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AVERAGES: The computer boys are under the
impression the average wife in this country opens two cans a
day ... .Please note also, Dr. Arthur Jensen contends the
average woman is two to five IQ points smarter than the
average man ... .And it is a matter of record, too, that the
average southern girl marries two years younger than the
average northern girl.
WHERE is he now, that indiscreet New Jersey lawman?
One night recently he sneaked his ladyfriend into his squad
car, parked in a shadowy alley, and speaking out sweet
nothings at great length, made mad passionate impetuous
love to her. Unfortunately, the amorous officer left his radio
transmitter on, and squawk boxes over the area carried that
private program. So apprised of this pretty situation later on
his shift, he promptly turned in his car, badge, gun and girl,
and went west, and the New Jersey sun did not rise upon
him again.
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CUSTOMER SERVICE: Q. “As far as pet supplies go,
don’t we spend more money on cats and dogs than on
anything else?” A. On dogs we do. But not so much on cats.
The pet supply pie is cut up like this: Dogs, 42 per cent.
Fish, 31 per cent. Birds, 16 per cent. Cats, 8 per cent.
Whatnot, 3 per cent.... Q. “Is it true that if you cut off a
starfish’s arm, the starfish will grow another arm?*’ A. That’s
right. And the arm may grow another starfish, too.
“REASON there are so many lonely old women is
because lonely old men never do anything but eat dinner
and go to sleep.*’ So writes a lively widow. “Find me a nice
clean man who likes to dance,’’ she says. “But I don’t want
a short fat one with baggy trousers who won t spend
money.” Don’t blame hei Unfortunately, have no listings at
the moment in the file on tall thin spenders in pressed
pants. The lady is 73 years of age and holding, she reports.
, A HARVARD RESEARCHER says his studies prove a
sleepless night dulls your mental edge for not just one but at
least two days... .“I CAN JUST about always tell a
woman's age by the number of wrinkle rings aiound her
neck,” claims a beautician of lengthy experience. “If she has
two, she’s 35. If three, she’s 40.” ... .THOSE STATES
wherein you’re least apt to be hit by a tornado are Alaska,
Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Jersey and Nevada.
THE ROOM was plush, and smiling girls in uniforms
served refreshments to the guests. They even passed out
tranquilizers. It was the waiting lounge for shoppers with
complaints. At a classy department store in Hamburg,
Germany Irate customers simmered there while awaiting
attention to their grievances Unfortunately, the place was so
comfortable the number of complaints doubled and
redoubled. So the room was closed Complainants now,
those few, stand in one short line.
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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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Friday/ August 27,1971
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Today is Friday, Aug. 27, the
239th day of 1971.
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The morning stars are
Saturn, Venusand Mercury.
The evening stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Venus.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Virgo.
President Lyndon Johnson
was born Aug. 27, 1908.
On this day in hisotry:
In 1859 the first oil well in the
United States was drilled near
Titusville, Pa.
In 1928 the Kellogg-Briand
Pact to outlaw war was signed
by 15 nations in Paris.
In 1939 Adolf Hitler served
notice on England and France
that Germany wanted Danzig
and the Polish Corridor.
In 1963 David Fellin and
Henry Throne were rescued
after being trapped 14 days in a
mine at sheppton, Pa.
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THOUGHTS
Now these things hap
pened to them as a warning,
but they were written down
for our instruction, upon
whom the end of the ages
has come. Therefore let any
one who thinks that he
stands take heed lest he fall
—I Cor. 10:11. 12.
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D a n ge r—if you meet it
promptly and without flinch
ing—you will reduce the
danger by half. Never run
away from anything. Never!
—Sir Winston Churchill.
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★ ★this WEEK’S SPORTS ★
Spectators and practice
No one appreciates public interest in the
Griffin High football more than Coach Max
Dow is.
He urges fans to back the team to the
fullest. In fact, just a few days ago he was
wondering what he could do to help
promote Griffin High football even more.
“This is not my football team. It belongs
to Griffin and I’m glad they support it,” he
said.
An incident a few days ago caused Coach
Dowis to reluctantly close practice for the
day.
Back to school
About 9,600 students are back in
Spalding County schools. We wish them a
happy and a successful year as the term
begins.
As things get underway, they might
consider:
—Parents and other adults - many
without children in school * have provided
excellent buildings and other physical
facilities for their use, taxing themselves to
the hilt in order to do so.
—Textbooks are free.
—Transportation is free for all those
‘I eat constantly
and I can’t stop’
My problem is eating. I eat
constantly, and I can’t stop. I
eat before meals, during meals,
and after meals. I eat every
thing I can get my hands on.
I’ve prayed for help, but I just
keep on eating. Please tell me
what I can do? Is gluttony a sin?
V.N.
