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Griffin Daily News Monday, April 17,1972
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Waiter Is Apt
To Be Gloomy
“It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it
seems to a waiter."
Don Herold
Customers in restaurants eat more when served by a
waitress than by a waiter. Such is the claim of a nutrition
ist named Amy Sweeters. Possibly because waitresses
tend to be jolly while waiters are apt to be gloomy, she
theorizes. Attitude of the citizen who server, she says,
directly affects the appetite of the diner. No argument.
WHAT FELLOW’S sig
nature has been reproduc
ed more than any other on
earth? And what fellow's
likeness? King Camp Gil
lette, the dad of the safety
razor. You already know
that animal other than hu
man whose photograph has
been reproduced most. The
camel.
IN FREIBURG, Ger
many stands a statue of a
duck. During World War
11, said duck quacked when
Allied planes approached.
Freiburg had other air
raid signals, too, but none
so reliable, it's said.
QUERY
Q. “You mentioned But
terfly McQueen as another
of the survivors of the cast
of ‘Gone With The Wind.’
Where does she live now?"
A. In Harlem. In a
brownstone. She owns it.
Butterfly, ah Butterfly!
She's the girl who First
popularized that curious
query: “Who dat who say
who dat when I say who
dat?”
OFFICIAL state drink
of Massachusetts is cran
berry juice. All states
should likewise declare an
official drink. Washington,
certainly, cider. Hawaii,
that's obvious, pineapple
juice. Florida, no doubt,
orange juice. Texas,
grapefruit juice maybe.
Please nominate an appro
priate something for Ken
tucky.
AM NOW advised that
phrase “the whole ball of
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“I hope we don’t catch anything. I hear there's a
lot of apathy going around on campuses these
days!”
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wax” started out as “the
whole bailiwick.”
SECRETARY
One secretary out of 10
takes diet pills, one out of
five tranquilizers. Surveys
show that. Not good. Sug
gests a secretary’s job is
too nerve-racking. She’s
twice as apt to be too tense
as too heavy. Dangerous,
those pills. As previously
recommended here, the
overweight secretary
should forego them and
take up motorcycle riding.
And the high-strung sec
retary should likewise
give up pills and cultivate
a more active interest in
yoga, gourmet cookery
and such romantic diver
sions as hand-holding.
THERE HAS been so
much comment about the
peculiar smile of the Mona
Lisa that the even more
peculiar fact she has no
eyebrows generally goes
unnoticed.
AM ASKED the oldest
trade name known. That
would be Crosse & Black
well. The food packaging
company. Brand dates
back to 1706 in England.
DO NOT CALL your
self a biblical scholar, sir,
if you cannot speedily an
nounce to one and all the
color of God's hair. An ec
clesiastical customer says
Daniel 7:9 makes clear
it's white as wool.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1972,1. M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Monday, April 17,
the 108th day of 1972.
The moon is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Aries.
American banker J. P.
Morgan was born April 17,1837.
On this day in history:
In 1521 Martin Luther was
excommunicated from the Ro
man Catholic church after
refusing to admit charges of
heresy.
In 1917 Sen William Calder of
New York introduced a bill
establishing Daylight Savings
Time. It was defeated.
In 1961 a force of anti-Castro
Cuban rebels began what was
to end as the ill-fated Bay of
Pigs incident.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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The Australian ballot is a
secret voting method which
provides the names of all
party candidates printed on
one ballot at government
expense. The World Alma
nac recalls that this system
of voting originated in Aus
tralia in 1858. Massachu
setts was the first state to
adopt the method in 1888.
THOUGHTS
“Oh, that thou wouldst
hide me in Sheol, that thou
wouldst conceal me until
thy wrath be past, that thou
wouldst appoint me a set
time, and remember me!”—
Job 14:13.
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Hell begins on the day
when God grants us a clear
vision of all that we might
have achieved, of all the
gifts which we have wasted,
of all that we might have
done which we did not do.—
Gian-Carlo Men 011 i. com
poser.
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18 years old or 80
Eligible Griffin High School students are
registering to vote this week.
In addition to voting rights, the 18 year
olds will be full citizens in Georgia on July
1. Our state leads the Nation in this, just as
it led the other states in extending the vote
to 18-year-olds. That was during World
War 11, and many of us who were that age
at the time recall how we felt about it then.
So we are more understanding now of
Score it an error
Baseball season finally got started. It
just did make it, though, before players
and owners all struck out with the public.
Lots of sports enthusiasts think that the
season lasts too long anyhow, and few are
mourning the games which were not
How to behave
Etiquette is dead, you say? Young
people don’t know the meaning of the word
manners?
Be advised that in the second major
revision since it was published in 1952,
Amy Vanderbilt has found it necessary to
add 120,000 words to her standard book on
etiquette.
That's worth 200 printed pages, bringing
the total to 960.
