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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, July 5,1972
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Socks Should
Last a Year
How long should your various articles of clothing
last? The National Institute of Dry Cleaning did a study
on that. So its members would know how much to pay for
customers’ claims. A woman’s basic suit, it was found,
ought to be good for four years. A cloth coat, three years.
A street dress, two years. A house dress, one year. A
man's winter suit, four years. His overcoat, four years.
A dress shirt, two years.
A pair of socks, one year. air first, then paddles
A POLISH doctor claims
his research proves the
labor of unmarried expect
ant mothers is almost in
variably shorter than
that of pregnant wives.
A HOLIDAY INNS
bartender has to come up
with the money for 20
1/2 drinks for each fifth
of liquor, that's the rule.
SAYS HERE the Army
is short of physicians.
Calls to mind that elderly
observation that military
medicine is to medicine
what military music is to
music.
QUERIES
Q. "Can a man be taught
a foreign language with a
pillow speaker attached to
a tape recorder while he
sleeps?"
A. Not if he's really
conked out. He might pick
up a few lines as he dozes
off, however. Such is the
latest contention of the
sleep researchers.
Q. “AREN’T there small
claims courts in every
state?"
A. Except Colorado, In
diana and Nebraska.
Q. "CAN an armadillo
swim?"
A. Can indeed. Pumps its
digestive innards full of
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him about?!’’
along most mightily.
BEAUTY
What makes Eric Morley
of England an authority on
female pulchritude. I
guess, is the fact he has
managed more than 2,000
beauty contests. In looks,
he thinks the shape of a
woman's leg is more im
portant that her face. But
he says her height and tape
measurements are even
more significant. As pre
viously reported, his ideal
girl stands 5-foot-6 and
tapes 36-25-35.
IF IT’S really white,
citizens hereabouts think
it ought to have a slight
ly blue cast. But in South
America, if it’s really
white, the Latins expect it
to show a reddish tinge.
Like beauty, white is in the
eye of the. etc.
THE MEDIAN age of
those souls who leap off the
San Francisco Bridge is
43. And the men who do so
outnumber the women by
23 to one. That’s odd. Us
ual men-women ratio
among suicides is three to
one.
Address mail 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 Wednesday, July 5,
the 187th day of 1972, with 179
to follow.
The moon is between its last
quarter and new phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercu
ry, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Cancer.
American showman P. T.
Barnum was born July 5, 1810.
On this day in history:
In 1865 William Booth found
ed the Salvation Army in
IxHidon.
In 1935 President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the Wagner-
Connery bill, officially known
as the National Labor Relations
act. It guaranteed labor’s right
to collective bargaining.
A thought for the day:
American circus operator P. T.
Barnum said, “There’s a
sucker born every minute.”
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THOUGHTS
Now to him who by the
power at work within us is
able to do far more abun
dantly than all that we ask
or think, to him be glory in
the church and in Christ
Jesus to all generations, for
ever and ever. Arne n.—
Ephesians 3:20, 21.
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Editor
Telephone 227-6336
Now it is official
Gordon Junior College officially became
a unit of the University System of Georgia
today.
It is an educational institution with a
distinguished past, and its joining the
state-supported system of higher
education assures it a bright future.
Change of direction
The Supreme Court’s overthrow of the
death penalty has been pending for many
months. Nevertheless, the decision is so
far-reaching and so controversial that it
shook the nation.
In it, though, we detect a shift in the
court’s direction. The decision was 5-4,
thus a single change of vote would have
resulted in an opposite holding. The four
all are Nixon appointees. The five all
reached the bench via earlier presidents.
Just a few days before the death penalty
decision, the court voted 6 to 3 to
A wink in the dark
Doing business without advertising is
like winking at a girl in the dark. You know
Considerable effect
President Nixon’s signature of the
school aid bill the other day was an act
deserving of headlines, but it made them
for the wrong reasons.
The attention-getter was the President’s
verbal lashing of Congress for failing to
write antibusing provisions into the
measure as he had requested.
Busing is, of course, a legitimate not to
mention burning—as the President
himself put it—educational issue. It is also
a political issue, one which is very much a
part of the building presidential campaign.
Emphasis on the flashy political
highlights of the bill thus obscured its real
significance—the establishment of a new
We’re
Listening
Dear Mr. Melton: The University of
Georgia Libraries are happy to have the
articles which you have written on the
“History of Griffin” for the Griffin Daily
News. We thank you for sending them and
will preserve them in our special collection
of Georgia materials. May we commend
you for the contribution you have made to
your community and state by your service
in gathering and publishing the story of its
past? Knowledge of who and what have
gone before us is important in recognizing
our present position and our possibilities
for tomorrow. With the best wishes of our
institution to you—and to Griffin, I am
Sincerely yours, Mrs. Sarah Sims Way,
Gift and Exchange Section.
Love of God and
affection for people
Will you please explain the difference
between our love of God and our affection
for people? H.M.
In one sense, of course, it is different; in
another sense, it is not. There are at least
three ingredients in our love for God which
are found also in our human affections.
The first is knowledge. You cannot deeply
love a person unless you really know that
person; and the same is true of God. To
love God you must know Him — not just
The Griffin Daily News congratulates
Gordon, the system, the Barnesville of
which it is an important part. We predict
that it will enjoy outstanding success and
recommend it as the latest opportunity
offered by the people of Georgia for a
higher education.
overthrow convictions of several people
for using profane language in public.
