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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 20,1972
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L M. BOYD
A Cookie King
Buys Fortunes
King of the Chinese fortune cookie business, I’m told,
is David Jung, a Los Angelino. Turns out six million a
year. He is said to enjoy such lines as: “You are in your
own way— please stand aside.’’ Oh, you don’t like that?
Then write your own. Understand he buys about 500 a
year. Intend to sell him my best one: “Avoid exotic
foods.”
A THIRD of all the thor
oughbred race horses in
the world descend from an
Arabian stud named Go
Dolphin. It once pulled a
water cart in Paris. Two
thirds descend either from
another horse identified as
Byerly Turk or still an
other called Darley. That’s
it, three original sires.
Only.
WHO WAS the first
father to be honored by
Father’s Day? A Civil War
veteran, one William Jack
son Smart. He brought up
six youngsters after his
wife died. And thinking
that noteworthy, Mrs.
John Bruce Dodd of Spo
kane, Wash., in 1910
pressed for an official ob
servance.
QUERIES
Q. “Who was the first
man in the world to wear a
peg leg?"
A. The gentleman’s name
is unknown. Can only tell
you he lived and died in
Italy about 300 B. C., and
his artificial leg was a
fancy specimen of carved
wood and hammered
bronze.
Q. “WHAT’S the most
expensive leather? Snake
hide, right?”
A. Might bet on the scro
tum skin of the whale. A
dozen barstools covered
with same, owned by that
felicitous comic Jackie
Gleason, are said to be
worth about $5,000.
JUST 31 per cent of
those men who’d rather be
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“It’s not final exams he’s worried about. He's
afraid his beard won’t grow out in time for the
senior prom!”
women have tried suicide
seriously.
ALASKA has a longer
coastline than all the other
49 states put together,
true.
IT’S 50-50 a doe will
give birth to twins instead
of one fawn.
MARRIAGE
You can figure the mar
riage of this husband and
wife is in pretty good
shape, if their youngsters
like them both. Likewise,
if said children seem to be
even fonder of the father
than of the mother. But if
those offspring like their
mother, but not their fa
ther, that's bad. Likely the
marriage is cracked, if
not already broken. Such
is the conclusion of a Uni
versity of California pro
fessor who checked out the
families of 3,000 students.
ANNUAL AVERAGE
count of tornadoes nation
wide, 654. Annual average
count of citizens killed by
same, 118.
NOT ONLY is there
more edible meat in a kan
garoo than in a sheep or a
pig, but kangaroo hides
still get a better price on
the market than skeepskin
or pigskin. All right, no
more about kangaroos this
week, promise.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. 0. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1972, L. M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
Today is Thursday, April 20,
the 111th day of 1972.
The moon is in its 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 Taurus.
Movie comedian Harold Lloyd
was born April 20, 1894.
On this day in history:
In 1903 Andrew Carnegie
gave $lO5 million for construc
tion of the Hague Peace Palace
in the Netherlands.
In 1926, a picturegram of a
bank check sent from London
to New York by RCA was
honored and cashed. It marked
the first time a bank honored a
check not actually in its
possession.
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
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The U.S. government,
through the Government
Printing Office, issues a
vast number of pamphlets,
books and reports of
studies and research con
ducted by departments and
agencies. The World Al
manac says that the gov
ernment sells about 78 mil
lion publications annually
and distributes many more
to libraries and offices.
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THOUGHTS
W/ieii / lie down / say,
'When shall I arise?' But the
night is long, and I am full
of tossing until the dawn."
—Job 7:4.
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When you rise in the
morning form a resolution
to make the day a happy one
to a fellow-creature—Syd
ney Smith, English author.
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Butting stubborn heads
Some of Georgia’s county
commissioners are butting their stubborn
heads against a brick wall.
The ones doing this are those who insist
that they will not assess property in their
counties at 40 percent of fair market value
this year as required by law. Some
counties’ assessments are as low as 18
percent. Spalding’s is 30.12 percent and
Still a bargain
The Board of Regents which administers
the University System of Georgia has
voted to increase tuition fees. The
increase, though, will be only $lO a quarter
at the four-year institutions and $5 at the
junior colleges.
