
them by their constituencies,
who naturally contend for their
selfish and personal advantage.
But a public servant, worthy of
the name, must walk the tight
wire between the interests of his
constituency, and the greater
interest of his dty, state or
nation. Read “Profiles in
Courage” if you think all
politidans are crooked. A dose
study will show they are not.
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Editor