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MISTER, IF you're 61 years old, you can expect to live
at least another 15 years. If you’re $6, expect another 18. If
you’re 51, expect 22 more. If you’re 46, expect an
additional 26. And if you’re 41, count on still another 30
years. So report the insurance statisticians.
YOU’VE BOBBED for apples, I take it At a Halloween
party maybe. A civilized game. But it’s an outgrowth of an
uncivilized game. The villagers in old England years ago
played what they called Mumble-Sparrow. They clipped a
sparrow’s wings and put it in a hat. Then a circle of
benevolent contestants with their hands behind their backs
bumped foreheads to see who could bite the sparrow’s head
off. Oh, you are a sport, Cynthia!
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Q. “Where did Russia get its
name?” A. From a band of Vikings called the Rus.... Q.
“Where was the world’s worst railroad wreck?” A In
Modane, France. On Dec. 12, 1917. A passenger train
derailed, killing 543 persons ..... Q. “What does the name
Raymond mean, or what did it mean originally?” A. Wise
protection. Our whimsical Name Game man suggests soldiers
called Raymond do just dandy on guard duty .... Q. “How
much would a million $1 bills weigh?” A. Just 2,340
pounds, I m told .... Q. “How long does it take the average
tonsillectomy patient to recover?” A. 10.2 days.
“IS IT SAFE to feed beer to a baby?” inquires a
feminine subscriber. Can’t say, that’s a medical matter.
Wouldn’t do it personally, though safe it probably be. It’s a
fact that when the Nazis confiscated most of the milk from
a dairy section of France during World War 11, the French
mothers thereabouts kept their babies alive on beer.
IF YOU STACK all the women in the country in one pile
and all the men in another, the stack of women will weigh
85 per cent as much as the stack of men .... IT WAS
NONE OTHER than the Duke of Windsor who said, “The
thing that impresses me most about America is the way the
parents obey their children.”
IN THOSE TESTS to determine the masculinity and
femininity of individuals, nurses tend to rank high in male
characteristics while doctors ordinarily rank fairly high tn
female traits. Such is widely known. In this connection,
what’s noteworthy is male nurses rarely show signs of
femininity and lady physicians appear to be exceptionally
devoid of masculinity How do you account for this oddity?
WHAT S THE TOWN nearest you with a population of
80,000 residents’ Whatever its name, its about the size of
Knossos on the Mediterranean island of Crete more than
2,000 years ago That was the biggest city m the world right
up to the time of Christ
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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 1 70'6, Fort Worth, Texas
76102.
lie) 1971, McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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Wednesday, August 11,1971
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Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 11,
the 223rd day of 1971.
The moon is between its full
phase and last quarter.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Leo.
American song writer Carrie
Bond was born Aug. 11, 1862.
On this day in history:
In 1909 the first radio SOS
was received when the liner
“Arapahoe” messaged for help
off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
In 1954 a formal peace
announcement in Indochina
ended the 7Mt-year war between
the victorious Viet Minh and
the government of France.
In 1962 a Soviet cosmonaut
was launched into space on a
four-day trip.
In 1965 Negroes began rioting
in the Watts section of Los
Angeles. During the six days of
violence, 34 persons were killed
and 856 injured.
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THOUGHTS
Jesus then said to the
Jews who had believed in
him. “If you continue in my
word, you are truly my dis
ciples. and you will know
the truth, and the truth will
make you free.” —John 8:31,
32
C G o
Truth is tough; it will not
break, like a bubble, at a
touch; nay, you may kick it
about all day like a football,
and it will be round and full
at evening.—Oliver Wendell
Holmes, poet
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How are we doing?
With the flight of Apollo 15, the United States-Russia
man-in-space boxscore now reads:
U.S. RUSSIA
Man Flights 25 18
Multi-man flights 19 9
Moon Vicinity Flights 7 9
Moon Landing Flights 4 q
Man Hours 7,856 4,402
Men in space 53 32
Space moon walks 22 3
xTime outside caps’le 99 40
Rendezvous missions 12 6
Man’v’able spacecraft 25 9
Space linkups 15 3
Space-related deaths 3 4
x-United States 99 hours, Russia 40 minutes.