The increases are the first since 1969.( Do
you know of anything else which has not
gone up since then?) Chancellor George
Simpson explained that the raises are
necessary to cover salaries, construction
and other costs and maintain the
traditional support of the system on a basis
of three-fourths by the state and one-fourth
by the students.
Why shop in Griffin?
The pedestrian had been standing on the
Atlanta comer for hours while the cars and
trucks streamed by continuously. He
couldn’t get up enough nerve to risk
crossing, but finally spied a man on the
other side of the street and called to him.
Throw-away cars
Anti-pollution measures due to take
effect by 1976 will result in a new kind of
car, a private consultant has told the
federal government.
They’ll be “throw-away” cars, he says.
Woman uses new name
By RIV TOBIN
Copley News Service
Dear Mrs. Tobin: My maiden
name was Mary Smith. I mar
ried John Jones and signed my
name Mary S. Jones. John died
and I then married Paul
Brown. Do I sign my name now
as Mary Jones Brown or Mary
Smith Brown? I’m afraid if I
don’t use my former husband’s
name with mine, people won’t
know who Mary S. Brown is. —
Confused
Dear Confused: You now sign
your name as Mary S. Brown.
If that new name needs ex
plaining, explain. Don’t use
your deceased husband’s name
along with your present one’s.
Dear Mrs. Tobin: I am a sin
gle woman and frequently en
tertain in my home. At a sit-
What do you think ansvvehO!
of legal gambling? V
In New York City, legalized betting
(OTB) is spreading. What do you think of
gambling as a bonus for the individual,
and simultaneously, a source of revenue
for the state? E.R.T.
There are now four states (Connecticut
is the last) that have legalized gambling,
and more are looking at the matter with a
green glean in their eye.
A New York magazine, with obvious
tongue in cheek said of the New York
situation, “Now, you can lose your money
in any one of 42 local off-track-betting par
lors. By the end of 1972, another 60 are
planned”. Such is man’s propensity for
getting something for nothing. In this, of
course, he never really succeeds.
The whole business of lotteries is not
much closer to reality than most
Law requires uniform assessments. But
it does not set tax rates. The county
commissioners themselves set the
property tax rate in their counties.
Therefore if 40 percent of fair market
value results in higher taxes under present
rates, all the commissioners have to do is
lower the rates. It is as simple as that.
The raises certainly seem reasonable
and are much less than what could have
been expected in view of the real
improvements which colleges and
universities in the system have made since
1969. They are coupled, too, with inflation.
Compare them with fee increases for out
of-state students which the Regents raised
S6O a quarter, from SIBO to $240. This, also,
seems fair since the citizens of Georgia are
paying three-fourths of the costs per
student.
All in all, a University System of
Georgia education remains one of today’s
best bargains in an inflation-weary
society.
“Hello, how in the world did you get over
there?”
The other man cupped his hands to his
mouth and shouted back, “I was bom over
here.”
After as little as 10,000 to 15,000 miles, a
new one will be required.
So what else is new? We know a lot of
people who’ve owned cars like that. -
Charlotte (N.C.) News
down dinner, should my date sit
at the opposite end of the table
from me and should other cou
ples be seated next to each oth
er? — M.S.
Dear M. S.: Seat your escort
at the opposite end of the table.
Couples generally are seated
separately. I believe you are
concerned about having your
date serve the main course and
perhaps appearing to "head”
the table. Why not serve the
food buffet style? Casseroles or
fried chicken solve the problem
of carving and are graciously
served from a side table. If you
serve wine you should ask your
date if he would do the honors.
He should open the bottle, sam
ple it and then serve everyone
in rotation, starting with you.
Dear Mrs. Tobin: After ten
years of marriage, friends of
ours were divorced. Everyone
new. Even the famous Washington monu
ment was funded through lotteries, but it
cost the public seven times the actual
construction costs.
I think the “National Observer” last
year put it well when it said, “Legalized
gambling is in truth, a monumental cop
out”.
The crux of the matter is that the
believer in Christ doesn’t have to regard
life as a gamble. He has a heavenly
Father, who as Jesus said, knew when the
sparrow fell, and hence certainly knew of
and provided for the needs of his children
(Matthew 6:26). Faith and lady luck have
nothing in common.
