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Gray Men Are
Good Natured
Men who have become prematurely gray usually are
good natured. A light-haired man is always conceited.
Dark hair on a man is a sign of loyalty. The best husbands
will be found among those with fine brown hair. Such are
the personal convictions of a St. Louis theorist who ad
mits but rare exceptions.
IT. WAS NONE other
than Wilfred J. Funk who
listed these 10 as the most
overworked words in the
English language: 1.
Okay. 2. Terrific. 3. Lousy.
4. Definitely. 5. Racket. 6.
Gal. 7. Honey. 8. Swell. 9.
Contact. 10. Impact.
AGAIN AM asked if it's
possible to load transpar
ent dice. And if so, how?
- Nothing to it. Just soak a
side of each selected die in
an eighth of an inch of cas
tor oil for about 30 days.
That weights said select
ed side.
QUERIES
Q. “Where does the name
‘Kiwanis’ come from?"
A. An Indian word mean
ing “to make oneself
known." The Kiwanis Club
members are proud of this,
you know. They're also said
to be proud of the generally
accepted contention that
Kiwanians are better lov
ers than Rotarians.
Q. “DID YOU say the
water skiers outnumber
the snow skiers?"
A. Did that. By five to
two, they do.
Q. “WHO SAID, To my
embarrassment, I was
born in bed with a lady'?”
A. That was Wilson Miz
ner. He also said, "When
a woman tells you her age,
it’s all right to look sur
prised. but don’t scowl."
And, “There’s something
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about a closet that makes
a skeleton terribly rest
less.”
BURT
Burt Reynolds is a swif
ty. That tight-lipped por
trayal of the now defunct
Dan August didn't reveal
much of him. Neither did
the naked centerfold pho
to, for that matter, not
really. Reynolds' ad libs
bounce around like a buck
et of spilled ballbearings.
Bucking “The Tonight
Show” on a neighboring
network, he’d ruin Johnny
Carson, I suspect.
UNDER CALIFORNIA
law, a wife can beat her
husband with a broomstick
without fear of arrest. But
he can go to jail just for
slapping her on the bumper
with a hand brush. Isn’t
fair.
SAID FREYA STARK,
sagely: “Like the zero
in arithmetic, manners
may not be much in them
selves, but they are cap
able of adding a great deal
to the value of everything
else.” Nod, nod.
CONSERVATIVE
bunch, the British, no?
Then how do you account
for the fact Great Britain
has more nudists per capi
ta than any other country
in the world?
Address moil to L. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, Fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1972 L.M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Tuesday, June 6, the
158th day of 1972 with 208 to
follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Venus,
Mars and Mercury.
Those born on this day are
under the sign of Gemini.
American patriot Nathan Hale
was born June 6, 1755.
On this day in history:
In 1816 10 inches of snow fell
in New England, starting what
was to be known as “the year
in which there was no sum
mer.”
In 1933 a motion picture
drive in theater, the first of its
kind, opened in Camden, N. J.
In 1944 “D-Day” began as
Supreme Allied Commander
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
launched the Normandy invas
ion.
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THOUGHTS
By faith Noah, being
warned by God concerning
events as yet unseen, took
heed and constructed an ark
for the saving of his house
hold: by this he condemned
the world and became an
heir of the righteousness
which conies by faith. —
Hebrews 11:7.
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Two Senate races
There are two races for the U.S. Senate
this year in Georgia. Some writers are
calling it very confusing, but it is not.
Really, it is simple and easy to un
derstand. Here it is in a nut shell:
Georgia law requires that the Governor
appoint a successor when a Senator dies,
and that is what Governor Carter did when
he named Senator Gambrell. But
appointment lasts only until the next
general election. This comes in November,
so there is the matter of 57 days from the
general election in November until start of
Baseball is not dead
Baseball did not slit its throat during the
players strike as many had thought. It did
gash its chin, but according to recent
attendance figures and tv ratings, fans are
watching with even greater frequency
than last season.
While it was impossible to predict what
the season would bring in fan interest once
it got started, after some six weeks we now
have better indication and two things are
Money for the U.N.
