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Griffin Daily News' 100th Anniversary Edition
‘A hundred years old!
Where’d all that time go?’
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Second Bed
“In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
“And born in bed, in bed we die;
“The near approach a bed may show
“Os human bliss to human woe.”
Isaac Deßenserade
Pause, please, to offer a little gentle sympathy for
Anne Hathaway, the widow of Mr. William Shakespeare.
Only thing she inherited from him upon his death was his
“second best bed.” Wait, believe there was some other
incidental furniture thrown in, too. But it hardly counted,
considering.
THAT A HABITAT of a
pig is called a sty is com
mon knowledge. Less wide
ly known is that an in
sect’s home is a midus, a
cow’s domicile is a byre,
and a hare's residence is
a form.
THE TOBACCO BOYS
contend that approximate
ly 250,000 women in this
country are confirmed pipe
smokers. Will you buy
that? Me neither.
IT’S THOSE young
people in their twenties
who move around the most,
that’s clear. Studies show
just about three out of
five changed their resi
dences during the last 12
months.
STONE AGE
In the jungles on the
southern edge of Mindanao
in the Phillipines live 24
Tasaday natives who still
use rock hatchets. They
don’t know much. Only in
recent months did explor
ers find them. They exist,
literally, in the Stone Age.
They're ignorant of the
wheel or stirrup or Joe
Namath. This isn’t a Sun
day supplement footnote to
yesteryear. It’s right now.
Q. “WHERE did we get
the word ‘hootch’ meaning
liquor?”
A. From the Tlinget
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which was a drink made
of molasses.
COPYRIGHT
Which of these four can
be copyrighted? 1. A fact.
2. A map. 3. An idea. 4. The
title of a book. Rare is the
soul who gets this query
right. Answer is the map
only, I now learn.
BEST EXERCISE a
young lady can do to im
prove her top tape mea
surement, contends a med
ical specialist, is to dog
paddle daily in a swimming
pool.
ARGUMENT continues
as to whether any animal
besides man either laughs
or cries. A scientific fellow
named Yerkes contends
none other shed tears in
sorrow. But he insists apes
do indeed laugh.
AM ASKED how many
passengers can be seated
on that presidential plane
known as Air Force I. Just
57, now. President Nixon
doesn’t take along as large
an entourage as Presi
dent Johnson. When LB J
was boss, the plane seat
ed 95.
Address mail so L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1971 I. M. Boyd
by Gill Fox
Page 4
Almanac
For
Today
by United Press International
Today is Monday, Jan. 31, the
31st day of 1972.
The moon is between its full
phase and last quarter.
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.
On this day in history:
In 1942 the Soviet Union
announced the virtual annihila
tion of 330,000 Nazi troops at
Stalingrad. It was a turning
point of World War II on the
Eastern Front.
In 1953 more than 2,000
persons were killed when North
Sea storms flooded Holland.
In 1958 the U.S. launched its
first satellite into orbit —
Explorer I.
In 1968 North Vietnamese
guerrillas raided the U.S.
embassy in Saigon, marking the
opening of the Viet Cong’s new
year’s Tet offensive.
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THOUGHTS
For it is not the hearers
of the law who are righteous
before God, but the doers of
the law who will be justified.
—Romans 2:13.
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The world is divided into
people who do things and
people who get the credit.
Try, if you can. to belong
to the first class. There's far
less competition. — Dwight
Morrow, diplomat.
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A personal note
The Griffin Daily News was born 18
years before my father was and 50 years
before I was. He has spent 47 of his 81
years as publisher, and I have spent 27 of
my 50. Thus, both of us have invested over
half of our individual lives on the paper.
Now, as we celebrate its 100th
anniversary, all of us here at the paper
look back at a century crammed with
events which we and our predecessors
have reported as accurately and as fairly
as we could. We will continue to do so.
Most of the time we have enjoyed our
work because most of the things recorded
have been worthy. At times, though, we
have written reports with tears in our eyes
and sorrow in our hearts. Reporters and
editors are human, you know.
We have made friends and some
enemies, had good times and bad,
published accounts of just about
everything from births to deaths and all
that happens of a newsworthy nature in
between.
So, having looked backward in the
preparation of this edition, we are in a
position to view things in perspective and
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GOVERNOR
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
January 25, 1972
Honorable Quimby Melton, Jr.
President, News Corporation
Publisher, Griffin Daily News
Griffin, Georgia 30223
Dear Quimby:
My congratulations and best wishes to you, your father,
the fine staff of the Griffin Daily News and its many readers
around our state on the occasion of the 100th Birthday on
January 30, 1972 of this fine paper.
Since the first issue of the Griffin Daily News was
published on January 30, 1872, the News has distinguished
itself as one of the truly outstanding newspapers in our
state. Its reputation for honesty and fairness in its
reporting and editorial policy is unsurpassed. The News also
has a fine tradition of being more than just a news organ,
but a spokesman for the public good dedicated to informing
its readers while speaking out on the critical issues which
face our state and nation.
Perhaps the highest compliment which can be paid the
News is to say it is a fine newspaper published by fine
newspaper men and women. The people of Georgia and your
many readers are proud of the part the Griffin Daily News
has played in the history and progress of our state.
Sincerely,
JC/hjc /
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out ot her mind
My husband has recently accepted
Christ, stopped running around and has
joined the church. He confessed to me that
he had been intimate with a divorcee —
several years ago. This has broken my
heart, and although I told him I would
forgive him, I can’t get it out of my mind.
What can I do? M.G.
I can well understand your feelings, but
since your prayers have been answered,
and your husband has accepted Christ, out
of gratitude to God you should forgive him.
The Bible clearly teaches that we are to
forgive as we have been forgiven. “Be ye
kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiv
ing one another, even as God for Christ’s
sake hath forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:32.
