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— Griffin Daily News Friday, Jan. 28, 1972
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How Women
Hove Changed
“All things must change
“To something new, to something strange.”
Longfellow
He was 83 years old. this convict, recently released.
And he had been in prison just about all his life. A report
er asked him what impressed him most about this fab
ulous new world outside the walls. “The women,” the old
man said. "When I went to jail, women were round. Now
they’re oblong."
WAKE UP in the middle of the night sometimes with
the oddest notions. Like:
. . . What in the world do
you send to a sick florist?
. . . Not one man in 100
knows which leg he puts
into his pants first, I’ll
warrant . . . Do believe
there's no recorded in
stance wherein a bat ever
got caught in anybody's
hair . . . Come on. back to
sleep.
YOU KNOW what an
obbligato is —a song that
can be played simultan
eously with another song.
"Dinah" and "Stardust”
duet like that. Such pairs
of songs are not so unus
ual. But to the foregoing
two. you can also add “By
the Waters of Minne
tonka” to make a trio. The
three largest orchestras
in the country could play
these songs together, one
each, and you wouldn't
hear a dischord.
QUERIES
Q. "How many baby fish
can a good mama guppy
have at one time?”
A. As many as 200. And
some fancy fish folk say
she can throw a litter, or
whatever you call it, every
two weeks.
Q. “WHAT’S the heav
iest breed of beef stock?"
A. Am told that’s the
Italian Chianini. At age
4. it weighs in the neigh
borhood of 3,550 pounds
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“They can't DO that! He hae always been born on
the 22nd, and he always WILL be!"
and stands about 6-foot-2
at the withers.
AS TO WHAT Benjamin
Franklin's key opened —
that key he used in his
kite-lightning experiment
— understand now it un
locked his cellar door.
WATER
Most all the world's
water is saltwater. Just
97.137 per cent to be ex
act. About 2.24 per cent
is ice and snow. Another
.6129 per cent is under
ground. Figure .009 per
cent is in freshwater
lakes. Maybe .0001 per
cent is in the rivers. And
only .001 per cent is in
the atmosphere. Got it? If
this picture changes, ex
pect a prompt report.
THAT BABY girls at
birth are about a month
ahead of boys in physical
development has been re
ported. But now some
medical men have added
another footnote. There’s
evidence, they say, that
girls before birth are not
carried quite so long by
their mothers as are
boys. This gets clinical,
doesn't it? Let's quit for
the day.
Address moil to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 I. M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, Jan. 28, the
28th day of 1972 with 338 to
follow.
The moon is approaching full
phase.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Aquarius.
Concert pianist Arthur Rubin
stein was born Jan. 28,1889.
On this date in history:
In 1878 the first commerical
telephone switchboard was put
into operation in New Haven,
Conn. It served 12 subscribers.
In 1915 the U.S. Coast Guard
was established by congression
al legislation.
In 1932 a song symbolizing
the plight of depression-ridden
Americans, “Brother, Can You
Spare a Dime?” was sweeping
the United States.
In 1955 Congress passed a
resolution permitting President
Dwight D. Eisenhower to use
armed forces to defend Formo
sa against possible attack by
mainland China, from which
the Nationalists had been
driven.
today's FUNNY
MINI,MBH,
MAXI, MO,
SHALL UP OR
DOWN My
HEMLINE GO?
—
© 1972 by NEA, Inc.
THOUGHTS
Having purified your souls
by your obedience to the
truth for a sincere love of
the brethren, love one an
other earnestly from the
heart. —I Peter 1:22.
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Our doctrine of equality
and liberty and humanity
comes from our belief in the
brotherhood of man and the
fatherhood of God.—Calvin
Coolidge.
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We like this idea
The interagency council which has
begun operating here is a good idea.
Its purpose is to prevent overlapping of
service and governmental agencies.
As one spokesman put it, “Sometimes
the right hand does not know what the left
hand is doing.”
This is true in many instances and
consequently there is lost effort through
duplication.
A banking milestone was passed recently and the
United States Savings and Loan League, the largest
trade group in the industry, is crowing about it: The
nation’s savings and loan associations are now S2OO-bil
lion strong.
The amazing thing is that while it took 132 years to
reach the first SIOO billion in assets, it took only eight
years to reach the second SIOO billion.
The first S&L was founded in 1831, at a time when other
financial institutions catered mostly to the rich. Savings
and loan associations “democratized” banking by mak
ing it possible for ordinary families to build or buy
homes. They were also among the few places where
people with small accounts could deposit money and earn
interest.
Savings and loan associations really came of age after
World War II when they became the dominant lenders
in the single-family home field. America is a nation of
homeowners, thanks greatly to them.