Hie Action by the House in cutting sl3
million from the U.S. dues payment to the
United Nations is commendable in motive,
but improper in method.
The complaint by Rep. John J. Rooney, a
New York Democrat, that it is
“unwholesome and unsound” for one
nation to pay 31 per cent of the budget for
an organization with more than 100
members is valid.
A more equitable method of levying
assessments would encourage greater
responsibility on the part of developing
nations, many of which are enjoying a free
ride in the international assembly.
And the memory of the humiliation
suffered by the United States in last year’s
Bent on destruction
There is an inescapable parallel between
the attack on Michelangelo’s Pieta statue
and the attempt to assassinate Gov.
George Wallace six days earlier. In both
incidents a hand bent on destruction struck
out from a crowd presumed to contain only
admirers.
Both of these lapses from civilized
conduct may have done irreparable harm.
In one case, a man faces permanent
paralysis. In the other, a masterpiece of
Robbery by speedboat
The romance of cruising along canals in
Venice has been rudely shattered. A
launch crossing the lagoon there was
overtaken by two gunmen in a speedboat
who extracted $215 from the four
occupants of the launch.
How consoling are
mere platitudes?
Your remarks to a "recent Christian”
mentioning love, faith, and the Holy Spirit,
are confusing to the ordinary mortal. After
a hurricane’s dreadful destruction on the
gulf coast near my home, a scene in the
church was significant. The minister
spoke ' of faith, mercy and thankfulness.
One woman, shocked and shivering had
just lost her husband, her three children,
and her home. How consoling could such
platitudes be to her? R.E.P.
Platitudes may not be consoling, but the
God which they feebley point to, is. For
example, George Mattheson was stricken
with a crippling disease. His girl friend,
whom he loved very deeply, left him. He
was tempted to despair, but instead sat
down and wrote that great hymn:
“O love that will not let me go,
I rest my weary soul on thee.”
the new six-year term. Under these
circumstances, voters will elect a senator
for 57 days and a senator for six years.
This may or may not be the same person.
Now what is so complicated about that?
Nothing really.
It is important, though. Seniority
governs the Senate and if the person who
wins the six-year term also wins the 57-day
term, he will be senior to all other senators
who take office for the first time in
January. So whoever we in Georgia elect
for the regular term, we ought also to elect
for the short one.
apparent: (1) baseball is not dead, and (2)
as always, a winner draws fans.
Attendance is up for 12 teams as opposed
to only six in 1971. And there is an overall
rise of about two percent. Possibility of
good pennant races and fair skies, plus a
'returning fan appreciation of baseball as a
dramatic though deliberate sport, augur
increasingly sunny days ahead for it. The
bright outlook is in spite of the players
strike, not because of it.
chaotic vote on expulsion of Nationalist
China undoubtedly influenced the decision
of the resentful representatives.
But without the full S6O million U.S.
contribution recommended by the State
Department, the United Nations could run
out of funds before the end of the year. And
the peace-keeping objectives and force for
social improvement envisioned when the
United Nations was formed more than a
quarter-century ago remain important
today.
A restructuring of the financial
foundation on which the United Nations
rests is desirable certainly.
But it should be accomplished through
negotiation and organizational decree, not
through unilateral action taken in pique.
art will carry scars no matter how
skillfully repairs are accomplished.
It is two achievements of Western
civilization that have proved their
vulnerability to the dark side of human
nature. In America, we see the free
democratic process as epitomized in our
election campaigns being inhibited by the
threat of violence. In Rome, we see how
beauty captured in enduring marble can
still be the victim of smasher of beauty.
This is a new form of water pollution.
The only cure we can see is for Venetian
gondoliers to go to the exact-fare system,
thus protecting their money if not their
passengers’ wallets. - Miami (Fla.) Herald
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Luther Bridges, a minister, came home
one day to see his home destroyed by fire.
And even worse, his wife and children
perished in the blaze. Naturally, he was
shocked and stunned. But, days later,
when he regained his equilibrium, and
began to draw strength from the Lord, he
wrote:
“Though sometimes he leads through
waters deep,
Trials fall across the way;
Though sometimes the path is rough
and steep,
Jesus leads me all the way.”
