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WERE YOU under the impression rich women were less
inclined than poor women to breast-feed their infants?
Likewise. That’s wrong. The wealthier the mother, the more
apt she is to breast-feed, surveys show. Knowing this, the
medicoes now are trying to figure out why breast cancer is
more prevalent among the well-to-do girls. Most mysterious.
CONSIDER all the people in the world. Seven out of 10
don’t read newspapers, don’t listen to the radio, don’t watch
television, don't talk on the telephone A professor told me
that. “What do they do?” asked 1 Said he, “They multiply.”
ONLY NATION in the world where the men live longer
than the women is Guatemala ... EVERY FIFTH BOOK
sold nationwide is bought to be given away .... IN THE
100-YARD DASH, a good man should only touch the
ground about half the time.... THE U.S. TREASURY
DEPARTMENT bums about $25 million of worn-out paper
money every day ... AND 30 PER CENT of the country’s
shotgun shells are fired at rabbits
CUSTOMER SERVICE Q “1 made the unfortunate
mistake of calling my brother a pig at the dinner table, and
we’ve just had an hour long debate over whether pigs eat as
much pound for pound as cattle.” A. Suspect a good cow
with a large opportunity will outeat a pig, at that. Dump a
load of corn into a pigpen and the pigs will eat what they
want, then quit Cattle, though, have been known to eat
themselves to death Horses, too
WHAT KELPS a homing pigeon on its course is still a
mystery, 1 believe But scientists at Pennsylvania State
College have pioved one thing By use of powerful magnets
they can make migrating birds go astray, they claim. That’s
something
REMARKABLE how many common sayings come from
the South Pacific “Once in a blue moon,” for instance. A
volcano kicked ash into the sky over Java back in 1883. And
the moon, shining through it, looked blue. A rare sight, sure
enough Whence the blue-moon saying “White elephant”
came from down that way, too The King of Siam gave
white elephants as gifts to various notables. His secret
enemies, mostly On the surface, it looked like a goodwill
gesture Actually, these citizens couldn’t insult the king by
getting rid of the animals So they were stuck with the feed
bills Which bankrupted not just a few. Foxy fellow, the
king
“BEWARE the fury of a patient man,” said Dryden.
Suspect that’s even more apt of a patient women. Covered a
story once about a quiet lady who for 24 years watched her
husband brush his teeth every morning in the kitchen sink
and spit the toothpaste out the window. She finally shot
him
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used tn PASS IT ON wherever possible. Please address your
letters to I.■ M. Bovd, PO. Box 17076, Fort Worth, Texas
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((c) 1971. McNaught Syndicate, Inc.)
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By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Aug. 12,
the 224th 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.
Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
Christy Mathewson was born
Aug. 12, 1880.
On this day in history:
In 1658 a so-called “rattle
watch" of eight men was
formed in the colony of New
Amsterdam, the first police
force in America.
In 1851 Isaac Singer was
granted a patent for his sewing
machine, setting up business in
Boston with S4O.
In 1947 fashion designers
caused a stir by introducing
women’s dresses that reached
nearly to the ankles.
A thought for today: U.S.
author Silas Mitchell said,
“Death’s but one more tomor
row."
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THOUGHTS
He who restrains Iris
words has knowledge, and
he who has a cool spirit is a
man of under s t a n d i ng.
—Proverbs 17:27.
The knowledge of the
world is only to be acquired
in the world.—Lord Chester
field, English statesman.
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Here’s what folks
are talking about
People are talking about these as well as
other things:
—High cost of living. This still tops the
list People see no let up in continually
rising prices. Food. Clothes, Everything.
Strikes. High wage settlements with giant
industries. More people are talking about
price and wage controls.
—Doctors. Griffin needs some more
doctors. (So does just about every place
else, but you can’t educate an M.D.
overnight Takes time and money. Lots of
both. There’s talk about a new law school
in Atlanta which would be good, but what
Georgia really needs is a larger or an
additional medical college.)
—Drugs. Nine drug deaths in 10 days in
Atlanta. (Maybe more by the time this is
printed.) Governor Carter estimates as
many as 10,000 addicts in Atlanta, plans
treatment centers in the city to dispense
methadone which is a substitute, hopes
this will bring the price down so the
pushers will go elsewhere. We hope so too.
—Crime. Shooting-in-the-back of the
visiter to the Braves’ game the other night
shook people up. The Atlanta Constitution
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Noxious Litter
:$ Ever watch someone take a photograph of a lovely land
scape with one of those instant-picture cameras—and then
g drop the waste portion of the film on said landscape?