Changes of only two votes would have
reversed that decision.
Presidents can not change overnight the
direction in which the nation is moving.
Time to make appointments to the Su
preme Court and to other important
positions is required. It has begun to
appear that some of this necessary time
has passed, and we believe that the nation
will be better and stronger when more of it
has.
what you are doing, but no one else does. —
Trux Magazine.
basis for federal aid to higher education,
which has nothing whatsoever to do with
busing.
For the first time, federal money will be
available to financially strapped
institutions to use as they wish rather than
as specific federal programs spell out. And
as a matter of national policy, every
student who cannot meet the full costs of
an education can now look to the
government for financial assistance—up
to a maximum $1,400 through new loan and
grant programs.
The effects will certainly be
considerable, and endure long after this
election, and, just possibly, the busing
issue are history.
From time to time we will publish
complaints and suggestions about your
newspaper. Send questions, comments
or criticisms to WE’RE LISTENING,
the Griffin Daily News, P.O. Box 135,
Griffin, Georgia 30223.
Dear Quimby: I know you were
surprised to receive recently the letter
from Mrs. Sarah Sims Way of the
University Library concerning your
History of Griffin. My mother cut the
articles from the Griffin Daily News and
gave them to me. I read them and passed
them on to Dean Drewry. He returned
them to me and I, in turn, sent them to
Mrs. William Tate who works in the
Georgianna collection in the University
Library. That is how they got to the
Library. I am writing so you will have this
understanding on why you received the
latter from Mrs. Way. Incidentally, I
enjoyed the history very much. I saw
many familiar names. With all best
wishes, Sincerely yours, Tyus Butler,
Director, Alumni Relations, University of
Georgia.
know about Him. And there is only one way
to know God in the deep, personal sense. It
is through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then again, human love depends on
reverence and respect. You cannot
genuinely love a person for whom you have
no deep regard. And the same is true, in a
far higher sense, of love for God. The third
ingredient is gratitude. Our love for our
parents arises, in part at least, from a
sense of gratitude for all that they have
done for us. And we love God for the same
reason.
MY fMk
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BRUCE BIOSSAT
Justice, Freedom
Not Hand-in-Hand
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Americans today, more “democratized” than those who
went before them, haven’t yet got it clear that justice
and “equality” do not flow automatically from widening
freedoms.
Free men do not by definition act justly toward one
another. If they did, there would be very little need for
any law at all.
Author Irving Kristol, again in that new book of his.
“On the Democratic Idea in America,” suggests that
justice is a lot harder to come by than freedom, slow as
that may have been in arriving for lots of Americans
and others.
He quotes the conservative Friederich von Hayek as
reinforcing this view, with the latter writer indicating
that we pretty much know what freedom is. but have no
generally accepted knowledge of what justice is.
A simple example. One of the most entrancing social
notions, which we hear over and over through the dec
ades, is that people in a good, well-balanced society
ought to be “rewarded according to merit.”
Fine, fine. But who decides what “merit” is, for mil
lions upon millions of people?
Obviously, such decisions could only be made by per
sons or groups holding power-power not only to decide,
but to enforce decision by some means. But if such a
course produced “justice,” it would be a consequence
of authority, not freedom in the strict sense.
The historian of civilizations, Will Durant, makes the
further argument that freedom and equality do not go
hand-in-hand. Quite the reverse, he says in his book,
“The Lessons of History”:
“Leave men free and their natural inequalities will
multiply almost geometrically . . .”
These men are taking the long view, but what they
are saying has vital meaning right now. The conflict
their comment highlights is baffling some earnest Amer
icans active in the public arena this very season.
As the more than 3,000 delegates to the Democratic
national convention gather at Miami Beach in a short
time, they will hear their party indulge in much self
congratulation for having reformed itself and “opened
up” its presidential nominating processes. That means,
clearly, making them freer, to allow more people of more
and more kinds to take part.
Yet there is a hard question to be asked: Are these
many different categories of Americans present at the
convention because the processes are now freer? The
candid answer is: Only in part.
Many of the women, young, blacks, Chicanos, Indians
and others whose presence there is regarded as a “just”
result of the process are in fact there because they were
hand-picked.
The outcome was simply dictated by party reform
rules specifically established to provide participation for
these people in rough proportion to their “presence" in
the population of that area.
There was absolutely no way for “freedom” to guaran
tee that. A vote of the people, which we are persuaded is
the surest gauge of freedom, could very well produce a
delegation entirely composed of women, or of white men
aged 30 to 50.
Again, men acting freely do not represent proofs that
justice and equality will be done. To make any decisions
that even approach attainment of these goals, we need
authority at work.
If there are reasonably proper numbers of women,
young, blacks, etc., at the Democratic convention, au
thority—not freedom—saw that it was so.
QUICK QUIZ
Q — How does seaweed
grow?
A —l nste ad of drawing
sustenance through its
roots, it synthesizes food
from nutrients absorbed
from the water.
Q —What is the actual
shape of the moon’s orbit?
A—Like every other orbit
in space, it is an ellipse.
Q —Which state in the
Union contains the only dia
mond field in North Amer
ica?
A—Arkansas. The diamond
mine is near Murfreesboro.
Q —What Civil War nurse
founded the American Red
Cross?
A—Clara Barton in 1881.
Q —Who was the only one
of the 12 apostles who died
a natural death?
A—Saint John the Evan
gelist.
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