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Griffin Daily News Friday, July 7,1972
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Martini Kills
The Appetite
Any drink with an alcoholic content of more than 20
per cent tends to take away the appetite. Researchers at
the University of North Carolina School of Medicine found
that out. A dry martini, for instance. It's about 40 per
cent alcohol. Works like an anesthetic. Or did you know
that?
A MILLION years ago at the circus. I saw a man
seem to fall from a high
trapese. only to be jerked
up short of the deadly
ground by a long rope
tied to his ankle. How
that staged trick jolted
us wide-eyed lumpy
throated rural kinder!
Now I learn the natives
of the New Hebrides Is
lands have executed that
same performance for
hundreds of years. On
vines from the tops of tall
trees. For the edification
of stunned sailors. What’s
new? Nothing, nothing.
AGAIN a client asks
where most matrimonial
mates first meet one an
other. In schools. Investi
gation into more than
9,000 marriages proves
that. Second place these
romantics most usually
get together is in the
homes of friends.
FOOD
Q. "From whence cometh
sugar originally. Louie?"
A. India.
Q. “TAKE an ordinary
batch of wheat. Before
it winds up in my toaster,
how many different chemi
cals are added to it?"
A. No less than 16. Too
many.
Q. “WHAT does a zoo
elephant eat for break
fast?”
A. Maybe 50 pounds of
hay, five loaves of bread,
couple dozen carrots, and
a few apples, if the bud
get allows. No coffee, no
Danish.
MAYBE you didn't know
Denmark has 483 islands.
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WOMEN
Women are far more
apt than men to exagger
ate their aches and pains.
You say that’s not news?
Maybe not. Still, a study
of more than 5,000 men
and women sponsored by
the Veterans Administra
tion at the Cornell Uni
versity Medical School now
confirms the widespread
claim. Said study also
purports to confirm that
most men are more intelli
gent than their wives.
SAY YOU take up a
foreign language. Like
German. It’s hard. But
you keep at it. Sir, you
think you’ll never get con
trol of it. But you do. even
tually. Query is how do you
know when you finally hold
some command? Linguists
say you can be certain,
finally, when you dream
in that language.
THAT SATURDAY is
the day of the week when
the most fatal car crack
ups occur is generally
known. That Wednesday
is when the fewest happen,
likewise. Year in and year
out, approximately the
same number of death
wrecks are reported on
Tuesday and Thursday.
More than on Wednesday.
But not so many as on
Friday and Saturday.
Wednesday is that day of
the week when the fewest
people drink.
Address mail to I. M. Boyd,
P. O. Box 17076, fort Worth,
TX 76102.
Copyright 1972 L.M. Boyd
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today is Friday, July 7, the
189th day of 1972, with 177 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mer
cury, Mars and Jupiter.
Those born on this date are
under the sign of Cancer.
In 1846 U.S. Navy Com
modore J. D. Sloat proclaimed
the annexation of California by
the United States.
In 1941 President Franklin D.
Roosevelt told Congress that
U.S. naval forces, moving to
forestall a possible Nazi inva
sion, had landed on Iceland
with that country’s permission.
In 1970 forty-six persons were
shot during rioting by blacks in
Asbury Park, N.J.
A thought for the day: British
clergyman Matthew Henry
said, “None is so blind as those
who will not see.”
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THOUGHTS
“Set up a standard against
the walls of Babylon; make
the ivatch strong; set up
watchmen; prepare the am
bushes; for the Lord has
both planned and done what
he spoke concerning the in
habitants of Babylon."—Jer
emiah 51:12.
Make preparations in ad
vance. You never have trou
ble if you are prepared for
it.—Theodore Roosevelt.
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Georgia’s new adults
Being grown means a lot more than the
right to take a legal drink of liquor or beer,
but opponents of the measure to make 18-
year-olds adults centered on alcohol and
raised a ruckus at the last session of the
Georgia Legislature. Neverthreless, it
passed the bill and 18-year-olds became
full-fledged adults in the eyes of the law at
the stroke of midnight June 30-July 1.
There had been wringing of hands and
some dire predictions of doom from some
sources which seemed to think that all the
new grown-ups would be sitting in cases,
nightclubs and beer establishments just
waiting to see how drunk they could get.
