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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, July 6,1972
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Swedish Girls
'Best Looking'
In his analysis of foreign females, that international
ly known photographer Peter Gowland contends the bod
ies of Danish girls are less well-developed than others
throughout Scandinavia. French girls are the most styl
ish, although not the prettiest, he claims. English girls,
he says, possess figures of the finest proportions. But he
insists Swedish girls are the best looking of the lot, pri-
marily because they don’t
hide behind makeup. Or
not much, anyway.
REPORTS a political
scientist: "You've got
two cows. Fascism takes
both, sells you milk. Naz
ism takes both, shoots you.
Communism takes both,
gives you milk. Socialism
takes one. lends it to a
neighbor. But capitalism,
sir, allows you to sell one
of your cows to buy a bull."
QUERIES
; Q. “How do black peo
ple really want to be iden
tified? As Blacks, Negroes,
Afro-Americans, colored?"
A. Don’t know, can only
f quote Flip Wilson’s sage
• comment: “I don’t care
. what you call me, but just
' keep your damned hands
• off me." Wait, doesn’t
; sound right. Not Flip
• enough, maybe. That fel
low has class. He gets
1 more philosophy out of his
; invisible dog than I ever
• got out of drunk Uncle
Charlie.
• Q. WHAT'S it cost a
man to have one of those
surgical hair transplant
operations?"
A. Anywhere from $5 to
$25 per graft. Some old
boys go for 200 grafts.
CARROTS
Women who especially
like carrots tend to be
energetic and inquisitive.
Men who like carrots are
SIDE GLANCES by Gill Fox
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“Money still can’t buy happiness, but Gloria is
working on it!”
apt to be affectionate but
somewhat gullible. Such
are the contentions of that
Tokyo food-fad analyzer
Dr. Kiichi Kuriyama.
Please note, this is item
No. 463-H from our file
of “Breakthroughs in Mod
ern Medicine.”
IF YOU are the young
est brother with sisters,
marry a girl who is the old
est sister with brothers.
If you are the youngest
sister with brothers, marry
a man who is the oldest
brother with sisters. Such
is the advice a matrimon
ial counselor of lengthy
experience. Got it?
“ALWAYS wet chil
dren’s feet in cold water
to toughen them," advise
the New England Almanac
of 1675. “Have them wear
thin-soled shoes so the
water may freely come
in."
THE Disabled Ameri
can Veterans, it's report
ed, spend 60 cents out of
every donated dollar to
campaign for more dona
ted dollars.
SORRY, forgot to tell
you yesterday, a bee flies
from flower to hive at an
average speed of 15 m.p.h.
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 Thursday, July 6,
the 188th day of 1972, with 178
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.
On this day in history:
In 1699 the notorious pirate
Captain William Kidd was
seized in Boston and deported
to England.
In 1933 the American League
defeated the National League,
4-2, at Chicago, in the first All-
Star baseball game.
In 1971 jazz trumpeter Louis
(Satchmo) Armstrong died.
A thought for the day: Greek
historian Herodotus said,
“Envy is natural to man from
the beginning.”
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THOUGHTS
He who is slack in his
work is a brother to him who
destroys. The name of the
Lord is a strong tower; the
righteous man runs into it
and is safe. —Proverbs 18:9,
10.
* * ♦
Find your place and hold
it; find your work and do it.
And put everything you’ve
got into it. — Edward Bok,
philanthropist.
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vieu
We like it here
A while back a reader wrote in and said
that Griffin was “stagnant”. We disagreed
then and we disagree now. It is our belief
that most people who do not like it here
would not like any other place, either. As a
dear lady once told us, “If you want to
have friends, you must act friendly.”
Be that as it may, a measure of
stagnation is business activity or lack of it,
and a good measure of this is the amount of
taxable sales in a community. The report
Yes, we make mistakes
Yes, we make mistakes. Everybody
does sometime, but we try to keep them at
an absolute minimum. In the first place, it
is only right and proper that a newspaper
be as accurate as possible. However, in
daily publication of the news there are
literally thousands of possibilities for
errors.
Now and then we slip, for which we are
The kiss of death
Did you read the news story about
Senator Kennedy’s wife saying her
husband probably would back McGovern?
Must look to itself
The Carnegie Commission on Higher
Education which, under the direction of
Clark Kerr, a former head of the
University of California, has been
examining in depth the state of the nation’s
colleges and universities since 1967, has
released a report on the economics of
education which finds its basic problem to
be a classic case of inflation.
Expenditures on higher education have
been increasing at a rate considerably
greater than national economic growth,
the commission found. The rise in
spending from $7.6 billion in 1960 to $25
billion in 1970 represented a jump of from 1
per cent of the Gross National Product to
2.5 per cent. At the same rate of increase,
spending would rise to ssl billion in 1980, or
3.3 per cent of GNP.
This is the truth
The various candidates in Spalding
County and elsewhere no doubt are
discovering the truth of this little gem
from Trux magazine: “A citizen is a
Grace is God’s giving;
faith is man’s receiving
The Bible says: “Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”
What did you mean when you said we are
saved by God’s grace? E.R.
