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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Nov, 18,1971
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A Long Nose
Is Romantic
“If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, the
whole face of the world would have been changed.”
Pascal
Cleopatra’s nose was long. Exceedingly long. That’s known
because her likeness was imprinted on coins. Today, the No. 1
desire which young ladies express to plastic surgeons is,
“Shorten my nose.” Wisdom of this wish remains in doubt.
Girls with small turned-up noses have their appeal, true
enough. But in matters of romance, notoriously long-nosed
women, like Cleopatra, have
made greater impact. Ex
perts agree on that. Unani
mously.
IMAGINE the football
crowd these blustery days will
see small boys hawking plas
tic garbage can liners in front
of the stadiums shortly. Step
in one of same, and you’ll find
nothing works quite so well
out there to keep you warm
and dry below the belt
MOST STATES outlaw the
sale of liquor to those swing
ing beginners aged 18 to 21.
But recent studies indicate
they're the country’s heavi
est drinkers. That’s odd. al
though not very,
“‘NOW we’re even,’ said
Steven, as he gave his wife
five blows." Jonathan Swift
wrote that. Report this in re
ply to a customer who wants
to know where we got the
term "Even Steven." That's
where.
NOTIONS
The Evening Walk: What a
man neglects first when his
cold gets too much is shaving
. Another way to categor
ize acquaintances is to label
each either "a natural host ”
or “a natural guest ” If
the clothes are all right,
there’s no such thing as bad
weather, never ever . . .
W h a t do you suppose an op
thalmologist calls himself
after the third martini? . . .
Anybody who prefers fresh
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“Digby's Drive-in has gone mod. It is now officially
known as the ‘Quick ’n’ Dirty'!’’
black caviar to fresh black
eyed peas must have a funda
mental button loose. I think.
IT WAS FOR the good of the
national image, he said, that
fascist Italy's Benito Musso
lini issued the following order
a generation or so ago: "Only
buxom types of women shall
be used in printed advertise
ments.” This was the large
pride of Italy, that its women
were remarkably curvacious
Still is. somewhat. Believe I
told you earlier those skinny
Paris models are outlawed
in Rome.
QUERY
Q. "Any accurate statistics
on what proportion of the
adopted children were born
to married parents?”
A. About one out of every
100, say those bureau opera
tors who ought to know.
HARDLY ANYBODY real
izes the old Devil’s Island
itself, a palm-decorated para
dise cooled by the fresh sea
breezes, never hosted more
than a dozen French prison
ers at any one time. Was like
rest-and-recreation-ville. But
the big penal colony on the
mainland was pretty rotten,
maybe you know.
Addrets mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 L. M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, Nov. 18,
the 332nd day of 1971.
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The morning star is Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Scorpio.
American astronaut Alan
Shepard was born Nov. 18,1923.
On this day in history:
In 1883 the United States
adopted Standard Time and set
up four zones, Eastern, Central,
Mountain and Pacific.
In 1903 Panama and the
United States signed a treaty
for the building of the Panama
Canal.
In 1967 Britain devalued the
pound to make it officially
worth $2.40.
In 1969 astronauts Charles
Conrad and Alan Bean made
man’s second landing on the
moon in the lunar module of
Apollo 12.
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THOUGHTS
The devising of folly is
sin, and the scoffer is an
abomination to men. If you
faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.—
Proverbs 24:9, 10.
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Genuine morality is re
served only in the school of
adversity; a state of con
tinuous prosperity may
easily prove a quicksand to
virtue.—Johann Schiller, Ger
man poet and dramatist.
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viewpoint
Downtown Griffin
The Chamber of Commerce continues to
push its “save downtown Griffin” cam
paign. We are glad because it needs to be
saved.
Progressive merchants, courteous store
personnel, extensive off-street parking
and other factors have “saved” it thus far.
The combination has been so successful, in
Visitors are coming
We note with interest that represen
tatives from Disney World may come to
Griffin and tell about their tourist at
traction down the road in Florida.
So far, gas station personnel, people who
work in motels, and folks at restaurants
tell us that they have not noticed much
change in business since the giant
Those big trucks
A report from the Georgia Motor
Trucking Association says that trucks’ fuel
tax is 26 percent of state grants to Georgia
towns and counties for streets and roads.
Examining the report closer, we find that
it says that Georgia counties and
municipalities received $25,433,517 in state
grants for use on streets and roads in fiscal
1970-71 and that trucks supplied $6,739,882
from highway use taxes paid the state.
