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L HL BOYD
'Do It Now' Is
Tricky Tack
“The man who tries never to be wrong will over
study every situation. And overstudy can be a serious
waste of time.”
Herman C. Cannert
Executives, please note. Mr. Cannert knew his onions. An
undecided fellow, trying to examine all the angles, can freeze
up. As old Matthew Arnold said, "He will hesitate and falter
life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today." Still,
there’s some argument for slow deliberation. You’ve heard
about the businessman who one morning posted "Do it now"
signs all over his office? By noon, his bookkeeper quit, his
secretary eloped with the
sales manager, and the of- a. Oldest known whale
fice boy ran off with petty
cash.
MURDERS
Has it been reported that
fewer souls are murdered,
citizen for citizen, in lowa
than in any other state?
That state wherein the larg
est number are done in, per
capita, is Alabama.
IT WAS NOT in Ireland,
but in Boston, where the Irish
became famous for their
love of corned beef and cab
bage. That was when corned
beef there sold for a nickel
a pound.
HOW CAN YOU call your
self an old army expert, if
you can’t name the two
categories of men in that
service who are addressed
officially as “mister”?
UNDERSTAND it is gen
erally agreed upon by the
11,700 female postmasters
in the United States that they
don't like to be called post
mistresses. All right?
TO YOUR LIST of fancy
facts, please add that 57 per
cent of the college students
in this country own cars, 75
per cent own typewriters, 88
per cent own wristwatches.
QUERY
Q. "How long do whales
live, ordinarily?”
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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died at age 37. Some may
live considerably longer,
though. All the science boys
know for sure is the big
whales usually can live be
yond 30, if they don't get
harpooned.
WHAT SORT of “other
woman” does a man prefer,
if any? Probation officers in
the domestic relations courts
of New York City did a study
on this. And they claim
there's most usually a re
markable resemblance be
tween a philanderer's wife
and his paramour. Some
times in looks, sometimes in
personality. They conclude
an unfaithful man tends to
pick his women as to type,
not individuality. Remember
that, young lady. If you are
a fair-haired voluptuous
wife with a beauty mark on
your cheek, beware of other
fat blondes with moles. Wait,
check that. Too flip.
CERTAINLY don’t under
stand the attitude of old
George I, onetime king of
England. He neither spoke
nor wrote the English
language. Further, in his 13-
year reign, he didn’t even
bother to try to learn it. Some
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Address mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 I. M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
Today is Friday, Dec. 3, the
337th day of 1971.
The moon is between its new
phase and last quarter.
There are no morning stars.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
Those bom on this day are
under the sign of Sagittarius.
American portrait painter
Gilbert Stuart was born Dec. 3,
1755.
On this day in history:
In 1818 Illinois entered the
Union as the 21st state.
In 1833 Oberlin College in
Ohio, the first truly co
educational school in America,
opened its doors with an
enrollment of 29 men and 15
women.
In 1929 the Ford Motor Co.
raised daily wages from $6 to
$7 despite the collapse of the
stock market.
In 1948 the nation learned
that microfilm of secret Ameri
can documents had been found
in a hollow pumpkin on the
Maryland farm of Whittaker
Chambers.
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THOUGHTS
Proclaim this among the
nations: Prepare war, stir
uv the mighty men. Let all
the men of war draw near,
let them come up. Beat your
plowshares into swords and
your pruning hooks into
spears: let the weak say, “I
am a warrior.” —Joel 3:9, 10.
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There never was a good
war or a bad peace.—Benja
min Franklin.
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★ -Ar THIS WEEK'S SPORTS EDITORIAtir ★
Slumping Hawks
For a team that was picked by some
experts to win their division, the Atlanta
Hawks are sure having problems.
The season isn’t 25 games old yet and
they have fallen to the bottom of the
Central Division, four games behind the
division-leading Bullets.
If the Hawks were in the Midwest or
Pacific Division they would be at least 14
games out of first place.
Coach Richie Guerin, dean of NBA
coaches, is puzzled by the Hawks’ poor
showing.
Os course, Pete Maravich's illness,
This is coining to Ga.
A county includes everything and
everybody within its borders, including all
the people who lives within a town or city
inside it
In this connection, a Superior Court
judge has ruled that a county is
responsible under the constitution of
Georgia for the health and well-being of all
the people in it, including city residents.
The precise ruling makes the City of
Social Circle and Walton County co
defendants in an action brought by the
‘Conversationalist ’
By JACKIE STEFANICH
Copley News Service
Dear Nana:
I certainly enjoy reading
your column as I’m 70 years old
and a partial shut-in.
I have a hobby of “cutting
clippings” and I’m interested
in travel, conversation, ani
mals, children, etc. But I live
alone and have few visitors, so
I don’t have anyone to talk to
about these clippings.