It would have been much easier for him
to keep that sin a secret from you, but it
have come to some conclusions. What they
lack in originality, they make up for in
truth.
First, there is good and bad in all of us,
in communities as well as in individuals.
Except for a very few people, though, most
folks are mostly good. Then, you cannot
judge a human being’s worthiness by
economic, religious, racial or other
standards. And, all of us human beings are
different, but we are more alike than we
are different. Finally, righteousness
experiences many setbacks, but it does
finally prevail. Always.
So much for philosophy. In journalistic
terms, we are more firmly convinced than
ever that our greatest obligation is to
report the news of the day accurately and
fairly. If we fail in this, the community will
suffer. Regardless of how distasteful a fact
may be, rumors about it will be worse if it
is not truthfully reported.
We are grateful for the past and present
support of the people of this community.
As we move into our second century, we
thank you and past generations for making
a newspaper a day possible. We solicit
your continued patronage.
appears that he wanted to purge himself
completely by confessing it to you. This
shows that he has truly had a change of
heart. For you to show an unforgiving
spirit in regard to this disloyalty which
occurred before his conversion, might be
devastatingly discouraging to him.
Remember, (and this may be an en
couragement to you) he is a new man, with
new motives, and with a new Master. It
was the “old man” who was unfaithful,
and not the one you are now living with.
Love him, thank God for the change in
him, and completely forgive him. Though
you, perhaps, are not guilty of the same
sin, you had other sins which separated
you from God. “Forgive us our debts as we
forgive our debtors”, is the prayer Jesus
said we were to pray.
BERRY’S WORLD
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"Mom and dad, don't feel badly. Actually, I'm rejecting
SOCIETY'S hypocrisy—not YOURS!"
, ys" RAY cromley
Peking's Silent
Power Struggle
■k AM By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)
This reporter will never forget the day in Yenan, 27
years ago, when one of Mao Tse-tung’s intimates drew
me aside and, making sure no one else could hear, de
clared that he was a virtual prisoner.
“They will not let me go back to my army,” he said.
“They keep me here because they do not trust me.”
Speaking this was Ch’en Yi, whose death is now re
ported—exmarshal of Red China’s armed forces, former
vice premier and foreign minister and veteran of the Long
March, when he had held ground in the south as Mao
and the main body of Communists retreated north.
Ch’en was then one of the 20 men who ruled Communist
China. He was Mao’s intimate at Yenan, the personal
faith between the two was great and Ch’en was complete
ly loyal to that trust. He was commanding general of the
New Fourth Army, one of the two major forces in the
Communist command at that time.
Yet Ch’en was talking in this vein to me, a foreigner,
an American Army officer on leave of absence from the
Wall Street Journal, the symbol of capitalism and the
antithesis of Communism.
This was one of the periods when Mao was fighting for
his very existence as head of the Chinese Communist
party. On the surface, things were smooth, as they seem
superficially today. Chou En-lai, with unruffled mien,
deals with President Nixon’s advance parties as though
nothing were happening within the party—while a deep
and bitter power struggle rages in the background.
What was happening then in Yenan in the 1940 s is what
is happening again today in the 19705. Mao’s rivals have
been hacking away at those personally loyal to him.
The struggle within China has been all the more com
plicated because one and another of the anti-Mao group
has sought Russian backing. The Russians, on their side,
have attempted to build up their own clique within the
top levels of the Chinese Communist party. They have
offered high stakes—modern military arms, nuclear know
how, technical assistance.
The Moscow price, though, has been high—subservience
in foreign and military affairs and a heavy say in in
dustrial and agricultural development.
This Mao fought.
But the struggle was not limited to the relationship
with Russia, or over what philosophy of Communism
would prevail, or the Russians, or the Chinese variety de
veloped by Mao.
It was a personal struggle for power.
Os late, the struggle has often turned to who would
surround Mao and be his advisers—who would be in the
line of succession. That is, as Mao aged, the battle for
succession became more important than the battle to
oust Mao. For he had become a national legend, useful
in holding the country together.
Whoever was leader among the candidates for suc
cession was almost certain of political decapitation
one way or another. This was why Chou En-lai, whose
claim to the No. 2 spot has been as great as any man’s
these past years, has chosen to remain as number three.
Lin Piao, No. 2 until recently, was positioned to take the
heatand ° e inevitable victim of those seeking power.
Today, then. Mao has not many old friends to turn to.
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
— TIMELY QUOTES
By United Press International
WASHINGTON -Carol Fera
ci, a member of the Ray
Conniff singers, after she
interrupted a performance be
fore President Nixon with an
impromptu appeal to end the
war:
“We shouldn’t be in Vietnam.
I thought I would get national
publicity. I think it was time
someone had the courage to say
these things.”
PHILADELPHIA - Mayor
Frank Rizzo, former police
commissioner, announcing that
teen-age gang members have
one week to turn in weapons
and then a crackdown will
begin:
“God help them if they’re
found armed.”
WASHINGTON -The Food
and Drug Administration, in
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freezing the use of saccharin at
current levels because rats fed
’ heavy doses developed bladder
tumors:
“The tentative adverse find
ings in rats occurred at a level
roughly equivalent in humans
to 875 bottles of a typical diet
soft drink per day.”
ROME —Adm. Elmo R.
Zumwalt Jr., announcing that
the Navy wants to make
Athens, Greece a “home port”
for the 6th Fleet and provide
living facilities for the families
of sailors:
“I expect there will be some
vocally expressed opposition
from some members of Con
gress. But I anticipate there
will be recognition by the
majority that we have been
extracting inhuman sacrifices
from our sailors for too many
years in peacetime. ’ ’
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