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BLONDES AND BRUNETTES often dye their hair, but
natural redheads rarely do so. Beauty experts report that. It
is claimed the redheads are more soft-hearted than blondes
or brunettes. More emotional. More temperamental. An old
Russian proverb says, “There never was a saint with red
hair.”
THAT IRISH-BORN architect James Hoban only got
SSOO for designing the White House .... DID I TELL YOU
a fourth of the widows in this country are under
45? .... AMONG GIRLS who work in offices, one in every
four never has anything for breakfast except coffee, the
survey-takers say .... CURRENT WAGE for a 10-year-old
child in a Java factory is about 15 cents a day .... CRIME
EXPERT Fredric Wertham seriously contends almost half the
murderers get away with it.
SHE HAD A BATH on the day she was bom. And
another on the day she was married. That’s all, two. Only
two baths in her life. Queen Isabella, the patroness of
Christopher Columbus, made public record of that peculiar
fact about herself. It’s also a matter of public record that
the majority of her courtiers kept a decent respectful
distance from the queen.
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Q. “Which did you say tended to
live the longer, the average editor or the average ad
manager?” A. Average editor, 66.5 years. Average ad
manager, 59.7 years. Already mentioned that, no? .... Q.
“What causes facial wrinkles?" A. 1. Sunshine. 2. Too much
washing. 3. Overheated rooms. In that order. Or so say the
experts.... Q “Don’t the brand new cars outnumber the
newborn babies nationwide every year now?” A. By two to
one, they do.
“HOW MUCH does the average 6-foot man weigh?”
inquires a customer Such a man goes about 166 pounds in
his early 20s, and picks up several pounds every decade until
he’s around 60, then starts trimming back. Medicoes say the
healthiest men are those who keep pretty much the same
weight from 30 to retirement. Women, too.
THE WIDELY PUBLICISED FACT that women control
more money than do men leads our Language man, that
humorist, to note, “The hand that rocks the cradle also
cradles all the rocks.” .... “WHATEVER WOMEN do they
must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult.” Charlotte Whitton said that,
peevishly.
WHAT’S HARD for a man’s mind to grasp is extreme
bigness and extreme littleness, so it seems. Believe my own
earliest notion of bigness cropped up years ago aboard a
troopship on the Atlantic. Water, water, everywhere, a
sizable number of teaspoonsful. Still, there aren’t as many
teaspoonsful of water. And that’s the fact about extreme
littleness that’s so hard to grasp, I think.
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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 17076, Fort Worth, Texas
76102.
((c) 1971, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)
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Almanac
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Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, Aug. 10,
the 222nd 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, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Leo.
President Herbert Hoover
was born Aug. 10, 1874.
On this day in history:
In 1776 a committee of
Benjamin Franklin, John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson
suggested the United States
adopt “E Pluribus Unum” as
the motto for the Great Seal.
In 1833 Chicago, with the
population at 200, was incorpor
ated as a village.
In 1943 President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Britsh Prime
Minister Sir Winston Churchill
met in Quebec for the sixth
conference of World War 11.
In 1965 a Titan missile site
explosion at Searcy, Ark., killed
53 persons.
A thought for today: Ameri
can novelist Dorothy Parker
said, “A mother is not a person
to lean on, but a person to
make leaning unnecessary.”
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good, and its fruit good; dr
make the tree bad, and its
fruit bad; for the tree is
known by its fruit.” —Mat-
thew 12:33.
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Our deeds still travel with
us from afar, and what we
have been makes us what
we are.—George Eliot, Eng
lish novelist.
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Please be careful
The Georgia Department of Public
Safety has just issued its annual report. It
shows that during the 12 months of 1970:
—Here in Spalding County, 11 people
met violent death in motor vehicle ac
cidents. (Nearly one a month!)
—ln addition, 385 were injured in
Spalding. (More than one a day, many
never to recover and lead normal lives!)
—Total Spalding accidents: 1,269.
(Between three and four a day!)
—ln connection with these wrecks, 973
arrests were made, and 957 of those
arrested were residents of Georgia, not
tourists zipping through the state. (Most of
The spectacular success of the Apollo 15 moon mission
has sent writers digging into the word barrel to try to find
any superlatives that might have been overlooked in
describing the spectacular successes of its predecessors.