Could you give me any sug
gestions as to how I could get
the names and addresses of
people who live alone or in rest
homes who don’t get much
mail?
I’d like to write short notes,
comments about my clippings
to someone who’d be interested
in corresponding with me. I
don’t have much income and
couldn’t write too much as I
have arthritis in my hands.
I don’t want to listen to per
sonal troubles or politics, just
good conversation.
Pen Pal
Dear Pen Pal:
As you happen to live in an
area where there are many
convalescent hospitals, rest
homes and retirement centers,
you shouldn’t have any diffi
culty finding some interesting
pen pals.
Therefore, I suggest you con
tact the head nurse or adminis
trator of these facilities. I’m
sure they’ll be able to give you
the names of those people
who’d like to correspond with
you.
Remember, there are a great
many people just like yourself
who appreciate good conversa
tion in these homes.
Dear Nana:
I didn’t much like your an
swer to “Gone” concerning her
plea regarding mercy killings
as you didn't point out the real
villains in these cases.
I know all about the Hip
pocratic oath doctors take, so
it’s up to those who love their
doomed ones to insist that
keeping such patients arti
ficially alive can’t be endured.
Minister believes
in family worship
Our minister believe in family worship
in the home. I think that church is the
place for worship, and it is not necessary
to have family worship. L.N.
No less a man than J. Edgar Hoover has
said: “If there is to be peace and happi
ness in our homes, then we as a nation
must return to God, and to the practice of
daily family altars.”
You speak of the church, but did you
know that in New Testament times,
practically all worship was conducted in
homes and in a family atmosphere?
One does not need theological training to
which kept him out of the lineup until last
week, hurt some. However, his absence
shouldn’t have been disastrous.
And super Lou Hudson missed a few
games because of an injury. Even his
absence shouldn’t have caused a complete
collapse.
Apparently the Hawks, for some reason,
just aren’t playing up to their potential.
Coach Guerin had the Hawks on the
move late last season. We believe he will
snap them out of their current slump.
We just hope its not too late for them to
live up to expectations.
State Health Department to halt operation
of an illegal garbage dump and force the
city and county to develop a landfill
system. The ruling is being appealed, and
it if holds up the effect probably will be to
require cooperation between cities and
counties throughout the state.
Another less immediate effect likely will
be the consolidation of many city and
county governments in Georgia. This will
take some time, but as sure as little green
apples grow on trees, it is coming.
The innate dignity of man no
longer exists in such cases,
with intravenous feeding, oxy
gen tents and unspeakable
treatments.
The convalescent hospitals
can’t be blamed. This is their
job. But I do question the doc
tors and pharmacists who take
a lot of cream off the top at the
expense and misery of both the
patients and those who love
them.
My main complaint about
convalescent hospitals is that
more money is spent on medi
cation than on food. “Keep
them alive artificially and half
starve them” would be a good
slogan for those profit-making
places.
Most of the prisoner patients
would rather be dead. I know,
I’m one of them.
H.O.
Dear H. 0.:
I’m afraid I can’t argue for or
against your complaints re
garding the convalescent hos
pital where you are staying as I
don’t know all the circum
stances. But I do know that I’d
leave any convalescent hos
pital or other facility that I
wasn’t satisfied with.
And as mercy killings and
medical treatment during this
time are a difficult subject to
discuss, I think that brings us
right back to the answer I gave
“Gone.” Who wants to play
God in making these decisions?
However, I do think your
criticism of the doctors, phar
macists and convalescent hos
pitals is rather strong, as all of
these people are governed by
laws that require them to do a
certain amount to try to pro
long the life of any individual
regardless of age.
And where that line is to be
drawn I don’t know. But I do
know I wouldn’t want that re
sponsibility. Would you?
Dear Nana:
Sometime ago I noticed in
your column that you offered a
pattern of a dock date calen
dar.
And I’m sure it’s very lovely
when finished. But what about
read the Scriptures, and lead in a simple,
sneere prayer with your family.
Family devotions strengthen the faith of
the household, and convey to the children
the fact that God and Christ are real.
Family worship helps to unify the
family, to fortify against misunderstand
ing, bickering, and frustration.
It makes Christ relevant to everyday life
— not just a brief hour of mechanical
worship on Sunday morning.
We practice family worship in our home,
I highly recommend it—l consider it more
important than eating and sleeping for our
household.
those unfortunate people (like
myself) who aren’t talented,
don’t do handiwork and can’t
afford the $125 to purchase one
like you mentioned?
Last month 1 saw an ad for a
Ring-A-Date-Calendar in the
home section of our Sunday
paper, advertised by a gift shop
at a very reasonable price.
I sent for it and my husband
mounted it on a peg board,
using a clock we already had. I
thought this might be a good
idea for those who like me are
un talented.
