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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 27, 1972
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Single Women
Apt To Giggle
Ticklishness is a sign of unrequited love. Or such is
the reported claim of a mental specialist named Dr. Clyde
B. Simpson. He is said to claim further that girls who
giggle excessively when tickled most likely are not
married.
DON’T BELIEVE I yet
mentioned the average
television station manager
is almost but not quite 48
years old, stands 5-foot-9
tall, weighs a bit more than
176 pounds, is a veteran
of nearly 23 years of
marriage, and reports
personal production of 2.9
children. Such are the
statistics.
SURVEYS show No. 3
on that list of gifts most
preferred by brides-to-be
is the electric toaster.
No. 4, a steam iron. No.
6, a coffee maker. No. 1
and No. 2, predictably, re
main china and sterling.
Only surprise in this
scientific poll was No. 9,
the electric blanket.
VETERANS
As to veterans, right
after World War 11, a
little more than 38 out of
every 100 of same posses
sed high school diplomas.
Immediately following the
Korean War, more than 44
out of 100 likewise owned
such credentials. By now
at the tailend of the
Viet Nam War, approx
imately 71 out of 100 can
be identified as graduates.
The military of late is
signing up and turning
loose a far better educated
batch of disillusioned
men, that's clear.
Q. “ISN'T it the law in
some states that all bodies
have to be embalmed?"
A. That's no law in any
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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state. However, some re
quire embalming if the
interment is delayed or
a common carrier is used
in transportation.
EXPECTING too much
of either man or dog to
be sympathetic certainly,
but the fact is most fleas
are blind. Don’t even have
eyes.
JUST 86 per cent of
everthing recorded in your
brain, it's said, is some
thing you’ve seen. Click,
click, click. Little pic
tures.
ALSO BE advised,
please, one ostrich egg
omelet will serve 24
people.
LASHES
That the marketing boys
report 50 million pairs of
false eyelashes sold na
tionwide every year is not
particularly astonishing.
What's astonishing is they
report a goodly number
are bought to be worn
by straight businessmen.
Interesting, if true. Never
met an ordinary everyday
fellow decked out in false
eyelashes. But it’s ser
iously claimed now some
hearty characters with
sparse blonde upholstery
affect the trick adornments
to impress their girl
friends with that soulful
look.
Address mail to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1972. IM Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Thursday, April 27,
the 118th day of 1972.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
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.
Samuel Morse, inventor of
the telegraph, was bom April
27, 1791.
On this day in history:
In 1850 the American-owned
steamship “The Atlantic” be
gan a regular transatlantic
passenger service, the first U.S.
vessel to challenge British
liners.
In 1906 U.S. Steel broke
ground at the south end of Lake
Michigan to build a new
Indiana town named Gary.
In 1937 the first Social
Security payment was made in
accordance with provisions of
the act of 1935.
In 1965 the U.S. carrier
“Boxer” moved into an off
shore position to prepare to
evacuate Americans as the
Dominican Republic revolution
grew more tense.
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THOUGHTS
My eyes are spent with
weeping: my soul is in tur
moil; my heart is poured out
in grief because of the de
struction of the daughter of
my people, because infants
and babes faint in the streets
of the c i t y.—Lamentations
2:11.
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The historical society
We note with interest and with pleasure
purchase by the Spalding County
Historical Society of the old Medical
College building on Broad street.
Restoration will serve the dual purposes of
About Billy Graham
Just about everybody who is worth his
salt and has enough pepper in his (or her)
system to speak out in public seems to
come in for criticism these days.
We know a prominent person who is an
otherwise worthy individual who seems to
charge up his own battery by running
down other people. This lamentable habit
grips too many folks these days and times.
Even Billy Graham draws fire. Maybe
some of his critics envy him. Perhaps they
The grass is green
One of the gratifying occurrences of
fairly recent origin has been the return of a
number of hometown men and women to
live in Griffin instead of elsewhere.
There was a time not long ago when it
could be said with justification that Griffin
did not offer its own sons and daughters
very much opportunity. This is true no
longer.