When you also recognize the crime that
attends gambling, and the economic
disservice it brings, gambling deserves
rethinking as a form of taxation.
was delighted as he is a real
jerk and she is a charming and
talented woman. For a long
time her friends had been tell
ing her to seek tnis divorce; in
fact, I was one who often asked
her how she put up with him.
After they parted, she went
on a long trip around the world.
Her ex stayed here and tried to
keep in with the old crowd but
we all cold-shouldered him.
Last month the woman re
turned and, would you believe,
she remarried this man! We all
want her back in our social set
but what do we say to him? —
Flabbergasted
Dear Flabbergasted: Too
much has been said already.
How about “Congratulations
and best wishes?”
Questions on etiquette may
be sent to Mrs. Riv Tobin, Cop
ley News Service, in care oi
this newspaper.
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"We've come out FOR quality education, FOR peace and
FOR lower taxes, but the motherhood question is a tricky
one, now—what with the population explosion!"
Youth Movements?
Take Year 1212...
One of the most familiar events in history, yet one of
the least known, is the Children’s Crusade, which took
place during eight months in the year 1212.
Nearly 100,000 children marched through Europe in an
attempt to reach Jerusalem, armed only with a pure
faith whose power they believed would convert the Mos
lem infidels and liberate the Holy City.
Most histories of the Crusades give scant mention to
this amazing phenomenon, which went almost unrecorded
by contemporary chroniclers. Yet so deep a mark did it
leave on men’s minds, so strong a hold does it still exer
cise over our imaginations after more than 800 years,
that we inevitably call any movement of youth a “Chil
dren’s Crusade.”
Until recently, however, no book about the real Chil
dren’s Crusade remained in print. William Morrow & Co..
New York, has just republished one of the best, a history
written by a 19th-century New England clergyman,
George Zabriskie Gray.
Impressed by the fact that no exhaustive treatment of
the subject had ever been undertaken. Gray set out "to
collect and narrate such details of that story as have
been saved from oblivion . . . with regret that they are
so few.”
The few known details are these: In the spring of 1212.
a French shepherd boy known only as Stephen of Cloyes
began preaching in the town of Saint-Denis. His message
quickly spread throughout Europe, and that summer
three separate armies of children, each numbering about
30,000 boys and girls, with adult hangers-on, began
marching.
One, led by Stephen, proceeded through France to the
Mediterranean, which the children were confident would
open a path for them, even as the Red Sea had parted for
Moses.
A second crusade led by a boy named Nicholas left
Cologne, Germany, and crossed the Alps into Italy. For
some reason, the German children had divided into a
third army under an unknown leader.
"These boys shame us,” said Pope Innocent 111. who
had been trying unsuccessfully to whip up adult enthusi
asm for a Fifth Crusade.
At Marseilles, two local merchants offered the French
children free passage to the Holy Land. Perhaps 5,000
embarked on seven ships. Their fate was not known for
18 years, when a priest who had accompanied them re
turned with word that two ships had gone down at sea;
the rest of the children had been delivered into slavery
in Egypt.
The sea did not part for the German children, either.
Some remained in Italy. The others, disillusioned began
retracing their weary steps. Along the routes of all three
armies, thousands perished from hunger and disease and
accidents, were forced into prostitution or crime, or sim
ply dropped out to be lost to history.
Gray estimates that at least a third of the 100.000 chil
dren never saw their homes again.
In an introduction to the reissue of Gray’s history,
Thomas Powers, author of "Diana: The Making of a
Terrorist,” draws a parallel between the Children’s Cru
sade and youthful involvement in civil rights sit-ins. anti
war movements and political campaigns of the last dec
ade.
Both the old and the recent events were in the name
of ideals which adults are more inclined to preach than
to practice, he writes. In both cases, the young set off
with an unshakeable faith in the rightness of their cause
and a conviction that the strength of their commitment
was enough to overcome all difficulties.
But there is really no comparison. The original child
crusaders were literally children; their average age was
only about 12. The Children’s Crusade remains a unique
and inexpressibly tragic event which the world, thank
fully. has witnessed but once.
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machine-gunner Spec. 4 Jerry
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on the military’s new involve
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for something to happen. They
don’t know what’s happening.
Right now, we’re in it. Right in
the middle.”
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the Apollo 16 mission:
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