PERSONAL
Pregnancy
worries
14-year-old
By PAT And MARILYN DAVIS
Copley News Service
Dear Pat and Marilyn:
I am 14 years old and I think I
am pregnant. My parents have
never talked to me about love,
life or sex. I guess that I was
just stupid. When we had a film
in school the other day, I was
upset. Some of the things that it
told about were not the way I
had thought at all.
After going to the library and
reading about pregnancy. I
have little doubt that I am
pregnant. I can’t tell my
parents. They would not un
derstand. How can I go on? I
feel betrayed by everyone.
Betrayed
Dear Betrayed:
There must be a counselor,
teacher, or clergyman you can
talk with. You could call your
family doctor and ask his
advice. These people can direct
you wisely. Do not hesitate to
go.
Do not feel betrayed by your
parents. It is difficult for many
parents to dispense the facts of
life to their children. Talk with
them. If they are like most
parents, you will be surprised
by their understanding of your
difficult problem.
Dear Pat and Marilyn:
My mother is an alcoholic. I
have heard all the garbage
about it as an illness. Well, my
mother drinks because she
enjoys it. She can go weeks
without a drink and then
wham! She is out on a three
day binge. She brings her
friends over and they mess up
the house and freeload. I keep
house while she works part
time and I am sick of cleaning
up after a bunch of drunks.
How can I live this way?
I am 18 and want a life of my
own. My father left home for
parts unknown, but I always
had hope for my mother. This
has been going on for about ten
, years and my life is about as
bleak as it can get.
I need help.
Help
The Ecotage Contest,
Anti-Pollution Or Sabotage?
The Moultrie Observer
Perhaps the Department of Justice and
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
should take a look at the contest being
sponsored by a group labeling them
selves the agency for Environmental
Action. Judging by news reports from
Washington, some strange ideas are
being collected for compilation into a
book.
The nation’s principal industries seem
to be the target of the complaints and
threats from the anti-pollutionists, who
are crying out that they intend to “stop
corporate irresponsibility.”
The ecotage contest (said to be ecology
plus sabotage), on the face of ideas
already expressed, could easily turn out
to be a textbook for sabotaging industry
or any other phase of our industrial,
business, agricultural or educational life
in the future.
Contestants have proposed everything
from chain-garbage packets mailed to
industrialists to the kidnaping of key
industrial personnel for ecological
ransom. Seemingly, a large number of
the ideas being entered in the contest,
which ends September 1, have to do with
things which will not only sabotage per
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point
Dear Help:
Contact your local chapter of
Alcoholics Anonymous. They
will be able to advise you. They
will, no doubt, suggest that you
become involved in Alateen, a
group of teen-agers of alcoholic
parents. Perhaps your mother
can be persuaded to attend AA
meetings. lx?t me know if you
receive the help needed.
Dear Pat and Marilyn:
1 finally talked my mother
into allowing me to buy a pair
of hot pants. I did not get an
outfit that was skintight or too
short, and my mother did not
object. But I also bought a pair
of boots to go with the hot
pants. You should have heard
the explosion. My mother said
the pants were bad enough but
that the boots were impossible
and that I must return them to
the store. What is wrong with
boots?
Fashion Flop
Dear Fashion:
I don’t think anything is
wrong with boots. I think your
mother felt you should have
asked her before purchasing
them. Give mom a little more
time to become accustomed to
the new styles and then take
her on a shopping trip. You
may have better luck with this
approach.
Dear Pat and Marilyn:
Why is it that all teen-agers
insist that long hair and in
dividuality are one and the
same?
So far as 1 can see. those long
tresses make them all look
alike. All you can see is hair
and no face. I have seen fads
come and go and they all seem
to have one thing in common.
People tend to feel that doing
something different will set
them apart and make them
noticed. Being different on the
outside has never made a name
in history for anyone. It is what
is on the inside that counts.
Grandma
Dear Grandma:
Amen!
Confidential to L. L.:
You are better off without
him than with his bills. Forget
the past and concentrate on the
future.
If you have a question, write:
Pat and Marilyn Davis, Copley
News Service, P. O. Box 190,
San Diego, Calif. 92112.
se, but cause interruption and do severe
monetary damage to property.