We are saved both by God’s grace and by
our faith in Christ. They are not two ways
of being saved but two aspects of the same
thing. Grace means “unmerited favor.” It
means that we receive something we do
not deserve. God saves us, not because of
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Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6336
point
for the first quarter of this year has just
arrived and shows that for the period this
year the total in Spalding County was
$25,398,000 compared with $20,835,000 for
the same three months in 1971. This is an
increase of 21,9 percent. Statewide, the
total was $3,047,886,000 compared to
$2,633,269,000 which is a healthy increase
of 15.7 percent but 6.2 less than the
increase in Spalding.
We like it here. Sorry some folks don’t.
truly sorry. You see, our mistakes are so
obvious and so public. It has been said that
doctors bury their mistakes, lawyers send
theirs off to jail and out of public view, but
newspapers print theirs on the front page
for all the world to see. Well, that’s the way
the ball bounces. (Nothing special
prompted this. It has just been on our
mind.)
If we had not had a good reason to oppose
McGovern before, we would have one now.
Too high, according to the Carnegie
study, which recommended a 20 per cent
reduction in spending during the next
decade, to be achieved by such unpleasant
steps as a “cautious” increase in student
faculty ratios, curbing faculty salary
increases, trimming enrollments by
encouraging “reluctant attenders” to drop
out and by a major revision in standard
academic practice, telescoping
undergraduate study into three years
instead of the traditional four.
The Carnegie report strongly
accentuates the negative, but if it is
anywhere near the mark in assessing the
situation, higher education is going to have
to look at least as much to itself as to
Washington for relief from its financial
bind.
person who demands better roads, bigger
schools, a new post office, and lower
taxes.”
something we have done or can do, but
rather because of something He has done
for us. That is His grace.
But God does not force this salvation on
us. He offers it to us and we either reject it
or we receive it, by faith. Grace is God’s
giving, faith is man’s receiving. The Bible
says: “For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the
gift of God, not of works, lest any man
should boast.”
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Volunteer Army:
Education Offer
Makes Difference
By DON OAKLEY
Apart from doubts about the wisdom of phasing out
the draft and creating a “professional” Army, the ques
tion most frequently asked is, how do you go about estab
lishing an all-volunteer service?
The answer most frequently heard is to increase the
pay. Other incentives to attract enlistees are mentioned,
such as better living conditions and better career op
portunities within the Army, but most of the talk is about
better pay.
A recent study by the University of Michigan’s Insti
tute for Social Research (ISR) indicates that another in
centive may have greater appeal than money to young
men pondering military service—the guarantee of four
years of paid schooling in return for four years of service.
“Perhaps most important are the differences in the
kinds of young men attracted by the two incentives,”
say Jerome Johnson and Jerald Bachman, the study’s
directors.
They report that when higher pay as an incentive was
contrasted with paid schooling, “those attracted by paid
schooling averaged higher in intelligence, verbal skills,
occupational ambitions and self-esteem.”
The IRS study is part of a larger “Youth in Transition”
research effort begun in 1966, which has been investi
gating young men’s attitudes, plans and behaviors, par
ticularly those related to educational and occupational
choices.
According to the latest survey data, college-bound high
school graduates “are not strongly motivated by immedi
ate monetary needs in the way that the job-bound are . . .
Os greater interest to the college-bound are those aspects
of self-development which are associated with advanced
education and the opportunities it opens up for the in
dividual.”
Johnston and Bachman thus conclude that to attract
the college-bound, the military must offer either more in
the way of educational alternatives or more assistance to
individuals to pursue education on their own.
An all-volunteer force concentrating entirely on the pay
incentive, they believe, “might tend to attract those
slightly lower in ability and aspirations than the men
presently serving.”
The use of an educational incentive, on the other hand,
would not only have advantages for the military but
“would have almost entirely positive by-products through
out the civilian society.”
They propose an approach which involves both an en
larged GI bill and the use of savings from military pay,
made possible by the recent pay increases in the armed
services.
Under the plan, a young man could serve four years
and receive up to $16,000 to cover tuition and living ex
penses during four years of college. Alternatively, he
could (after formally enlisting) take his four years of
paid education first and then serve four years of active
duty.
As for the fear that an all-volunteer Army might make
it easier for the nation to become involved in more “Viet
nams,” the authors note that as the Vietnam war went
on, it became a more and more negative factor in enlist
ment decisions—a disincentive.
They consider it more likely that the supply of volun
teers would be threatened by other military involvements
resembling the one in Vietnam and cautiously suggest
that “it thus seems at least a possibility that reliance on
an all-volunteer force would actually tend to discourage
large-scale military adventures in the future.”
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)
QUICK QUIZ
Q — How much of the shell
of a crab is shed at molting?
A—. All of it, down to the
tips of the legs and the feel
ers, and including even the
lining of the stomach.
Q —Where is the Hall of
Fame for Great Americans?
A—lt is located on the
campus of New York Uni
versity in New York City.
Q —What city claims the
world’s oldest Stock Ex
change?
A — Amsterdam in the
Netherlands. It was founded
in 1602.
q— Which state donated
the tract of land now known
as Washington, D.C.
A — Maryland, one of the
smallest of the original 13
states, donated it to the fed
eral government and for use
as America’s capital city.
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