Some charming women
The Griffin Utility Club is a fine
organization which would be called the
Junior League if it were in a city such as
our neighbor to the north or Macon to the
South. Its members are affluent women,
mostly young matrons, and they do a
world of good around these parts. Their
latest project to attract considerable
attention was the Utility Club Follies in
which they and their husbands and their
friends and their children danced and sang
and had a whale of a time. Needless to say,
“A good time was had by all” — except one
old grouch who never has had a good time
in his whole life anyhow and who probably
never will have. Proceeds went to help pay
for a new building which is planned for the
library.
Last week the Utility Club had Luck
Gambrell as its guest. She is the wife of the
wealthy Atlanta attorney whom Governor
Jimmy Carter appointed to the United
States Senate to succeed the late Senator
Russell.
Reports say that Mrs. Gambrell made a
very good impression, which brings us to
the subject at hand. It is “charming
women.” Mrs. Gambrell, from all reports,
is one of the more charming ones. As such
she is helping her husband so very much as
she goes hither and yon about the state
saying that her first job is to look after the
children and then to help her husband get
elected to the job to which he was
appointed “if the people really want him”
to go back to Washington.
One person who has no such a desire is
the Honorable Ernest Vandiver, former
Governor and former Adjutant General.
An awful lot of people thought the
Governor would appoint him and not
Gambrell to the Senate. So a resonably
courteous time after Gambrell got the nod,
Vandiver resigned as Adjutant General
Why doesn’t God
correct world’s ills?
If God is able to correct the wrongs in the
world, why doesn’t He? I’ll vote for the so
called King of Kings when He shows some
of His power in changing our society. B.M.
You’re right in alluding to the doctrine of
omnipotence, which says that God can do
everything, including what we call the
impossible (check Luke 18:27).
But aren’t you forgetting something
else? Let’s call it self-determination. For
example, you decide at the switch on the
wall whether the giant of electricity will be
permitted to light a bulb or run a motor.
Likewise, the surgeon’s knife is capable of
removing a cyst, but the actual deed
hinges on your signing a release.
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point
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6330
those who soon will be full citizens.
We have no desire whatever to look down
a middle-aged nose and try to preach to the
youngsters and what we are about to say
applies to all citizens, be they 18 or 80. It is
simply this: The rights of citizenship carry
with them the responsibilities of
citizenship. One of the rights is the right to
vote; one of the responsibilities is the
responsibility of doing so.
played.
It was the first baseball strike in history.
Had the matter been a game, we’d have
scored it as error after error. Neither the
striking players nor the recalcitrant
owners made a hit with the public. From
where we sit it looked like a foul ball.
The butler, footman and ladies’ maid are
gone. Taking their place are sections on
such things as how to behave in a sauna,
the wearing of sunglasses, locker room
speech (acceptable in the drawing room
now) and the etiquette of snowmobiling.
As the old saying does not have it, the
more things change, the less they remain
the same.
and started campaigning for the post
himself. Ernest Vandiver is another
politician who is blessed with a charming
wife. Her name is Betty, and she is the
niece of the late Senator Russell himself.
There may be one somewhere because it is
a big family, but we have known most of
the Russells and never have seen one yet
who was not charming. It would be a sight
to behold to see Betty Vandiver and Luck
Gambrell both at the Utility Club at the
same time, probably better even than the
“Follies.”
The first “First Lady” we really knew
was Lib Griffin, wife of the most
personable Governor of them all. Mrs.
Griffin was a lady through and through, a
delightful hostess. She is dead now but
their son Sam who publishes the family
newspaper in Bainbridge is President of
the Georgia Press Association and has the
likeable qualities and charm of both his
father and of his mother.
The present first lady of the state is
charming too. Rosalyn Carter worked like
a field hand helping her husband get
elected. She met the mill shifts before
dawn and at midnight. She shook hands
and gave out pamphlets about her husband
all up and down main streets and side
streets and RFDs in Georgia. Somehow
she kept looking cool, calm, and pretty as
she did so.
We can not name all of the charming
wives of all Georgia officials and former
officials because of space, and we hope
that nobody will think us a cad or a
chauvinist for failing to mention one or
another. But surely we can not conclude a
piece of this kind without including the
wife of our top hand in Washington. Even
his best friends will tell you that the best
thing about Herman Talmadge is his wife,
Betty.
He will tell you that himself.
Now God has placed at our disposal such
revolutionary energy, that ail of our
wrongs could indeed be corrected, all of
our evil eradicated, but the Bible and
history indicate that man has not wanted
this provision. It’s a case of God could, but
we wouldn’t.
Instead, we’ve opted for our own way
(see Isaiah 53:6), and the price has been
disastrous.
Now, as for evidence that God’s power
can change society, I offer the record of
the centuries — the status of women
raised, slavery broken, the place of child
ren made more secure, and so the list goes
— most of it through the power of the
Gospel. So, don’t blame God.