Apollos 11, 12 and 14.
There aren’t any left
But this is a good thing, for their use would only tend
to obscure what was probably the most telling comment
on the mission, one which, indirectly but appropriately,
came from the mouths of children.
According to Mrs. David R. Scott, wife of the Apollo 15
command module pilot, their two children—Tracy, 10, and
Doug, 7—showed “very little emotion” as they watched
their father roam about on the moon.
“They really don’t think it as being out of the ordinary,”
she said. “Men have been flying in spacecraft as long as
they have been alive.”
Old-timers who can remember when men definitely did
not fly in spacecraft, when there weren't even such
things as artificial satellites that went "beep, beep,” are
brought up short by this kind of statement
Yet the Apollo series, and the Gemini series and Mer
cury series before it, have worked subtle changes in all
of us, whatever our ages and however much we might
profess disinterest in or opposition to the whole idea of
exploring space.
Even the New York Times, never wildly enthusiastic
about manned space flight, has gone so far as to suggest
that Apollo 15 has opened the door to the colonization of
the moon.
The superb television image that came across 240,000
miles of space was that of “a friendly moon,” it says, a
place where men could walk and ride and work with ease.
"The moon now emerges as a potentially habitable new
world with new resources. As such, it provides badly
needed hope that the growing pressures on this over
crowded, overpolluted earth may yet be eased by techni
cal progress that will make men at home on two worlds,
not just one.”
This would seem to be some little time in the future,
however. The cost of sending men to the moon, maintain
ing them there and returning them to earth is still far,
far in excess of the value of whatever new resources or
growing room might be available there for the world’s
teeming billions.
There are other obstacles. The moon’s lower gravity is
both an advantage and a hindrance. Men grown accus
tomed to it, especially moon children who might be born
and grow up in domed moon cities, could find themselves
forever cut off from mother earth.
Space could work absolute physical changes as well as
psychological ones in human beings.
Nevertheless, all this will come to pass someday. No
matter what difficult times might face the space program
in the immediate years ahead, the long-range future is
one of continuing exploration, discovery and utilization.
Having crossed the threshhold of space, we can never
completely return from it again.
And after all, men have always been flying in space
craft, haven’t they?
Professors score high
in political propaganda
By RICHMOND BARBOUR
Copley News Service
“Why are so many college
professors obnoxious?” a
woman asks. “I am a high
school teacher. This summer I
am taking classes at a
university in Los Angeles. I
have only two professors. They
spend as much time attacking
President Nixon and Gov.
Ronald Reagan as they do
teaching their subjects. Both
men are sarcastic and cruel.
They flunk students who
disagree with them. I went to a
mass meeting. It was called to
consider ways to force the
governor to give students more
money. The group chanted,
— Ronald Reagan Ronald
Reagan.' They screamed other
obscenities. Faculty members
were present and they par
ticipated enthusiastically.
Universities should be places
for rigorous intellectual and
scientific study. Self-discipline
and hard work ought to be
required. All sides of major
questions should be heard.
Instructors ought not to be
propagandists.
“The university I attend has
become an instrument for the
destruction of the U. S. A. I
think it should be destroyed,
quickly. I’ll be a good girl this
summer. I’ll pretend to agree
with my professor-fanatics.
But I despise them. Will you
print this letter?”
Answer —lam sorry you feel
as you do. I’ve listened to that
“ Ronald Reagan” chant
and other campus obscenities.
You are right when you say
that professors should not be
propaganda agents. No
Future of Moon—
Man's 2d World?
By DON OAKLEY
YOU AND YOUR PROBLEMS
university should become an
instrument for the destruc
tion of our country. However,
I’m more optimistic than you
are. I believe the atmosphere
at most colleges is improving.
Responsible faculty members
are asserting themselves.
Some administrators are
taking a firmer hand. Students
seem less hysterical. I think
that the future will be better
than the past.
The institution you attend
probably should be reformed,
but not destroyed.
Q. “I am a spinster, 67.1 hate
men. Forty-six years ago a
sweaty young man kissed me.