$: That’s the human animal for you, also known as the
g litterbug.
But the problem of these cameras is more than just
litter. According to Friends magazine, the film contains
:$ noxious chemicals.
:$ If blown into a lake, they poison the water. If dropped
in woods or fields, they are often eaten by animals, with
sometimes fatal results. They also stain clothing.
g The answer: A plastic litter bag to carry the scraps in
until they can be disposed of properly.
If anybody really cares about the landscape, that is.
LETS TALK
Sanctuary needed
to cope with troubles
By Rev. LEE TRUMAN
Copley News Service
What is sanctuary? By
definition it is a place of refuge,
sacred and inviolate. Because
many of us live our lives at full
throttle, we accept pressure as
normal. The bad twist is to
think when trouble is knocking
at every door that sanctuary is
a cowardly flight from reality.
But it is not that.
It is a touching of the best
reality. It is when life’s
violence comes and we do not
seek sanctuary that we drown
in our anxieties and find our
selves lost, scurrying among
confusions, very much like a
robin hopping across a
freeway. The bird has the
means and the power to rise
above the danger coming at
him from all sides. To stay
there hopping is inviting
disaster.
Sanctuary is away to find the
power to face life on wings. It is
the power which the unknown
prophet in the book of Isaiah
calls men “to renew their
strength . . . and mount up with
wings as eagles . . . run and not
be weary . . . walk and not
faint.”
All of us have access to this
power. No matter how strong
each of us might be, there
comes a time when a weakness
within us runs crying to lay
down our painful burden on
someone stronger. When that
someone stronger gives us
strength to face our burden and
to bear it triumphantly, then
we have in that moment found
sanctuary.
Mountains and the sea are
places to turn aside to, even by
proxy. A very busy housewife
who is fortunate to have
mountains to gaze at out her
kitchen window, said that when
she gets too busy, she takes
time to look at her mountains.
recommended partking downtown and
taking a shuttle bus to the stadium. We
recommend both, but fans who drive to the
stadium from Griffin and elsewhere this
side of the city shouldn’t have to go on into
town then back by bus. People should not
have to be afraid to walk on the public
streets of Atlanta or any place. But they
are and have good reason to be.
—Shopping center. Most residents near
a proposed shopping center near Crescent
School are up in arms. Don’t want it Some
of them mad as hornets.
—MARTA. Don’t blame Clayton County
people for disliking the rapid transit plan
because it just barely does plan a rail line
into the county at Forest Park while it
laces lines up and down other places. But
Atlanta desperately needs to do something
about rapid transit If Clayton County
votes against MARTA, it won’t get any
service at all.
—Trip to the moon. Glad the spacemen
are back safe. Proud that they made it
Lots of people aren’t sure about spending
all that money, though.
—Taxes. Too blankety blank high.
Many persons, not fortunate
enough to have real mountains
to look at, have such pictures in
their homes just to bring them
a moment of sanctuary.
You can find sanctuary in the
lunch hour. Music can recharge
you when you .are mentally
beaten or nervously exhausted.
A friend of mine has a set of
earphones and a tape recorder
on which are some of his
favorite works of Mendelssohn.
For the last 20 minutes of his
lunch time, he is recharging his
inner batteries, and in mid
afternoon when other men
seem to be pushed, he is
meeting his appointments with
a glint in his eye.
You can find sanctuary in
your shower. The next time you
are crowded by life, let the
warm water beat on the knots
in your neck. Then use a
spiritual absolution, the
ceremonial washing away of
vice, soil, pain and emotional
strain.
Don't sell short the old
rocking chair. One lovely lady
of my parish who had raised a
large family, shared this with
me: “Youknow, pastor, my big
rocking chair? Every af
ternoon of my life, no matter
how busy I was, I went there,
and 1 still go there, to rock
awhile just to rest my soul.”
You can very much find it in
your own church or temple, or
a moment in the quiet of a
hospital chapel, the quiet
moment of sanctuary to
replenish your inner strength
by prayer.
Persons tell me there is no
holy ground for them. No
awareness of nature, no quiet
place apart, no music, and no
matter how painful the need for
a sanctuary, it eludes them,
ilhen what?)