Lending money for home building is still a major sav
ings and loan activity, but in recent years they have
branched out in other directions. Today they now take
in about a third of all over-the-counter savings, and to
most people and for most purposes are indistinguishable
from commercial banks.
Opposition rising
to Chile’s Marxists
By CARLOS VIEJO
Copley News Service
SANTIAGO, Chile - Every
night, as darkness falls, the
sound of someone beating an
empty saucepan can be heard.
It may come from the window
of an apartment block down the
street, or from the back garden
of a home near or far away.
A single pan may start it, be
answered by another and,
rather like the drumbeats from
one African village to the next,
soon the sound can be heard,
loud or faint, from all direc
tions.
It is the very real echo of the
“March of the Women,” or the
“March of the Empty Pots”
that signaled to Chile and the
world that there was wide
spread opposition to the Marx
ist effort to “construct social
ism” in this traditionally
democratic South American
nation.
But the food shortages that
prompted the housewives’ pro
test Dec. 1 are not the only ob
stacles along the road to social
ism that face President Salva
dor Allende and his Socialist-
Communist-Radical “Popular
Unity” coalition.
Farm laborers have now
started showing their disap
proval of the policies of the 14-
month-old Marxist govern
ment.
During the last week of 1971
there were mass demonstra
tions throughout the whole of
the agricultural south of Chile,
blocking of roads and parading
through Santiago. Reports on
the number of people involved
vary between 50,000 and
300,000.
Main grievance lies in the
current interpretation of
agrarian reform. Until the
Marxists took over in Novem
ber, 1970, it was a gradual
transfer of land to the workers.
The new policy, under
Allende, himself a Socialist, is
steadily leading to state farms,
All should be
proud of his flag
I hear a lot of people speak of “flag
waving”, as though it were a terrible
tiling. Shouldn’t we be proud of our flag?
Other nations seem to flourish on
nationalism. What is wrong with
patriotism? H.P.
The Bible teaches respect for govern
ment. It says: “Let every soul be subject
unto the higher powers. For there is no
power but of God: the powers that be are
ordained of God.” Romans 13:1.
We should be proud of our flag, but we
should not worship it. After all, it is simply
a symbol of our nation and its ideals. It
reminds us that we should love our
country, respect those who died to give us
our liberty, and that we should worship
God who has blessed us beyond measure.
mu
point
S & L—a proud record
to the typical Socialist collec
tive farming, and the peasants
do not want that. Their first
choice would, naturally, be a
piece of land of their own. But,
lacking that, they would rather
go back to their old “patrones”
than work ,for the state. Be
sides, the state farms, or
“agrarian reform centers,” as
they are called, are short of
seed, fertilizer, machinery, of
practically everything.
The move toward govern
ment land ownership is only
one small part of the rapid
trend toward full state control
of all Chile’s major economic
activities. As that is what
President Allende promised in
his campaign platform, the
only surprise should be that the
process is going along more
rapidly than most Chileans ex
pected.
Much the same is true in the
copper industry. The major
copper mines were national
ized as quickly as the Marxists
could get the legislation
through Congress. But in the
process, Chile lost over 400 of
the key engineers and tech
nicians who make the mines
tick. The few who stayed are
drifting away slowly as they
find they cannot work under
purely political management.
In December, six more mine
executives, all engineers, left.
One of those was a Socialist, a
man promoted to the post by
the Marxist government. De
spite his political sympathy
with the regime, he found it im
possible to mix politics and en
gineering and quit.
The result of it all is that El
Teniente mine will show at
least a $6 million operating loss
for 1971. El Salvador mine was
faced with a S2O million cash
deficit for the fourth quarter.
And, with labor costs boosted
by a new collective labor con
tract, Chuquicamata, the for
mer Anaconda property, will
become more or less marginal.
Representatives from government,
schools, churches, civic and fraternal
organizations, the hospital and institutions
of service got together yesterday af
ternoon at the Griffin-Spalding Hospital to
talk things over.
We like the idea.
Proper channeling of efforts can
eliminate duplication of services and
enable the agencies to cover more ground.
Nationalization of major in
dustries is proceeding.
Sometimes control is pur
chased by the government de
velopment corporation; at
other times, more questionable
procedures are used. Favorite
is the staging of a Communist
organized strike, upon which
the government “intervenes”
to prevent shortages and pro
tect workers’ jobs, and the
plant is taken over.
When the nationalization of
copper, the seizure of the Ford
Motor Co. plant, the exit of
General Motors and Bethlehem
Steel, U.S. investment in Chile
has shrunk from more than
$750 million to less than SSO mil
lion.
One important sector that is
still fighting for its freedom is
the press.