The American system is broad and
flexible, guaranteed by the world’s finest
legal documents—the Constitution and
Bill of Rights. But nothing conceived by
the framers of the Constitution or upheld
by the Congresses and the Supreme
Courts since that time has given any
right or unstated latitude to use violence
and sabotage to halt progress or correct
an abuse which can be handled by legal
and civil means.
The whole contest scheme would ap
pear to be the collection of ideas for
disrupting, halting or slowing industrial
operations in the United States—which
we all know to be a principal difference
in strength between this country and
other nations of the world. There does not
seem to be any interest in receiving ideas
which would help industry and national
economy, yet cure the polluting factors.
Under such circumstances, it appears
logical for the Justice Department and
FBI to make an inquiry into the contest
and keep a close tab on what occurs after
the ideas have been received and com
piled.
BERRY’S WORLD ,
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“Who do you think will be more inscrutable, Nixon or me?"
MY
ANSWER
The ‘average’ Christian
Please tell me what you mean
by “average Christian.” Do you
believe that the average Chris
tian is saved? N. Y.
Too many of us are so in
volved in the numerous activi
ties of the church — member-
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Press International
SPACE CENTER, Houston -
Apollo 15 commander David R.
Scott, on the Hadley-Apennine:
“If you go some place as
beautihil and fascinating as
that, and you spend three very
intense, interesting days, you
really get attached to it, you
really do.”
ROSE LAWN, Ind. -Dick
Drost, owner of the Naked City
nudist camp, observing the new
Miss Nude America, Valerie
Craft:
“She has a very, very nice
tan —aU over.”
A thought for today: French
writer Victor Hugo said, “A
compliment is something like a
kiss through a veil.”
Persian Market
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38 Lock of hair
40 Social insect
41 Pronoun
42 Mountain
crest
45 is its
capital
49 Lease
50 African worm
52 One of the
Hebrides
53 Poker stake
54 Auricle
55 Rave
56 South African
Huguenot
57 Table scrap
58 Son of Seth
(Bib.)
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2 Bellow
3 Singing voice
4 Required
5 Corpulent
6 At this time
ACROSS
1 Official name
of Persia
5 West Pakistan
is of its
neighbors
8 Ancient
country north
of Persian gulf
12 Flatfish
13 Lad
14 Row
15 Tardy
16 Female sheep
17 High cards
18 Eats away
20 Boils slowly
21 Before
22 Malt brew
23 Plant ovules
26 Most beloved
30 Too
31 Forward
32 Southern
general
33 Girl’s name
34 Cotton fabric
35 Oriental coin
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ship drives, financial drives,
building programs, and church
promotion, that we have often
lost sight of the real meaning of
being a Christian. Oddly none of
the above (though all are im
portant) have anything to do
with being a Christian. A Chris
tian in the New Testament
sense is a person who has com
mitted himself to Christ so
completely that everything else
becomes secondary. Christ is a
living Lord; the Bible is a living
Book; and the Church is a living
institution.
When I say “average Chris
tian” I mean the average “pro
fessed Christian.” Let’s face it:
the average professed Christian
isn’t often found feeding on the
word of God; isn’t often found
on his knees; isn’t often found
trying to win his neighbors and
friends to Christ; isn’t often
found doing good in Christ’s
name, without expectation of
pay.
You ask, “Is the average pro
fessed Christian saved?” To be
a Christian in name is not
enough. Our Lord said; “Many
will come to me in that day and
say Lord have we not done
many wonderful works in your
name?” And He will say, “De
part from me, I never knew
you.”
Answer to Previous Puzzle
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29 Number (pl.)
31 Confined
34 Unaspirated
37 Substance
38 Article
39 Hire again
41 Beginning
42 It is an
nation
43 Nevada city
44 Grafted (her.)
46 Horse color
47 In the year of
(Latin)
48 Burmese
wood sprites
50 Man's name
51 Boat paddle
7 Organ of sight
8 Click-beetle
9 Parasitic
insects
10 Afresh
11 Disorder
19 Bitter vetch
20 Lath
22 Air
(comb, form)
23 Levantine
ketch
24 Within
(comb, form)
25 Type of cheese
26 Car damage
27 Otherwise
28 Views