There is a unique drill ob
served on British vessels which
is time-honored and of proven
worth by centuries of use. It is
used in the time of disaster and
it means “The Still.” It has the
meaning of “Use your head,
and be ready to do the right,
wiser thing.” Think for a
moment — this could be a good
definition of “TTie Still.”
When this signal is given, few
men know what the wise thing
to do might be. In the calm
following, each man becomes
aware of the situation and
checks his resources. “The
Still” is the British navy’s
answer to confusion, waste or
disaster.
Few of us know what the wise
thing to do is in our personal
emergencies. “If only I knew
what to do!” the person says as
he wrings his hands. He has
forgotten the Book’s word, “Be
still and know. . .”
No matter how little you do
know or how little you think you
have faith to believe, the next
time you need a sanctuary, be
still. Stop all the activity and do
what those around you who
have found sanctuary are
doing.
The next time you are
hounded by fear, or sick at
heart with despair, go to your
local hospital ward. You are
not gifted with words? Then
take a bouquet of flowers and
leave it to say what a tongue
can never say.
Stop in on that bed-bound old
man across the street. You say
you can’t make him hear you?
He eats, doesn't he? Take him a
bowl of hot soup and some
homemade bread.
Sanctuary is where you make
it. You can find it where you
are. It can be in your church
building, on your street, in your
own home or, most important,
in your heart. It is very much
the still waters of which David
spoke. The line in the Twenty-
Third Psalm which comes
before, ‘He restoreth my
soul.”
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Forward or backward?
Ministers are always preach
ing about “Back to the Bible,”
and “Back to God.” It seems to
me that we should look forward
and not back. Am I wrong in
this? L.I.
You are half wrong and half
right. The Bible for example, is
a store-house of the garnered
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Press International
LONDON —lsraeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir, explaining
why she became a strong
woman after her election:
“The ailment was that I
wanted to be prime minister.
When I got there, most of my
problems were solved.”
WASHINGTON -Correspon
dent Bill Gill of the American
Broadcasting Co., in response
to complaints against his
coverage of President Nixon’s
visit to New Hampshire in
which he said the state was no
longer Nixon territory:
“I reported what I saw. If I
were wriring it again, I would
not change it.”
Travelogue
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trip 39 Shield bearing
4 South 40 Once existed
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country outcast
8 Cape 42 Pigpens
River, N.C. 45 High chest
12 Dined of drawers
13 Falsehoods 49 Fondling
14 Sea eagle 51 Certain sides
15 Faucet in cricket
16 Buenos 52 Mouthward
Aires, 53 Curved
18 Burst into molding
fragments 54 Shoshonean
20 Island in Indian
the Baltic 55 Number (pl.)
21 de 56 Outbuilding
Janeiro, Brazil 57 Craggy hill
22 Strays
24 Iran is an DOWN
nation 1 Carlsbad
26 Plant part Caverns
27 Pronoun denizens
30 Glossy fabric 2 Western state
32 Sticker 3 Disunites
34 Come forth 4 Greek
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wisdom of the ages. We should
not ignore this wisdom, and go
through the agony of trying to
learn for ourselves what has
been set down by the wise and
learned of the ages. A student,
for example, is majoring in
mathematics. Let us suppose
that he says? “I don’t need a
textbook. I am intelligent, I will
work out trigonometry and
calculus without a text; I will
work it out by myself.” It would
be foolish not to refer to the
textbook and take advantage of
the lessons that have been
ferreted out by many people be
fore him. It is when people are
inclined to throw away the
“textbook”, that we say, “Back
to the Bible”, or, “Back to
God.”
Mark Van Doren once said,
“The past is a burden which
crushes only those who ignore
it.” It is well for us who live to
day to take a look at history and
see where men have made
mistakes which we might avoid.
The best way to move forward
is by an occasional backward
glance to get your bearings.
“Let us remove not the ancient
landmarks which our fore
fathers have set”, says the
Bible.
Answer to Previous Puzzle
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28 Foot part
29 Gaelic
31 Exit
33 Central
American
mammal
38 Tributary of
the Delaware
40 Obnoxious
plants
41 Incited
42 Highlander
43 Biblical weed
44 Persia
46 Arrow poison
47 Preposition
48 Belgian
stream
50 Distress signal
5 Ireland
6 Miss
poignantly
7 Employ
8 Gala events
9 Goddess of
discord
10 British queen
11 Authentic
17 Regular
19 River in Italy
23 Pay back
24 On the briny
25 Male sheep
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26 Manifest
derision
27 Oatmeal
porridge
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