My grandchildren have had a
lot of fun with my date calendar
and it’s certainly a good substi
tute for the expensive one.
I’m enclosing the name and
address of the gift store where I
got mine as well as the manu
facturer who makes them.
Untalented
Dear Untalented:
Thank you very much for the
information pertaining to the
Ring-A-Date-Calendar. I’ll be
glad to pass it on to those who
may be interested in this item.
Dear Nana:
I’m not positive but I thought
you mentioned in your column
that you answered every letter
you receive. Is that correct?
Well, I’m one person who can
prove that’s not true.
Some time ago I wrote you
concerning a problem that was
very important to me. And so
far I haven’t heard a word from
you, advising me about my
problem.
How do you explain this?
No Answer
Dear No Answer:
Yes, it’s true. I answer every
letter I receive.
However, there can be a very
good reason why you haven’t
had an answer from me con
cerning your problem.
Did you enclose a self-ad
dressed, stamped envelope?
At the present time I have a
vast pending file of letters I
can’t answer as the writers
didn’t enclose a self-addressed,
stamped envelope. And some of
them didn’t even bother to give
me their name and address.
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"How do you see Nixon's visit, comrade—is the party
becoming more liberal or more conservative?"
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A national magazine recently pictured the travail of
residents of the country’s biggest city, showing how they
have been forced literally to imprison themselves in their
apartments behind barred windows and double-, triple- or
quadruple-locked doors.
Even so, most of them have experienced break-ins
despite their most elaborate precautions.
At about the same time, a newspaper in the same city
described the problems of the residents of one fashion
able street in the East 70s—specifically, the problem of
finding parking spaces for their cars, as well as finding
the cars themselves if they were left unwatched for any
length of time.
New York, fortunately, is unlike any other place in the
country. Yet the crime problem its citizens must contend
with, while larger than that of any other city simply be
cause New York is larger, is the same kind of crime
problem more and more Americans are beginning to
worry about and to know first-hand, even in small towns.
And there is a very startling truth which can be read
between the lines in both these articles:
Just as there must be two dishonest people for any
confidence game to work—the con man and his greedy
victim—those who pillage apartments or steal cars or
hijack trucks or rob stores would be stuck with their
goods, which they really have no use for, were there not
someone willing to buy their merchandise at an attractive
discount.
For instance, one of the car owners in the newspaper
article had two hubcaps stolen. He was advised to let it
be known that he was in the market for two replace
ments, and he would have done so except that he was
afraid that thieves would steal his two remaining hub
caos and try to sell them back to him.
Unlike confidence-game crime, however, there is usual
ly a third party involved in robbery and burglary—the
fence, who is the middleman between the criminal and
the supposedly honest citizen.
Throw in crooked cops, incompetent judges and re
volving-door prisons and you have the ingredients of what
is called the “crime problem.”
How much simpler it would be if all we had to worry
about were the criminals.
The Right to Know? Not So!
Hundreds of foreign scientific journals are routinely
"sanitized” by Kremlin censors.
So charges Russian biochemist Z. A. Medvedev in “The
Medvedev Papers,” a book published in Britain and soon
to be printed in this country.
A prime example is "Science,” the magazine of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The censors clip out articles, he says, or paste an adver
tisement over undesirable portions of the text. They purge
the table of contents of offensive titles (but often forget
to delete them from the quarterly index).
The doctored issues are then photocopied and sent to
libraries and subscribers, as much as seven months late.
Sometimes entire issues are suppressed.
Interestingly, the bulk of the censored material is not
about science but is found in the magazine’s “News and
Comment” section, whose articles are often highly critical
of U.S. government policy.
These are censored, Medvedev reasons, because the
Soviet authorities don’t want their scientists to know how
green the grass is on the other side of the Iron Curtain. In
Russia, he says, scientists are kept ignorant of the gov
ernment science budget and are not allowed to discuss it.
Russian scientists are not without power, however. The
Kremlin tried to silence Medvedev by diagnosing him as
a schizophrenic and putting him in a mental institution,
but his imprisonment brought such an outcry from other
scientists that he was released.
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—White House
Press Secretary Ronald L.
Ziegler announcing President
Nixon will visit China Feb. 21:
“We shall try ... to seek a
new direction in the relation
ships between our two great
countries and to end the
isolation of our two great
peoples from each other.”
WASHINGTON—Justus Stev
ens, 95, oldest delegate to White
House Conference on Aging,
responding to a question about
life in the hereafter:
“ ... I haven’t lived in the
hereafter so I don’t know. I’m
busy living up the first half.”
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For Criminals
By DON OAKLEY
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
Red tape is a term ap
plied to the unnecessary
delay and duplication cre
ated by official forms and
procedures. The World Al
manac notes that the term
was derived from the fact
that official documents
once were bound together
by red ribbons or tapes.
Copyright © 1971.
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