MY
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Politics Screen I
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
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WASHINGTON (NEA)I
The television folks, with their doom-crying over near-l
ly every primary, may well have gone mad by July ill
somehow both Sens. Edmund Muskie and Hubert Hum!
phrey are still battling hard for the Democratic presiden l
tial nomination.
The prospect is unlikely, and I am not predicting it.l
But it is not an impossibility. Things like that have hap-l
pened before.
Given television's emotional, apocalyptic approach to!
politics today, it’s probably just as well it wasn’t provid-l
ing the same lavish coverage in earlier nomination!
struggles.
Thus far this year, television, abetted by some of its!
"print media” brethren, has moderately underplayed!
Muskie’s primary victory in New Hampshire, grossly!
overplayed Gov. George Wallace’s triumph in Florida!
(here and there making him sound like a possible nomi-l
nee), inflated New York Mayor John Lindsay’s limited!
gains in some Arizona caucuses, and put the wrong focus!
on the Illinois primary (the big thing was Muskie’s better!
than 4-to-l delegate victory over Sen. George McGovern,!
not Muskie’s 63-37 win over Eugene McCarthy in a pop-1
ularity test).
With its present penchant for plunging candidates tol
the depths or lifting them to the clouds on the basis of I
single-shot performances, television would have had just I
a terrible time in the years 1952 through 1964.
Think what the electronic fellows would have done, fori
instance, with the Stevensaq-Kefauver primary in Minne-I
sota in 1956. The late Adldi Stevenson had the governor I
and all the other top people with him No one sniffed real I
peril.
But old Sen. Estes Kefauver padded around that state I
and whomped Stevenson by 60,000 votes! It would have I
been burial rites for Adlai on TV’s morning-after shows. I
As it turned out, though Kefauver won some others I
(mostly unopposed), Stevenson won the big ones he I
needed in Florida, Oregon and California. After that, the!
wise types said Stevenson was in, and the Keef pulled out. I
The year 1952 would have had the television boys in I
vertigo. First General Eisenhower won New Hampshire!
and piled up a big Minnesota write-in that almost stole!
the thing from favorite-son Harold Stassen. Then Sen. I
Robert Taft snapped back and took Wisconsin and Illinois. I
In Round Three, Ike ran up blistering winning scores!
in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Taft I
counter-punched with victories in Ohio. West Virginia, I
Nebraska.
Eisenhower struck again in Oregon, and Taft slipped
past him in a bitter South Dakota primary.
Today’s television specialists would have buried those
two so many times along the way they would have run
out of black and purple.
They aren't equipped for drawn-out slugging matches.
They like to put ’em up and put ’em down quick. Show
biz.
They couldn’t have handled the fact that Taft beat Ike,
6 to 5, in primaries but lost the nomination on the first
ballot: that Kefauver in 1956 won seven primaries to
Stevenson’s five but withdrew before convention time;
that Barry Goldwater in 1964 went a weak 5-5 in primar
ies, looked bad in three of his victories, yet quickly swept
the convention.
Then there was that lovely moment in the Los Angeles
sports arena in 1960. John F. Kennedy, 7-0 in the primar
ies, was about to be nominated convincingly on the first
ballot.
But galleries packed and shouting for Stevenson per
suaded prestigious television commentators that a thun
derous surf was about to wipe out Kennedy’s castles of
sand. It didn’t. The tide went out and never came back.
Maybe that’s when the television types really began
to find their own marvelous world of apocalyptic politics.
It’s quite something.
TIMELY QUOTES
President Nixon has
moved to the left and called
it the center of the road.
—Rep. John M. Ashbrook.
R-Ohio, conservative chal
lenger for the GOP presi
dential nomination.
The present pope started
with probably the greatest
credibility the Catholic
church has enjoyed in the
past 500 years. Now. the
church's credibility is so low
that we cannot imagine how
this happened.
—Swiss scholar/priest Dr.
Hans Kung.
I may have to run again
in order to find someone to
vote for.
—Jeannette Rankin of Mon
tana. 91, first woman to be
elected to Congress
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Publisher
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I believe in doing what I
want to do. If I w a n t to
climb a telephone pole then
I’ll go out and climb a tele
phone pole. But I’m not go
ing to march up and down
the streets saying I want to
climb a telephone pole.
—Sally Hearne, female fire
man in Courtland. Calif
1 would predict that the
Equal (Sexual) Rights
Amendment and many of
the other goals of its pro
ponents will bring social dis
ruption. unhappiness and in
creasing rates of divorce
and desertion . . Is the
Equal Rights Amendment to
be the Tonkin Golf Resolu
tion of the American social
structure?
—Jonathan N. Pincus. M.D..
associate professor at Yale
University School of Medi
cine.
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