We were standing beside the
water cooler in our office. He
made his advance, but I
reacted quickly. I pushed him
away very hard. He staggered
back, and knocked the jar to
the floor. It broke, making a lot
of noise. The entire masculine
world is sex mad. I can smell
male lust in the air. A man of 80
and his son, aged 60, live in an
apartment across the hall from
me. They have invited me in to
watch their new color TV, I
know what they really want.
They want me to come into
their rooms so they can drug
me. Then they’ll use my body.
Recently a young man bumped
into me. I was standing in front
of the meat counter at the
supermarket. I believed he
planned to rape me. I struck
him with a can of tomatoes. He
looked very surprised, and
hurried away. What can a
spinster do to protect herself?
Shall I buy a gun and start
shooting men?”
A. Don’t buy a gun. Don’t
them lived within 25 miles of Griffin; 74.5
percent of all Georgia accidents occur
within 25 miles of home!)
—Speeding was charged in 347 of the
arrests.
—A hundred and twenty people were
charged with driving under the influence
of intoxicants. (All of them weren’t men,
far more adults than teenagers!)
—Fines, forfeitures, and costs produced
$70,240 in the county. (Which can’t begin to
pay for the heartache, property loss and
enforcement expense.)
Be careful, won’t you?
even think of shooting anyone.
Please read what I say
carefully. Your fears are
exaggerated. You’ve lived
alone, and built up your
anxieties. Try to believe me
when I tell you that you are in
no danger of being raped. Men
don’t go around attacking
elderly spinsters in super
markets. I beg you to go to one
of the psychiatrists on the list I
mailed to you. Tell him how you
feel. Ask him to help you to
become happier and more
normal. Don’t delay.
Q. “Last night my husband
and 1 stopped by to see our
daughter. It was about 10 p.m.
Our girl has been married one
year. We have thought that she
and her husband were an ideal
young couple.
“The two of us made the
mistake of walking into their
home without knocking. We
found a lively party. There
were six people present, three
females and three males. They
were having a body-painting
contest. Nude men were
painting nude women. They
had finished their fourth bottle
of champagne. Our daughter
was embarrassed, in a drunken
way. Our son-in-law laughed
very hard. The others giggled
at us. We left, thoroughly
embarrassed. I've read about
body-painting parties before.
However, I did not know that
decent people participated in
them. Should I talk with my
daughter? Is there anything I
can do to make her behave
herself?"
A. I am sorry, but there is no
way you can force your
daughter to behave herself.
BERRY’S WORLD
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"John, when you soy I'm really 'heavy,' how do you
mean that?"
ANSWER
‘What can I do?’
I would think that faith would
grow stronger with age, but
mine seems to be getting
weaker. What can I do to
strengthen my faith? L.M.
You have heard of the little
boy who fell out of bed, and
when his mother asked why, he
said: “I guess I went to sleep
too close to where I got in.” This
is what is wrong with too many
TIMELY
QUOTES
MINOT ISLAND, Maine —
President Nixon, on his forth
coming trip to Peking:
“We cannot have a genera
tion of peace unless this is a
world in which nations that
might be antagonists have a
chance to know each other, to
talk to each other.”
WASHINGTON -The U.S.
Treasury Department, in a
statement against the devalua
tion of the dollar:
“In the end, a strong trade
and payments performance
must rest on a healthy,
noninflationary domestic econo
my.”
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people, spiritually. We go to
sleep too close to where we got
in. Our spiritual life is a con
tinuing, maturing process. Our
souls need nourishment just like
our bodies, and if they are not
fed, they become weak and
emaciated.
The difference between
“saints” and ordinary believers
is that the saints work at it. The
Bible speaks of our “vocation”
in Christ. The word vocation
means “work.” We are not sav
ed because we work for Christ,
but we work for Christ because
we are saved. Just as one can
not become an accomplished
musician without practice, self
sacrifice, and dedication — one
cannot become an effective
Christian without effort. The
really fine Christians I know are
those who take their religion
seriously and give it all they’ve
got.
The Bible says, “Faith with
out works is dead,” and I guess
that’s why yours is dead. Re
establish the habit of Bible
reading, prayer, and church go
ing, and see if your soul doesn’t
begin to prosper. The Bible
says, “I would that thou wouldst
prosper even as thy soul
prospereth.”
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