All attempts to silence the in
dependent newspapers, espe
cially the big El Mercurio
group, have failed. They con
tinue printing the news much
as they always did. Mercurio
occasionally runs signed, front
page editorials defending itself
against government attacks or
harassment and frequently
prints lengthy, documented
analyses of current Chilean
economic, social and political
problems that enrage the gov
ernment for their thorough
ness.
Thwarted in early attempts
to silence the independent
press, the government set
about trying to control them
through their paper supplies.
The workers of Chile’s major
privately owned newsprint sup
plier, however, publicly de
clared themselves against
state control and the govern
ment began trying to buy the
paper manufacturer. But most
stockholders did not want to
sell their shares and, in any
case, an opposition fund was
set up to purchase any stock of
fered, and keep the industry
free.
MY fMk
ANSWER‘-.Jj
Some people make a fetish of the flag, just
as some people make an “image” of the
cross. Both are symbols and reminders of
things vastly more lofty. Just as we should
not worship the cross, but Him who died
upon it — we should not idolize the flag, but
direct our love to our nation and the people
in it. But, I believe in displaying the flag.
But let’s not only do it on a steel pole; let’s
display it in our hearts. Not one day a year,
but all the time.
Nationalism is a good thing, but our
world has shrunken so greatly, that our
concern must reach out to other nations.
Each of us must have compassion for the
poor, ttie underfed, and the infirmed in our
world community. Jesus said, “Therefore,
if thine enemy hunger, feed him; and if he
thirst, give him to drink.”
BERRY’S WORLD
"Mom, when I grow up, can I be a male chauvinist?"
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RAY CROMUY
Nationalization
Looms for Rails
By RAY CROMLEY
It is altogether possible the nation’s railroads will be
nationalized within the next half-dozen years. The pas
senger business has already been taken over. The plight
of the Penn-Central Railroad has caused some law
makers to look at the industry with jaundiced eyes.
If past experience in other countries is any test, na
tionalization of the rails would cost the U.S. taxpayer
heavily in open and hidden subsidies for operating deficits
each year.
This would be a pity. For the railroad industry has
within itself the capacity for highly efficient and profit
able operation. Both rail and independent analysts this
reporter has contacted see no reason why the railroads
cannot—under the proper conditions—carry their share
of the nation’s freight at reasonable cost on reliable
schedules while making a profit large enough to en
courage development.
But this ideal situation is on paper. Shippers complain
their goods don’t arrive on schedule, that when they are
delivered breakage is high.
The railroads say they can’t correct their deficiencies
until they can get more money. They say that they can’t
afford the new equipment, the heavy computerization
and the maintenance standards necessary.
The rails say they can’t borrow the funds they need
(except for a few “rich” roads) because they’re in such
bad shape financially banks consider them a poor risk.
They’d like to have government-guaranteed loans
similar in concept to the FHA (Federal Housing Admin
istration) guarantees the government puts up, for a fee,
for home buyers.
Freight cars are old and in sad repair on many lines,
and since these cars get shunted through the national
system, the efficiency of all is lowered. Locomotives are
tired.
But worst of all are the inefficient methods some rail
lines use in keeping track of cars on their runs and in
getting shipments to destinations. Here again, inefficient
lines slow the whole system.
But the railroads say they have an equally great prob
lem in their pricing—what they’re allowed to charge
shippers. The problem here is delay. Important price
changes, they claim, can take as long as seven months
to get through the mill at the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
Though many price changes are granted quickly, there
are sufficient delays on the major shifts that railway
economists estimate profits could be doubled if they
were allowed to make temporary (interim) price adjust
ments immediately when recognized cost increases (such
as wage boosts) raise their expenditures. These costs are
almost always allowed, the railways say, but the bureau
cratic delays in approving the higher rates (while ex
penses go up and income stays level), they claim, costs
America’s rail lines $250 million a year.
What the railroads would really like is for the govern
ment to make a study and determine in what goods and
in what areas the rails no longer have a monopoly, be
cause of trucks or barge lines. Then for these highly
competitive goods, the rails would be allowed to move
prices up or down without waiting. This they do not
expect to get.
It would be good for the country if the members of the
House and Senate learned the details of those proposals.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN )
QUOTES
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Economist
Roger A. Freeman, former
special assistant to President
Nixon, discussing alternatives
to Nixon’s welfare bill in
testimony prepared for the
Senate Finance Committee:
“Maybe we diould consider
whether a child is always best
off with his mother, or whether
growing up in a well-run
institution may not give it a
better chance in life than living
under inferior parental care or
in a detrimental environment.”
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Assistant
Warden Harold J. Cardwell,
after three Ohio Penitentiary
inmates escaped over the 40-
foot wall:
“We have three men missing
and there sure as hell is a rope
dangling from the front wall.”
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