You ask: “How consoling could such
platitudes be?” But, as an unbeliever,
have you something helpful to offer?
Unless you do, why knock the Christian
faith which has given strength to martyrs,
to the distressed, and the grief-stricken of
the centuries ?
BERRY’S WORLD
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The U.S. Tourist
By DON OAKLEY
The strange species known as Tourist Americanus
"may be less dangerous to the civilized world than Attila,
but not much.” g
The charge is made by author John Keats, writing in
Travel & Leisure magazine In an article called "The*
Great American Vandal,” he ticks off a list of tourist
crimes committed by Americans. The samples include:
• Partial destruction of the new John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts shortly after its opening
in the nation’s capital, where tourists dismantled the
chandeliers, pried the faucets off bathroom basins, stole
the silverware from the restaurants, paintings from the
walls and cut swatches out of carpet and draperies for
souvenirs and in all did some $1.5 million worth of
damage.
• The irretrievable loss of several geysers and the
Morning Glory Pool in Yellowstone Park because tourists,
could not resist the temptation to clog the vents with
coins, stones and logs.
• Graffiti at the Grand Canyon, where one ranger”
caught a family spraying their names on the rocks and
was told, “We thought this was what everybody did. The
rocks are for everybody, aren’t they?”
In addition to our national parks, our historic sites and
museums are particular targets of our touring barbarians,
which accounts, says Keats, “for the fact that so much
of our heritage is behind velvet ropes and iron bars or in
glass cases and is only seen through a screen of uni
formed guards.”
It is bad enough that American tourists “foul their own
nests,” he says. “But worse, thanks to the creation of
cheap jet travel, that our affluent barbarians now commit
their nuisances on a worldwide scale.”
He admits that American tourists are not the only ones
who can be indicted: “The German yields to no one
when it comes to oafishness, nor is the Belgian far
behind.”
The British Lord Elgin, it will be remembered, sent
home whole shiploads of marbles which once adorned
the Acropolis in Athens.
But Americans are the worst of all, claims Keats, if
only because there are so many of them.
A Hard Look at Soft Water
A “long and detailed” study of the effect of water
quality on health in western Maryland has shown a lower
death rate from heart disease for white males, age 45-64,
if they drink soft water.
The study was made by Dr. George W. Comstock, pro
fessor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, and ■
was reported by him to the sixth annual International
Water Quality Symposium held recently in Washington.
But then came the “buts,” or as Dr. Comstock called
them, the "variables.”
For one thing, he found that people from lower social
and economic levels showed a greater risk of dying from
heart disease than those who were better educated or
lived in houses with more than one bathroom.
Also, the risk of fatal heart disease was higher for
cigarette smokers than for nonsmokers, but lower for
both than for those who had ever smoked cigars.
Most surprising, he said, was that heart disease risk
for persons attending church infrequently was nearly
twice that for persons who attended church once a week
or oftener.
Thus, he summed up. “At the present time, careful
review of all the available evidence suggests soft water
per se is not likely to be related to arteriosclerotic heart
disease.”
The moral? Either install another bathroom, stop
smoking cigars, go to church, don’t live in western Mary
land or avoid epidemiologists bearing questionnaires.
QUOTES
Progress is the activity of
today and the assurance of
tomorrow. — Ralph Waldo
Emerson, essayist.
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In actual life every great
enterprise begins with and
takes its first step forward
in Faith.—August Schlegel,
German poet
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There are times in a man’s
life when, regardless of the
attitude of the body, the soul
is on its knees in prayer.—
Victor Hugo, novelist.
A thought for the day: Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “In
the final choice a soldier’s pack
is not so heavy a burden as a
prisoner’s chains.”
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The American Kennel
Club recorded 1,129,200 dogs
in 1971, the highest number
registered in the organiza
tion’s history. Poodles
ranked as the most popular
breed in the U.S.A, for the
12th consecutive year ac
cording to the AKC’s 1971
pure-bred registration fig
ures, The World Almanac
says. There were 256,491
poodles and 111,355 German
shepherds registered in
1971.