Reports from the big dty where liquor is
sold legally by the drink are that no such
thing happened. Here in Griffin, one
Three dead hijackers
Three would-be aircraft hijackers are
dead, their earthly remains returning to
the dust from which all of us sprang, and
we daresay that some other people who
had thought of stealing a plane have had
second thoughts and restrained
themselves from doing so.
One of the mysteries of this modem and
enlightened age in which we live is how a
person can steal an airplane, demand and
receive ransom, terrorize scores of
victims and get away with it. The fact that
A nice place to visit
Savannah Beach is a fine place for a
vacation, but did you read in the paper the
other evening about it having two mayors,
two police chiefs and an irate wife of one of
the chiefs who slapped the face of one of the
mayors?
The inside of a cow
If for nothing more than personal
enrichment, there is reason to attend the
Animal Science Day to be held at the
Georgia Experiment Station Wednesday
beginning at 9 a.m. in the Stuckey
Auditorium.
Displays will be of interest to both city
and county dwellers, especially the animal
stalls set up to study metabolism. It is not
every day one has the opportunity to
observe the “inside” of an animal’s
digestive system through picture windows
★ ★ THIS WEEK’S SPORTS EDITORIAL ★ ★
Denny McLain’s debut
Denny McLain, whom many fans
thought was washed up as a major leaguer
after being sent to the minors by the
Oakland Athletics, has returned to the
majors to pitch for the Atlanta Braves.
The ex-31-game winner feels he still has
the ability to pitch in the big leagues.
He received his first starting assignment
with the Braves this week. Although it
wasn’t a sensational debut, it wasn’t bad,
considering McLain was pitching for the
first time in several days and in new
surroundings.
McLain worked seven innings in a game
Why will students
listen to you?
Why wiD college students who don’t
attend church listen to you? C.B.
It has been my experience that modern
youth want the religious message to be
undiluted. They don’t want the preacher to
“beat around the bush.” They want it
“straight from the shoulder.” When they
get it that way they respond to the Gospel
with great enthusiasm. The church has
lost its grip on the student world today, be
cause many of its members have lost hold
on the certainty of the Christian faith.
Students have but a passing interest in
theories, creeds and traditional holdovers
Quimby Melton, Jr.
Editor
Telephone 227-6334
point
dispenser of beer told us that since July 1
only two under-21 adults have had a brew
in his place and both conducted
themselves as gentlemen. One of them did
not like it and took only a couple of
swallows, he said..
The point is that Georgia’s new adults
have measured up to their new status. The
Griffin Daily News expected them to do so
and is not surprised, but we are pleased
and congratulate them.
Although at times it does seem headed
that way, the world is not going to the bow
wows. As always, there is more good than
bad in it and one reason is that it has far
more responsible than irresponsible young
people.
some have succeeded has caused others to
try.
Some skyjackers are as sane as can be.
Others are insane. Perhaps they have
watched too many tv shows which feature
“capers” and dramatize criminals as
victims of society. Whatever the cause, the
three dead should make others stop and
think. So perhaps we are at the beginning
of the end of this bizarre paragraph in the
history of civilization. We hope so.
This state of affairs is the result of a
legal hassle, and we have no idea who is
“right” and who is “wrong.” We do know,
though, that as long as the situation lasts,
Savannah Beach is “a nice place to visit
but I wouldn’t want to live there.”
in their sides. Now, that should be a sight
that would be really hard to pass up.
And most certainly with today’s high
cost of living and especially the high price
of meat, perhaps some insight may be
shed on some reasons why through the
display , “Then and Now.” This exhibit
will dramatize how far man has come in
improving the quality of meats through
animal nutritional research. All in all, it
should be an interesting day.
that was called because of rain. He
allowed three runs on seven hits, struck
out three and didn’t issue any walks. The
performance was better than most people
expected.
McLain feels the trip to the minors was
unjustified. He contends that he wasn’t
given a proper chance by Oakland.
McLain has found a new home in Atlanta
and the Braves plan to give him every
possible chance to make their pitching
staff.