Slide downhill
The idea that one person can put his
finger in the dike is not new, by any means.
But many who are disgusted by current
mores, either as participants or as
spectators, do not have the courage to
buck the “trend.”
A tax lid is needed
By FATHER LESTER
Copley News Service
Dear Father Lester:
Aren’t property taxes unfair
when the retired person with an
average pension can’t afford to
pay the taxes on the home
which he bought and paid for
long ago?
Lawrence L.
Dear Lawrence:
Government is obliged to
safeguard and promote
freedom for its citizens so that
so far as possible within
community living they are free
to direct their own lives and
fortunes.
But ordinarily this freedom
depends greatly upon financial
security. People who are not
beholden to someone else’s —
including the government’s —
smiling favor for their
livelihood walk and talk like
men should; otherwise they
tend to lose their manliness
through subservient fear and
along with it their freedom.
Hence, except in a dire
emergency like war, taxes
should never be so high that
people of average income are
forced to sell their homes. If
such people are losing their
financial security, then the
government is being
mismanaged.
Dear Father Lester:
Are parents morally correct
who refuse heart surgery for
Increase in wickedness MY Rife
ANSWER ',J!
is cause for concern \
I am concerned about the increase in
wickedness in the world. Has God fatted?
S.H.
It is man that fails, not God. God has
done everything necessary to transform
man but He has left the right of decision to
man and the wickedness you see in the
world is only too often man’s answer,
either by defiance or through indifference.
God knows man’s predicament and sent
His Son to solve it. John 3:16, the best
known verse in all the Bible, tells us that
out of love God sent His Son. All man has to
do is to believe in Him but there is the
solemn alternative — believe or perish.
fact, that Griffin presently has less ex
tensive shopping centers away from
downtown than many places this size.
More are coming, though, and existing
ones are expanding. So the handwriting is
on the wall. It says that dramatic action
will be required before long. Perhaps the
proposed downtown mall will be just the
thing.
amusement area opened. It is a little early
for much travel from the Midwest and
other sections which account for a great
deal of traffic through Georgia to Florida,
so it probably will pick up before long. In
the meantime, we hope the Disney people
do come to town for a visit. Lots of folks
from here will be going there. Turn about
is fair play.
Locally, the state paid $59,992 to Spalding
County and $122,188 to the City of Griffin, a
total of $182,180. Trucks paid enough to
supply $48,278 of this.
It is irritating to get behind a big truck
on the highway, but realizing these figures
makes it less so, and most truck drivers
are courteous and keep in the slower
traffic lane.
Every one who does have that strength
of conviction can influence others to do the
same; otherwise the downhill slide of
public morals and tastes can only
accelerate.
Tulsa (Okla.) World
their newly born Mongoloid
infant?
Sally R.
Dear Sally:
No one is bound to take ex
traordinary means for
preserving his life. Parents
speak for their minor children.
According to my medical
informants, an infant who
would be observably Mongoloid
at birth probably (1) would
have some other major
physical problem, like the one
calling for heart surgery, (2)
would reach only the lowest
rung of the intelligence ladder
for Mongoloids and (3) would
have a very short life ex
pectancy. They seemed to
agree that nature was wise in
taking the child quickly.
Under such conditions,
therefore, heart surgery would
certainly be extraordinary
means of preserving the in
fant’s life. The parents can
morally refuse the operation.
Dear Father Lester:
Can a man play around and
still love his wife?
C. B.
Dear C. B.:
He may love his wife, but not
with the strength and type of
love which will keep him from
betraying his promise to
remain faithful to her.
Dear Father Lester:
What do you think about Curt
Flood’s complaint over the
The Bible nowhere teaches that all men
will believe. It tells plainly that times such
as ours are coming: “And because
wickedness is multiplied, most men’s love
will grow cold. But he who endures to the
end will be saved.” Many things we see
today indicate their Satanic origin. In
Revelation 12:12 we read: “But woe to
you, O earth and sea, for the devil has
come down to you in great wrath, because
he knows that lis time is short.” The evil
about us may be a sign of the last days, we
do not know. But we do know that God’s
love and mercy, His offer of forgiveness
and cleansing in Christ, are still open to all
who believe.
players’ contract in
professional baseball?