There are compulsive drink
ers, compulsive smokers,
compulsive drug addicts and
compulsive eaters. The Bible
has a great deal to say about
gluttony. In Proverbs we read:
“For the drunkard and the glut
ton shall come to poverty: and
drowsiness (sloth) shall clothe a
it Personal Advice it
Alinsky teaches hatred
as organizing weapon
By FATHER LESTER
Copley News Service
Dear Father Lester:
What about the morality of
Cesar Chavez and his United
Farm Workers Organizing
Committee (UFWOC)? They
have many clergymen on their
side, yet a lot of people claim
they’re immoral in their goals
and tactics.
R.G.
Dear R. G.:
Cesar Chavez and his lieuten
ants — Fred Ross, Dolores
Huerta, Jim Drake, Chris
Hartmire, Abe Chavez, Wendy
Goepel and others — are think
alike disciples or associates of
Saul Alinsky, the Chicago
based professional organizer.
Fred Ross, for instance, has
been Alinsky’s main represen
tative on the West Coast for
some 25 years; he found and
trained Cesar and Dolores for
the boss. The ties are so close
that knowing Alinsky’s goals
and tactics means knowing
quite well those of Chavez and
UFWOC. Fortunately, Alinsky
has stated his position often
and in writing.
Throughout his book,
•‘Reveille for Radicals,” Alin
sky calls for the organizing of
the indigent, uneducated
masses to seize ownership of all
means of production and there
by rule the world. Salvation
will come through them, not
through God whose existence
Alinsky doubts. His blueprint
appears to be third-carbon
Marxism.
In that book, but more so in
his latest, “Rules for Radi
cals,” he aligns himself with
the Machiavellian principle
that the end justifies immoral
means (pp. 24-47). However,
he would improve upon
Machiavelli by “clothing” acts
and motives in “moral gar
ments” ipp. 36, 43).
Throughout his works Alin
sky also teaches the need of
A few spectators at the practice in
terfered with the drill. Coach Dowis was
forced to ask all spectators to leave.
Coach Dowis likes for fans to attend
Griffin High practice. This shows they
are interested in their team, he has said.
However, when a few people interfere
with the players’ concentration, the coach
becomes concerned and is forced to take
action to remedy the situation.
Griffin High coaches ask only one thing
of fans, who attend practice. That is: Do
not interfere.
That certainly isn’t asking too much.
beyond walking distance.
—School lunches are heavily subsidized
and cost very little. Anyone who can not
afford one can eat without charge.
—Finally, educational opportunities
never have been greater, but taking ad
vantage of them and benefiting from them
is entirely up to the individual. The public
can and does provide teachers and all the
tools for learning, but in the final analysis
it is the individual who learns and the
success of the year is entirely up to him or
her.
man with rags.” Proverbs
23:21. Paul wrote: “Whose end
is their destruction, whose God
is their belly, and whose glory is
their shame, who mind earthly
things.” Philippians 3:19.
Overeating is a common
practice of Americans. Most of
us eat much more than we
should. We could subsist on half
the calories we ingest. While
overeating, different than
drunkenness, does not incapaci
tate one, it nevertheless puts an
extra burden on the heart,
creates excessive fat, and in
general conducive to poor
health. So, since our bodies are
using hate as a unifying force,
of sowing discord within the
community in order to organize
and then fanning this hate to
keep the organization strong.
By no means are such goals
and tactics moral.
Dear Father Lester:
Does God expect less
morality from a person who is
blind, deaf or has some other
serious handicap?
Eleanor
Dear Eleanor:
No, but He may allow for spe
cial mitigating circumstances.
Physical infirmities are fre
quently less a hindrance to
leading a good moral life than
robust health. In fact, infirmity
frequently sends the afflicted to
God because of the need for
help.
Dear Father Lester:
New York passed a one-year
residency requirement for wel
fare benefits to prevent in
digents from all over the coun
try and Puerto Rico from flock
ing into the state for instant
welfare. An appeal to a higher
court claims the law is uncon
stitutional because it violates a
person’s right to travel from
state to state without being
penalized.
Who’s correct?
James A.
Dear James:
The Constitution ought to
conform to justice. Whether or
not it does in this instance is an
other matter.
The indigent is not being de
prived of any right when he
moves to New York and then is
refused instant welfare; his
title to welfare depends upon
the conditions placed on it by
the givers.
In this case the New Yorkers
have set a year’s residency re
quirement.
The people of New York have
a right to see that their charity
is not misused. They intend the
MY
ANSWER*,J]
the “temple of the Holy Spirit”,
we do violence to God’s crown
ing creation when we over
burden the digestive system,
and by being overweight make
ourselves susceptible to cardio
vascular diseases.
Overeating can become habi
tual. The mere you eat, the
more weight you carry, and the
excess weight calls for. more
food, etc. A normal appetite is a
healthy thing, but like any other
good gift, it can be abused. The
Bible says, “Whether therefore
ye eat or drink... do all to the
glory of God.” I Corinthians
10:31.
benefits mainly for citizens of
their own community who need
a helping hand; they are
neither obliged nor able to sup
port the poor of the entire na
tion.
