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Honey, Baby
And Darling
Thirty years ago, the six most popular affectionate
salutations by husbands to wives, in order, were: Dar
ling, baby, honey, sweetheart, precious and dearest. To
day, only three of these remain commonly in use: Honey,
darling and baby. But men most lately tend to substitute
strictly personal pet names for their girls. And I’m
collecting a roster of same. So far, kindly clients have sub
mitted: Noodles. Little Evil. Skunky Beer. Bigfoot. And
Sweet-O-Pig. Mister, how
do you address your lady
friend?
EVERY FOURTH U. S.
citizen who emigrates to
Australia eventually gives
up to come home.
TAKES about four
months to train a good dog
to sniff out hidden bombs
on airliners.
NOBODY is more prone
to the heart attack than
the politician, according
to a Federal health survey.
QUERIES
Q. “Are any perfumes
manufactured in Russia?”
A. Some. Know of a coup
le for export labeled "Red
Moscow" and "Black Cas
ket."
A. “WHAT sort of mixed
drin!: does President Rich
ard Nixon like, if any?”
A. He’ll reportedly go
for a martini on the rocks
before dinner now and
then, although not far.
AM THINKING of writ
ing a “How To" book for
souls who want to get rid
of ants. Be a pretty short
book, though. Just sprink
le cucumber peelings
around. Zip, the ants will
go away, goodby, so long,
get lost.
MONEY
If one of your forefathers
about 350 years ago had
put $24 in the bank to earn
6 1/2 per cent interest, do
you know how much it
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would be worth today?
About S2O billion more
than everything in, under
or on Manhattan, that’s
how much. That old boy
Peter Minuit should have
banked his money and
left the island to the In
dians, possibly.
THAT SAN FRANCISCO
claims North America’s
largest Chinatown no
doubt you know. But can
you name that North
American city with the
second largest China
town? Quite right, Van
couver, B.C.
“IN WHICH European
countries are the most un
attached women?" inquires
a widower. Austria, Po
land and Germany, it's
said.
ISN’T ANOTHER bridal
shop anywhere. I'm told,
that outsells the Salva
tion Army’s bridal shop in
Los Angeles.
No birds, besides
chickens, have combs.
None.
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 Monday, July 10, the
192nd day of 1972 with 174 to
follow.
The moon is new.
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.
American painter James
Whistler was bom July 10,1834.
On this date in history :
In 1938 American industrialist
Howard Hughes and a crew of
four flew around the world in 91
hours.
In 1953 Lavrenti Beria, Soviet
chief of internal security forces,
was executed on charges of
criminal anti-state activities.
In 1962 the Telstar satellite
first relayed television pictures
between the United States and
Europe.
A thought for the day:
Canadian physician Sir William
Osler said, “Tact is the saving
virtue without which no woman
can be a success.”
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THOUGHTS
For everything there is a
season, and a time for every
matter under heaven: a time
to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time
for peace.—Eccl. 3:8.
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Time is not measured by
the passing of years, but by
what one does, what one
feels, and what one achieves.
—Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian
Nationalist leader.
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Convention begins
Such fascinating news as whether or not
the Russian and Bobby Fischer would play
their chess match has had to move to the
back of the stage jvith the opening today of
the Democratic National Convention. For
the next few days and prime time nights it
will hold the spotlight.
Whatever else we have said about this
year’s national Democrats, we have to
hand it to them for attracting attention. It
is difficult to ignore shouts, accusations,
counter-accusations, and all the rest.
Even those who are convinced that the
voters of America will re-elect President
‘No’ is a simple word
Reports for the state’s fiscal year which
ended June 30 are in and they show that
those of us who have insisted that Georgia
did not require a tax raise were correct.
Hie Lieutenant Governor, city and
county associations, some school people
and others, nevertheless, insisted that the
sales tax had to go up. Fortunately for the
taxpayers of Georgia, we won and they
lost.