Atlanta needs the help and McLain may
be able to provide it.
from another age. Yet when the student
comes across a man who can say, “This is
what Christ has done for me,” he will
listen and he will believe.
When Paul was brought before King
Agrippa for trial in Caesarea, he might
have employed all the logic he had learned
at the Rabbi Gamaliel in the university. He
might have used his broad knowledge of
world travel to impress the king. Instead
he related his encounter with Christ. This
is the kind of certainty that young people
are looking for, and they cr’l it
“existential experience.”
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"Have you ever heard of Fraser, the lion?"
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Heat on Politicians
To Fill Promises
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The discontents which so many Americans are exhib
iting this year have an opposite side which almost no one
in this country is talking about.
The reverse side is that, in struggling for something
better, Americans may turn to leaders whose promise of
easing their discontents will be harder to fulfill than the
extravagant promises which have helped to create the
frustrations in the first place.
Obviously, a lot of the grumbling is a response to what
Americans see as a deterioration of the setting in which
they live. Public services are poor: crime makes the
streets unsafe; pollution sullies the air and water; traffic
smothers easy movement.
Yet it is a fair judgment that much of their unhappi
ness comes from measuring their condition in a more
relative sense—against what they have actually been
promised, or think they should be, by the politicians.
For a long time, Americans have been caught up in a
“revolution of rising expectations.” They have been
looking for an end to poverty, for more and better jobs,
schools, houses, recreation. But the critical fact, of
course is that these expectations have been only partly
fulfilled. We all know the huge gap between promise or
expectation and performance.
Like others, I have written often of the politicians’
deepest habit of overpromising, which surely has come
to fullest flower in recent decades.
In the unfolding summer of 1972, the consequences of
all this threaten to be desperately serious. Explicit in the
voicing of the citizens' discontents is their plea for lead
ers “who mean what they say.” Translated, that signifies
a desire for leaders who will in fact deliver on things
already promised bv others, and maybe on much more.
Should Sen. George McGovern move in the months
ahead to win the Democratic presidential nomination
and then the fall election, this could prove to be the
worst man trap ever prepared for a White House occu
pant.
For McGovern has been a superextravagant promiser
and vet, in a time of great disillusionment, he has been
believed. The burden upon him as president thus would
be monumental.
Any measureable failure on his part could turn his pres
ent friends and supporters into far worse enemies than
those who are trying futilely to block his nomination in
these closing weeks.
Why? Because the strange chemistry of the “rising ex
pectations” thing has destroyed almost all restraint in the
disgruntled citizenry.
In his new book, “On the Democratic Idea in Amer
ica,” author Irving Kristol asserts that the revolution has
reached “such grotesque dimensions that men take it as
an insult when they are asked to be reasonable m their
desires and demands.” He adds:
“The reasonable is what they expect to obtain auto
matically. The unreasonable is what they look to govern
ment to provide by special, ingenious effort.”
A key ingredient in today’s discontents is impatience
and a consequent insistence on telescoping time There
is to be no waiting for anything. As Kristol says, To be
promised something by a politician is to feel immediately
deprived of it.” But George McGovern, as president,
would find that even he needs time. And if he should
gain the chance to ask for it, he may find himself in the
deepest trouble of his life.
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QUICK QUIZ
q —What American presi
dent was preceded and suc
ceeded in office by the same
man?
A — Benjamin Harrison,
preceded and succeeded by
President Grover Cleveland.
q —What is the Christian
world’s “hexameron”?
A—The six days of the
creation.
q —Which is the longest
single interstate system
route?
A—l-80 stretching 2,910
miles from New York to
California.
Q —What is indicated by
the term timberline?
A—The timberline is the
mountainside point beyond
which trees do not grow.
Q —What is the shortest
verse in the Bible?
A —The shortest verse in
the Bible is “Jesus wept.”
(John 11:35.)
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FACTS
The Rough Riders, a vol
unteer army regiment of
ranchers, cowboys, Indians
and college students, were
highly publicized in the
Spanish-American War,
The World Almanac says.
Though the unit was forced
to embark for Cuba without
horses, it helped capture
San Juan Hill. This forced
the Spanish fleet to sail to
sea, where it was defeated.
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Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
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