In the past several years people reared
here and educated here have come back to
live here after* completing their
educations, military service, or
employment elsewhere.
Included in the number are several
lawyers, industrial executives, bankers,
A lot of greed
There’s a curious thing about the
consumerism movement.
It’s a movement of the good little guys,
the consumers, to impose ethical
responsibility on the big bad buys, the
corporations, who sell us shoddy goods or
poor services and maybe pollute the
environment while doing it.
But the people who run the big bad
corporations are, as private citizens in
other situations, consumers, too. And
millions of the good little guys work for the
corporations and help make the shoddy
goods or deliver the poor services they
complain about when it is done by
somebody else.
One case in point, which has nothing to
do with consumerism but which illustrates
this curious ability of people to separate
their public and private roles, is the
revelation that the Small Business
Administration was defrauded of millions
of dollars by victims of the Los Angeles
earthquake—Defrauded not by businesses
but by individual people.
Swamped with claims, the SBA was
forced to accept the word of claimants,
America must not
misplace its faith
Sociologists tell us that tomorrows’
world will have more leisure and less
work. In my book, such ideas cause a
nations' downfall. What do you think?
R.P.
It was the poet Milton who said, “Hours
have wings and fly up to the author of time,
and carry news of our usage. All our
prayers cannot entreat one of them either
to return or slacken pace. Each misspent
minute is a new record against us in
heaven. Sure, if we thought thus, we would
dismiss them with better reports, and not
suffer them to fly away empty".
It seems to me the tragedy of our society
is that so much of what we do is empty,
without purpose and significance. This
history and improvement of the
neighborhood.
The society is filling a too-long vacant
place in the community and filling it well.
are like our acquaintance mentioned in the
above paragraph. Some probably are
sincere. Whatever their motives, though,
we believe that they are way off base.
What does the Griffin Daily News think
of Billy Graham? We think that he is a
great evangelist and a fine American. We
think so much of him that we publish his
column every day. If we did not approve
him, we would toss it out of the paper. That
is what we think of Billy Graham. What do
you think of him?
sales executives, businessmen. Half a
dozen of Griffin’s medical doctors are
“hometown boys” plus one who is a
“hometown girl.” Those who have
returned home are found in nearly all
walks of life, at the top financially as well
as at the middle and at the bottom.
The point is, there is lots of opportunity
here for people reared here as well as for
people who have moved here. The grass
often does look greener in the other
fellow’s pasture, but quite often that is
because he has tended to it properly. The
grass right here at home is mighty lush for
those who give it proper care.
who in many cases suffered far less
damage to their property than they
alleged, or suffered none at all.
(This incidentally punches holes in
another idea—that a government agency is
a heartless thing run by faceless
bureaucrats devoted to ensnaring helpless
citizens in miles of red tape.)
Another case in point, which also has
nothing to do with consumerism, is the
Treasury Department’s report that a spot
check of income tax returns in the
Southeast found 97 per cent of them
fraudulent The returns were prepared by
professional tax services, but don’t bet
that any overwhelming number of the
taxpayers who used outside help were
innocently unaware of the hanky-panky.
In neither example, in the Southwest or
Southeast, was there any organized
conspiracy by big guys to cheat good little
buys. In both, it was simply a matter of
grass-roots greed.
The moral for the consumerism
movement: Maybe none at all. Or maybe
just this—that honesty, like charity, begins
at home. Or as Pogo put its, “We have met
the enemy and he is us.”
MY
ANSWER’,, JR
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makes the distinction between work and
leisure a bit fuzzy. One man could
dissipate his working day by carelessness
and poor motivation, but another might so
use the same hours in leisure, that they
would become highly productive and
greatly rewarding.
The important thing is not work or
leisure; it’s whether a person sees himself
as a manager of what God has given him.
It was Paul who said to Corinthian
Christians, “Whether you eat or drink, or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of
God."
If America is headed for a downfall, it's
not because we praise or fault the work
ethic, but because we misplace our faith.