The reports show that during the fiscal
year net revenue collections were
$1,144,811,864.24 which was an increase of
$195,208,799.19 over the prior year. This
amounts to 20.5 percent which is more than
Griffin was second outside the home area
of Barnesville in number of applications
from students for Gordon Junior College
as of last week when the University
System took it over.
The Barnesville area, of course, was
first with 124. First outside Barnesville
was Thomaston with 78 and Griffin was
next with 47.
There were 21 applications from
Jackson, 17 from Forsyth and 10 from
A ticket to the zoo
For generations children from Griffin
and Sunny Side, Fayetteville and Tyrone
and all the other places in Georgia have
visited Atlanta’s Grant Park Zoo free of
charge.
Starting in September it will charge 75
cents admission for adults and 25 cents for
children 12 to 16. Visitors under 12 will
continue to be admitted free but must be
accompanied by an adult.
Zoo officials explained that the charge
How to stop littering
The worst kind of litter bug is the one
who dumps his household garbage and
trash along the road or in somebody else’s
yard.
Very often he can be identified by his
name found in what he has dumped.
Dumping is against the law, so the way to
stop him is to take him to court.
That is exactly what has happened in
Seeds of sin lurk
in good underneath
I am troubled about one of the answers
in your column. You answered a daughter
who asked if her “good" father needed to
be saved. You suggested that no matter
how good he seemed, that underneath the
surface lurked the seeds of sin. The father
might be another “Abou ben Adhem."
G.G.
Thank you for your question which gives
me the opportunity to expand the answer
formerly given.
Yes, the father mentioned could be
another “Abou ben Adhem.” I will concede
that many good people in the world are not
Christians, and that many professed
Ctristians are not good. But the Bible
teaches, despite surface impressions, that
underneath, down deep in each of our
hearts is an undercurrent of evil which
Second best
Nixon are interested in the goings-on this
week in Miami, just as neighbors
generally take note of a family brawl.
The convention will determine much
more than who will oppose Mr. Nixon. It
will decide also who takes over and runs
and controls the national Democratic
Party for the next four years, even if it
does lose to Mr. Nixon. And it might very
well determine the future course of
Georgia because this state almost
certainly will not support Senator
McGovern.
a fifth, and that is enough to operate on
without hoisting taxes. As a matter of fact,
it appears that after lapsed funds are
determined later this month, Georgia will
have a surplus of S4O-million.
Georgia has been operating on a sound
financial basis for the past several years
and should continue to do so. All it takes is
enough guts for somebody to say “No!” to
Lester Maddox and others who keep
hollering for raising taxes. “No” is simple
word, very short and to the point. We just
hope that the Legislature will keep saying
it.
Zebulon. In all, nearly 400 have applied.
A number of Griffin and Spalding
students also attend Clayton Junior
College, which explains why more from
here have not applied to Gordon. We are
geographically located between the two
and have some of the advantages of each.
This is second only to having a college of
our own, but it is second.
From where we sit it looks as if we are
accepting second best all too often these
days.
will be made to raise some money and also
to provide some control because parents
have been leaving children there to fend
for themselves all day long.
The Griffin Daily News has wondered
for a long time why Atlanta did not charge
us out-of-towners to visit its zoo. We are
not its citizens and do not pay its taxes, so
it seems only fair for us to pay a reasonable
price when we enjoy a visit to its zoo.
Upson County where Sheriff E. T. Bray
announced that a warrant was issued for a
man identified with trash found along a
county road front. The man’s name was
found in trash in the bags, the sheriff said,
“so a warrant was issued charging him
with littering public property.”
Now that, we submit, is the way to stop
illegal trash and garbage dumping.
MY
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made it necessary for Christ to come and
deal with this problem of inherent sin in
each of us.
A mother wrote me: “My son, one of the
most loveable, obedient, ideal sons a
mother ever had raped a girl and nearly
beat her to death.” This happens
periodically, and is usually blamed upon
insanity. But the Bible says: “We have all
sinned and come short of the glory of
God,” Romans 3:23. Some people’s sins
are more obvious than others, and some
like the father mentioned, appear to be
almost without guile. But underneath,
down deep, dwells the seed and possibility
of sin.