Dear Father Lester:
In Brazil the Squadron of
Death takes justice into its own
hands and murders people it
feels are criminals who have
escaped punishment. Now a
similar organization has been
formed in the Mexican state of
Guerrero. The members claim
the police and the courts are
not doing their jobs well enough
to protect the people.
Is such vigilante action
moral 0
AIB.
Dear Al:
Government has a duty to
protect its citizens. If it fads in
its duty, the community should
retire the men responsible and
choose others who can and will
do what is expected of them. If
the community is unable to
change the men in power, it
still retains the right to protect
itself which may mean that it
must resort to vigilante action.
Such action, though, should
be a last resort because it lacks
the safeguards which under or
dinary circumstances the com
munity has for the administra
tion of justice. The verdict of a
death squad, for instance, often
is decided upon without allow
ing the defendent the oppor
tunity to defend himself. Action
is so precipitous that it can
easily be mistaken. Further
more, the power of the
vigilantes can easily be used
merely to wipe out personal
enemies or used as a terrorist
organization like the Mafia.
Address your questions to
Father Lester in care of Copley
News Service, P.O. Box 190,
San Diego, Calif. 92112. Enclose
a stamped, self-addressed en
velope, please.
BERRY’S WORLD
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"Hold it! Couldn't you just stick a few pins in me like the
Chinese do?"
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Last-Ditch Move
Nixon Signals
Candidacy
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The timing of President Nixon’s sweeping moves to
bolster the American economy gives the whole under
taking a heavy political overlay.
For some months, analysts have been saying that Au
gust was about the last moment the President could take
major steps which might ease unemployment and infla
tion in time to benefit him in a 1972 bid for re-election.
The argument runs that measures like tax cuts, invest
ment credits, a wage-price freeze and slashes in federal
spending make their impact slowly. It is estimated that if
they are instituted now or very soon, important bene
ficial effects will not be felt until March of next year.
Any sizable gains after that time, it is contended, would
come too late to help Nixon at the polls.
Whether the President accepts this reasoning is not
known, but it is a fact he has acted just within what
are seen as his danger limits.
That he has done so, and that he has acted so drastical
ly, should put at rest all doubts that he is interested in
running again in 1972.
The moves are his recognition that the economy long
since has become the big issue of the campaign—made
more prominent by the winding down of the Vietnam war.
In 1968, Nixon won four of the eight big northern states
—California, Illinois, Ohio and New Jersey—all by mar
gins of two or three per cent. He knows, and gets constant
reminders from political advisers, that he could be hard
pressed to hold those states next year if unemployment
and inflation were not moving downward substantially by
then. California, with the nation’s richest electoral vote
harvest (45), is in the worst plight of any big state.
By his broad-stroke assault on the problems, the Presi
dent, of course has put his potential 1972 Democratic
rivals into severe difficulties. Only days before he acted,
Senators Edmund Muskie and George McGovern de
livered major economic speeches to a Texas labor con
vention. Now Nixon has, for the moment, cut the heart
out of their case.
McGovern’s reaction was that of a wounded man. It
took him months to face the reality that his great issue,
the war, was not the big thing. He finally switched to the
economy, and then had to watch Nixon cut him off at the
shoetops. His blast at the President’s proposals as unwise
and inadequate is, to say the least, premature.
In the end, naturally, the months ahead will determine
whether Nixon has, for 1972 re-election purposes, robbed
the Democrats of their key issue. Should the proposals
fail to get men back to work and hold prices down, the
issue will quickly rise again to threaten him.
But if the measure works—not perfectly perhaps but
sufficiently well to bring about real improvement and
convince millions of voters the President has the capacity
to act decisively—he may find himself in a far stronger
position by spring of 1972 than he is in today.
Not the least unsetting thing for the Democratic con
tenders was the speed and magnitude of Nixon’s economic
action. As with his announcement of the visit to China,
the dramatic new thrust on the economy demonstrated
forcefully the power of the sitting president to affect the
course of events in massive and surprising ways.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
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Kenneth Rush, on emerging
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from four power talks on the
West Berlin question:
“We have made real
progress. We have completed
our review of all the points at
issue. We have been going
slowly because we want to be
sure that any agreement has the
complete support of all the four
powers and the German
people.”
WASHINGTON—Sen. George
McGovern, D-S.D., announcing
he is shifting the emphasis of
his campaign from opposition
to the war to the economy:
“I am a political realist and I
believe the state of the
economy ... is more decisive
politically.”
TRENTON, N.J. (UPI)-
Edward Henry, spokesman for
seven persons who each have
won $1 million in the New
Jersey lottery:
“The first year’s income tax
is the biggest problem of all.”
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