BERBFS WORLD
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"Could you hold things up tor a minute or two? We're
still trying to figure out something original to say for
the welcoming ceremony aboard the carrier."
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WASHINGTON (NEA)
Thirty odd years ago in Southern California an Ameri
can farmer of Korean ancestry woke up one morning to
find his tomato crop ruined by a freak change in the
weather. Heavily in debt, and in danger of losing all he
owned, he had been carried for almost a decade by an
understanding banker who had faith in his integrity.
In the months just past, that man’s son has spent a
good deal of his spare time making certain South Viet
nam’s small farmers have the same good fortune his
father had in time of need.
Henry Lee, who works for the Agency for International
Development, is supposed to work on over-all economic
principles. But on his own he has been helping eager
South Vietnamese officials set the stage for getting 31
village banks started—five in the past two months. There
are plans for 169 more.
Each bank is very small. Each is founded, owned,
funded and run by local villagers. Deposits are from the
people in the village. All the money is lent to farmers
with fewer than 25 acres, to small fishermen, to business
men with assets under $4,200 (U.S. equivalent) or in
dustrialists with assets of less than $8,400.
No one man or family can own a controlling interest
in any bank. The government has no vote on the board
of directors. Sixty per cent of the loans must go to farm
ers and fishermen.
The headlines these days are on military battles. But
when the books are balanced, this reporter believes,
from a decade and a half in Asia, that if South Vietnam
survives and prospers, it will be because of these village
banks and the chance they give the small man for credit.
Undergrounds rise or fall on how well or poorly they
can play on the hopelessness of a nation’s small farm
ers, fishermen, workmen and shopkeepers. The text
book solution is land reform, a cutback on corruption
and a stable government.
But without credit, the small farmer is a victim of the
moneylender—paying 50 to 100 per cent for his money,
forced to mortgage his crop for a low price and finally,
all too frequently, losing his land.
He is perpetually in hock—living from hand to mouth
without hope.
The farmer thus becomes the servant of the money
lender-rice-buyer patron. The profits, instead of going to
building the community, are sequestered by the lender
and put into fast-turnover money-making ventures. The
great rural areas of a country stay backward and ready
for whatever underground comes along.
Conventionally, the village bank may be one room in
a home or a small shop. It may have eight to 60 or so
investors. Depositors are paid from 12 to 21 per cent
according to how long the deposit is to be left in the bank.
Since inflation is 13 to 15 per cent a year or more, with
out these high rates a depositor would lose more in pur
chasing power than he gained’from interest. As a result,
borrowers pay from 20 to 24 per cent—but they flock in.
For the soil is rich in the South and this is a far better
deal than the 50 to 100 per cent they’ve been paying the
moneylenders.
Savings have been pouring into these village banks
at a fast clip, indicating a prosperity and a confidence
not seen in rural South Vietnam for many years.
The feeling is that farmers and fishermen with this
confidence will fight with whatever weapons they have
if the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong attempt to take
over their hamlets.
TIMELY
QUOTES
By United Press International
SAIGON—An American offi
cial, describing the attitude of
South Vietnamese troops in
face of the North Vietnamese
offensive:
“They’re just sitting around
waiting for another attack.
That kind of strategy will lose
the whole country for them.”
SPACE CENTER, Houston—
Dr. Harold Masursky, an Apollo
geologist, commenting on the
moon samples gathered by
astronauts John W. Young and
Charles M. Duke:
“I think these findings will be
the single most important set of
elements in understanding the
history of the moon."
DAILY NEWS
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New Small Banks
Viet's 'Defense'
By RAY' CROMLEY
WORLD ALMANAC
FACTS
The largest aircraft in
wingspan—32o feet—e ver
built was the eight-engined
200-ton Hughes Hercules
flying boat which was
flown once in 1947 by How
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manac recalls. It provided
innovations in design, con
struction and control sys
tems which were valuable
in building the current gen
eration of giant commercial
and military aircraft.
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