This is what the Gospel is all about. The
Bible says: “God commandeth his love
toward us in that, while we were yet sin
ners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8.
BERRY'S WORLD at the Democratic Convention
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"Why don't you people check into the Fontainebleau
like everybody else?"
BRUCE BIOSSAT
MIAMI BEACH (NEA)
The Democratic party assembled here in convention is
moving further each day into a time of anguished divi
sion which will endure whether or not it captures the
presidency this November.
No healing words heard at this turn from its 1972 presi
dential nominee will purge it of its troubles. There is no
way to apply soothing balm to the wounds it is suffering.
Political scholar Walter DeVries has told me, and on
the evidence I believe him, that there is an unbroken
continuity in the life of a great political party. It cannot
shake off bitter experience as if it never happened. It
cannot “get something out of its system” and start
afresh. Its future can only be created from all it has done
in the past.
And what the Democrats are now doing is tormenting
themselves with irreconcilable conflict. With the world
watching through television’s eye, they are tearing at the
fabric which binds them.
The men who decided to try to stop the nomination of
Sen. George McGovern by political maneuver rather than
delegate votes (which they did not have) gave the party
its final thrust down this dark path.
Leaders in labor and many top party regulars made
this choice, lashing at McGovern through a convention
committee which—for a turbulent few days—cut away
some of his huge delegate winnings from the California
primary.
It cannot be rubbed from the record that this under
taking had the sanction of virtually all of McGovern’s
presidential rivals—not just vocal Sen. Hubert Humphrey
but quiet Sen. Edmund Muskie and a long list including
even U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm, that supposed advocate
of things new and different and better.
A twist of irony sure to be remembered, too, is the
fact that McGovern’s adversaries donned the robes of
reform as they struck hard at the man whose name is
stamped on the sweeping party reforms of 1972. They
invoked the glories of proportional representation, or
something for everybody, though their real aim was to
see that there was less for McGovern than he had won.
Here in this setting, I am still talking to party people
I have sounded out all year. It is unmistakably plain
that many regulars have what they believe are legiti
mate fears and grievances relating to McGovern.
It is going over old ground to say they see him as too
far-out on issues, as the choice of too few Democrats for
all his primary victories and his overwhelming delegate
strength, as a probable disaster for the Democratic ticket.
What I find interesting in their comment is how small
a number of these regulars is willing to bow gracefully
to the inevitable. Only a handful tell me, “Let McGovern
have it and let’s see what he does with it.” The rest,
stepped upon or shunted aside by McGovern’s avenging
angels (his young cadres), want revenge in their turn.
The consequences of their harsh response could be
brutal. An Illinois man shepherding some Muskie dele
gates says he is “pretty disgusted with the whole thing”
that is happening to his party. The mood of revulsion is
widening steadily. Even as its first fruits appear, party
reform among Democrats seems tainted and abused.
But, as scholar DeVries says, everything is linked. The
ferment and trauma of 1968 produced reform. Reform
brought some excess and revenge against the old. And
now, here in convention, we are watching the party’s
self-destructive impulse of counter-revenge.
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A—Oak given a weathered
appearance by exposure to
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en a coat of filler.
Q —How many eggs does
an alligator lay at a time?
A —Alligators grow to 19
feet, live about 50 years and
lay as many as 80 eggs at a
time.
Q —From what two direc
tions do the trade winds
blow?
A— Southeast and north
east.
Q —A parsec is a unit of
distance in which science?
A—Astronomy. It is equal
to 3.26 light years or over 19
trillion miles.
Q —Who described Russia
as a “riddle, wrapped in a
mystery, inside an enigma”?
A—Sir Winston Churchill.
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FACTS
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The present Democratic
party held its first national
convention in Baltimore,
Md., in May, 1832, calling
it the “Republican Dele
gates from the Several
States.” At this time the
party was known as the
Republican or Democratic-
Republican party, The
World Almanac notes. The
p r e s e n t-day Republican
party had not yet been
founded.
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