Baseball has a “reserve
clause" which binds the player
to the team that signs him and
allows it to trade or sell him
without his consent. His only
option is to quit, and then his
playing days are over.
Isn’t that a form of slavery,
as Flood says? Shouldn’t it be
ruled illegal?
AIS.
Dear Al:
From my understanding, the
“reserve” system keeps
baseball talent scattered
evenly among the teams so that
competition remains close and
interesting.
Seemingly, without the
“reserve” system, the team
with the most money would buy
up the best players and thereby
end competition which makes
the sport interesting and a
money-getter.
If there is no way of keeping
professional baseball alive
except through the monopoly
which the “reserve clause”
gives the team, the players who
freely consent to join the team
have no just complaint. As long
as they want to play ball, they
have to go along with the
conditions which make the
game possible.
Address questions to Father
Lester in care of Copley News
Service, P. O. Box 190, San
Diego, Calif. 92112, enclosing a
stamped, self-addressed en
velope.
BERRY’S WORLD
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© 1971 by NEA,
"You don't do that in PUBLIC, do you?"
RAY CROMLEY
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U.S. to Dicker on
Trade Restrictions
By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)
President Nixon and Treasury Secretary Connally are
getting ready to compromise with the Europeans and the
Japanese on the 10 per cent surtax and the floating
dollar.
Instead of holding out for a major overhaul of foreign
discriminatory practices, the United States will settle
for modest revaluations of major currencies and prom
ises by the chief trading nations that they will seriously
study what can be done to lessen discrimination against
American goods.
The hope is for a new yen value 13 to 14 per cent
above the August rate and comparable, though not nec
essarily quite so large, official shifts in other major cur
rencies.
The new rates hoped for are, in general, not far from
the levels most currencies have now reached on the
world’s exchange.
There will be no attempt to hold feet to the fire —in
Japan, Western Europe, Canada or elsewhere —in con
trast to the broadly hinted implications of toughness in
official public statements made here after Nixon’s origi
nal announcement.
The compromise will not come in one statement but in
a series of concessions in return for the new exchange
rates and understandings.
The reason for this new shift is simple. Administration
men at the highest levels believe the maximum effect of
Nixon’s “shock” tactics has been achieved. To continue
with the hard line would give rise to counteractions so
serious they would leave the United States worse off
than before the August actions.
So far as can be determined, however, there is no dis
illusionment with the “shock” gambit. The men this re
porter has talked to believe that without that original
August move by Nixon, no country would have taken us
seriously.
But now that time has passed, our trading partners
are becoming increasingly edgy. Some, in fact, have
turned bitter in private as well as in public.
Some of our closest allies have found their trade with
the United States slipping down disastrously to a level
never anticipated by the American planners. This heavy
downturn has taken place primarily because of the un
certainties surrounding the Nixon-Connally action.
Officials here now realize that this uncertainty must
end if there is not to be irreversible damage to our re
relationships and to the economies of some of our
staunchest supporters around the world.
It also seems to officials here now that negotiating for
fair trade practices, while vitally important, will take so
long and involve so many nations, directly and indirectly,
that it would be unwise to hold foreign countries under
the pressure of the “universal" 10 per cent surtax until
U.S. aims are achieved.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
TIMELY QUOTES
By United Press International
FT. MEADE, Md.-Col. Oran
K. Henderson, charged with
covering up atrocities in the My
Lai massacre, after Capt.
Ernest Medina testified he did
not tell Henderson about
American troops killing civi
lians:
“I think he helped me.”
KARACHI—A foreign diplo
mat, on present relations
between India and Pakistan:
“It is virtually impossible to
avoid war between India and
Pakistan.”
SAN FRANCISCO—U.S. Ap
peals Judge J. Warren Madden,
in a majority opinion upholding
an Air Force regulation that
officers who became pregnant
must be honorably discharged:
“We are not persuaded that it
(the regulation) is either
arbitrary or irrational.”
SANTIAGO—Cuban Premier
Fidel Castro, on being asked if
all the protocol during his trip
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domesticated. That is a joke.”
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FACTS
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Thanksgiving Day was
proclaimed a national holi
day, to be observed on the
fourth Thursday in Novem
ber by President Abraham
Lincoln on Oct. 3, 1863, The
World Almanac recalls. In
July, 1863, Lincoln desig
nated Thursday, Aug. 6.
1863, “to subdue the anger
which has produced and so
long sustained a needless
and cruel rebellion.”
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